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Home delivery with drones, closer
The regular delivery of packages by autonomous drones is a little closer, and a latest trailer highlights it. The first parcel delivery at home in urban areas, with drones not manually operated by humans, has been carried out in the city of Hawthorne, Nevada, USA. The action has been carried out by the specialized startup…
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European capitals for the circular economy
London, Amsterdam and Copenhagen recently launched a new joint initiative whereby the three European capitals will collaborate on a series of projects aimed at developing and accelerating the move towards a circular economy. In addition to collaborating on projects, the three cities committed to sharing information and experiences to try to roll out circular economy…
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Video: The keys to Design Thinking
Video from Daylight that reviews, based on a real project he carried out, the keys to the Design Thinking methodology, which seeks to develop team solutions solutions to unresolved problems, focusing on users.
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Rotterdam’s plastic bridges
Rotterdam is an example to the world in the search for green innovations. As a few months ago we noticed the news that would build roads and streets from recycled plastic, now we are not too surprised to find out that they use bridges and walkways made of fiber-reinforced plastic. They began to replace the…
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The largest floating solar farm in the world
The largest farm floating solar power plant in the world has come online this March. It is located on the Queen Elizabeth II water reservoir, near London’s Heathrow airport, and its 23,000 solar panels cover an area equivalent to eight football fields (6% of the reservoir). The floating orchard, which had been in planning for…
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The importance of the responsive web
Among the factors that can cause a website to be penalized in the ranking returned by Google for a certain search, is the fact that the website is not ready for mobile devices, that is, it does not have a responsive or adaptive design so that it can be seen correctly on the screen of…
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The routes we take make traffic worse
When we drive in urban areas, we all tend to decide which route we are going to drinking based on “selfish” criteria, and without realizing it, we increase traffic congestion and travel time around the world. The document “Understanding congested travel in urban areas”, carried out jointly by researchers from the University of Birmingham (England)…
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Video: Social integration through ecomobility
Documentary video that focuses on how sustainable mobility can help integration between different social groups, taking place in the South African city of Johannesburg and the physical barriers inherited from the apartheid era.
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Learning to program: an opportunity for the new generations
ICTs inevitably have a growing influence on our lives, and yet technology is often used in the classroom as a passive instrument, schoolchildren learn as users. Teaching programming encourages creativity and autonomy among young people, beyond preparing them for a labor market in which many will hold jobs that do not yet exist, and in…
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The electric bus, a great commitment by Irizar
Irizar hopes to have its new plant specialized in assembling electric buses ready by the end of this year, according to general manager José Manuel Orcasitas, when presenting the results of the group in 2015. Thus, it is planned to start the activity of the plant, located in Aduna, Gipuzkoa, on January 2, 2017, to…