UNICEF Spain redirects the unspent money sitting on festival cashless wristbands into donations, targeting funds that attendees had already written off.At music festivals, attendees often load money onto cashless wristbands to pay for drinks, food and merch. They almost always overshoot. The leftover balance, sometimes a few euros, sometimes more, theoretically belongs to the attendee, who can claim it back through a refund process that opens days after an event ends. A meaningful share goes unredeemed. Cash Forward, a new initiative from UN...

As demand for artificial intelligence continues to reshape the labor market, job postings increasingly reflect a growing need for technical and infrastructure-related skills. According to an analysis from Stanford University’s 2026 AI Index Report, based on billions of U.S. job postings collected since 2010 by Lightcast (where a single posting may list multiple AI-related skills), demand for these competencies has surged across a wide range of fields over the past decade.As our chart shows, programming and core technical skills remain at th...

Abel Fragrance is turning to biotech to capture scent from food waste streams.The top note in a new perfume called Miami Split comes from an unexpected place: a banana processing plant in Ecuador. The fragrance is extracted from banana-scented water, a byproduct of washing fruit, that was previously thrown away.It’s one of the unusual ingredients sourced by Abel Fragrance, a company that avoids using any fossil fuels in its products. Instead, it is looking to biotech to make natural fragrances. Right now, petrochemicals are the status quo i...

A Red Dot Design Award and a $210,000 Kickstarter campaign are two very different kinds of validation. One comes from a jury of design professionals evaluating form, function, and coherence. The other comes from tens of thousands of people who looked at a product and handed over money before it shipped. SparkO, the compact wearable EDC flashlight from California’s ScoutLite, earned both. That combination suggests something specific about the object: it reads clearly to designers and solves something real for everyday people. At $45.99 and 4...

We continue our Parametricism series by looking at Metropol Parasol by German architecture studio J Mayer H and engineering firm Arup, a flowing timber canopy perched above the historic Plaza de la Encarnación in Seville, Spain.Officially named Setas de Sevilla or Mushrooms of Seville, the fungi-shaped structure was completed in 2011 and contains food markets, bars, restaurants and an archaeological museum both within and beneath its canopy, which is topped by a winding walkway.Perhaps better described as a piece of urban sculpture or furni...

1. (PDF) Accenture 보고서 - 협업 지능의 시대: 인간과 AI 에이전트, 로봇이 재정의하는 가치 창출의 미래단순 생산성 도구에서 상호 의존적 동반자로 진화한 AI 시스템과 로보틱스 기술의 통합: 지능형 에이전트가 사용자의 의도를 해석하고 다단계 공정을 자율적으로 수행하는 '협업 지능'의 전사적 배치 가속화.인간 중심의 운영 체계 구축을 통한 가치 보존: AI가 대규모 연산과 실행을 담당하더라도 전략적 맥락, 윤리적 책임 및 최종 의사결정권은 인간이 보유하는 새로운 협업 모델 안착 성공.직무 타이틀 대신 기술(Skills) 중심의 경제 구조로의 전환: 직무의 고정된 역할보다...

Accenture and The Wharton School have released a new report arguing that the global economy is entering the “age of co-intelligence,” a phase where humans, AI agents, and robotics systems increasingly operate as interconnected collaborators rather than separate tools or technologies.AI has advanced at unprecedented speed, at times rivaling human reasoning, creativity and decision-making as agentic systems scale enterprises.Use of AI is shifting from tools to co-intelligence, where humans lead while AI amplifies judgment, execution and auto...

Orbital comes out of stealth with plans for thousands of small number-crunching satellites.The rapid advancement of large language models is fueling a global data center boom and driving a surge in energy demand. But the electricity required to power data centers is straining the grid, pushing infrastructure operators to search for alternative sources of power. Some are even looking beyond Earth.One company that’s looking to the stars for energy is Orbital Inc. In mid-April, the Los Angeles–based startup emerged from stealth and announced...

Profit margins of memory makers look unsustainably high, but AI demand is changing the game.It says something about the memory business when skyrocketing profits can actually be a cause for worry. Profits have never been a sure thing in the volatile industry. Memory-chip makers Micron Technology and Sandisk, as well as hard-drive makers Seagate and Western Digital, have all produced annual operating losses at least once in just the past three years. But those days seem far in the past now as the AI boom has sparked an epic run on memory chip...