A United Nations resolution titled "2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" laid out 17 development goals to help countries tackle things such as poverty, inequality and climate change. It did not ...

Hyundai Motor Group reveals HMG Smart City Vision, previewing a hexagonal urban concept with a large park in the center. The city concept features a function-centered underground layer, and ...

Last February, the Toyota Motor Company broke ground on what it calls Woven City, a built-from-scratch futuristic urban center on 175 acres in the shadow of Mount Fuji. Woven City is a reference to ...

In May 2020, the smart city concept appeared to have been dead and buried when Sidewalk Labs ended its collaboration with the City of Toronto to create Quayside, a data-infused, sustainability-focused ...

A wildfire in Tenerife, the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands and a popular tourist destination, burned for 10 days before being stabilized Aug. 24. The fire burned about 37,000 acres of woodland, but ...

THE concept of a "smart city" has evolved significantly over the past two decades. What began around 2005 as a tech-focused ...

More than a decade since the smart city concept gained traction, local governments continue shaping the general idea to suit their needs, with its purpose evolving from solution-based toward a ...

Boston-based event brings together top talent from academia and defense to reimagine urban technology, with Project LANTERN clinching $10,000 top prize The Metal Ops: Smart City Hackathon, hosted by ...

The concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) has been around since 1985, when Peter Lewis spoke about it in a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 15th Annual Legislative Weekend in ...

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In response to modern problems, there are plenty of proposed solutions to alleviate overpopulation and seawater rise, with one from a Japanese company called N-ARK, with the floating sustainable ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Metal Ops: Smart City Hackathon, hosted by Code Metal in downtown Boston from March 14-16, 2025, has successfully concluded. The event showcased innovative concepts for ...