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Far from Silicon Valley in California, there is a place that some are now calling “Silicon Savannah.” Located around Nairobi, and centered on the …

Collaborative Consumption. Reputation Marketing. Trust Metrics. The Sharing Economy. Chances are, you've heard these terms being thrown around lat…

Frank Swain, a 32 year-old science writer from London, was first diagnosed with early onset hearing loss when he was in his 20s. In 2012, he was fit…

Today, more than a billion people around the world live without electricity, either due to lack of access or the sheer fact that they cannot affor…

Open any book of speculative science fiction and chances are, the subject of mind control will come up. Not so much the ability to control others wi…

The Internet of Things - where all things in the real world are digitally tagged and monitored, as with the internet - is fast becoming a reality.

Imagine if you will a long tether made of super-tensile materials, running 100,000 km from the Earth and reaching into geostationary orbit. Now im…

Solar Power has come a long way in recent years. Once considered to be the most promising amongst energy alternatives, it has now reached a point wh…

Fusion power has taken a beating in the last few decades. Once considered the best option for clean, abundant alternatives to fossil fuel and coal…

When it comes to the broken promises of the 21st century, the flying car is considered the greatest of betrayals. For those of us growing up in th…