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  • 5 benchmark cities in urban innovation

    A panel of experts in urbanism, architecture and planning assembled by the Wall Street Journal answered the question of which cities currently stand out for their urban development policies. Among the participating experts is Edward Glaeser, Harvard economist author of “The Triumph of the Cities.” The panel has chosen five cities, clarifying that none of…

  • The end of the computer as a physical device

    Google believes that computers as physical devices will no longer accompany us in our daily lives. Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces, in a letter addressed to the company’s shareholders, that “the next big step” will be the demise of the device concept itself. Instead, he points out that the computer will be a virtual “intelligent…

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  • Traffic lights to not look up from the mobile

    Many pedestrians walk our streets with their eyes fixed on their smartphone screen, even when crossing the sidewalk, putting themselves in danger due to their distraction. In view of the phenomenon, and as a result of the case of the death of a teenager run over by a tram, in the German city of Augsburg…

  • Video: Typographers on Asphalt

    This short documentary focuses on the little-known craft work of painting urban road markings. Tommy Lilley, Glasgow’s lead blue-collar worker, shares his delight in working on something he knows everyone will use.

  • Human-robot collaboration in Industry 4.0

    The Basque technology center IK4-Tekniker leads, since 2014, the European project FourByThree , an alliance of 15 European partners with the aim of developing “pioneering” robotic solutions, capable of collaborating “in an efficient and safe way with human operators in industrial manufacturing companies”. Along these lines, IK4-Tekniker is working on the development of collaborative robotics…

  • The future of passwords

    Passwords are a pain. A Gartner study echoed by the Wall Street Journal< /a> estimates that password resets account for between 20% and 30% of technical support calls in companies. Most of the passwords we use are, after all, predictable, and the problem is exacerbated on smartphones. Data from Intel collected in a recent article…

  • Berlin: A cycle path under the railway line

    We have come across a good idea for the recovery of underused urban space. A group of four architects, an urban planner, a cultural manager, a cultural entrepreneur and a public relations expert have come up with the project Radbahn for Berlin, a project that would create a nine-kilometre-long bike path under the U1 elevated…

  • Apple’s revenue falls for the first time since 2003

    Apple announced this Tuesday, April 26, a quarterly revenue drop of 13%, its first revenue drop in more than a decade. In one year, revenues have gone from 58,000 million dollars to 50,000, according to the BBC. What explains this drop? The decline in sales of its flagship product, the iPhone, of which 10 million…

  • Appointment in Bilbao with sustainable European cities

    Today the 8th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns is launched, an event that will take place at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao until Friday, April 29 and in which we will be present from Naider. The event, which is hosted by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, Bilbao City Council, Provincial Council of…