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GUEST OPINION: What do Morgan Stanley’s wealth management division and the Government of Iceland have in common? They both use a language learning platform called Duolingo, powered by artificial intelligence, to bridge the foreign language gap.

Printed solar panels will be used to power a Tesla on a 15,000-km trip around Australia in September to make the public more aware of steps to effect climate change.

The company behind the Vivaldi browser says its emphasis on privacy comes from the fact that its slogan is "we are building a browser for our friends".

Edward Snowden the former Booz Allen Hamilton contractor who blew the whistle on the NSA for spying on US citizens is hoping to embark on his own The Flight of The Phoenix from Hong Kong to either Iceland or Ecuador with the help of Wikileaks. If the US has any say in this the flight will never get off the ground. However, he may already be out of Uncle Sam's reach.

For a long time geothermal energy has been dismissed as an oddity.  Soon, it will be very much mainstream.

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member NASA crew are expected to land back on Earth on Monday, April 19, after a 14-day mission to the International Space Station. Their voyage home is not expected to be delayed due to the volcanic dust in the air, only by likely rainy weather.