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With AI, the Future of Augmented Reality is in Your Ears

By Om Malik Dennis Crowley has built his career at the intersection of emerging technologies and human behavior. Twenty years ago, as a 25-year-old inspired...

's the Marauder's Map for AirPods.

#Sound #Maps #Hearing #Navigation #Cities

With AI, the Future of Augmented Reality is in Your Ears

Barcelona is turning subway trains into power stations

Barcelona is using the regenerative braking of its subways to power trains, stations, and neighborhood EV chargers. Could New York do it too?

#Green #Climate #Energy #Cities #Subway #Public Transport #Spain #Battery

Barcelona is turning subway trains into power stations

eMOTIONAL Cities – Climateflux

#Cities #Wellbeing #AI #Europe #EU #Data #Machine Learning

eMOTIONAL Cities – Climateflux

Hot playgrounds and children's health: A multiscale analysis of surface temperatures in Arizona, USA

To provide novel quantification and advanced measurements of surface temperatures (Ts) in playgrounds, employing multiple scales of data, and provide …

#Children #Play #Heat #Climate Change #Cities #Health

Hot playgrounds and children's health: A multiscale analysis of surface temperatures in Arizona, USA

Filipinos are embracing electric three-wheelers faster than officials can regulate them

Unregistered three-wheelers big enough for whole families are a popular antidote to the country's terrible gridlock.

#Electric #Bikes #Philipinnes #Cities #Transport #Car

Filipinos are embracing electric three-wheelers faster than officials can regulate them

University of Stuttgart uses self-shaping timber for garden show pavilions

Warped timber and robotically woven flax were used to create a pair of experimental wooden structures in Germany, by researchers at University of Stuttgart.

#Building #Wood #Biotech #Cities

University of Stuttgart uses self-shaping timber for garden show pavilions

The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods

Restricting or banning vehicles in congested city centers pays off with cleaner air and safer streets. We need to talk more about the other big benefit — less noise.

#Sound #Car #Cities #Pollution

The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods

This 23-Floor Manhattan Office Building Just Sold at a 97.5% Discount

The sale price of 135 West 50th Street in Midtown, which is only 35 percent full, was a sign of how much the pandemic upended the market for office buildings in New York City.

#Building #Business #Cities #Land #Finance #Policy #USA #Work #Labour #Travel

This 23-Floor Manhattan Office Building Just Sold at a 97.5% Discount

"The Olympic Village AC debacle is a perfect illustration of the barriers to climate action"

The row over air conditioning at the Paris 2024 Olympics higlights the challenge we face in gaining support for green technologies, writes Smith Mordak.

that's successfully been keeping buildings and landmarks across Paris cool

#Building #Climate Change #Heat #Cities #Technology #Air

"The Olympic Village AC debacle is a perfect illustration of the barriers to climate action"

Schools that never needed AC are now overheating. Fixes will cost billions.

As heat waves creep north, they are baking schools that previously did not need air conditioning. Fixing the problem will be neither cheap, nor easy.

#Schools #Heat #Cities #Young People #Air #Building #Retrofit

Schools that never needed AC are now overheating. Fixes will cost billions.

Mexico City and millions of its residents could run out of water in weeks

Mexico City gets about a quarter of its water from a system that is running dry. Some say it could be unable to provide water by June 26, known as “Day Zero” in the metropolitan area of 22 million.

#America #Latin America #Mexico #Water #Drink #Cities #Climate #Heat

Mexico City and millions of its residents could run out of water in weeks

The uninsurable world: what climate change is costing homeowners

Rising premiums are a de facto ‘carbon price’ on consumers as extreme weather events become more frequent

#Insurance #Home #Housing #Building #Climate #Climate Change #Cities #Finance #Capitalism

The uninsurable world: what climate change is costing homeowners

Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined

Statistics raise concerns that rise in demand for data processing driven by AI could derail climate targets

#Big Tech #Energy #Climate Change #Europe #Ireland #Data #Data Centres #AI #Machine Learning #Cities

Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined

Biomanufactured materials are coming

And they hint at a future with vastly better products

#Biology #Materials #Building #Cities #Futures

Biomanufactured materials are coming

Nudge Community Builders

#Planning #Cities #Building #Reuse #Regenerative

Nudge Community Builders

Free Street Manifesto Is a Guide for a Post-Car City

Cars have dominated the streetscape for so long that it’s hard to imagine a future without them — but that’s exactly what The Free Street Manifesto does. With images, comics…

#Car #Cities #Design #Planning

Free Street Manifesto Is a Guide for a Post-Car City

What does a city that has spurned cars look like? Olympics visitors to Paris will get a look

Changes designed to encourage people in Paris to take other forms of transportation have contributed to a 40% decline in air pollution, according to city officials.

#Car #Europe #Pollution #France #Cities

What does a city that has spurned cars look like? Olympics visitors to Paris will get a look

This Instagram star might soon be mayor of one of Mexico’s wealthiest cities

As Mariana Rodríguez campaigns around the clock on Instagram, electoral authorities are wondering how to regulate influencers-turned-politicians.

#Politics #Mayors #Cities #Social Networks #Influencers

This Instagram star might soon be mayor of one of Mexico’s wealthiest cities

(1) Matthew Fraser 🇪🇺 on X: "Paris has tripled parking rates for SUVs. Parking 6 hours will costs 225 euros instead of the current 75 euros. The new rates, which come into effect on Oct. 1, apply in the central arrondissements I to XI. https://t.co/qSLytoRbsY" / X

— Matthew Fraser 🇪🇺 (@frasermatthew)

#France #Europe #Car #Cities

Health gains of low-traffic schemes up to 100 times greater than costs, study finds

Research looked at three London boroughs to value overall health benefits of active travel over 20 years at up to £4,800 per head

#Cities #Health #Car

Health gains of low-traffic schemes up to 100 times greater than costs, study finds

Cities Aren’t Prepared for a Crucial Part of Sea Level Rise: They’re Also Sinking

Coastal land is subsiding. That could expose hundreds of thousands of additional Americans to inundation by 2050.

#Climate Change #Water #Climate #Search #Cities #Futures

Cities Aren’t Prepared for a Crucial Part of Sea Level Rise: They’re Also Sinking

How a Colombian City Cooled Dramatically in Just Three Years

With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures -- and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.

#Climate Change #Climate #Cities #Heat #Design

How a Colombian City Cooled Dramatically in Just Three Years

Facebook uses big data to aid humanitarian efforts in Africa

Facebook artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have created the world's most detailed population density maps of Africa to help humanitarian relief efforts...

#Maps #Africa #AI #Machine Learning #Facebook #Data #Cities #Housing

Facebook uses big data to aid humanitarian efforts in Africa

SUVs drive trend for new cars to grow 1cm wider in UK and EU every two years, says report

Bigger cars more likely to kill people, release more toxic gas and are outgrowing design of cities

#Cities #Car

SUVs drive trend for new cars to grow 1cm wider in UK and EU every two years, says report

Cleo Valentine - Cleo Valentine: We now know architecture can cause stress

In terms of architecture, it’s possible that the features that consistently produce minor stress responses in our bodies are the most insidious, precisely because they often go unnoticed.

#Anthropocene #Medicine #Biology #Humans #Climate #Climate Change #Cities

Cleo Valentine - Cleo Valentine: We now know architecture can cause stress

Researchers Propose a Fourth Light on Traffic Signals – For Self-Driving Cars

The new light would enable autonomous vehicles to help control traffic flow – and let human drivers know what’s going on.

This concept we’re proposing for traffic intersections, which we call a ‘white phase,’ taps into the computing power of autonomous vehicles (AVs) themselves,

possible for AVs to communicate wirelessly with both each other and the computer controlling the traffic signal

mobile control paradigm

#Car #Vehicles #Autonomous Vehicles #Cities #Safety

Researchers Propose a Fourth Light on Traffic Signals – For Self-Driving Cars

Opinion | Kids getting burned on swings and slides? Here’s how to fix it.

In our warming world, kids are running out of places to play safely.

#Climate #Heat #Collapse #Children #Cities

Opinion | Kids getting burned on swings and slides? Here’s how to fix it.

One of Europe’s Hottest Cities Harnesses a 1,000-Year-Old Cooling Technique

Cities are the first line of defense in humanity’s battle against deadly heat. Bloomberg Green’s Hot Cities series looks at changes some of the world’s hottest cities are making to protect their people from extreme temperatures.

#Climate #Energy #Adapatation #Water #Cities

One of Europe’s Hottest Cities Harnesses a 1,000-Year-Old Cooling Technique

Amsterdam to close cruise ship terminal amid effort to restrict tourism

Move by city council follows action to limit public cannabis use and to discourage wild partying by young Britons

#Transport #Climate #Cities #Travel

Amsterdam to close cruise ship terminal amid effort to restrict tourism