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Architects take inspiration from nature to build sustainable future

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“Those who look to the laws of nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the Creator.” So said Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. But can buildings behave like trees? Might nature itself provide the answers to combating climate change? Can we design buildings that are not only net-zero but net-positive?

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Is a sustainable electronics industry possible?

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Over the past decade, tech has become an indispensable companion in our lives. A growing number of devices answer our every daily need. But all of these — from smart watches, to wireless headphones, virtual assistants and tablets — have a shelf life. And, once discarded, they linger on in e-waste graveyards, leaching toxins into the soil, or gathering dust in drawers. All of the resources extracted, transported and transformed in their manufacture — the rare minerals, plastics, chemicals – are lost. And all of the energy used to create them is lost to the ever-warming atmosphere.

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The UK business loans and grants available for startups

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There are heaps of grants and business loans available for startups in the UK. These can be handy at all stages, but are particularly useful for giving founders a helping hand in the early days of running a startup.

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Why Sweden is (still) betting on the metaverse 

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Sweden is among the countries betting big on the metaverse. According to Dealroom, following the UK and France, Sweden has pumped the most money into the tech out of European countries over the past decade.

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4 CTOs on what a chief technology officer at a startup actually does

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You can find the first crumbs of the chief technology role in the 1950s and 60s, when a string of large corporations established gleaming research labs out in the sticks (ie. remote from HQ) with the hope of creating hubs of scientists who could dream up genius ideas unconstrained by the rigmarole of daily office life.