When life begins: genome awakening meets religious ensoulment

6 years ago

Scientists have found a new genome that has to be awakened to begin life. As science and technology enable us…

Capitol Hill is getting to grips with cryptocurrency

6 years ago

The past 10 days has seen a presidential tweet regarding Bitcoin, the treasury secretary holding a news conference on cryptocurrency,…

Stepping into the cleats of blind soccer players with VR

6 years ago

Toyota Sweden has come up with a Virtual Reality (VR) sporting experience that helps those without visual impairment to learn…

57% of Amazon retail, distribution employees want to unionize: report

6 years ago

Some 57% of Amazon retail and distribution employees want to unionize while 39% of Amazon's tech workers wish the same.…

‘At this rate the African elephant will be extinct in 11 years’: conservation tech lab

6 years ago

Faced with the ever-present threat of poaching, conservancies, game reserves, and national parks in Africa are gearing themselves up with…

Exposing echo chambers to eradicate the plague of propaganda

6 years ago

Five years after Dmytro Potekhin's 48 horrendous days in captivity at the hands of pro-Russian terrorists in Ukraine, the civic activist…

Alexa will hear you now: voice assistants will ’empower nurses, physicians, clinicians’

6 years ago

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) aims to reduce demand on the British health service via health advice provided by…

As big tech and govts differ over hate speech, should AI neutralize it?

6 years ago

As big tech platforms and governments have their own policies on hate speech, should society task AI with neutralizing it…

Scent-ient machines are making sense of smell and taste

6 years ago

Machines that smell and taste are making their way into the commercial realm after government research and are set to…

DARPA looks to avoid a digital Greek tragedy with IDAS program

6 years ago

DARPA is looking to avoid a digital version of the Greek tragedy of Idas with the launch of the IDAS…