Heroic tech Will help the world to pay back the debt to the planet

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AI, software, and machines that can be forces for good:

Cancer-sniffing robots:

This year, Google and a Dutch university teamed up to use deep learning AI to detect cancer just as well as a human pathologist.

Famine-fighting AI:

We can use smart machines that nip disease outbreak in plants in the bud: by identifying the disease in crops, like cassava, the world’s third-largest source of carbohydrates.

ShotSpotter:

This software listens for the sound of gunfire and uses algorithms to pinpoint where it is coming from, before alerting the authorities.

Russia’s team of hacker hunters:

In today’s world of cybersecurity threats, to stop a hacker you need to think like a hacker – and Russian startup Group-IB rounds up white-hat hackers and trains them to hunt down criminals enjoys a high success rate.

Video games as diplomacy:

Video games have long gotten a bad rap for stoking violence in teens, but in today's increasingly globalised world, the US State Department is using games to teach kids and teens American culture and English.

# Ocean robots that 'smell' pollution:
We have robot vacuum cleaners – and Swiss startup Envirobot is applying the same technology to keep our waters clean.