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This week we cover the Earth’s ability to heat your home, the birth of the internet, and the funding of the entertainment industry. Plus, cars take to the skies, and leftover citrus peel could be your next lamp.
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Turn up the heat
Who needs fossil fuels when you can tap directly into the Earth’s own central heating system? This short podcast from TedTalks Daily explores how geothermal energy can be harnessed through simple and inexpensive infrastructure to help maintain a comfortable temperature in our homes.
Dig a little deeper
Fly me to the shops
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads. A prototype flying car has safely completed its first flight of just over half an hour, and researchers are already considering how the tech could be used to alleviate pressures on current transport systems.
Lights, camera, action
Extended lockdowns have generated unprecedented demand for at-home entertainment. Speaking to Forbes, Wayne Marc Godfrey, founder and CEO of fintech platform and Sapience client Purely Capital, discusses global companies’ record spend on producing and licensing film and TV content in 2020.
Source code
Could you put a price on the original code from which the World Wide Web was built? This week, the text was sold in the form of a non-fungible token for $5.4 million, joining a growing list of artworks, music, and online content that are being sold as crypto assets for multi-million amounts.
And finally…Vitamin see
The future has little place for plastic, and innovators across the world are searching for alternative solutions. Designers in Italy have used orange peel to create an organic material which can be 3D-printed into a small but stylish lamp – and they are already turning their attention to a coffee table built from coffee beans themselves…
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