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There are many things you can do to reduce your impact on the environment. If we all use energy, transport and other goods and services more carefully, we can reduce harmful emissions to our air, land and water. Everyday choices have the power to make a difference, and help protect our environment for a clean and sustainable future.

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Learn how Malala began her fight for girls — from an education activist in Pakistan to the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate — and how she continues her campaign through Malala Fund.

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Fathers of Technology: 10 Men Who Invented and Innovated in Tech

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IT would not be the same without the contributions of these pioneering men.

When people are asked to describe inventors, they often use one word: genius. As a society, we look upon the inventor with awe, and we fawn over his inventions with curiosity and admiration. We wonder, how did he do that? Where did he find his inspiration?

In the course of IT history, certain men have breathed life into groundbreaking technologies that most users now take for granted. In honor of Father's Day, and as a companion piece to our 10 Mothers of Technology, we've compiled a list of 10 men who have helped shape IT with their inventions. And for an updated look at some new fathers of technology and their impact on today's tech landscape, check out, " The New Fathers of Technology: 6 Men Whose Innovations Shape Our World."

Here's a toast to 10 fathers of technology.

Jack Nilles
Telework Titan

His impact on technology:
If your company has work-from-home Fridays, you can thank Jack Nilles. His efforts to define and promote the concept of telework is partially responsible.

People often jest that it "doesn't take a rocket scientist" to figure out solutions to common problems. Telework, it turns out, did. Jack Nilles was working as a rocket scientist in the early 1970s when he was struck by the amount of congestion on the roads. He realized that the daily commute that people made just to get to work was responsible for the stress-inducing traffic everyone had to suffer through.

To Nilles, the answer was obvious: Get people off the road by removing the requirement that they come into the office to work. With that goal in mind, he began working with a team at the University of Southern California to design, define and test a telework initiative at an insurance company using satellite offices, Nilles said in an interview with BizTech magazine.

As he later found out, technology wasn't the biggest obstacle in getting organizations and managers to accept telework - it was an old-fashioned mindset that work could only be done within the confines of an office.

"I learned early on that one of the key features of getting telecommuting going was patience and persistence," Nilles told BizTech magazine. "Now we've got millions of people doing [telework], and they'll even admit to it."

Over the past 40 years, teleworking has grown from a wild and crazy idea to an acceptable way of life, but one sweeping change Nilles sees coming down the road is the revolution of the office space.

"Downtown areas better start thinking about redesigning their skyscrapers for multiuse, because the trend is going to be that people won't want to go some great distance to get to work," he says. "Downtown Los Angeles, we told them, if you don't start redesigning things, you're going to end up with a wasteland, and now there's much more residential development in downtown LA."

Aside from a decreasing need for large amounts of commercial office space, the nature of what people do in the office is changing as well.

"The nature of the office now has changed. The office now, for many, is a place for communicating face to face. You still need some of that," Nilles says. "You don't need as much cubicle space as you need conference space."

Words of wisdom:
"It has always been the case from the very beginning that more people have location independent jobs than managers who will let them do it. So we're always well below the point where everyone who can do [telework] does." - Jack Nilles said in an interview with BizTech magazine

Photo: Lawson family

His impact on technology:
Gerald Lawson created the first cartridge-based video game system, the Fairchild Channel F. That invention pushed the video game industry forward into a flexible, diverse future - a world in which games were no longer married to their hardware (think Pong). Once players could switch games on a whim, game developers and software companies flourished.

The Atari 2600, the original Nintendo Entertainment System, the Sega Master System and many other classic video game systems owe their fortunes in part to Lawson's vision.

And yet, Lawson is not a well-known name in video game history - or tech history, for that matter. This, despite the fact that he was one of the few black members of the historic Homebrew Computer Club, which counted Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as members.

Pong creator and Atari legend Allan Alcorn, who attended Lawson's funeral service, spoke highly of his gifts, praising him as a "pioneer" and a true original.

Marc Lawson is following in his father's footsteps as a senior product developer with NBA Digital. However, Marc is more of a software person, while his father was fond of hardware. Over time, Marc has grown to appreciate where his father was coming from.

"He came from an era of punch cards and assembly language programming, whereas I come from a world of C and Java and Objective-C, which is using libraries that actually talk to the hardware," Marc told BizTech magazine.

"He would comment that 'you guys don't really know what it is you're developing on.' It's black box to us. So being programmers, we'll write code without even understanding the architecture of the underlying hardware and what we can really do with it, because programming is abstracted. As I got a little older, I started to get a little bit more into the hardware side of things."

One interesting fact about Gerald Lawson: He actually wasn't a huge gamer himself, his son said. He was more interested in the technology behind video games than in playing them.

Tim Berners-Lee
Web Master

His impact on technology:
So profound is the global impact of Tim Berners-Lee's invention that it's hard to remember a time when common users worldwide could not communicate with one another instantly by computer. And yet, it was only 20 years ago that Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web.

When most people think of the Internet, they're really thinking of the World Wide Web (WWW), the information superhighway that we navigate through a browser. Berners-Lee also invented the first web browser (called the WorldWideWeb at first but later changed to Nexus to avoid confusion); the hypertext markup language (HTML); and the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). These three components have made up what we consider the web for the past 20 years.

It all started in the European Particle Physics Laboratory at CERN with a memo that Berners-Lee sent suggesting a global hypertext system. His idea initially fell on deaf ears, but ultimately he got the go-ahead to experiment with a few NeXT computers, which he then used to bring his global hypertext idea to life. By 1991, Berners-Lee made the WWW available on the Internet.

Ken Thompson
OS Virtuoso

His impact on technology:
While DOS reigned supreme for much of the 1990s as the king of operating systems, as a 16-bit single-user OS it pales in comparison to UNIX, a multiuser 32/64-bit system developed by Ken Thompson more than 20 years earlier.

Thompson was part of a team of developers and researchers working at AT&T's Bell Labs in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Early versions of UNIX were written largely by Thompson, but the breakthrough version of UNIX was rewritten with Dennis Ritchie in the C language in 1972.

Since then, UNIX and popular UNIX-like operating systems, such as Linux, Android and Mac OS, have built on Thompson and Ritchie's legacy.

Where is he now?
Thompson continued at Bell Labs until 2000 and now works at Google as a distinguished engineer. He recently helped build Go, a new object-oriented programming language that he believes simplifies the unnecessary complexities of C++.

Thompson and his UNIX co-creator Ritchie have received several awards over the years for their UNIX invention, including the National Medal of Technology in 1999 and the Japan Prize last year.

If you're looking for big names like Steve Wozniak and Bill Gates on this list, don't fret. They weren't forgotten. They'll be included in our next list, Great Founders in Biz Tech, so stay tuned.

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IT would not be the same without the contributions of these pioneering men. When people are asked to describe inventors, they often use one word: genius. As a society, we look upon the inventor with awe, and we fawn over his inventions with curiosity and admiration. We wonder, how did he do that?

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American mathematician notable for inventing a computerized telephone switching method which "revolutionized modern communication".

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One of the most well-rounded American inventors since World War II is Erna Schneider Hoover.

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Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress and inventor who pioneered the technology that would one day form the basis for today’s WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems.

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Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first human in space. His vehicle, Vostok 1 circled Earth at a speed of 27,400 kilometers per hour with the flight lasting 108 minutes. Vostok’s reentry was controlled by a computer. Unlike the early U.S. human spaceflight programs, Gagarin did not land inside of capsule. Instead, he ejected from the spacecraft and landed by parachute.

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Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first human in space. His vehicle, Vostok 1 circled Earth at a speed of 27,400 kilometers per hour with the flight lasting 108 minutes. Vostok's reentry was controlled by a computer. Unlike the early U.S. human spaceflight programs, Gagarin did not land inside of capsule. Instead, he ejected from the spacecraft and landed by parachute.

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Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first human in space. His vehicle, Vostok 1 circled Earth at a speed of 27,400 kilometers per hour with the flight lasting 108 minutes. Vostok's reentry was controlled by a computer. Unlike the early US human spaceflight programs, Gagarin did not land inside of capsule.

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Observations from the ground and from space have confirmed thousands of planets beyond our solar system. Our galaxy likely holds trillions. But so far, we have no evidence of life beyond Earth. Is life in the cosmos easily begun, and commonplace? Or is it incredibly rare?

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Planet Earth is a wondrous place that never ceases to amaze with its majestic natural wonders and jaw-dropping man-made marvels. But our planet isn't without its fair share of mysteries, either. If you're fascinated by places with mythical origins or unexplained phenomena that will give you goosebumps, you'll be intrigued by these enigmatic spots around the world.

Read More: https://www.explore.com/1082879/the-40-most-mysterious-places-in-the-whole-entire-world/

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The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is perhaps the most famous mysterious place in the world. This area of about 500,000 square miles sits in the Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Miami, Florida. More than 20 planes and 50 ships are said to have mysteriously vanished into thin air or crashed without explanation. Though vessels manage to pass through the area with ease every day and there are no more disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle than in any other large, well-traveled area of the ocean, the unexplained accidents have still captured the public imagination.

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The 40 Most Mysterious Places In The Whole Entire World - Explore

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Planet Earth is a wondrous place with its majestic natural wonders and jaw-dropping man-made marvels. But our planet isn't without its fair share of mysteries.