It is the largest open-air prison in the world, yet there is no reason for it to be left out of technological developments! The Gaza Strip—meaning its Palestinian captives—is a …
Welcome to our store!
What could this be that appears in the photograph? The reception at a high-tech hotel perhaps? Or maybe at an electronics store? Could it perhaps be the passenger service desk …
Eyes on the back!
It is called “intelligent classroom behavior management system”. And it is – strangely enough – an experimental application that was implemented in a Chinese high school. A camera with facial …
Instant Response
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 …
Watson for president!(are smart algorithms better than stupid politicians?)
Almost 70 years ago, precisely on December 28, 1948, a learned monk, with serious philosophical interests and well-informed about the most recent developments in the techno-scientific research of his time, …
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 …