Crime and virtual punishment
Utah students develop mobile game to demonstrate how algorithms used in criminal justice system can be biased
When it comes to crime and punishment, how judges dish out prison sentences is anything but a game. (more…)
Category Archives: Technology
Quantenkommunikation: Wie man das Rauschen überlistet
Wie kann man Quanteninformation zuverlässig übertragen, wenn man in der Verbindungsleitung mit störendem Rauschen zu kämpfen hat? Forscher der Uni Innsbruck und der TU Wien präsentieren neue Lösungen.
Wir kommunizieren heute mit Hilfe von Funksignalen, wir schicken elektrische Impulse durch lange Leitungen – doch das könnte sich bald ändern. Derzeit wird intensiv an Methoden der Quanten-Informationsübertragung gearbeitet. So könnte man abhörsichere Datenverbindungen herstellen oder vielleicht sogar eines Tages Quantencomputer miteinander verschalten. (more…)
RAMBO no. 2
Money has power. Superpower.
In 1998 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos looked like a typical book seller, in 2017 he is RAMBO no. 2 (more…)
High-fives all around as young inventor fits girl with a robotic hand
Ten-year-old Momo Sutton’s feet danced on the floor while the rest of her tried to sit patiently, her face beaming with anticipation as Easton LaChappelle carefully lifted his invention out of its box. Once she put it on, she already had four favorites by lunchtime: (more…)
‘Cocomadkilla’ – the name says all about the person
While promoting Korean beauty products, mainly for skin care, for the brand Glowrious, Swiss part-time model and beauty blogger Cocomadkilla wrote on her blog:
‘Many of us don’t always understand the “ching chongs” with the black hair and funny clothes (hihi)’. (more…)
IBM Scientists Observe Elusive Gravitational Effect in Solid-State Physics
Previously thought to only occur in the early stages of the universe and within neutron stars and black holes
ZURICH: An international team of physicists, materials scientists and string theoreticians have observed a phenomenon on Earth that was previously thought to only occur hundreds of light years away or at the time when the universe was born. This result could lead to a more evidence-based model for the understanding the universe and for improving the energy-conversion process in electronic devices. (more…)
IBM Report: Half of Surveyed Chief Executive Officers Plan to Adopt Cognitive Computing by 2019
73 percent of surveyed CEOs also say cognitive computing will play a key role in their organizations’ future
ARMONK, N.Y. – 06 Jul 2017: Cognitive computing has nearly endless possibilities to improve business processes and functions with 73 percent of surveyed CEOs in a recent IBM (NYSE: IBM) study citing it will play a key role in their organizations’ future and all executives in the study anticipating a 15 percent return on investment from their cognitive initiatives. (more…)
IBM Study Finds Higher Education to Play a Pivotal Role in Bridging India’s Skill Gap
Sixty-one percent of India’s higher education leaders said that the education system is unable to respond to society’s changing needs
NEW DELHI – 03 Jul 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a study conducted by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) in cooperation with the Economist Intelligence Unit, to evaluate India’s growing skills challenge and proposed recommendations to bridge the gap. (more…)