From Jane Jacobs' 1958 call for people-first urban design to today’s AI-powered smart cities, we explore how urban needs have stayed the same – even as the tools have transformed.
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Learn how generative AI is unlocking the true potential of digital twins – to make smart cities more efficient, inclusive, and citizen-focused.
The smart cities of the future will use tech to lower emissions, cut urban temperatures, and improve quality of life in highly populated areas.
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Tech generalists will enable emerging technologies to integrate across industries and societies in meaningful ways. We still need specialists – but we also need big-picture people.
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Climate change is not often a topic that leaves you brimming with optimism. But, increasingly, the tech industry sees it as a challenge to be solved, and is trying to address it with pioneering ideas like energy storage or smart cities. To find out more about these attempts, we spoke
Hungry? You probably don’t know the half of it. Globally, around 690 million people survive on under 1800 calories a day. Nearly nine percent of the entire world population are undernourished, and if you find yourself wondering: “How much would it cost to end world hunger?”, the answer is
The latest UN Climate Change conference in Glasgow, or COP26, underscored the need to act quickly on climate change. Answering the call, some of the world’s biggest economies and major carbon-intensive enterprises have pledged to bring their emissions to net zero within the next 2050 to 2070 timeframe. But
As the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s (KSA) key enterprises embark on a transformative array of strategic objectives derived from the nation’s leadership’s agenda for digitalization, open source solutions and products have taken center stage and are delivering a wave of cutting-edge innovations to redefine the country’s
How secure is data when it is stored in cloud? If the last two years has taught us anything, it’s that we should be prepared for the unexpected. The global pandemic has changed the way that we live our lives and the way that we work. Offices closed across
In the future, employment is going to be different. Technology is changing not just the world, but also the way that jobs will function. So, as we enter a new digital future of work, we spoke to tech experts from the fields of futurism, healthcare, cryptocurrency and blockchain to find
In case you haven’t noticed, women in technology aren’t exactly a majority. Just take a look at the numbers: the women in STEM stats show that in the US 52% of the college-educated workforce are women, but when it comes to more technological roles, the workforce features only
On the outskirts of Riyadh, not far from King Khalid International Airport, stands the Middle East’s first 3D printed house. With just one bedroom and 80 square metres of floor space, it may not be the most imposing building, but it represents a brave new era of construction in
