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This one is lightweight, costs next to nothing and is open source, meaning that anyone can reproduce the design by 3D printing parts and cobbling them together with shop-bought motors and circuit boar... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology , Finance

Simplified: Microscope is lightweight costs next to nothing and is open source meaning that anyone can reproduce the design by 3D printing parts and cobbling them...

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8 months ago
Manufacturers from Ghana and Wales to Chile and Australia are all using OpenFlexure’s designs to give people everywhere access to low-source microscopy. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Health , Technology

Simplified: Manufacturers from Ghana and Wales to Chile and Australia are all using OpenFlexure’s designs to give people everywhere access to low-source microscop...

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8 months ago
What is actually prolific and relevant to the majority are low-cost technologies that solve day-to-day business and social problems. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology , Social Impact

Simplified: Low-cost technologies that solve day-to-day business and social problems are prolific and relevant to the majority

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8 months ago
Tech bros may want you to believe there is no point in making something new unless it is difficult, inaccessible and exclusionary. 0.850

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Technology

Simplified: Tech bros may want you to believe there is no point in making something new unless it is difficult inaccessible and exclusionary

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8 months ago
The real pioneering technologies of today are genuinely useful systems I like to call “frugal tech”, and they are brought to life not by eccentric billionaires but by people doing more with less. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology

Simplified: Real pioneering technologies are genuinely useful systems called frugal tech brought to life by people doing more with less

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8 months ago
They don’t impose top-down “solutions” that seem to complicate our lives while making a few people very rich. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology , Social Impact

Simplified: Frugal tech does not impose top-down solutions that complicate lives while making a few people rich

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8 months ago
That’s why some of today’s most brilliant minds are working out how to manage the trade-off between internet range and bandwidth, and whether there are obstacles in the way such as mountains and folia... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology

Simplified: Some of today’s most brilliant minds are working out how to manage the trade-off between internet range and bandwidth and whether there are obstacles...

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8 months ago
So while big tech poured hundreds of millions into watering down the EU AI Act, good tech lobbies for better internet provisions for all. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology , Policy

Simplified: Big tech poured hundreds of millions into watering down the EU AI Act good tech lobbies for better internet provisions for all

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8 months ago
There’s a common misconception that state-of-the-art technology has to be expensive, energy consumptive and hard to engineer. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology

Simplified: State-of-the-art technology has to be expensive energy consumptive and hard to engineer

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8 months ago
Innovation is always “investment-driven, shiny, lab-born, experimental, exciting”. 0.900

👤 Ursula Franklin 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology

Simplified: Innovation is always investment-driven shiny lab-born experimental exciting

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8 months ago
More often than not, in the real world, it is “needs-driven, scrappy, on location, iterative, practical, mundane”. 0.900

👤 Ursula Franklin 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology

Simplified: Innovation is needs-driven scrappy on location iterative practical mundane in the real world

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8 months ago
The fact is that good innovation also often involves lobbying for good. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Policy

Simplified: Good innovation often involves lobbying for good

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8 months ago
Microscopes are crucial for diagnosing infections but can cost millions of pounds, making them entirely inaccessible for many people across the globe. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Health , Finance

Simplified: Microscopes are crucial for diagnosing infections but can cost millions of pounds making them entirely inaccessible for many people across the globe

1 sources

8 months ago
In 2020, Olympic officials loosened the rules to allow athletes to make some forms of political statements during the Games on social media or to journalists, but not while competing or on the medal s... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Rules , Olympics

Simplified: Olympic officials loosened rules in 2020 allowing athletes to make political statements on social media or to journalists but not while competing or o...

3 sources

8 months ago
Russia’s Olympic committee is the only one formally suspended from Olympic competition. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Russia , Olympics , Suspension

Simplified: Russia's Olympic committee is only one formally suspended from Olympic competition

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8 months ago
Before being elected to lead the I.O.C. last year, Ms Coventry, who won two gold medals in swimming for Zimbabwe, had been part of a group of athletes that helped the organization create its current r... 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: Before being elected to lead the I.O.C. last year Ms Coventry had been part of a group of athletes that helped the organization create its current rul...

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8 months ago
But in Italy, the I.O.C. has faced questions over the presence of some Russian athletes at the Games, competing under “neutral” status. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: In Italy the I.O.C. has faced questions over the presence of some Russian athletes at the Games competing under neutral status

3 sources

8 months ago
On Tuesday, Olena Smaha, a Ukrainian who competes in luge, wore a message on her glove during her competition that said: “Remembrance is not a violation.” 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: On Tuesday Olena Smaha wore a message on her glove during her competition that said Remembrance is not a violation

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8 months ago
The I.O.C. said that it had no choice but to disqualify Mr. Heraskevych in order to preserve what its chief spokesman, Mark Adams, described as “the sanctity of the field of play.” 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Rules , Olympics

Simplified: IOC said it had no choice but to disqualify Heraskevych to preserve sanctity of field of play

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8 months ago
That ban came into effect in 2022 after the Russian committee absorbed official sporting bodies in four occupied regions of Ukraine. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Russia , Ukraine , Olympics

Simplified: Ban came into effect in 2022 after Russian committee absorbed sporting bodies in four occupied regions of Ukraine

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8 months ago