THE DAILY ROUNDUP – Sunday
10 Blockchain Ideas That Are Out-of-This-World, or May Change It
Blockchain technology has proven to be a great invention since it was introduced about a decade ago. Since then, it has powered several inventions that will have a lasting impact on humanity. Some notable examples are the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart contracts…
Iconic London black cabs are going green
Since the 1940s, the design of London’s iconic black cabs has barely changed. But there’s now something different under the hood of one-tenth of the city’s taxi fleet. More than ten percent of cab drivers have switched to battery-powered electric cars, in an effort to fight climate change and air…
French EV Retrofit Start-Up Transition-ONE Wants to Future-Proof Your Hatchback
New electric vehicles are coming, but if the goal is to get the general population driving emission-free as soon as possible, we’re going to need to get moving a little quicker than that. A French company called Transition-One thinks they have a good solution. Rather than force everyone to get…
Big Tech Needs to Save the Deep Seas
At some point in the next decade, a large, tractor-like device will start crawling the deepest seafloor, gathering potato-sized nuggets packed with metals crucial to electric vehicles, renewable-energy storage, and smartphones. Nobody knows how badly this industrialization of the deep…
Instarz goes to infinity and beyond with its proposed lunar home
While NASA and other countries develop grandiose technology to explore outer space, startups are just as active. Just take a look at the recently formed Puerto Rican startup Instarz. In the early stages, it aspires to build the world’s first self-sustaining moon habitat by the late 2020s…
