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A new breakthrough lowers the footprint of making both concrete and fresh water

Cement is typically manufactured through a carbon-intensive heating process, but a team of researchers in Abu Dhabi think they can make a cleaner version–using what’s left over after desalination.

A new breakthrough lowers the footprint of making both concrete and fresh water

Facebook and NYU believe AI can make MRIs way, way faster

Facebook is applying some of its computer vision learnings to an important application far afield from social networking.

Facebook and NYU believe AI can make MRIs way, way faster

IBM’s Watson For Business: The $1 Billion Siri Slayer

IBM is unveiling their new Watson for Business on Thursday, a $1 billion project devoted to bringing big data to every educational institution, pharmaceutical firm, and publishing house in America–and they’re offering more than $100 million in venture capital to developers.

IBM’s Watson For Business: The $1 Billion Siri Slayer

White House To Universities: We Need More Data Scientists

The Insane Growth Of China’s And India’s Megacities Mapped Through Satellite Imagery

These charts–made with information from weather satellites scanning the ground–show how wide and how tall cities around the world have grown. What’s happening to the size of cities in Asia will blow your mind.

The Insane Growth Of China’s And India’s Megacities Mapped Through Satellite Imagery

Nerd York City: Why Bloomberg Wants A NYC Tech Campus

Skype’s Huge, New Security Headaches

Major security flaws in Skype, newly verified by an international academic research team, leave users vulnerable to stalkers, blackmailers, and other hackers. How long until Skype, under new ownership at Microsoft, fixes this?

Skype’s Huge, New Security Headaches

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Meditate Your Way To A More Creative Mind

Want to ignite your creative brain? Slow down.

Meditate Your Way To A More Creative Mind

Fast Company Magazine

Women in Tech: The Evangelists

9 thought leaders who are changing our ideas about technology.

Women in Tech: The Evangelists

Fast Company Magazine

The Global Portfolio of Architect Steven Holl

Impact

Forests are a big part of the climate solution, but we’re not fixing the problem

London is going to use heat from the Underground to help heat its homes

NGOs need business’s help: Here are the best ways to offer support

Creativity

A shocking 73% of stories on LGBTQ websites are being flagged as unsafe for brands, survey says

Let’s talk about SNL’s most important new cast member: Bowen Yang

The Jennifer Lopez-Constance Wu movie ‘Hustlers’ shows how the world runs on strip club rules

Co.Design

This smart toilet seat monitors your heart health through your gluteus maximus

Another reason to silence your notifications: They could alter your memory

Fabric dyes are a toxic problem. These beautiful alternative colors are made out of food waste

Work Life

When your body calls time-out

What to do if your boss is professionally ‘breadcrumbing’ you

The five-minute email rule completely transformed the way I work