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Naider

  • The most unequal countries in Latin America

    According to the latest data from the World Bank, six Latin American countries are among the 14 with greatest economic inequality in the world, although the top five positions are held by African countries. The World Bank measures inequality based on the Gini coefficient, which varies between zero (total equality) and one (maximum inequality), and…

  • Digital alternatives to traditional banking

    The banking industry hasn’t really been rocked by disruptive innovators coming from the digital economy, the way hotels have been with Airbnb or taxi drivers with Uber. Much of the considerable investment in technology made by the financial sector has been aimed at keeping systems in place. However, as an article in El País< recently...

  • IoT sensors to protect crops

    New interesting examples of possible applications of the Internet of Things are emerging that would help a multitude of sectors. One of the latest findings, written about by The Economist, are tiny sensors that can help farmers by continuously monitoring their crops and giving them relevant real-time data on parasites, temperature changes , or other…

  • Video: If the world were 100 people

    If the world were 100 people, 14 couldn’t read and write, only seven have gone to college, 71 earn less than $10 a day and 1 earn more than $90, while 23 are homeless. These are some of the statistics collected in this video from Good Magazine that in 2:30 minutes gives an accurate image…

  • 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…