Our Partners’ Top Stories of 2021
A collection of some of our favorite brand stories from 2021.
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Traffic: This 100-year failure is getting a solution
These smart traffic lights are making transportation safer and more sustainable than ever before.
Videos (6)
The mission to end world hunger is one of today’s most pressing challenges. Here’s how big data is helping solve it.
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Attacking climate change requires reimagining our buildings and vehicles as intelligent systems. And it all starts with a smart motor.
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Liquid Death is shifting consumer mindsets toward canned water through radically imaginative marketing that is frightening to some, but entertaining to most.
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These smart traffic lights are making transportation safer and more sustainable than ever before.
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Can new technology help society eliminate cardiac episodes completely?
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A traditional lung biopsy is incredibly invasive, but new tech is allowing doctors to get ahead of lung cancer and give patients a fighting chance.
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