While some Google executives work on how to encourage defectors to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, unfortunately in its own campus it takes a 180-degrees turn, kicks out employees having opinions that don’t fall into company’s so-called ‘code of conduct’. (more…)
– New cloud-based platform to help track and manage student data to improve efficiencies in education system
TOKYO and ARMONK, NY – 09 Aug 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) Japan today announced that Sony Corporation and Sony Global Education, a subsidiary of Sony that works to provide global educational services, have developed a new blockchain-based student education records platform. (more…)
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…)
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…)
Money has power. Superpower.
In 1998 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos looked like a typical book seller, in 2017 he is RAMBO no. 2 (more…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
