💡 Warp News #239
🌳 Deforestation in the Amazon reaches lowest level since 2018. 🗳️ Human rights have improved in all world regions. 🔭 New space telescope could potentially see city lights on exoplanets.
📚 The Angry Optimist's summer reading tips
It was a product that was supposed to transform cities as much as the car did, praised by Steve Jobs, and fought over by investors eager to invest, created by a technical genius. A product so revolutionary that it only appears once per generation. That and other book tips for lazy summer days.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🌎 The last ozone-depleting chemical is now decreasing. 💰 Funding to create an open energy protocol for energy sharing. 🐎 Wild horses return to the Kazakh steppes after 200 years.
🗳️ Human rights have improved in all world regions over the past hundred years
Human rights have improved in all regions over the past hundred years. Europe and Oceania have the highest levels of human rights protection. Africa and Asia have lower levels but have made significant progress.
📞 Phone scams could become harder to pull off
If I were a criminal, I would focus on scams using AI. This is a real AI problem, unlike the fantasies about the end of humanity. But as often is the case, the solution can be found in the very technology that contributes to the problem.
💡 Warp News #238
🌎 The last ozone-depleting chemical is now decreasing. 💰 Funding to create an open energy protocol for energy sharing. 🐎 Wild horses return to the Kazakh steppes after 200 years.
📗 Wow, so many bad things have peaked – and more peaks are coming
She left university without hope. But then she happened to see one of Hans Rosling's talks, and it changed her life. Now she wants to become 'Rosling' for sustainability and believes that we can become the first generation to live completely sustainably.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
✈️ Plane hijackings have decreased. 🏭 Has China’s CO2 emissions peaked? 🚀 First crash-free test of Starship. 👀 Few see disinformation online.
🧫 They win the $10 million Longitude Prize – combating superbugs
Swedish-Japenese Sysmex Astrego has won the Longitude Prize of $10 million for its rapid test of bacterial infections. The test reduces the time to determine the correct antibiotic from three days to less than 45 minutes, and can be used directly at the first doctor's visit.