Tag: science and technology
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Franco-Quebec Artificial Intelligence Partnership Strengthened
MILA AND IRT SAINT EXUPÉRY CANADA SHAKE HANDS “Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.“ Founded on the values of pioneer pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a new partnership has formed between the leading Quebec AI research institute, Mila, and France’s IRT Saint Exupéry, which established a Montreal branch one year ago. This partnership confirms the commitment shared by both parties to advance research…
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Astrophysicist Wins Millions Of Dollars For Blackhole And Quasar Study
Schmidt Futures Grants Lehman Astrophysicist $2.94 Million USD For Study of Quasars, Black Holes BRONX, N.Y. – (August , 2020) – A Lehman College astrophysicist has been awarded a $2.94 million grant by Schmidt Futures, for a five-year study about the structure and evolution of the universe, black holes, quasars and dark energy. Schmidt Futures is…
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New Organism Discovered On Space Station 6 Years Ago
Life in Space Joe Martino writes, “In what is a cool mainstream find, Russian cosmonauts have discovered LIFE clinging to the outside of the International Space Station. This is the first time living organisms have been found on the space station and scientists are not sure how “it” got there. In 2014, Cosmonauts found microorganisms…
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Digital Habits Is Innovation Platform Founded In Milan Italy
Digital Habits is an extension of the international design studio Habits. Founded in Milan in 2012, it specializes in connected objects. For example, a few years ago during the 2017 edition of the Superdesign Show by Superstudio, Digital Habits examined in depth the relationship between the user, the context and controls of electronic products.Since then,…
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Opinion: Young Jamaican’s Invention Could Help End Spread Of Viruses Like COVID-19
Five years ago more than 40 babies born in Jamaican hospitals became infected with lethal bacteria – half of them died. The bacteria Klebsiella, like the coronavirus, is spread from person-to-person or via contaminated surfaces. It can be killed by hand-washing with warm soapy water.The situation caught the attention of technology student Rayvon Stewart based…
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FlyKly Wheel Transforms Any Bicycle Into 21st Century Smart Bike
The FlyKly Wheel turns ordinary bicycles into 21st century smart bikes that offer the benefits of both electric and pedal power to make bicycle commuting a viable option for everyone. Cycling anywhere just got easier with the release of the FlyKly Smart Wheel, that lets urban cyclists climb hills and travel longer distances faster without…
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Landmark Deep Sea Mission To Boost Ocean Action & Science
A deep-sea scientific mission to uncharted depths in the Maldives and Seychelles will gather valuable data to support the Commonwealth Blue Charter on ocean action and train local scientists. The newest Commonwealth member country, Maldives, has joined Seychelles to launch a major joint scientific expedition to investigate unexplored depths of the Indian Ocean. The ground-breaking…
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How Technology Will Shape Teaching In The Future
In the past decade and a half cellphones have evolved from contraptions you make calls from to devices that do so much more. Now they can help you organize your social life, perform your banking and act as a food diary. There’s an app to be found that is based on your entire existence! With…
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Why Smart Speakers Were Popular Gift Idea Again This Holiday Season
Smart Speakers 101 The trendy devices can help you with everything from appointment reminders to grocery shopping lists to playing your favorite music and podcasts. It’s that last item that has the radio world excited. Find out why all the buzz is good news not only for broadcasters but also importantly for you. A recent…
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Why We Have A Romantic Conception Of Reverberation
Reverberation. Why are its effects so pleasing to our ears and how is reverberation designed and controlled?
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Artificial Intelligence Or AI Is Set To Take Over Many Industries
Is there any question that Artificial Intelligence, or “AI”, is going to play a huge role in the future? The short answer is no- it’s already playing a large part today, so let’s delve into this new tech and look at how it is benefiting the energy sector and what we can expect to see…
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How Great Are Today’s Vehicles? Look At Lincoln’s Luxurious Aviator
Lincoln is one of America’s all-time classic luxury automakers, but the manufacturer has also been praised for making vehicles which respond to the needs of today. So it’s natural, then, that anybody who wants a glimpse into the best cars on today’s markets takes a look at Lincoln. Let’s see what’s going on with the…
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Renewable Energy Outlook for 2040 Includes Cancelling Your Print Newspapers
Hey Silo readers! This infographic courtesy of FuelFighterUK demonstrates how production could look in 2040 and what is being done to make our world a greener place. The infographic covers the projected worldwide growth in energy demand, what is being invested to change the renewable outlook and some awesome eco-friendly innovations that have been made…
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High School Student Dropped Out Joins Tech World Via Coding School
What happened when Katya Eames, a 16 year old female dropped out of High School and joined the tech world by enrolling in a coding school? Joe Eames, her father, is a successful programmer. He believes in empowering youth and females, through technology. He got his daughter involved in some basic exposure to programming and…
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Years Of I-phone Innovations Meant Big Expectations For Newest Models
Have things changed in the past 5 years? Take a look at this article from 2014 and let us know via the comments section below. In the summer of 2007, Mike Lazardis, co-founder of BlackBerry, got an iPhone to check what’s inside. He pried it open and was shocked on what he saw: BlackBerry wasn’t…
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Peter Robinson On Job Obsolescence- Government Should Not Protect Jobs
A recent OECD report finds that low and middle income earners have seen their wages stagnate and that the income share of middle-skilled jobs has fallen. Rising inequality has led to concerns that top earners are getting a disproportionate share of the gains from global “openness and interconnection”. During a Summer 2017 meeting of OECD,…
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ELEKTRO MOSKVA- Intriguing Documentary About Soviet Music Synthesizers
I spent most of yesterday afternoon watching and taking notes from the 86 minute documentary ELEKTRO MOSKVA. This film is so rich and interesting that I found myself sitting in reflection every time I jotted down another intriguing story element…..and believe me there were lots. The film’s official website describes itself like this: “ELEKTRO MOSKVA…
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North Korea’s Nuclear Program- In A Defector’s Own Words ©
According to experts, the weaponization of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program began in the early-1960s or early-1970s. 1 And yet, it was not until October 2002, during high-level meetings in Pyongyang with Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James A. Kelly, that North Korean officials admitted they were pursuing a nuclear…
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Rocketium App Democratizes Video Creation
Audiences in today’s world are increasingly consuming information on the internet in visual and interactive ways. Every industry is exploring ways to transform and present content on video. What does this mean for learners around the globe? “Being able to translate your story into over 120 languages is increasingly important in a global world.” – Anurag…
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Supreme Analog Vinyl Record Weights Trending
“If there is no sound philosophy in making the audio gear, then all product you make is plagiarism.” Zoran Mihajlovic Having grown up around record players of dubious quality, I remember very clearly my first ‘real’ turntable. An audiophile friend of the family helped my father put together an entry level system for my 15th…
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Buckminster Fuller’s Manhattan Dome And Other Concept Buildings
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Photo Glitch Art Book Is Mysterious And Beautiful
“The growing flow of digital culture depends on the hidden protocols of its underlying systems. To explore how interfacing shapes spectatorship online, this pioneering study pinpoints experiences of flow through the friction of photo-based glitch art by Phillip Stearns, Rosa Menkman, and Evan Meaney. Homing in on the viewer, these three cross-disciplinary case studies present…
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Portable Motion Activated Camera Replaces Peep Holes
The PHV MAC is an ‘electronic peephole’ for your home security that takes images of anyone or anything that is out front. Its ambient light sensor allows images to be taken up to 30 inches from the door. This battery-powered device features an LCD screen on the inside of the door to display the photos, which…
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Digital Bus Stops Replacing Paper Timetables In Australia
Catching a bus in Sydney just got a whole lot smarter, thanks to the new digital bus stops from Mercury Innovation and Visionect. These intelligent signs run on solar power and have been developed on energy-saving electronic paper technology to ease the daily commute in the bustling Australian metropolis. eStops New digital bus stops have…
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The Best Inventions Of 2017
These are real inventions: self healing concrete…airport sleeping pods…DIY drones and that’s just for starters. So much incredible technology and cool imagination at work. Watch this video and tell us below which is your favorite by using our live video uplink from your smart device. [vidrack align=”center” ext_id=”345″ desc=”some description”]
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Must Have Chargers For iPhone X
With Streetinsider.com recently reporting that Apple sold an estimated 6 million iPhone X units this past Black Friday weekend alone, as calculated by an analyst with Rosenblatt Securities, and with untold millions more sure to sell throughout the holiday season, it’s clear the marketplace is embracing this new iPhone iteration. In fact, the analyst firm…
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Nigel Stanford AUTOMATICA 4K Trending Now
Nigel John Stanford Published on 14 Sep 2017 ► Album & 4k Video: http://NigelStanford.com/y/a-/Automatica ► Spotify: http://NigelStanford.com/y/Spotify Subscribe and like to see more Robot videos, as I release them for my album Automatica. Robots rock, they were fun to work with. My favorite is the robotic drummer. More work to be done, and maybe I…
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Visionect And Heckler Design Collab On JOAN Digital Office Displays
November 2017—Phoenix, Arizona | Visionect, the maker of the award-winning JOAN meeting room scheduling solutions, has joined forces with Heckler Design, the creator of commercial-grade products for design-conscious consumers and businesses, to create a custom wall mount for JOAN. The powder-coated steel VESA bracket fixes the 6-inch JOAN digital office devices securely into place without…