Green roofs are credited with attenuating extreme temperatures by keeping the rooms below the roof cool in summer and warm in winter.
Author: The Conversation
WeWork fails on nearly all the criteria which determine whether a tech start-up is likely to be successful in the long term.
Although most of us can distinguish between and remember hundreds of different faces, some people are better at it than others.
Japan and South Korea are showing no signs of resolving an escalating trade dispute, which traces back to 1910. It now poses a threat to the world’s technology supply chain.
The theory that humans can be digitised and live on within the digital confines of a computer-based existence has been the subject of debate. But until recently, no one had taken the idea much beyond research and discussion.
Not content with monitoring almost everything you do online, Facebook now wants to read your mind as well.
In the wake of the El Paso, Texas mass shooting on 3 August that left 22 dead and dozens injured, a familiar trope has re-emerged: often, when a young man is the shooter, people try to blame the tragedy on violent videogames.
South Africa is training a group of teachers to learn how to code and how to teach coding. The subject will be piloted at a thousand schools across five provinces, starting in the 2020 academic year. Can it work?
The problems of South Africa’s state-owned enterprises are in the headlines every day. Yet many have existed for over 80 years.
Most discussions about artificial intelligence are characterised by hyperbole and hysteria. This could end up turning people against AI research, bringing significant progress in the technology to a halt.