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Kabakoo Academies, the reference training platform for African youth, is launching the “Building tomorrow in the Sahel” program, an interdisciplinary training course aimed at architects and other building trades such as masonry, plumbing, carpentry and painting.
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Science fiction writers have anticipated a variety of modern inventions, from cars to organ transplants. In particular, some decades-old works of dystopian fiction don’t read like fiction anymore. At times, writers were even able to influence the course of history.
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When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At the time, Cornforth was a director at the Edible Schoolyard Project, a nonprofit that uses gardening and cooking in schools to teach and to provide nutritious food. She was there to meet with IDEO.org, a new social-impact spinoff of the design consulting firm, which was exploring how to reimagine school lunch, a mission that the Edible Schoolyard Project has been working toward since 2004.
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The technology and policies are falling into place. But we’ll need a revolution in U.S. home retrofit business models and financing to scale up enough to meet the climate challenge.
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WebXR is expanding the many ways in which we interact with the web, allowing developers to create engaging experiences that can be accessed on a wide range of devices—from a fully immersive experience on Meta Quest VR headsets to a traditional browser experience on smartphones and tablets.
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A joint Anglo-Italian architectural project has produced a 'floating city' concept - a collective of orb-like houses that would supposedly house up to 50,000 people in the event global warming leads to mass flooding. The concept was hatched by an international team of architects and designers led by Italian firm Luca Curci Architects and UK-based Tim Fu Design, who came together to design a eco-friendly village that adapts to future climate demands.
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For the 17-year-old Logan Lane, the solution was to quit cold turkey. Lane grew up in Brooklyn and was a screen-addicted teenager who spent hours curating her social media presence on Instagram and TikTok. Then, a little over two years ago, Lane started questioning whether living a life of constant connection was actually a good thing and made the decision to ditch her smartphone altogether. She began assembling a “Luddite Club” — a group of teenagers who reject technology and its creeping hold on all our lives.
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Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.
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Everyone onscreen was real, sort of. The singers had human counterparts in the studio, isolated in cubicles, with headsets on their faces and joysticks in both hands. Immersed in a virtual world, they were competing to become part of (hopefully) the next big Korean girl band.
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The days of Japanese college students turning up at job fairs in staid dark business suits may be swiftly coming to an end. Welcome to the metaverse, where students armed only with a smartphone can peruse job offers and engage in online interviews from wherever they are in Japan, or even beyond.
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