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Do advanced cities work by certain provable rules? Geoffrey West thinks they may, at least in part, and is working to make them into a usable basis for a system… “I had this hunch that there was something more, that every city was also shaped by a set of hidden laws.” Above: Creative Commons photo [...]
Local British people will have a right to buy their local vital amenity — such as a local shop, pub, or library. The measures are included in the British government’s forthcoming Decentralisation and Localism bill in Parliament. If an asset appears for sale, local people will be offered a ‘countdown’ period to raise the required [...]
Google has modified its main search engine to suppress results from businesses that have large volumes of strongly negative feedback. Firms offering bad service, and causing many customers to complain about it, have in the past benefited from the Web links their aggrieved customers were posting. Google has now put a stop to this, by [...]
The world’s first privately owned spaceship attempts a launch into orbit tomorrow. The Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket have been built by SpaceX, founded by PayPal’s Elon Musk. SpaceX has a $1.6 billion contract to undertake twelve re-supply missions to the International Space Station. Other commercial firms such as Virgin Galactic have achieved suborbital [...]
Israeli entrepreneur Amit Goffer has launched a medical exoskeleton to help paralysed people to walk. His ReWalk device enables standing, walking and even climbing stairs. The 35-pound motorised device costs $100,000 US. Similar medical exoskeletons are in clinical trials in the USA, Japan (Hal 3) and New Zealand.
The Swiss solar-powered catamaran Turandor has finished the first stage of its circumnavigation of the Earth — a transatlantic crossing from Europe to Miami. The Turandor is the world’s largest solar-powered boat, and is completely powered by 22%-efficiency solar cells.
NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey today announced they have found life that works differently from the rest of Earth life. At Yosemite National Park, Dr. Felisa Wolfe-Simon found a unique life-form that uses arsenic in its basic DNA structure. Arsenic is toxic to everything else on the planet. NASA’s “Team Titan” find this very [...]
A homeless man filled his new Council house with hundreds of books collected from library sales and charity shops. He built his own PC from spare parts, in order to start an Internet book-selling business. Now Richard Cartwright’s business — Newcastle Books — stocks a whopping 140,000 titles, and Richard employs four people to help [...]
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