💡 Warp News #236
🌳 India's forests have steadily increased. 🚑 New Indian traffic safety model to save lives in poor countries. 🌼 A periodic table for flowering plants has been created – includes 9,500 species.
🚑 New Indian traffic safety model to save lives in poor countries
Zero Fatality Corridor has reduced road fatalities by over 50 percent on specific stretches in India. The model is adapted to the conditions of low- and middle-income countries. The Indian government plans to expand the model to the country’s 15 most dangerous highways.
💡 22 fact-based optimistic news from May
🌍 We have passed "peak pollution". 👩⚕️ We are close to eradicating polio. 🧠 Neuralink's first patient can control a computer with his mind. 🚗 Waymo's robotaxi has now reached 50,000 paid trips per week. 🏭 Record reduction in emissions within the EU emissions trading system.
👨🏫 Microsoft to train a quarter million Swedes in AI
The largest investment from Microsoft in Sweden to date. Among other things, 20,000 GPUs will be installed in the company's data centers and 250,000 Swedes will be trained in AI.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🌍 We have passed "peak pollution". 👩⚕️ We are close to eradicating polio. 🔭 The Webb Telescope has discovered the earliest known black hole merger. 🧠 Frozen brain tissue can now be revived without damage - enables research.
🗳️ The startup VINICI creates a rhetorical timeline of what politicians have said - fighting for democracy in Georgia
Georgia has passed a Russian-inspired law that classifies many democracy activists as foreign agents. A step towards harsher repression. But there are many who are fighting back. VINICI is building a tool that can influence the election in Georgia this fall.
💡 Warp News #235
🌍 We have passed "peak pollution". 👩⚕️ We are close to eradicating polio. 🔭 The Webb Telescope has discovered the earliest known black hole merger. 🧠 Frozen brain tissue can now be revived without damage - enables research.
👩⚕️ We are close to eradicating polio
The world has made significant progress in the fight against polio, reducing the number of cases by a hundredfold since the 1980s. Two of the three serotypes of wild poliovirus have been eradicated. New vaccines and improvements in sanitation and testing will help us overcome the last obstacles.
😒 It was the worst of times
When was the worst music produced? Now! Most crime? Now! Worst movies? Now! Worst morality? Now! In area after area, people think the worst time is now — a completely bizarre view.