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Autonomous drive shifts into gear
The number of people sharing the planet continues to climb toward 9.7 billion by 2050, according to projections by the United Nations. Guaranteeing universal access to basic needs is the only means to prevent human conflict and environmental disaster.
Q&A: Hyundai Motor Europe
Jochen Sengpiehl, Vice President Marketing: "The biggest challenge we are facing is the clash between two industries: the digital industry and the old car industry."
DOW: sustainability know-how
At Rio 2016, DOW is overseeing efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the Olympics' carbon footprint.
Q&A: Omega
Stephen Urquhart, Former President: We have been at nearly every Olympics. It really is part of our DNA."
An ecotourism paradise
Brazil has to be experienced to be believed. The world’s fifth-largest country boasts breathtaking natural wonders, such as the Amazon rainforest, the Pantanal wetlands and Iguaçu Falls.
Disrupting the financial playing field
Naguib Sawiris has always been a force to be reckoned with, in business, politics and even international relations. Charismatic and forthright, the Egyptian entrepreneur is a visible catalyst of change in the Middle East and North Africa.
Driving digital payments innovation
Alternative payment methods, like peer-to-peer providers PayPal and Square Cash, and smartphone digital wallets, are disrupting an industry which long offered just three options: cash, check, or card.
The coffee revolution
In May 2015, Samantha Cristoforetti, an astronaut on the International Space Station, drank a small cup of coffee and took a giant step for coffee-kind when she made the first zero-gravity espresso.
Sci Fi deep sea mining
Just as Jules Verne’s famous fictional submarine ventured 20,000 leagues under the sea, its modern-day namesake, deep-sea miner Nautilus Minerals, is carving out a new niche in the extraction business.
CNH Industrial trailblazes in innovation
While the high performance road vehicles of global brands such as Nissan, Renault and Toyota may be the most visible face of the fuels revolution, it is in the world of agricultural and industrial equipment that change is taking place…