Primary schools in Sydney's north are so overcrowded that the state government has considered buying land and redeveloping it into residential blocks with classrooms underneath to cope with ballooning enrolments. However no progress has yet been made and the overcrowding problem is now in high schools. ?Holy Trinity CE Primary School in Beechwood Road London is a residential development operating successfully as a solution to this problem. http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/sydneys-primary-school-overcrowding-to-hit-high-schools-20170613-gwpxte.html

Sainsbury in London charges for plastic bags and they?re not easily accessible. Instead you can buy a large, light, sturdy bag, at a small charge, that you can reuse.

The German startup ioxp develops training manuals that work with AR glasses to place step-by-step instructions directly into your field of vision. The software combines artificial intelligence with AR to produce a system that can quickly and easily understand almost any work environment and process and teach it to workers step-by-step. Besides the immediate self-supervision and the reduced error rate this system can greately contribute to workplace safety. www.ioxp.de

Soon, you'll be able to make payments to friends on an iPhone or Apple Watch via Apple Pay. In the meantime, a public beta will let "friends and family" test it pre-launch. Apple Pay users can already?make merchant payments. As an extension of this service iPhone users will be able to transact with?any?other iPhone user to make payments, receive payments, and use the card associated with their Apple Pay Cash account as a store of value. In summary, Apple is transforming into a bank. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/banking-apple-paul-shetler/?

Four women who played vital roles in the US space program are immortalized in a 231-piece Lego set which became Amazon's No. 1 best-selling toy in just 24 hours. Astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, and astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, the four women who played vital roles in the US space program feature in a 231-piece Lego set, accompanied by three builds illustrating their areas of expertise. http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/02/health/women-of-nasa-lego-trnd/index.html

Bill Gates' nuclear firm TerraPower and the China National Nuclear Corporation have signed an agreement to develop a world-first nuclear reactor, using other nuclear reactors' waste. Fourth generation Travelling Wave Reactors would differ from third generation, more traditional light water nuclear reactors, as they?would?not require enriched uranium to generate energy, and could?instead use waste uranium. The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) is part of the Generation IV International Forum Framework which they call ?a potential game-changer in global energy creation". http://www.smh.com.au/business/energy/bill-gates-and-china-partner-on-worldfirst-nuclear-technology-20171106-gzfrf0