How Denmark’s “Expired” Supermarket is Reducing Food Waste

A new supermarket in Denmark called WeFood is taking a surprising approach to reducing food waste: it only stocks groceries that are past their “sell by” date. The market sources its products from other supermarket chains that throw out perfectly edible goods. WeFood then sells it to customers at steeply discounted prices, with profits going to DanChurchAid, an organization alleviating global poverty. Read more about …

Inside Jeff Bezos’ Secretive Space Company Blue Origin

For the first time ever, Jeff Bezos—the billionaire CEO of Amazon—allowed journalists into the headquarters of his secretive aerospace company Blue Origin. There, he revealed the program’s ambitious plans for the future—including taking paying tourists to space as early as 2018 with a fleet of reusable rockets. The company is currently working on the rocket to fulfill that promise, with a test launch date set …

AI Lands a Historic Victory Over the Human Mind

The field of artificial intelligence landed a significant victory over the human mind today, as Google’s AlphaGo program was able to defeat legendary player Lee Se-dol at the game of Go. AI has previously been unable to master the ancient Chinese board game like it has with chess or checkers, as Go requires much more intuition and evaluation. AlphaGo’s creators developed the program using a …