The first-ever machine to clean up the planet’s largest chunk of ocean plastic is due to set sail. It’s heading to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, halfway between California and Hawaii, where it will ...
The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit that designs technology to clean up plastic from the ocean. Microsoft hosted two hackathons to build a machine learning model to help identify waste. The nonprofit is ...
On a Wednesday afternoon in a sprawling lot on a former naval air station in Alameda, California, across the bay from San Francisco, workers are welding a massive black tube together. The tube–roughly ...