smart city
After Years of Big Promises, Sidewalk Labs Abandons Its Smart City in Toronto
The Google affiliate tried to sell Canada's biggest city on robotic package delivery and heated sidewalks alongside unprecedented data collection, and now it's gone the way of many an abandoned Google project.
We Really Don’t Need Uber
The company is unsafe and unprofitable. It’s past time to start considering alternatives.
Why Does Google Want to Hand Its Smart City Data to a Third Party 'Civic Data Trust?'
Sidewalk Labs says nobody should own data collected from residents in Toronto's Quayside "smart city," but critics say the tech giant shouldn't be driving the conversation.
Toronto Advisor Resigns Over Data Concerns with Google's Smart City Project
Sidewalk Lab's plan to redevelop a 12-acre swath of Toronto has been beset by concerns over surveillance and data handling.
Will 5G Kill Free WiFi?
Intel's techno-utopian vision of a single unified meta-internet has a dark side.
Mumbai's Smart Slum
A new vision for Dharavi, Mumbai's largest and most renowned informal settlement.
Wind Powers the Eiffel Tower's Sustainable Future
UGE International's giant turbines are estimated to wipe out the carbon footprint of the structure's entire first floor.
Paris, 2050: The Smog-Eating Smart City of the Future?
See Vincent Callebaut Architectures plans for 8 buildings that would recast Paris as sustainable utopia.