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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

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Hoping to connect with young readers through a Pokémon -inspired card game, Sher-DeCusatis’s first comic, Riko-chan: Cybersecurity Engineer , centers around two of the title character’s classmates who are concerned whether a rare trading card used in their favorite game is authentic. I also think it’s fun and exciting,” she adds.

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EC JRC report explores future of road transport; moving away from system centered on private car ownership

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The Joint Research Center (JRC), the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, has released a report exploring the future of road transport, given the advent of automated, connected, low-carbon and shared mobility. Left unmanaged, such changes may widen the gaps in societies.

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The Maestro Behind Design-Software Behemoth Synopsys

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Much like jazz musicians improvising, engineers go with the flow at team meetings, he says: One person comes up with an idea, and another suggests ways to improve it. An entrepreneur creates a vision of some crazy but, hopefully, brilliant idea,” he says, laughing. That’s a big benefit because fewer is better.

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Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

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Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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The support from IEEE gave us validation, and that helped us to believe in ourselves and the ideas we came up with,” Orajaka says. Winning the competition, he says, changed his life. To a large extent, I wouldn’t be the person I am today if not for the support from the IEEE and IEEE Foundation.”

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RSA report Inside the Mind of a Cabbie explores how to influence more fuel-efficient driving behavior

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Climate change is partly a technical problem, in that it has well defined quantitative dimensions. underlying the technical problem means that climate change is more profoundly an adaptive. challenge, requiring changes in attitude, values and behavior on an unprecedented scale. Yet the human dimension.

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AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real

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Charles Simonyi , the person who created Microsoft word. Lee: Let’s say someone is talented and could become an architect, but that person just graduated from college and isn’t there yet. Maybe those jobs don’t exist today and have to be invented; maybe some of those jobs will be service jobs, human connection jobs. Back to top.

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