Italian fund Green Arrow Capital has acquired the extensive solar and wind power generation portfolio from London-based Quercus Investment Partners. The value of the transaction…
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Model of a pair of microtori picking up particles, left. Image of actual microtori picking up particles when a magnetic field is applied, right. Credit:…
Facebook has agreed to pay a £500,000 fine imposed by the UK’s data protection watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It had…
Uber Freight, the Uber business unit that helps truck drivers connect with shipping companies, said Wednesday it’s launching the app in Canada as part of…
Workiz, a startup whose software helps field service professionals manage their work, said today it has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The funding…
Microsoft-owned Github has removed the APK of an app for organizing political protests in the autonomous community of Catalonia — acting on a takedown request…
Millions of neighborhood stores that dot large and small cities, towns, and villages in India and have proven tough to beat for e-commerce giants and super-chain…
Part of the power that young activists such as Greta Thurnberg hold for older folks is that they represent the fuzzy concept of “the future”…
If your budget simply can’t manage a line item for a ticket to Disrupt Berlin 2019, we have exciting news for you. Volunteer for our…
The government of the Philippines will spend $500 million on solar-powered water supply and desalination in remote areas of Mindanao, the second-largest island in the…
An amateur radio rig exposed to the internet and discovered by a security researcher was collecting real-time of medical data and health information broadcast by…
By the time the 2020 UN Ocean Conference takes place in June, we will be well underway to record another 8 million tons of plastic…
This article originally appeared on MeetingoftheMinds.org. In a desert city such as Phoenix, water is the foundation of public health, economic opportunity and quality of…
Addresses are ambiguous, not precise enough or don’t even exist in some places. what3words wants to map the entire world and overhaul addresses three words…
ShareGrid, the U.S.-based marketplace for sharing, buying and selling film and photography equipment, has acquired the U.K’s BorrowFox as part of its international expansion plans.…
Swarms of simple, interacting robots have the potential to unlock stealthy abilities for accomplishing complex tasks. Getting these robots to achieve a true hive-like mind…
One modular robotic cube snaps into place with the rest of the M-blocks. Credit: Jason Dorfman/MIT CSAIL Developed at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence…
A lawsuit filed a by former Juul executive alleges that the company knew a batch of contaminated e-liquid had been used in about one million…
Physicians who received gifts from pharmaceutical companies related to opioid medications were more likely to prescribe opioids to their patients the following year, compared to…
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA’s Terra satellite using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard captured this…