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Technology holds key to future health
Combine an aging and growing population with an acute shortage of health care workers and it is clear that the world is about to face a health crisis of dramatic proportions.
Mining Industry 4.0
Mining companies have put the excesses of the commodity boom behind them and are refocusing their investments on innovation.
Transforming mining with technology
Innovation touches everything we do. It has made Anglo American safer, more productive, more cost-competitive and more accepted by our host communities.
Protection from new threats
In the early days of the Internet, the first cybersecurity companies would detect one or two new viruses each week. Now, 30 years later, the scale of the threat has increased almost beyond comprehension.
Towards zero water
Canadian mining company Goldcorp is now pioneering a new approach that aims to dramatically reduce the use of water in its operations.
The most intelligent city on earth
Dubai is now emerging as a flagbearer for a new trend in the global economy, a trend which places the concepts of happiness and well-being at the heart of economic and technological development.
The irresistible rise of urbanization
At Marcus Garvey Village, a low-income community in Brooklyn-Queens, electricians have built New York’s first digitalized microgrid, complete with solar photovoltaic panels, a fuel cell and even lithium-ion batteries for energy storage. Installed and managed by Demand Energy, a unit…
Reality goes digital
In recent years, virtual, augmented and mixed reality captured imaginations and shaped trends. Now they’re poised to become mainstays of everyday reality.
On the road to intelligent mobility
Oslo, Madrid, Paris and London are considering partial or even total bans on diesel-powered vehicles in their city centers, as policymakers begin to rethink the role of cars in the urban mobility of tomorrow.
The city in the net
As massive two-way flows of electrons and data, of electricity and information, reshape whole industries and transform contemporary society, energy companies are preparing to change the face of urban living in the 21st century.