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A Short History of U.S. Trade Wars History is full of trade wars. Why I teach math through knitting In it, I chose to eliminate pencil, paper, calculator (gasp) and textbook from the classroom completely. Instead, we talked, used our hands, drew pictures and played with everything from beach balls to measuring tapes. For homework, we…

How Instagram And Staging Help Two Brokers Sell New York City Real Estate For Manhattan real estate brokers Joel Moss and Samantha Rose Frith, Instagram is more than just a fun social media tool. It’s a bona fide way to sell a property. America’s Robot Geography The robotics industry is powered by high-tech centers as well…

Global Cities and the Promise of “Comprehensive Innovation” To take advantage of a new generation of technologies and solutions, cities also need to rethink municipal governance How statisticians are coping with an economy that you can’t touch The three phenomena of weightlessness, intangibility and globalisation are having profound effects on our economy and our statistics. The future…

Climate Gentrification theory suggests rich are moving to higher, low-income neighbourhoods Climate change is causing waves of gentrification in the cities most vulnerable to rising sea levels, as the wealthy move to poorer areas with a lower risk of flooding, according to a recent study. China’s Belt and Road lands in Latin America After several months of…

Crypto Bounty Hunting Is Becoming a High-Tech Way Out of Poverty While these programs are mostly used to reward developers for spotting vulnerabilities in code, they’ve expanded to not only offer general coding requests but also marketing-like services, such as writing content and tweeting out links. The Rise of ‘Urban Tech’ From food-delivery startups to…

The Factors Behind China’s Growing Strength in Innovation Chinese companies are busy innovating based on three valuable and difficult-to-imitate advantages that will allow them to compete effectively with, and, in some areas, even overtake their Western rivals. Xiaomi founder Lei Jun’s tech empire goes way beyond smartphones He’s one of the country’s most prolific tech…

What To Do About the Rise of Mega-Regions We need to make urbanism more inclusive and democratic if we want to realize a better future, and that means devolving power from the dysfunctional nation-state to cities and neighborhoods. Great Power, Great Responsibility: The 2018 Big Data & AI Landscape It’s been an exciting, but complex…

DARPA design shifts round wheels to triangular tracks in a moving vehicle As part of its Ground X-Vehicle Technologies program, DARPA is showcasing some new defense vehicle tech that’s as futuristic as it is practical. The D.C. region’s 2017 housing market, mapped Last year’s single-family residential real estate sales in the Washington region reveal a diverse housing market.…

Over 2000 years of economic history, in one chart It happened in Western Europe and North America first, and now it’s happening in other parts of the world. As this technological playing field evens, economies like China and India – traditionally some of the largest economies throughout history – are now making their big comeback.…

This Week In China Tech: WeChat Offers Users Their DNA, Baidu Identifies Tumors, And More China has 100,000 citizens’ DNA records that can be accessed using their face in WeChat, the northern part of the country beats a green energy record, and Baidu’s AI lab in Silicon Valley surpasses Harvard and MIT in tumor recognition accuracy. Adam…