Most cell phone manufacturers spend a lot of time and money trying to get their customers to upgrade before it’s necessary. They do this with upgrade programs, gluing-down batteries, lobbying against repair legislation and making spare parts difficult or impossible to find. One company, wants to change this.

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A device that can pull drinking water from the air just won the latest Water Abundance XPrize. It creates enough water for 100 people every day by making an artificial cloud inside a shipping container.

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In a race to become the first transport provider to launch autonomous taxis to mainstream customers, Addison Lee has announced their plans to kickstart their fleet of self-driving cars as early as 2021.

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Yep, you read it right. There is probably plastic in your poop!

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8 Million metric tons of plastic ends up in the oceans everyday. Now some companies are taking that plastic and turning into something useful. Both HP and Ikea for example now have products that are made from plastic that was intercepted before it hit the ocean.

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Nowadays, there’s a big emphasis on having a fun workplace culture. But is that sustainable in the long run - and more importantly, is a fun workplace culture actually healthy?

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One of the worst-kept secrets in Silicon Valley is that it takes a whole lot of human labour to make artificial intelligence...intelligent. Enter Hive, a Silicon Valley-based startup that's embracing this human element to provide AI-powered image recognition that's "orders of magnitude better than Google," as cofounder Kevin Guo puts it.

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There are many financial literacy programs out there, but are they actually proven to work? Or do their participants slip back into financial illiteracy out of habit and/or lifestyle?

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Why would anyone invest in your company you work for? What’s the ROI investing in you? Will you have added value in the future?

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On Canada’s first day of legal pot, an enterprising Canadian girl scout sold all her cookies in 45 minutes.

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