Pin Lean Lau Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Bio-Law, Brunel University London For millions of people, smartwatches aren’t just a piece of technology. They can use them to take control of their health in ways never thought possible. As you go on your morning run, a smartwatch can monitor
Karl D. Stephan Karl D. Stephan is a professor of electrical engineering at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. This article has been republished, with permission, from his blog Engineering Ethics, which is a MercatorNet partner site. mercatornet.com Back in June of 2023, Apple announced its Vision Pro,
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Alex Dook particle.scitech.org.au Can fiddler crabs and barrel shrimp inspire the robots of the future? Robots are becoming more integrated into our everyday lives. They can vacuum and mop our floors, mow our lawns and even clean our barbecues. Beyond the home, robots are helping scientists find
Michael A Stone University of Manchester Michael A Stone graduated from the University of Cambridge in Electrical Sciences. PhD also obtained from the University of Cambridge :”Spectral enhancement for the hearing impaired”. Hearing loss is a major global issue. Around 5% of the world population, 430 million, have disabling hearing
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an editorial fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. A new start-up called Percy is based on a simple yet revolutionary idea: virtual cashiers. Essentially, a video calling device is set
Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Warning Long read: 1804 words Like
As millions of social media users suddenly pretend to care so very deeply about a place they couldn’t find on a map, let alone have the first clue about its history or politics, it’s somewhat amusing to see mainstream media pundits also suddenly pretend to venerate manly virtues
Don’t we all get a laugh out of watching the fashions in old science fiction movies? Whether it’s the silver-foil togas and plastic sandals of Things to Come or the power laces and inside-out pockets of Back to the II, every film that tries to depict future fashions
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Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is a Eugene S. Thorpe Writing Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. The Federal Trade Commission recently released a report that details its investigation into the repairability of various tech products.
Joseph Turow University of Pennsylvania Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Media Systems & Industries at the Annenberg School for Communication. Turow is an elected Fellow of the International Communication Association and was presented with a Distinguished Scholar Award by the National Communication Association. You decide to call
Do you trust the Police to implement a safe and secure gun register? I don’t, and here is reason #63,472…they can’t keep existing data secure: Police drones are at risk of the data they gather ending up in cloud servers the Chinese government can access, but
Pasi Sahlberg Amy Graham UNSW Pasi Sahlberg is a Professor of Education Policy at the UNSW Sydney. He is experienced in classroom teaching, training teachers and leaders, coaching schools and advising education policy-makers around the world. Amy completed her PhD in 2020, awarded an APA Scholarship for her project entitled
Bishakh Rout McGill University Currently pursuing a PhD degree in chemical engineering, Bishakh Rout has worked in the contact lens industry before. His research revolves around developing plasma polymer films that can be used to improve wearing comfort of contact lenses as well as to improve properties of hydrogels for
Matthew Hutson knowablemagazine.org Matthew Hutson is a freelance science writer in New York City who writes for the New Yorker, Science, Scientific American and other publications. He’s the author of The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking. 1.27.2021 Five years ago, on a flight to Norway, Stanford
