The suicide rate for farmers is more than double that of veterans. Former farmer Debbie Weingartengives an insider’s perspective on farm life – and how to help.
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How activists are using technology to help people make bail
Thousands of people charged with nonviolent misdemeanors are often jailed because they cannot afford bail. Two ingenious new digital tools offer ways to help.
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The languages that take the the most (and least) time to learn
So, you want to learn to speak and write a new language, huh? Not just “hello” and “thank you,” but really learn it well enough that you could live in the country of origin? Hope you’re ready to commit. If you’re a Native English Speaker, these are the languages that will take the most and least time to become proficient in.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company just revealed a map of its proposed LA tunnel system
The red segment represents the “proof-of-concept” tunnel that would be used to run tests. The blue segments are potential expansion routes if the tunnels are approved to use for public transportation.
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These solar panels that can pull clean drinking water out of the air just got a big boost
Zero Mass Water makes solar panel arrays that pull clean drinking water from the air.
The $4,500 arrays just launched in the United States.
Zero Mass arrays could come in handy in areas where water sources are far away or scarce. Some homeowners have purchased arrays as an alternative to plastic water bottles.
BitDegree-Massive open online course education Blockchain ICO
BitDegree is a blockchain-powered online education platform that aims to change the way we get a degree. Find out how it works today in our review.
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Self-driving buses are being tested in China and they’re the largest of their kind yet
A small fleet of self-driving public buses has started running on the roads of China’s tech district of Shenzhen, Guangdong.
Google’s artificial intelligence built an AI that outperforms any made by humans
Google’s AutoML project, designed to make AI build other AIs, has now developed a computer vision system that vastly outperforms state-of-the-art-models. The project could improve how autonomous vehicles and next-generation AI robots “see.”
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Worlds first floating city to emerge in the Pacific Ocean by 2020
The concept of floating cities may sound like something from a science fiction novel, but it could become a reality by 2020. Seasteading Institute, a San Francisco-based nonprofit has been developing this idea since the foundation of the organization in 2008, and it has reached an agreement with the government of French Polynesia to begin testing in its waters.
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China’s “social credit system” will rate how valuable you are as a human
A Citizen Score in China
In a contentious world first, China plans to implement a social credit system (officially referred to as a Social Credit Score or SCS) by 2020. The idea first appeared in a document from the State Council of China published in June 2014. It is a technological advancement so shocking to modern-minded paradigms that many can do little but sit back in defeatist chagrin as science fiction shows us its darker side.
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China’s first all-electric zero-emissions cargo ship is going to be used to transport coal
China, already the world’s biggest electric-vehicle market, is now using battery power to fuel cargo shipping as well.
The death of the MBA
U.S. graduate business schools — once magnets for American and international students seeking a certain route to a high income — are in an existential crisis. They are losing droves of students who are balking at sky-high tuition and, in the case of international applicants, turned off by President Trump’s politics.
