Not to be outdone by Amazon, African companies in East Africa are also experimenting with a drone initiative that uses large cargo robots in a race around Mount Kenya to deliver and collect payloads. That initiative faces many challenges, though, and the future “African Amazons” are likely to be born on the other side of the continent – in Nigeria, West Africa.
About 2.5 billion people don’t have proper sanitary facilities, or more specifically, toilets. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Colorado – Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – has developed a toilet that uses solar power to scorch and disinfect human waste, and turn it into a byproduct called biochar.
A Massachusetts start-up called WiTricity is working on generating electricity without the need for wires. The method involves building a coil of electrical wire that generates a magnetic field when power is attached. When another coil is brought close, a wireless electrical charge can be generated.
The ‘Global Entrepreneur Award’ was awarded Tuesday to William Colglazier, age 9, and Alexander Glidden, age 8, for developing the @Me-on-the-Move mobile app, which breaks new ground by working across borders, and making it easier for people to use open data to create applications that can transcend borders.
Mt Gox, which is filing for bankruptcy protection, offered Tuesday to allow users to check their balances. Users with a Mt Gox account can log in and see their accounts, though that is all that they will be allowed to do.
Research done by the Economist Intelligence Unit and Arbor Networks has found that corporations are unprepared for dealing with escalating cyberthreats, putting their clients’ personal and financial information at risk should their systems be penetrated by hackers.