The pandemic has forced us indoors and using more data than ever before, putting more strain on the environment
The winners of the Nobel prize in economics experiment on poor people, but their research doesn’t solve poverty
The exhibition ‘Options’ is a search by artist Nolan Oswald Dennis for humanity
The 2018 Media Lab Disobedience Award has been awarded to three leading figures behind the #MeToo and #MeTooSTEM movements
The education we offer many learners is not providing an escape from poverty.
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/ 22 September 2009
An American science student has captured images of the curvature of the Earth after sending a balloon into space on a shoestring budget.
By crushing a widely used semiconductor into nanoparticles, researchers said this week they have created a compound that could lead to cleaner, more efficient refrigerators, solar power plants and other devices. The crushed material makes it possible to conduct electricity without conducting so much heat, solving a problem that has baffled engineers for 50 years.
From iPods to navigation systems, some of today’s hottest gadgets are landing on store shelves with some unwanted extras from the factory — pre-installed viruses that steal passwords, open doors for hackers and make computers spew spam. In most cases, Chinese factories are the source.
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/ 11 November 2007
Low-cost computers meant to usher poor children worldwide into the digital age are being mass-produced in China as United States non-profit One Laptop Per Child strives to deliver on its promise. The first of the XO laptops being built at a Quanta Computer facility in Changshu are destined for Uruguay.
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/ 7 November 2007
It was supposed to be a geek palace for some of the brightest people on the planet. Dissonant angles, sloping floors, an exterior that suggested some sort of implosion — these were just the sort of challenges that inspire the great brains sheltered therein.