Relaxnews It’s being pitched as the world’s first motorized, rideable carry-on smart luggage that can whisk tired fliers through the airport three times faster than old-fashioned walking. You could call the Modobag a scooter-slash-suitcase. Designed by Chicago entrepreneur Kevin O’Donnell and an engineer whose credits include professional race motorcycles at Daytona 200, the mobile suitcase features an electric motor, …

  Bloomberg Ford seems to think so and is working with MIT in order to shuttle in a new form of smarter, on-demand mobility service that can predict where it needs to be at any given time, in order to best help people get around. From September the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Cambridge campus will become the testing ground for …

  Mount Lavinia / AFP Tourists have flocked back to Sri Lanka’s palm-fringed beaches since a bloody civil war ended in 2009, but environmentalists warn unchecked development means some areas are now so polluted, swimming there is a health hazard. Sewage from thriving hotels and guesthouses pours, often untreated, out into the water polluting the sea and shore. Even the …