Technology
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Technology India8. August 2020Power from the Sun Brings Water to Poor Farmers
As part of a project by the Transform Rural India Foundation, a non-profit based in New Delhi, India, about 30 farmers installed a new solar-powered irrigation system to help diversify their crops in an eco-friendly way - and prevent work migration at the same time.
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Technology United Kingdom7. August 2020Archeologists Look Back Into Time with Super High-Tech, Find New Secret at Stonehenge
Archeologists have made a sensational discovery of a series of deep pits at the mystical Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, UK with the help of super high technology, allowing them to look even further back into time.
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Technology East Timor3. August 2020Air and Sunlight Is All This Island Needs to Make Clean Water
A project launched in June is tackling the water shortages faced in the remote little island of Atauro, located off the coast of Asia's East Timor, through a technology that transforms sunlight and air into drinking water.
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Technology Kenya2. August 2020Corona: Solar Power Keeps People Safe During Blackouts
Kenya’s rural villages have been suffering from increasing blackouts as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. But a switch to solar power is helping families and their electricity-deprived neighbors keep their lights on.
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Environment Bangladesh1. August 2020“Solar-Sharing” Might Save a Billion Dollars as Neighbors Share Their Power
Homes with excess, unused solar energy can now share their power with their neighbors, thanks to a start-up in Bangladesh whose mission is to curb more than a billion dollars' worth of energy waste each year.
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Technology Kenya31. July 2020Balloons in the Stratosphere Give Internet to People Who Never Had It Before
Africa’s first application of balloon-powered internet has kicked off in Kenya, providing tens of thousands of people with cheaper access to a 4G LTE network connection in comparison to constructing cell towers for the same purpose.
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Society Nigeria17. July 2020Corona: 300,000 Children Will Get Free Phones to Keep Learning
When schools in Lagos, Nigeria closed in March as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, lessons over radio, television and the internet became the norm, which many of the poorer students had little access to – until now.
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Technology United Kingdom4. July 2020Trees Get More Interesting As People Are Locked Down
An online tree mapping app in London, England featuring details of more than 700,000 trees – including their location and species – has seen fifty times more visitors since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown measures.
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Health Israel1. July 2020These Contact Lenses Make Life Colorful for the Color Blind
Frequency-filtering sunglasses have been the go-to fix when it comes to some types of color blindness – but two engineers in Israel have found a way to implement color-correcting films directly onto contact lenses!
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Society Lebanon1. July 2020Refugees Earn and Students Learn in Online Language Service
An online language service taught entirely by refugees is helping people from all over the world pick up a new skill – especially useful during COVID-19 lockdowns – while teachers earn a living where they otherwise wouldn’t be able to.