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China Is Building The World’s Most Futuristic City

We’re all too familiar with the work-play balance we strive to juggle in the 21st century. It’s virtually impossible, right? We’re often faced with a long and busy commute to work, using dated public transport or busy highways, only to find ourselves sitting in a dull office all day long. Well Tencent is about to revolutionize the work-play life of 80,000 people in the city of Shenzhen, with a next-century approach!

Following Huawei’s campus-style city, Chinese technology company Tencent, the driving power behind instant messaging apps WeChat and QQ, has made promises to build an entire mini-city off the banks of the Pearl River in Shenzhen, where the company has its headquarters. Both are located in the Guangdong province of Southern China, near the metropolis of Hong Kong.

How Gaming Tech Giant Tencent is building its own futuristic city.

Laundry Filter Saves The Ocean From Microplastics

Video from Waste-Ed. So basically, when we wash our clothes we release microplastics into the environment. The plastics come from fibers in our clothes.

They’ve added a filter to the washing machine to collect these microplastics to prevent these from spreading.

Dirt isn’t the only thing getting washed down the drain when you do laundry! Before your clothes make it to the dryer, tiny microfibers break off in the wash and travel through wastewater to pollute our
 More environment. That changes with this microplastics filter that stops pollution at the source! Just install it on the side of the washer and send it back for safe disposal after it’s full. It captures 90% of the fibers that contaminate our planet!

The Mystery of The Platypus Deepens With The Discovery of Its Biofluorescent Fur

The platypus has gotten a whole lot stranger. Not only does it look like a chimera of different animals, a mammal that lays eggs and has venom, it’s now found to have bioflourescent fur.

It glows green under UV light.

Scientists are seeing the Australian platypus in a whole new light. Under an ultraviolet lamp, this bizarre-looking creature appears even more peculiar than normal, glowing a soft, greenish-blue hue instead of the typical brown we’re used to seeing.

The recent discovery has not been found in any other monotreme species – a primitive type of mammal – and it has scientists wondering: Have we been overlooking an ancient world of fluorescent fur?

“Biofluorescence has now been observed in placental New World flying squirrels, marsupial New World opossums, and the monotreme platypus of Australia and Tasmania,” the authors write.

Webinar on “Lower Earth Orbit High Throughput Satellites Mega-Constellations”

IEEE RAS CUI Wah SB presents a webinar titled “Lower Earth Orbit High Throughput Satellites Mega-Constellations” and the speaker of this Webinar is “Engr. Muhammad Furqan” Researcher, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia, Former Satellite Communication Specialist, Ministry of Defense, Qatar and Former Senior Executive VSAT/DVB Wateen Telecom Pakistan.

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Salt Harvest: Major infrastructure project launched at the Dead Sea

ICL’s salt ponds constitute the southern part of the Dead Sea. Many hotels and tourist attractions were built on these ponds’ shores and utilize their production of salt for the local tourism industry. Specifically, one major pond — Pond 5 — “enables the 
 livelihoods of thousands of people [who are] dependent on [its] stable water level,” according to ICL.

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