Google Wellbeing is a new collection of features that make you more aware of the time you spend on your phone and remind you to disconnect once in a while.

Keith Breene 14 May 2018

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Workforce and Employment

Your smartphone is distracting you at work. Even if it’s switched off

A new study finds smartphones are having an even bigger impact on your work performance than you might realise.

Shana Lebowitz · Business Insider 17 Apr 2018

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Environment and Natural Resource Security

This microfactory is turning e-waste into reusable material

Scientists are using machinery to separate useful materials from scrap.

Elton Gomes · Qrius 12 Apr 2018

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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

This device lets you talk to your computer - without saying a word

MIT researchers have developed the interface that transcribes words, without you speaking them aloud.

Larry Hardesty · MIT News 09 Apr 2018

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Electronics

Time's up: Apple overtakes Switzerland in watch sales

Switzerland's reign as the home of timekeeping could be over, as corporations win another victory in the competition with national economies

21 Feb 2018

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Innovation

This self-healing glass means your smashed phone screen will repair itself

A new type of glass has been developed that can repair itself after being cracked.

Antonio Villas-Boas · Business Insider 22 Dec 2017

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Future of Health and Healthcare

This video game is helping doctors to recognise serious injury

University of Pittsburgh's Deepika Mohan, MD, and game developer Schell Games have created a game to improve doctors' ability to recognize severe trauma in patients.

Kyree Leary · Futurism 20 Dec 2017

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Environment and Natural Resource Security

You know the world has a problem with waste, but you probably haven't thought of this

Electronic waste is becoming a major global issues, as more and more people gain access to electronics.

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Automotive

Electric car range could be about to get a lot better

New research from the University of Waterloo could triple electric car range.

Chelsea Gohd · Futurism 13 Dec 2017

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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

These ‘soft robots’ are set to narrow the gap between man and machine

Researchers from MIT CSAIL and Harvard’s Wyss have implemented the art of Origami in Soft Robotics to provide a strong and flexible skeleton to the structure.

Amruth Chinnappa · Qrius 07 Dec 2017

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Electronics

Chart of the Day: What happens in an internet minute

The world's first text message was sent 25 years ago. The world now sends 16 million text messages every minute, or 23 billion every day.

Charlotte Beale 04 Dec 2017

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Electronics

Tweaking the design of electronic goods could reduce poverty. Here’s how

Exports of used electronics support a growing number of jobs in repair and refurbishment in the developing world. If we want this trade to help and not harm those in poverty, we need to a...

Richard Gower 24 Nov 2017