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Portsmouth hospital accelerates AI programme through Sectra Amplifier Service

Healthcare professionals at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust are trialling an AI application designed to help detect lung cancers on chest x-rays sooner The service, including a marketplace for AI, was created by medical imaging technology provider Sectra to make it easier for hospitals using its picture archiving and communication system to quickly trial, procure…

The SmartCityTech Partnership’s mission to USA is over

The mission was organised under the eT4S Project by SmartCity Tech Partnership and the partner Green Hub Denmark Who took a part in this mission? The group included representatives of companies from Denmark, Bulgaria, Spain, etc., all of them members of the partnership and interested in a circular economy and particularly in sustainable building management,…

The Bezos Earth Fund: Supporting marine conservation

The BEF grant directly reinforces the National Geographic Society’s ‘ocean’ area of focus one of the five focus areas outlined in the society’s five-year strategic plan The Bezos Earth Fund (BEF) revealed its conservation grant to National Geographic Pristine Seas during the National Geographic Ocean Night at the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon. Over the…

Climate-related flooding and drought expected to impact millions of people and cost world’s major cities $194 billion annually

C40 mayors will collaborate to develop and deliver upon data-driven commitments to address the impacts of drought and flooding in cities globally C40 Cities has revealed new research quantifying the dire impacts of climate-driven drought and flooding on the world’s largest cities and their residents. Supported by the Grundfos Foundation, C40’s analysis, entitled Water Safe Cities,…

TUMI E-Bus Mission aims to electrify public transit across the Global South

Now TUMI is expanding its E-Bus Mission to a larger learning network of cities across India, Indonesia, Africa, and Latin America – the first of its kind in the Global South Often referred to as the “greenest city in the world,” Curitiba, Brazil, has long been held as a model for urban sustainability due to…

Long live politicians

An Oxford University study shows that you live longer than the rest of the people New data show politicians have a considerable survival advantage over general populations, based on information from 11 countries and over 57,500 politicians. In some countries, this survival advantage is at the highest level for 150 years, and life expectancy at…

NextGeneration: €50 billion of bonds in the second half of 2022 to finance the recovery

The funds will go to support Member States' economic recovery following the coronavirus pandemic under the Recovery and Resilience Facility The European Commission has announced its plans to issue €50 billion of EU-Bonds to finance the NextGenerationEU recovery programme between July and December 2022, to be complemented by short-term funding (EU-Bills). The funds will go…

New York State Purchases Robot Companions for the Elderly

The state has bought more than 800 ElliQ robots to combat loneliness in older adults New York State’s Office for the Aging, in charge of administering housing, transportation and health programs for the elderly, has purchased more than 800 robots to act as companions for older adults. The robot, ElliQ, was created by Intuition Robotics…

Solar Energy and its Countless Benefits for the Power Grid

In fact, there is even more solar power that hits the earth every day than what the entire world can use in a whole year Creating a sustainable future can only be possible through developing self-sufficient, climate smart, inclusive communities. A global systemic shift is necessary from centralized power production towards a decentralized, distributed one…

Expectations and Concerns about South Korea-US Summit

U.S. is to launch the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework(IPEF) soon with South Korea being an initial member of the framework President Yoon Suk-yeol and U.S President Joe Biden hold their first summit meeting in Seoul tomorrow. The summit takes place only eleven days following Yoon’s inauguration, and it is the first time in 29 years that…