London
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Technology
Technology United Kingdom
Inventor of the Web Slaps Tech Giants’ Fingers: “Be More Transparent”
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee is urging major tech companies to ensure their artificial intelligence algorithms do not discriminate, telling them to be more transparent about how these algorithms make decisions that affect people’s lives.
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Society
Society USA
New York is the New Tokyo, Named World’s Most Innovative City
A list that annually ranks the world’s most innovative cities has put New York in first place, pushing Japan’s Tokyo, last year’s winner, down to second, as the United States steps up with its embrace of smart tech and start-ups.
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Technology
Technology
London Homes Feel the Heat of the Underground to Cut Carbon
Danish company Ramboll is engineering a heating network that will use unwanted heat from London Underground’s Northern Line to provide a sustainable, low-cost means to warm up homes and businesses in north London’s borough of Islington.
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Environment
Environment
Life is Back in Thames River with Fish, Seals, and Dolphins
London’s River Thames is teaming with life and has recovered from its biologically dead state since the 1950s. Improved waste systems, stricter environmental regulations, and 393 habitat enhancement projects since 2005 revived the river.