Number of words: 1,647 Two years ago, Alice Agogino, a UC-Berkeley mechanical engineering professor, was working on a contract to build exploratory robots for NASA Ames. She had been recruited to help design what would eventually become a fleet of mobile, ultra-impact-resistant, remote-sensing robots that could protect sensitive scientific equipment during a drop from orbit … Read more
Number of words: 897 Soon after quick counts showed that Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo had won his second term, he announced that his government will move the country’s capital out of Jakarta. A few locations on the island of Kalimantan (formerly Borneo) are being considered, as they are centrally located in this vast archipelagic … Read more
Number of words: 428 Scientists have created the world’s smallest pixels, by trapping particles of light under tiny rocks of gold, that could be used for new types of large-scale flexible displays, big enough to cover entire buildings. The colour pixels, developed by scientists from the University of Cambridge in the UK, are compatible with … Read more
Number of words: 1,694 If you’ve walked on a rocky shore at low tide, and had the unfortunate experience of slipping on the moss-covered rocks, chances are your bleeding hands or legs have met acorn barnacles and their sharp-as-knives shells.These animals attach themselves to rocks on the shore and are seen in abundant numbers – … Read more
Number of words: 147 The most buzzed-about disruptive technologies that are changing business landscapes today are Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Almost all of us have heard or read about them but do we actually know what the fuss is all about? The enterprises are trying to harness the explosion of digital data … Read more
Number of words: 447 Coca-Cola supports research in the fields of nutrition, physical inactivity and energy balance, but a contract mechanism could allow the American soft drink giant to “quash” findings from some of the health research it funds, reveals a new study from University of Cambridge. The study, published in the Journal of Public … Read more
Number of words: 847 WHEN AMANDA WANKLIN and Michael Biggs fell in love, they “didn’t give a toss” about the challenges they might face as a biracial couple, Amanda says. “What was more important was what we wanted together.” They settled down in Birmingham, England, eager to start a family. On July 3, 2006, Amanda … Read more
Number of words: 253 Faulty materials provided by an aluminium manufacturer led to the failure of two NASA satellite launch missions, causing a loss of more than $700 million, an investigation by the US space agency has found. The faulty materials provided by Sapa Profiles, Inc. (SPI) were used for the making of Taurus XL, … Read more
Number of words: 8,638 Have you ever heard of Design Thinking? Your answer to that question will depend largely on where you sit in the world. The phrase Design Thinking is known almost universally in design circles. It’s made its way around networks of business hype more than once. Hell, the folks at Singularity University … Read more
Number of words: 683 For as long as companies have hosted quarterly conference calls, analysts and journalists have tried to parse not just what a company’s executives say, but how they say it. Software from Amenity Analytics promises to automate this process by spotting when chief executive officers try to duck tough questions. The software, … Read more
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