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Fascinating Map From 1942 Features Oceans as Main Focus of theWorld
This is an ingeniously different way of looking at our planet. When you imagine a world map, what do you see? Most likely, you picture the Mercator Projection, a rendering rooted in the 16th century. While this visual remains the most … Continue reading
This Is How 5G Might Save Your Life
From drones dropping off defibrillators to connecting first responders with medics across the globe, 5G could revolutionize emergency services. Imagine you work in a lab. You get up in the morning, go to work and drop a vial of acid … Continue reading
The History Behind Ctrl+Alt+Del
We’ve only got one life to live, but thanks to three simple keystrokes, at least we can restart our PCs! This is the story of how one clever man created Control-Alt-Delete: a relatively tiny engineering tweak that changed IBM computers, … Continue reading
What’s a smartphone made of?
As of 2018, there are around 2.5 billion smartphone users in the world. If we broke open all the newest phones and split them into their component parts, that would produce around 85,000 kg of gold, 875,000 of silver, and … Continue reading
Low Cost Drones – Columbia Robotics
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Inside YouTube’s Far-Right Radicalization Factory — Multicultural Meanderings
Interesting study, symptomatic of the problems with social media companies: YouTube is a readymade radicalization network for the far right, a new study finds. The Google-owned video platform recently banned conspiracy outlet InfoWars and its founder Alex Jones for hate … Continue reading
The satellite that can clean up space junk
It’s part of a plan to clean up the millions of pieces of rubbish floating in Earth’s orbit. Source: The satellite that can clean up space junk
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Yuval Noah Harari on what the year 2050 has in store for humankind
“As the pace of change increases, the very meaning of being human is likely to mutate and physical and cognitive structures will melt” Source: Yuval Noah Harari on what the year 2050 has in store for humankind
Scientists demonstrate first contagious airborne WiFi virus – ScienceBlog.com
esearchers at the University of Liverpool have shown for the first time that WiFi networks can be infected with a virus that can move through densely populated areas as efficiently as the common cold spreads between humans. The team designed … Continue reading
We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
We’re building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are … Continue reading
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