Technology

Facial Recognition Is Finally Raising Questions About Government Accountability

For most of this century, anyone in London has been photographed and filmed an average of 300 times each day. Their reasoning to start such intrusive scrutiny was that England, Wales, and Scotland led the developed world in crime, and a tourist attraction ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 15 2021 - 4:11pm

Using Cell Lines And A Bioreactor, Finland Has Developed The Future Of Coffee

Coffee may be about to get its first significant upgrade in 600 years. That's not to say there haven't been efforts to modernize coffee production since its earliest days in Sufi shrines, but that has been mainly in technology. The pan, like you ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 18 2021 - 8:12pm

Prop Guns And Movie Sets: We Are Filmmakers Who Work With Firearms And This Is What Is Important For Safety

In a horrendous accident, a cinematographer has died and a director has been injured after Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun while filming in New Mexico. When shooting a film with guns, there are many choices to make: each prop needs to be appropriate for the ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 26 2021 - 2:23pm

Understanding Quantum Primacy And How We Got There

A quantum computer is a remarkable device. While, at current, it's still limited in its application, we now know that it can be faster than the fastest computers we currently have access to. ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Oct 27 2021 - 8:51pm

Track And Trace: 4 Reasons Companies Hesitate To Adopt Reusable Packaging- And A Way To Solve Them

In the world of activists and pundits, companies making changes involve all reward and no risk, and if companies don't do it they are just greedy. That thinking is why poor people are subsidizing electric cars and solar panels for the rich, which has ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 2 2021 - 4:34pm

How Exascale Computers Can Verify The Universe

Proving the universe seems like a gargantuan task, but we might have a chance to do so with exascale computers. ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Nov 14 2021 - 9:32pm

Gender Bias In Linguistics Articles

An examination of undergraduate textbooks commonly used for linguistics courses and another of over 1,000 articles published in linguistics journals finds persistent gender bias. Gender bias is subjective, which makes it both ironic and ideal for a linguis ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2021 - 9:51am

Realistic Avatars Get A Step Closer

Unless you see yourself as a human with a Dogecoin dog atop your neck, avatars are not very realistic. The lack of realism in the digital realms, combined with how tedious VR glasses are, means conferences, meetings and discussions with work colleagues are ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2022 - 10:17am

Is It Possible To Promote 'Trustworthy' News Without Creating Bias?

Implicit Racism tests say you are a bigot, it is only a question of how much. Social justice warriors and others in the humanities insist that even a field like astronomy is inevitably a reflex of the power of the socially privileged. Given that science is ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 3 2022 - 12:38pm

Elec-trickery?

Elec-trickery? In the eponymous British children’s television, a magician called Catweazle finds himself transported from the 11 th to the 20 th century, and all sorts of things like motor cars, telephone (“telling bones” as he call them) and electricity ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Feb 11 2022 - 6:10am