Peace is not a white dove.
A main crux of neuroscience is learning how our senses translate light into sight, sound into hearing, food into taste, and texture into touch. Smell is where these sensory relationships … Continue readingCan machines smell? Machine learning enables machines to recognize smells
Last week I enrolled for a “Deutsch Learning Café” open course hosted by the city library in Freiburg im Breisgau, at the Baden-Wurttemberg region, in Germany. I found it a … Continue readingTechnology for Peace
I was reading El Pais today and suddenly passed through the story of Catherine Taylor, from Arkansas. Catherine applied for a position with Red Cross, trying to ‘save the world’, … Continue readingEthical Issues concerning algorithms
Tiny satellite technology can bring connectivity to the remotest places on Earth. … Continue readingLow-cost satellites for remote areas may reduce the digital divide
A fleet of robot taxis plans to start a testing phase for autonomous transportation in 2022 in Munich. The robotaxi will begin as a small-scale service, using drivers for safety at the initial phase. Later this decade, the plan is to scale the service across Germany and other European countries. … Continue readingFuture is here: Germany tests robot taxis in 2022
By Mary-Jean Nleya | CBNAfrica.com In a hyper connected and increasingly digitized global landscape, human connection and interaction has been, and continues to be, transformed. Information communication technologies (ICTs) have … Continue readingHow digital tech helps get Botswana’s female entrepreneurs back in business
Close your eyes and imagine how life of a blind person is. Who has never played this game in order to better understand the challenges people with visual limitations face.? How do they know where they are going? How do they know where to turn left or right? Lechal was born as a smart shoe to help blinds by using geo-sensitive technology to vibrate and show the path. Is it helpful? … Continue readingA vibrating tennis to guide blinds. Is it helpful?
Manu Prakash, a professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, has developed a Project basted on 3D printed engineering that allow to save up to 50% of oxygen in a tank . This is possible because during oxygen therapy, when a patient exhales, oxygen is still being supplied and is thus wasted. … Continue readingHow 3D printers can help India to save oxygen
By Elisa Maria Campos The global fight against racism started several centuries back, even before we were able to make a call to invite a colleague to go on protest. … Continue readingPrediction or policing? Can algorithms be racists?
I have clear in my mind the images of that day I received my first salary in life. I was just an intern at a big Publishing House in Rio de Janeiro, it was not much money, but it was mine. I called then a friend and asked him if I could bring some food to a few families at “City of God”, a famous favela in Rio (that became a prized movie later with the same name and was visited even by Barack Obama).. … Continue readingWhy should you care?