Microsoft Teams: Now Zoom-like breakout rooms arrive alongside Together mode for web

Also new: Festive backdrops for your virtual Christmas parties. Breakout rooms lets meeting organizers split up participants for group discussions." data-credit="Image: Microsoft" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Breakout rooms lets meeting organizers split…

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London gets taste of the high life with new elevated park

New York City's High Line elevated park has been such a success that the basic idea has been copied worldwide. A slice of the Big Apple is now coming to the Big Smoke with a new raised park for London that will include housing, retail, and offices.

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Deloitte predicts 2021 will feature radical workplace changes around the world

Going from surviving to thriving will be next year's key trend for the enterprise with businesses moving past the pandemic. In the 2021 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends survey, the…

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Ocean Cleanup gets ready to tackle world’s most polluting rivers

The Ocean Cleanup is ramping up production of its Interceptor plastic trash removers in partnership with Konecranes, with a thousand of the world's most heavily polluting rivers in its sights.

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Soft aquatic robot activated by light and magnets to quickly crawl

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new soft robot that can walk at roughly the speed of a human, activated by light and magnetic fields. The robot can squeeze into tight spaces and pick up, carry and release objects on demand.

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Bentley completes its first reverse-engineered 1929 Blower

Bentley is 40,000 man-hours into its painstaking reverse-engineered, laser-scanned copy of the 1929 Bentley Blower, and has just announced the completion of "car zero" – the master prototype from which 12 "Continuation Series" cars will be built.

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Glucose earring concept imagines blood sugar tracking via the earlobe

An imaginative new concept for diabetes management is a student-designed earring that tracks blood glucose levels via the earlobe. The creator hopes it can one day help children with the condition more discretely manage their condition.

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Samsung nixes modularity to make MicroLED TV consumer-ready

A few years ago Samsung unveiled The Wall, a huge display that was more billboard than home entertainment. Now it is bringing the technology behind it, MicroLED, to consumer-ready TVs, although we’d imagine it's still too much for most people to handle.

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