Technology

VR Nature Imagery Can Reduce Stress

A recent study found that a virtual reality experience is able to reduce stress among COVID-19 frontline healthcare workers. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2022 - 11:48am

The Fight To Protect Personal Data May Not Be Won In Software, It May Be Won On The Chip

Protection of personal data in the Internet Age is a big worry but solutions may be lacking. A smartwatch may seem secure, but the neural network processing that health information is using private data that could still be stolen by a malicious agent throu ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2022 - 10:54am

Active Matter: The Next Generation Of Robots Could Be Shape Shifters

By coating soft robots in materials that allow them to move and function in a more purposeful way, scientists could design machines with arms made of flexible materials and robots embedded in their surface. Coating the surface of nanoparticles in a respons ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2022 - 3:16pm

Science Conferences Are Worth Your Time, But You Don't Need To Create Emissions Traveling To Them To Benefit

The public are often baffled why environmental journalists attend climate conferences in person, using the rationalization that they do their jobs better if they can talk to people outside formal interviews. What salesperson doesn't feel the same way? ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2022 - 5:35am

NFTs Were Never Worth Real Money, And Bored Ape Yacht Club Is A Racist Meme of Memes.

B ored Ape Yacht Club has been exposed as a ironic or post ironic racist meme using modified Nazi iconography mixed with one of the oldest and worst types of anti Black iconography.   The crypto currency crash has taught us all that it was foolish to trad ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 29 2022 - 11:10am

Morti The Robot Dog: Like A Newborn Animal, It Can't Walk Right Away- But An Hour Later It Did

Nature is out to kill everything so a newborn animal must learn to walk on its legs as fast as possible to avoid predators. Learning the precise coordination of leg muscles and tendons takes some time and initially baby animals rely heavily on hard-wired s ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2022 - 2:12pm

Co-Embodiment: Two People Control Two Limbs

A new study may improve the sense of embodiment when using autonomous prosthetic limbs. The work had left and right limbs are controlled by two people simultaneously and revealed that the visual information necessary to predict the partner’s intentions be ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 26 2022 - 9:23am

No Parent Needed: Synthetic Mouse Embryo Models Without Egg, Sperm Or Womb

A common first step in embryonic development is that an egg meets a sperm but in a Weizmann Institute of Science study published today in Cell, researchers have grown synthetic embryo models of mice outside the womb by starting solely with stem cells cultu ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2022 - 1:04pm

Confidential Computing Has Made Data Sharing Safer

The internet creates and propagates data by default. Decades since its development, we now live in the Age of Big Data. From recommendation systems to drug discovery, big data has enabled unprecedented innovations. Yet, the downside of the growth of data, ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Sep 2 2022 - 10:31pm

Will You Pay More If You Like The Feel Of A Smartphone? Probably

A recent survey found that even if the cost was 10X as much (though still a small amount), users would pay more if they liked the feel of a smartphone cover. This means designers might benefit more factoring that into product design. The caveat; this was ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2022 - 9:54am