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MIT just discovered a way to mass-produce graphene in long rolls
Scientists used to make graphene-based membranes in small batches in a laboratory. But a new breakthrough at MIT enables researchers to spool out long rolls of high-quality graphene. The continuous manufacturing process can produce five centimeters of high-quality graphene per minute. The Read More...
Google futurist Ray Kurzweil has made a bold prediction about basic income
Futurist Ray Kurzweil has a knack for predicting the future. He forecasted decades ago that we would be using smartphones and storing data in the “cloud.” Now he's back with another prediction: A universal basic income will become widespread in the developed world by the 2030s, and the primary Read More...
Austin test uses blockchain to improve ID for the homeless
Many people take identification for granted, but it's a serious challenge if you're homeless. If you lose what's on your back, you might lose everything -- and recovering that ID is much harder when you have no fixed address or easy transportation to government offices. Austin might have a Read More...
This plan for an AI-based direct democracy outsources votes to an algorithm
In the last Presidential election in the U.S, voter turnout hovered around 67 percent. The European Union’s parliamentary elections saw 42 percent. And in New York City’s last mayoral election, just 24 percent of residents turned out to cast a ballot. Our collective participation in the project Read More...
Finland has found the answer to homelessness. It couldn’t be simpler
The number of rough sleepers in Britain is soaring, with deaths now a weekly occurrence. It’s time we got over our Read More...
The US just outlawed one of the biggest excuses for the gender pay gap
For far too long, employers have used a woman’s previous salary as an excuse for paying her less than a man. No longer will that be possible after a US appeals court ruled that employers cannot justify paying a woman less than a man doing similar work based on her salary history—a move, Read More...
This man is running for president, wants to give every American $1,000 each month
Andrew Yang is an entrepreneur who is running for president of the United States, with a long-shot campaign built primarily upon universal basic Read More...
Want to change Facebook? Don’t delete your account—use it for good
In “Hated in the Nation,” an episode of the dystopian TV series Black Mirror, social-media users seek vengeance on individuals who have violated social norms by using the hashtag #DeathTo. The backlash against Facebook in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal has prompted a Read More...
Botswana quietly got a new president over the weekend
Not all elections in Africa turn into a political crisis where presidents that have served more than the legal number of term limits refuse to step down. The media may paint the political landscape of Africa to look this way, but it’s not really the case. Just look at Botswana where the former Read More...
Facebook users can take back their privacy with this Firefox browser extension
In response to Facebook’s latest privacy troubles, Mozilla Firefox has created a browser extension that “isolates your Facebook identity from the rest of your web activity.” What this means is that when you’re logged onto Facebook on Firefox, the platform will be separated in a special Read More...