What else can the hygiene lobby think of? Entrepreneurs from Warren County (Ohio, in case you’re interested) gave a small donation to high school students in the area, and had …
Whose health? (of the 4th industrial revolution!)
Digital technologies, human behavior data, and algorithmic decision-making are set to play an increasingly critical role in addressing future crises. As we increasingly place our hope for solving fundamental problems …
where is your mind?
The inventor is an american, studied at Harvard. His name is Han Bicheng, and his start-up BrainCo. His invention is sensors that by resting on the forehead “catch electrical signals” …
The data in the bank’s gis
400 million Indians will have to go through facial recognition to access their bank accounts. More than 400 million people in India who have bank accounts where benefits or various …
gadgets of pandemic
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 …
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 …