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11 February 2022
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Guilt-free online shopping is possible if we reinvent home delivery
4 September 2019
The boom in online retail has left our streets clogged with polluting delivery vans. We navigate the high-tech solutions that will distribute your parcels without the damaging emissions
The plan to suck huge amounts of drinkable water out of thin air
22 March 2018
The finalists for the XPrize Water Abundance competition have been announced, where the challenge is to suck two tonnes of water out of the air a day
Earthquake AI makes it easier to predict devastation of strikes
16 March 2018
A new computer system can identify seismic activity with twice the accuracy of the current best algorithms and is nearly as good as human experts
There is a good case to unleash job-killing AI on the high seas
11 August 2017
Life on a container ship can be hellish, so maybe we shouldn't mourn the loss of these roles too much as the first crewless vessels take shape, says Paul Marks
