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Vertiports and the Future of Urban Air Mobility

From The Jetsons to Back to the Future to The Fifth Element, personal air mobility has been a recurring feature in popular culture’s image of what the future will look like. Now, it seems, we’re getting a bit closer on this front. 

Flying Taxi, Needle-Free Medicine, Edward Snowden & ENGIE: what happened at the...

When Web Summit was first launched in Dublin in 2009, it was all about the internet’s unbridled power to change the world for the better. By far Europe’s largest tech conference, its 10th annual edition, which took place Nov. 4th to 7th in Lisbon, still featured plenty of optimism and bright ideas for the next billion-dollar, globe-changing innovation. But for this year’s Web Summit, the keynotes and...

Clean Cooking in the Developing World, ENGIE’s Recipe for a Sustainable Future

Nothing illustrates the complexity — and high stakes — of reconciling economics and ecology like food. While some areas of the world may spend massive amounts of money to develop products touted as environmentally friendly, others are forced to scramble just to find the ingredients and tools needed to make a decent meal.