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Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Topic: WEF

Do you trust your doc-bot? Here are three ways AI-driven healthcare can succeed post-Covid

If doc-bots were more trusted, integrated, and reimbursable by health insurance, they could become the GPS of primary healthcare.

Move over fishing nets, LED lights and audio technology are the new fisherman tools

Around the northeast Atlantic, scientists are working on trials of light and audio technology that are protecting endangered species & preserving food security.

Want to do urban farming without getting your hands dirty? This Belgian startup can help

It's all about creating a community of people who help each other and share values, as well as food.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to help you with your children’s homework

Homework Helpers was set up by US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to bridge the growing education gap during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Europe imposes lockdowns again, with some lessons from the previous ones

Belgium threatens to fine quarantine breakers €250 on the spot, for example, while in Italy not wearing a mask can now cost you €1,000.

Why Singapore’s cruise fiasco should be a red flag to Davos

The recent Covid scare on board a Royal Caribbean Cruise vessel shows that almost a year into the pandemic, it’s still unwise to take any arrangement, in any place, as set in stone.

WEF brings together 37 initiatives as part of global action plan to promote smart technology

According to the World Economic Forum, internet of things will play a crucial role in public health, especially distribution of Covid vaccine.

Davos WEF 2021 moves to Singapore as Covid cases rise in Europe

The World Economic Forum, which attracts leaders across government, finance and economics, will be held in Singapore from 13-16 May and return to Davos, Switzerland, in 2022.

A rope bridge is helping conserve China’s rarest primate species

A critically-endangered gibbon species in China has been thrown a lifeline – literally.

Cybercrime may cost the world $11.4 million every minute in 2021. Here is how we can stop it

According to the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2020, cyberattacks rank first among global human-caused risks.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?