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Shift - Living in the Digital Age
How technology is set to make farming more sustainable and efficient.
A sustainable fishing app for South Africans
In South Africa, an NGO has developed an app to help fishers bring their catch directly to market without middlemen.
How Taiwanese semiconductors reign supreme
While Russian gas can be replaced with other energy, microchips made in Taiwan cannot. What makes them so indispensible?
Ukraine: When war goes viral
Online platforms play a key role in documenting Russia's invasion. But they are also used to spread disinformation.
A customized app store for Africa's game developers
Teddy Kossoko created Gara, an app store for African creators, after realizing standard options didn't suit their needs.
Desalination - The answer to water scarcity?
Millions of people worldwide face water shortages, but more cost-effective desalination technology could help.
Global 3000 - The Globalization Program
Cedar trees could be growing in Lebanon again and desalination might help alleviate global water shortages.
How Myanmar's junta uses Chinese surveillance technology
Rights groups warn high-tech surveillance systems will be used to track down and eliminate the junta's opponents.
Ethics and Gene Technology
With today's genetic engineering, living creatures can be custom modified in all kinds of ways.
Abalobi — An innovative fishing app
In South Africa, an NGO has developed an app to help fishers bring their catch to market.
Aachen's AI-assisted rain radar
A smart radar system with artificial intelligence helps experts predict earlier and more precisely when it will rain.
Can avatars increase job security?
Companies are increasing digital workflows due to the pandemic, and some are even using avatars to get some work done.
Innovations in the world of work
Technological innovations keep brining humans and machines together. It is a trend that even an exoskeleton cannot stop.
What robots can and can't do
Though robots can be faster, stronger and smarter than humans, they still can't replace us.
The innovation revolution
Innovation is a major driver of progress and economic growth as computers and robots take on more and more jobs.
Kenyan innovator turns scrap into electric wheelchairs
Self-taught engineer Lincoln Wamae builds electric wheelchairs out of recycled parts.
Germany gets serious about cyber threats
Janosch Delcker
Reforming Germany's cybersecurity apparatus is overdue. Berlin should also push for more international cooperation.
The future of mobility - Shift Special
SHIFT Special: the future of mobility and efforts to make travelling more eco-friendly.
Could diesel engines be the future of aviation?
Diesel engines and propellers could help to make aviation greener.
Planting seeds from the sky
A project from the state of Telangana uses drone technology to plant trees in remote regions.
Eco Africa — The Environment Magazine
On this Eco Africa: Backyard gardens in Ghana, composting for Dakar's city dwellers and drone deliveries in Rwanda.
Using drones to deliver semen to rural breeders
A drone operator has dramatically reduced transportation time and costs to deliver sperm to rural breeders just on time.
Brining organic products direct to consumers
Online platforms are sprouting up in Berlin to bring organic products like meat, milk and fish closer to consumers.
Bhutan fights back against water crisis
Bhutan is struggling with increasing droughts and floods. How can the country tackle its water challenges?
Novel battery, cancer vaccine win European inventor awards
The 2022 winners of one of Europe's most prestigious innovation awards have been revealed.
175 years of Zeiss - The rise of a global company
175 years ago, the young mechanic Carl Zeiss opened a small workshop for precision mechanics and optics.
AfricaLink on Air – 14 June 2022
UK-Rwanda deal: First refugees arrive in Rwanda +++ Ethiopia: A border town torn apart +++ Ghana's grains black market
Innovative public toilets for India's poor
Smart public toilets help improve hygiene in slums and restore dignity to India’s urban poor.
How can we make steel green?
The wonder material is responsible for almost 10% of global warming. Cleaning it up won't be easy.
Shift - Living in the Digital Age
Shift Special: Buildings that cut their energy usage with smart tech and smart ideas.
A glance in the beehive: How community media in Latin America and Africa work with the Colmena app
Colmena open source software: Developed with and deployed by local and community media for reporting in times of crisis.
Digital pandemic innovation
COVID-19 restrictions are ending, everything seems possible again. Especially with a smartphone!
The search for 'Lithium Valley' in California's Salton Sea
Its shores were once crowded with Hollywood stars, for whom southern California's Salton Sea was an idyllic vacation hot spot. Today, the lake has deteriorated beyond recognition and poses a public health crisis. But some believe taking advantage of the vast reserve of lithium in its bowels could be key to reviving the region's fortunes — and help to build a carbon-free future while they're at it.
Technology under pressure
Technologies like digital surveillance as well as cutting-edge factories prove controversial.
Capturing wind energy with kites
Modern stunt kites with intelligent controls are generating wind energy.
Local solar energy grids in rural regions
How are remote areas getting reliable power? In Sierra Leone, they are relying on solar energy.
How now, brown cow?
How are cows doing? Researchers hope to help reduce their stress levels.
Web3: What is it?
Web3 is all the rage in tech. But what is it? Why does it matter? And why does Big Tech want in?
Satellite imagery becomes big business
The war in Ukraine has boosted the demand for commercially available satellite images.
No more iPhones for Russians?
Sanctions and corporate boycotts have severely impaired Russia's tech sector and pushed IT workers out of the country.
The future of satellite internet access
Can satellites provide the whole planet with internet coverage? And is it good for the environment?
Kenya's AI lawyer
Kenyan lawyer Harman Grewal developed an artificially intelligent lawyer called Nadia to offer free legal advice.
Remembering Germany's last homegrown airliner attempt
Twenty years ago, the regional jet Fairchild Dornier 728 was launched as a base model.
The brain of a self-driving car
Instead of horsepower, computers will soon become the driving force for autonomous vehicles.
Virtual training for safe self-driving cars
Self-driving cars are tested in extreme situations in virtual worlds to make them safer.
Shift - Living in the Digital Age
In the future, traffic should flow safely thanks to self-driving electric cars controlled by AI.
How NFT technology can be 'a tool for decolonization'
After a bid to borrow a sculpture created by their ancestors was denied, a Congo-based artist collective made an NFT.
Can e-boats help clean up Lake Victoria?
To help combat pollution, Kenya is introducing fishing boats with electric motors in the hope they will help improve wat
IT specialists caught in the crossfire of war
After the breakup of the former Soviet Union, the IT sector had been thriving in Ukraine and Belarus. But then came war.
Ivory Coast brings digital tech to agriculture
Developers are producing apps they hope will revolutionize the west African country's farming sector.
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