Bombora is an ocean energy company in Perth, Western Australia. Their mWave converters deliver environmentally friendly, large scale energy for national electricity grids. Bombora wave farms can be deployed in coastal locations throughout the world. https://www.bomborawave.com/
The New Zealand government is experimenting with a private prison model designed to discourage inmates from returning. The Auckland South Correctional Facility, known as Wiri, is the largest privately run prison in New Zealand. But what sets it apart is its bold application of an approach called payment-by-results, which links payments to outcomes. For Wiri, those outcomes include a 10 percent reduction in the rate of recidivism. This model contrasts with others in the US where private prisons gain revenue the more people are imprisoned. This year, Geo Group, the second-largest prison operator in the U.S., will begin operation of another prison using the Wiri model?in Australia. https://www-citylab-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.citylab.com/amp/article/538506/
With fully driverless cars expected to be available to regular consumers by 2025, augmented reality (AR) will play an important social role by helping you adjust to the new reality. You will have to learn to trust driverless cars. You?ll want to know what is happening in the car: why it chooses the specific lane, which cars are around, how busy one or another road is, how the route is being calculated. AR is a natural way to visualize the decision processes in the car so you feel safer and more comfortable. Automotive AR ?could use a combiner glass with a holographic film on it, which works as a lens and reflects only certain wavelengths. You will be able to look through the combiner glass in front of the windshield and see the projected video or interactive interface.
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Electric cars are on the way and now electric flying cars are as well. Lilium is among several companies looking to usher in an era of Jetsons-type flying cars. Lilium?s vehicle is an electric jet, designed to take off and land vertically, like a helicopter. They are planning their first manned flight in 2019, with a rollout of commercial air taxis by 2025. www.lilium.com
Scientists at UNSW in Australia have discovered a new approach to quantum computing. They predict it will remove a hurdle that threatened to stall progress on scaling up the number of quantum computer bits-known as qubits- on silicon chips needed to make quantum computing viable. Their approach makes more room on a silicon atom to squeeze in more qubits by pulling electrons away from the nucleus. Unlike the discrete zeros and ones now used in so-called "classical" computing, qubits can be either a one, a zero or both at the same time, opening the way for an exponential increase in computing speeds using these "superpositions". Many problems now limited by computing power, from medicine to climate modelling, would be more easily solved with quantum computing.
