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The Bezos family has donated $710 million to the Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Washington! The donation will fund 26 new research labs for cancer research. #JeffBezos #CancerResearch #FredHutchinsonCancerCenter #Donation…

Billionaire philanthropist McKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, has donated $20 millions to the Fresno Unified School District in California! Thank you McKenzie! #McKenzieScott #Amazon #Philanthropy #FresnoUnifiedSchoolDistrict @JeffBezos https://www.yahoo.com/news/mackenzie-scott-gives-california-school-175748899.html

Microsoft founder Bill Gates announces donating $20 billion of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for philanthropy. Love him or hate him, it’s a gesture of grand…

Researchers at Japan’s Kyoto University and construction firm Kajima Corporation have revealed plans for a future moon and Mars space colony that fully rotates every 20 seconds to create artificial…

In a win for the environment and planet, India has banned 19 types of single use plastics! https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/1/india-bans-19-single-use-plastic-items-to-combat-pollution

The Singapore national water agency and local craft brewery Brewerkz has launched NewBrew, a craft beer using recycled sewer water to combat water scarcity! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/01/singapore-craft-beer-newbrew-uses-recycled-sewage-highlight-water-scarcity

A floating city in the Maldives that can house 20000 people has been revealed by their government. With ocean water levels rising, the new city is designed to “float” with…

Social Media for Social good: Facebook has announced the launch of “Drives”, a feature to help collect and contribute food, clothing and other necessities for people in need! The tool…

A grad student from the UK’s Royal College of Art, has devised a synthetic leaf that uses photosynthesis to create oxygen as real plants do on earth. The invention may…

Microsoft has announced Skype will offer a real time speech and text translator end of this year, first as a Window 8 beta app. Something that used to be in…

We’ve all seen the dorky Pebble watch and other takes at ‘smart watches’ the last year or two. Kairos is the first company to bring to market a watch that…

A building at the Milan Expo will feature a first of its kind, smog eating photocatalytic cement! When in contact with ultraviolet light, the titanium oxide in the mix reacts…

AT&T has announced the installation of 45 additional solar powered mobile device charging stations around New York City for use free of charge! Very legit Ma Bell, very legit. http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/20/att-street-charge-solar-new-york/

New York city is converting 10,000 of its outdated payphone stations into free Wifi hotspots in a move to both re-purpose existing equipment and create ad revenues for the city…