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Newsletter week 28
Looking ahead to the climate conference #COP26 in November in Glasgow
The difference between 1.5°C, 2°C or 3-4°C average global warming can sound marginal, but they represent vastly different scenarios for the future of humanity.
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Spanning art, technology and sports
The Constant Gardeners is a large-scale, performative robotic art installation during Tokyo Olympics. It is a Japanese garden changing from moment to moment, created by using robotic arm movements that capture the motions of athletes.
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Bumble will open its first IRL space this summer
On July 24, Bumble Inc., the women-make-the-first-move app, will move from digital to real life and open its inaugural Bumble Brew in New York.
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Right to repair movement gains power in the US and Europe
The UK, European Commission and the US have introduced right-to-repair plans and rules that legally require manufacturers to make spare parts available to people buying electrical appliances.
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McDonald Pixel adverts
Relying entirely on existing customer knowledge, the ‘No Logo’ campaign adopts a minimalist approach, obscuring its top-selling burgers behind a veil of pixelation, accompanied by the question ‘Guess who’s back?’.
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