Blog Posts
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Ana Gavia, 26, never intended to become a full-time entrepreneur. Looking for a way to make money while studying podiatric medicine at La Trobe University in Australia, she decided to start a side hustle selling a bathing suit she designed on the internet. She’d grown up on a coastal beach town and had always had…
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Labs are currently competing to develop brain implants. Advances in cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging technologies have started to provide us with the ability to interface directly with the human brain. Researchers have used these technologies to build brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), communication systems that do not depend on the brain’s normal output pathways of peripheral nerves…
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Attention airline bathroom loiterers: The next generation of Airbus aircraft will track how long you spend in the loo. It’s all part of an effort to make commercial cabins a digitally aware domain. The program is Airbus’s bid to raise the Internet of Things — that buzz-phrase for connected household gadgets—to cruising altitude. The Airbus Connected Experience…
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Humans were not around to see Antarctica in the good times, tens of millions of years ago, when it was home to palms and baobab trees, reptiles and marsupials. It had some of the same mountains it has today, some of the same valleys and inlets. But it didn’t have the same address. Long ago,…
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Governments are attempting to persuade people to put down their smartphones while driving by rolling out cameras to prosecute distracted motorists. Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, is the first jurisdiction in the world to use such technology to punish drivers distracted by social media, text messages or phone calls. Road safety experts worldwide…