Society
✋ Vietnam stops illegal animal markets
Vietnam is an important transit and destination country for several illegal animal products, including elephant ivory, rhinoceros, pangolin shells and tiger parts. It is now hoped that a new directive will work to combat wildlife trafficking in the country...
📚 Drones deliver library books during the quarantine
Many future visions are about how we can utilize the airspace in a smarter way. Uber is developing flying urban taxi vehicles, and Swedish Globhe is gathering drone pilots in a global network to be able to move out into difficult terrain with medicine or disaster...
🚮 Litterati: The global team cleaning the Earth
Jeff Kirshner, Founder & CEO of Litterati was never an active environmentalist. Nor was he an engineer. He is a writer by trade. However, much of that changed one afternoon as he was hiking through the woods with his kids. His four-year-old daughter noticed a...
🌍 New subsea cable will bring internet to region where a billion people are offline
Led by Facebook, a group of telecom companies are collaborating to build the “most comprehensive” subsea cable to serve the African continent and Middle East region where nearly a billion people are still offline.The project, called 2Africa will see the...
