What would the (capitalist) world be like in the 21st century if companies didn’t care about getting better? Google is one of them. Its engineers are working on an application …
Don’t even think about escaping!!!
If the (rather intimidating) machines in the photo above remind you of bulldozers, “you’re close.” They are robotic deep-sea excavators. These particular ones can dig down to depths of 1,000 …
Stem cells
Stem cells are the primary type of cells that are created after fertilization, and in the course of organic development they differentiate to create the various organs. For biotechnologists, the …
script and language management technologies
Gregorian calendar omissions 1789, 1871, 1917. Milestone points in the political history of Europe marked by three numbers. Three numbers that automatically refer to and are now identified with a …
The French and the Germans don’t like…
American computer science professor (and machine learning researcher) Pedro Domingos of the University of Washington became internationally known for his 2015 book The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the …
selfie: capitalism kills!
In 2014 it was the beginning. Only 15… In 2015 it went better: 50. In 2016 it became clear that there is a steady upward trend: 97. In 2017 there …
Robotic surgery
The fact that an operating room (already now, even more so in the near future) will resemble to a large extent an assembly line of objects (photos on the cover …
Undersea cables the Achilles’ heel in lead-up to new cold war
It’s a little-known twist in the cyber-warfare between nations that carries potentially devastating consequences. At a time when more than 95% of everything that moves on the global Internet passes …
Dream city
Internationally they are called “smart cities.” But for Chinese President Xi Jinping, intelligence goes without saying… Thus he names the urban mega-project he is promoting the “city of dreams.” It …
Cambridge Analytica: internal cyber psyops of the 4th world war
“Revelation! The Luftwaffe bombs London.” Such a front-page headline in a British newspaper, during the Second World War, would have certainly been unthinkable; war then was the directly experienced reality …
Fake2Fake
Do they have humor or time for games in university research centers? Are they rushing to patent digital applications? Or do they simply participate in completing what Debord had (discovered? …
the ecological footprint
In front of the smart mobile phones that fit in the palm of your hand and can do almost anything (even though they still struggle with the simplest tasks…), an …