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Image Source : FILE Artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken over the world within a couple of years and has been storming the world with its expansion and wide usage. In India, many startups have been impacted by creating dataset space in several Indian languages to train AI models and for research while creating jobs, majorly in the rural parts…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain I first rode an e-bike after a day out exploring the fells on foot a few years ago. Instead of driving back to my accommodation, I traveled 40km through the Lake District on an e-bike and I was surprised by how easy it was, even after a physically demanding day. Since then, I've been researching the potential for people to shift from cars to e-bikes and recently found that rural areas have…

A new report by the U.S. branch of the non-profit Environmental Investigation Agency says that investment interest and government tax incentives are fuelling intense mining exploration in remote northern B.C. — raising concerns about the environmental impacts of the work and its financial implications.The report focuses on the transboundary region, which falls along the border between the Alaska panhandle and the province of B.C. Much of this exploration is focused on the so-called Golden Triangle, which in many areas is…

Last Updated: January 26, 2024, 10:23 ISTKinetic Green to Launch Electric Version of Iconic 'Luna' Two-Wheeler. (Photo: AutoX)Kinetic Green revives iconic Luna as E-Luna, an electric two-wheeler for urban and rural India.Kinetic Green has revealed its plans to reintroduce the beloved ‘Luna’ brand in a modern electric form, named the E-Luna.The company has announced that orders for the new electric two-wheeler will kick from today onwards, requiring a token amount of just Rs 500. Interested buyers can reserve their E-Luna…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Crime is often perceived as an urban phenomenon whereas rural life is viewed as more bucolic, but Timothy Bryan is testing these ideas. An assistant professor in the University of Toronto Mississauga Department of Sociology, Bryan analyzes how urban and rural residents perceive and imagine street safety. "Often,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Across the African continent—from Nigeria and Ghana to South Africa—widespread protests have taken place to demand police reform in the wake of police misconduct and brutality. A continent-wide survey done in 2022 shows very low trust in the police and a prevailing perception of the police as the most corrupt among key institutions. …

Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This weekly newsletter is part of a CBC News initiative entitled "Our Changing Planet" to show and explain the effects of climate change. Keep up with the latest news on our Climate and Environment page.Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox every Thursday.This week: Electric garbage trucks clean up in a variety of ways Hot enough for ya? 2023 shattered planetary heat records Carbon offsets are helping protect B.C.'s Great Bear Rainforest. Is that sustainable?…

Ever heard of the Buffalo Bike? It probably doesn’t look like the flashy, lightweight, or streamlined bicycles we normally see. But it’s got something that most bikes these days lack: an extreme ruggedness and cost-effective design that helps it last as long as possible while serving as many people as possible for as little cost as possible. The folks at World Bicycle Relief (WBR) designed the Buffalo Bike as a workhorse that could provide a new, cost-effective form of transportation to those in…

Research has demonstrated the crucial role of a child’s living environment and lifestyle in shaping early life immune development. The study, focusing on South African children, found that rural children’s immune systems develop multiple pathways in response to varied exposures, contrasting with urban counterparts.Children raised in rural environments who spend a lot of time outdoors with some exposure to animals grow to have better-regulated immune systems than children living in urban environments, a new study has…

Rural startups are making a strong pitch for new programmes to foster research and innovation, as the grassroots-level entrepreneurs seek support for streamlined supply chains, subsidies, improved infrastructure, and easy access to finance. With the Budget and the Lok Sabha elections drawing closer, startups working in various sectors, especially in smaller towns and villages, said they expect the government to look at various teething issues, even as their "overall performance has improved owing to various policy changes…