When the city of Fort Worth, Texas, set out to make streetscape improvements in a residential neighborhood bisected by a creek, nearby residents had a few requests. In addition to the walkways […]
Cargo ships carrying truckloads of clothing, cheap furniture, toys, and other goods destined for Walmart stores in the U.S. emitted an estimated 3.7 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2019—more than a […]
We just got a little more news about what many expect to be the biggest IPO of 2021. Robinhood, the stock trading darling that is the envy of the fintech world, has announced the […]
Erik Forman doesn’t claim he was the first person to have the idea of starting a driver-owned alternative to Uber. “The idea for a co-op belongs to everyone and no one,” he […]
The Squad, a new urban car from an Amsterdam-based startup, is barely bigger than a bicycle: Parked sideways, up to four of the vehicles can fit in a standard parking spot. The electric […]
Many of the sites and platforms that have done so much to democratize free expression around the world have also unfortunately spurred a rise in harmful and illegal content online, including child […]
By 2050, it is projected that almost 70% of the world’s population will be living in cities, up from 55% today. The fastest urban growth is happening in Asia and Africa, which is also […]
For me, the biggest issue with task managers like Todoist, TickTick, and Microsoft To-Do is remembering to use them in the first place. While I’d love to be the kind of person who maintains a daily […]
A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a robotic arm that can slide one arm of a vest onto a person. And that’s more impressive than it may initially […]
Virtual reality is fun. But what if it could be more than fun? What if VR could make you smarter? For more than 70 years, scientists have known about a brain phenomenon […]
