📈 Human Progress
In the last decades humanity has made great progress with less extreme poverty, increased health, wealth and democracy. We follow in the tradition of professor Hans Rosling.
📚 Drones deliver library books during the quarantine
During the pandemic, experiments with drone deliveries have become extra relevant. In Virginia, summer vacation students now get their library books home-delivered with drones.
⚙️ How connected sensors revolutionize industrial and hydraulic systems
The Internet of Things, or IoT, is now taking the heavy industry by storm. Connected sensors make everything from mechanical to hydraulic systems smarter and more efficient.
🔔 Mid-year reminder: the world is still getting better
2020 has been a challenging year so far. But with everything we have been facing, it is important to zoom out and see the great progress we have made over the last decades.
🌳 Africa is building a mighty green wall over the entire continent
In Africa, a Great Green Wall is being established right across the continent to prevent the spread of the Sahara desert.
🌲 The EU wants to plant three billion trees and halve the use of pesticides by 2030
The EU Biodiversity Strategy will save both biodiversity and the economy.
📚 Fact-based optimistic summer reading
There will be more time for reading this summer, now that there are no long holidays abroad. Here are a bunch of tips for filling your reading list with fact-based optimistic books.
💻 New world record in internet speed - one million times faster than broadband
Australian researchers have set a new world record in the speed of an internet connection. The record is now 44.2 terabits per second.
🌍 New subsea cable will bring internet to region where a billion people are offline
The 2Africa Project Partners issued a formal Global Press Release announcing the launch of the 2Africa cable system. 2Africa is one of the largest subsea projects in the world, connecting 23 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
📲 Bluetooth - the odd Swedish protocol that now exists in billions of gadgets
During the 1990s, Nils Rydbeck at Ericsson began to create a standard for wireless short-distance communication. Little did he know that 30 years later there would be billions and billions of connected things, from toys to toothbrushes.