On a rooftop in the Jewish-Arab Tel Aviv neighborhood of Jaffa, a former military technologist and an ex-journalist sit in a transparent bio-dome where their robot is busy learning how to grow food. Flux IoT’s Eddy, a robot measuring less than a foot tall and resembling a life buoy, is built with military-grade sensors and armed with image-processing technology.
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Levi’s Is Radically Redefining Sustainability
And it all comes down to making a timeless product that the customer will hold on to for many, many years. In focusing on sustainability, Levi's wants to cultivate a “consumer who values durability and demonstrates a real attachment to an object.”
FCC – Sneeds to help close divide
Like food, water and electricity, robust broadband connectivity is a must-have for anyone who wishes to fully participate in our 21st century digital economy.
California looks to build $7 billion legal pot economy
The future of California’s legal marijuana industry is being shaped in a warren of cubicles tucked inside a retired basketball arena, where a garden of paper cannabis leaves sprouts on file cabinets and a burlap sack advertising “USA Home Grown” dangles from a wall. Here, in the outskirts of Sacramento, a handful of government workers face a daunting task: By next year, craft regulations and rules that will govern the state’s emerging legal pot market, from where and how plants can be grown to setting guidelines to track the buds from fields to stores.
Mark Zuckerberg’s first stop on his tour of the US is Dallas,…
The billionaire Facebook CEO helped plant fruits and vegetables in a community garden in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, according to his Facebook page . He also met with computer science students from a local public high school.
Forget Altria: These 3 Stocks Doubled Last Year
Altria has smoked the competition and many other stocks when it comes to long-term performance, but this year there were more than a few stocks that did even better. Image source: Flickr via Claudio Toledo.