The futuristic building of Menai Science Park in wales predisposes imagination that something very important is happening there. As a branch of Bangor University and with a budget of 20 …
Robots don’t take our jobs. They become our supervisors!
Both politicians in their election campaigns and corporate executives at their conferences warn about an impending crisis due to automation – a crisis where workers will be replaced, gradually at …
“Smart” mask
Do you have troubles hearing what they tell you, behind the masks? Do you need to repeat what you say because they can’t hear you? Do you feel like you …
The games of science
Could research into the longed-for vaccine include video games, such as those played on a mobile phone, to spend time? Apparently, yes; in fact, they are a crucial element of the ideology that surrounds this research – and science in general. That of “citizens science”. The above spot is a war presentation of the eterna video game.
Technologies that make us sick
In just six months, fever cameras have become a hyper-developed industry In October 2016, a company named Sunell, based in Shenzhen, conducted an experiment: it installed thermal cameras and facial …
Smart skin
It has all the makings to move the hipsters: printing electronic circuits directly on the skin. Tattoo parlors will acquire an electronics section, and the human body will finally fulfill …
Metadata: the data in the microscope
The estimated size of the digital universe by the end of 2020, according to the World Economic Forum, will be 44 zettabytes (44 quintillion bytes); 40 times more bytes than …
award for genetic cutting and sewing
Crispr / cas9 technology can be dangerous. But for the Nobel Prize committee, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna, inventors of the method, deserved this year’s “Nobel Prize in Chemistry”. …
Human-X: the next generation
New evidence shows that modifying human embryos brings doom to DNA. Three studies conclude that the CRISPR gene-editing method is not safe. A few months ago, in June 2020, the …
High tech sharpening
Last Saturday, two systemic media outlets, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, published a u.s department of state order to electronic chip manufacturers: it is forbidden to sell to chinese …
predictive algorithms
The canadian company bluedot, founded in 2013, offers communicable disease mapping services. According to founder Kamran Khan, the sars pandemic in 2002-04 was the reason for starting this business. This …
what a world!
Under no circumstances would we recommend… netflix to anyone! Or anything like that. (Some book yes…) But on the occasion of the documentary “the social dilemma”, where various “repentant” executives / inventors of applications and technologies that have proven to be huge commercial successes and cultural / intellectual / moral hurricanes (related to antisocial media) become accusers of their own works, consider this: Would you ever trust a fetishist (of technology, religion, commodity) even if he or she sincerely wanted to set you free from a fetishism?