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New smartphone games: Harvest crops, fight ghosts, pilot spaceships
From simple flashlights to Tesla technology, the freshest games for your iPhone, iPad or Android device let you kill bad guys in creative new ways. If you're an RPG fan, puzzle addict or fan of virtual farming you'll want to check out these new smartphone games.
Armed with apps and crops, women lead battle to save Senegal’s shrinking farmland
The women of Thiamene, a tiny straw hut village in northern Senegal, used to scrape together a living by collecting wild baobab fruit and selling milk from their cows.
Farmers earn more from YouTube than their crops
It’s a sign of the times when farmers make more money advocating for the industry on social media than actually farming.
US farmers use tech to squeeze every drop from Colorado River
A drone soared over a blazing hot cornfield in northeastern Colorado on a recent morning, snapping images with an infrared camera to help researchers decide how much water they would give the crops the next day.
Robots fight weeds in challenge to agrochemical giants
In a field of sugar beet in Switzerland, a solar-powered robot that looks like a table on wheels scans the rows of crops with its camera, identifies weeds and zaps them with jets of blue liquid from its mechanical tentacles.
Pests in a pandemic? India’s plant doctors will see you online now
When Victor Mary’s husband decided to travel abroad for work, he left her a plot of land to cultivate in southern India and a new mobile phone that would help them stay in touch.
As California’s labour shortage grows, farmers race to replace workers with robots
Despite the adoption of drones, iPhone apps and satellite-driven sensors, the hand and knife still harvest the bulk of more than 200 crops in California.
Google Ventures leads US$15mil deal in Farmers Business Network
Google Inc and two venture capitalist firms are investing US$15mil (RM54.16mil) in a US tech company that helps farmers maximise their crops based on data gathered by agricultural equipment and shared between growers.
In fight to survive, US dairy farmers look for any tech edge
At Rosendale Dairy, each of the 9,000 cows has a microchip implanted in an ear that workers can scan with smartphones for up-to-the-minute information on how the animal is doing – everything from their nutrition to their health history to their productivity.
Supercomputer helps in tracking East Africa locust outbreak
A supercomputer is boosting efforts in East Africa to control a locust outbreak that raises what the UN food agency calls "an unprecedented threat" to the region's food security.
