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  • The email is still valid

    Ray Tomlinson, the person behind the first email in 1971, passed away earlier this month, and the New York Magazine published an article stating the fact that it can be the greatest tribute to the memory of the inventor of email: 45 years later, it has not yet been supplanted by any other better system,…

  • Video: Social innovation

    This Social Innovation Generation (SIG) video outlines how social innovation happens and why we need it.

  • The smart city demands new professions

    The construction of the smart city will create new professional demands. A recent article published by the specialized French media Le Journal du Net settled on this question and listed the new profiles that , both municipalities and companies, will need to supply for the implementation of the smart city. As the article says, even…

  • Plastic made from CO2

    In search of an alternative to petroleum products, a group of scientists from the Standford University has discovered a way to make plastic from carbon dioxide and inedible biomass – like crop residues and grass. The researchers say that if this alternative is viable, it would drastically reduce carbon emissions from the plastics industry. In…

  • Video: Rethinking progress, the circular economy

    This video, produced for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, explains the concept of the circular economy, in which goods are reused in a continuous circle based on that of living beings, as opposed to the linear economy (produce – use – throw away) that we have adopted.

  • Polaris, a system that speeds up the loading of web pages by 34%

    Researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Massachusetts The Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new system, which they have called Polaris, which reduces the loading time of a web page by 34%. The slow loading of web pages continues to be a problem that generates frustration for users, and until…

  • Milan studies paying to go to work by bike

    Milan is considering paying citizens to cycle to work, as confirmed by the city councilor for mobility, Pierfrancesco Maran. The news comes from the fact that Milan, the economic center of the transalpine country, had to ban car traffic for three days in a row last December, due to the high levels of pollution that…

  • Climate change: A worrying record

    Last Thursday, March 3, we crossed a worrying threshold, as stated on the World Economic Forum. According to preliminary data, for a few hours it reached 2 degrees Celsius above ‘normal’ in the northern hemisphere, something unprecedented since records exist. This fact is significant; Two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels are internationally established as the…

  • Video: It’s Smart to be Dense

    Este vídeo producido por el Instituto para el Transporte y las Políticas de Desarrollo y Streetfilms defiende la densidad como un principio fundamental del desarrollo sostenible.

  • Passive Wi-Fi: 10,000 times more efficient

    The devices that we connect to the Internet are multiplying, so the high energy consumption generated by the Wi-Fi system is a problem. That is why a group of young electrical engineers from the University of Washington have devised a new system that consumes 10,000 less electricity than traditional Wi-Fi, which they have come to…