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Smart City Expo focuses its largest edition on ethical and sustainable urban development

Ruha Benjamin, Majora Carter, Stephanie Hare, and Melati Wijsen headline the lineup of featured speakers Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC), the leading international event on cities and smart urban solutions, will hold its largest edition to date from November 5 to 7 at the Gran Via venue of Fira de Barcelona. With a 30%…

Telefónica Innovación Digital presents an app for cryptoassets management and its new digital products under the TU brand

An application for cryptocurrency management operated entirely by the Bit2Me exchange, during the 'Innovation Day' TelefónicaInnovación Digital held today its 'Innovation Day', an event where the company presented the latest trends and technological developments in key areas such as Open Gateway, web3, artificial intelligence (AI), digital home and its digital services platform Tu.com, among others.…

Seoul Smart City Prize Winners Receive Awards from WeGO

Awards given to projects and individuals contributing to sustainable smart city development, with a focus on inclusivity and innovation World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization (WeGO) hosted the award ceremony for the second Seoul Smart City Prize at COEX Convention & Exhibition Center in Seoul. The ceremony recognized outstanding smart city initiatives that prioritize human-centric and…

Accelerating carbon dioxide release from rocks in Arctic Canada with global warming

Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford have shown that the weathering of rocks in the Canadian Arctic will accelerate with rising temperatures, triggering a positive feedback loop that will release more and more CO2 into the atmosphere For sensitive regions such as the Arctic, where surface air temperatures are…

The sustainable city of the future is compact

What kinds of cities does Europe have, and which are better for human health, the environment, and carbon emissions? A new EU-backed study investigates In today’s rapidly urbanising world, how can we create healthy and sustainable city environments? In search of an answer, researchers supported in part by the EU-funded UBDPOLICY project identified four basic urban…

10 Sustainability Solutions Redefine Cities – from AI to Carbon Capture

“The future of cities will not be shaped by incremental improvements, but by radical innovations that disrupt how we think about urban life,” said Michael Lake, President & CEO of Leading Cities. Leading Cities, the global nonprofit dedicated to advancing city resiliency and sustainability, in collaboration with QBE Insurance Group, is thrilled to unveil the…

The future of hospitality: balancing data and service

Artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics have enabled hospitality providers to personalize the guest experience in ways previously unthinkable In the digital age, data has transformed almost every industry, from retail to entertainment. The hospitality sector, traditionally based on interpersonal skills and service, now also embraces the use of data to optimize its operations and…

Does health advice actually work?

New study explores the effectiveness of advising patients on lifestyle changes Guidelines normally recommend that health professionals advise patients on behaviour changes, or lifestyle interventions. Lose weight, watch your diet, stop smoking, get some exercise. We’ve all heard these at some point in our lives. But how many of us really follow through with them?…

Orange tech chiefs question need for telco LLM

Orange technology bosses raised doubts about the need for telco-specific large language models (LLM) for network operations, as CTIO and EVP Bruno Zerbib (pictured, left) reiterated calls for the industry to move away from generational paradigms and pursue a software-defined approach. At a media roundtable in London, Zerbib was joined by EVP and CTO at…

Making Europe’s critical infrastructures future-proof

The SUNRISE project shows how anomalies in critical infrastructure can be spotted and fixed remotely in major crises, keeping people safe The EU-funded SUNRISE project has recently tested a variety of remote tools to detect irregularities in critical infrastructure (CI). During the COVID-19 pandemic, CIs across Europe were severely tested, teaching us the importance of…