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Ahmedabad’s plan to reduce heat-related deaths 2:39
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‘Just Dunzo it.’ How Google’s favorite Indian startup is making city life easier
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Alphabet scales back its smart city project in Toronto after backlash
A live demonstration uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition in dense crowd spatial-temporal technology at the Horizon Robotics exhibit at the Las Vegas Convention Center during CES 2019.
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India is trying to build the world’s biggest facial recognition system
This photo taken on February 8, 2019 shows central Singapore's iconic promenade and skyline. - Those in Singapore with HIV -- the virus that causes AIDS -- have long complained of prejudice, and campaigners say a data breach of some 14,200 people, whose HIV status was released on the internet in January 2019, has caused widespread consternation. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP) / TO GO WITH STORY Singapore-social-health-homosexuality-data-HIV, FOCUS by Sam REEVES (Photo credit should read ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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How Singapore is using technology to solve its water shortage
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How new tech is keeping Singapore’s taps from running dry 2:47
In the Wild West of transportation, no one knows what to do about scooters.
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Scooters are a huge problem for cities. No one knows how to solve it yet
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This startup helps you find any place on the planet without an address
OLAND, SWEDEN - JULY 14: Queen Silvia of Sweden during the occasion of The Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden's 41st birthday celebrations at Solliden Palace on July 14, 2018 in Oland, Sweden. (Photo by Michael Campanella/Getty Images)
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Ikea and the Queen of Sweden are designing homes for people with dementia
A man looks at his mobile phone at a barriered entrance to a tube station in Waterloo station in central London on January 9, 2017 during a 24-hour tube strike. A strike on the London Underground caused major disruption on January 9, as almost all stations in the city centre shut and services were cancelled in a dispute over jobs and ticket office closures. Millions of passengers were forced to take overcrowded buses or overland trains, or work from home, after the 24-hour walk-out by the RMT union. / AFP / BEN STANSALL (Photo credit should read BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)
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London is tracking passengers on the Underground
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 23: Alternatively-fuelled vehicles including hybrid, plug-in hybrid, electric and hydrogen cars are displayed during a photocall by the Society Of Motor Manufacturers in Potters Field on February 23, 2017 in London, England. In a bid to reduce pollution older, more polluting cars will be subject to a £10 T-Charge for entering the congestion charge zone in London from October 23. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
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New technology tackles London’s air pollution problem 2:36
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Ikea wants to build homes in Britain that cost what the buyer can pay
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Alphabet tries to salvage its smart city plans in Toronto
Uber has selected Melbourne as the third city to test its flying taxis, after Los Angeles and Dallas.
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Melbourne will be the first city outside America to get Uber’s flying taxis
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Silicon Valley’s next big thing: Lab-grown meat 2:44
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Uber and Lyft battle Los Angeles over the future of transportation