• NEWS
    How GIS is helping the United Nations to revolutionize manufacturing

    The United Nations forecasts that the Earth’s population will reach 9.2 billion by 2050, a 15 percent increase from today. More people means more products will be manufactured, more food grown, and more energy used. In the twentieth century alone, 34 times the amount of construction materials were harvested, 27 times more ore and minerals […]

  • COMPUTERS
    LEAKED NSA MALWARE IS HELPING HIJACK COMPUTERS AROUND THE WORLD

    IN MID-APRIL, an arsenal of powerful software tools apparently designed by the NSA to infect and control Windows computers was leaked by an entity known only as the “Shadow Brokers.” Not even a whole month later, the hypothetical threat that criminals would use the tools against the general public has become real, and tens of thousands […]

  • HOME & GARDEN
    The garden shed full of helping hands

    Media captionWATCH: Team Unlimbited’s 3D-printed limbs are changing lives At first glance, the shed, in a back garden in Swansea, doesn’t look remarkable. Step closer and you’ll hear the whirring of a hard-working machine. Open the door and, while I’d like to tell you it is Tardis-like inside, it isn’t. Every inch of space is […]