Our smartphone addiction isn’t just bad for our mental health, it’s a security risk
By: Gary Davis April 28, 2019 We’ve all had the “smartphone conversation.” The one about our unhealthy obsession and inability to put phones down. This fear is legitimized byresearch, showing that we spend approximately one third of our waking hours on our mobile devices – just over five hours per day. However, while we all […]
Autonomous vehicles make congestion pricing even more critical
By: Tech Crunch April 28, 2019 Autonomous vehicles will soon be ubiquitous on city streets. Before this happens, we should ask ourselves: Will they whisk us quickly through cities or make traffic worse? A car is a car, whether self-driving or people driven—taking up a great deal more space than busses, streetcars, or trains—so let’s […]
AR will mean dystopia if we don’t act today
By: Matt Miesnieks April 26, 2019 The martial arts actor Jet Li turned down a role in the Matrix and has been invisible on our screens because he does not want his fighting moves 3D-captured and owned by someone else. Soon everyone will be wearing 3D-capable cameras to support augmented reality (often referred to as […]
Global Effort Begins To Stop Social Media From Spreading Terrorism
By: Sasha Ingber April 24, 2019 New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that she and French President Emmanuel Macron will lead a global effort to stop social media from promoting terrorism in the wake of recent attacks that devastated New Zealand and Sri Lanka. “This isn’t about freedom of expression; this is about […]
Why American CEOs are worried about capitalism
By: Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson April 22, 2019 When Roger Williams got his turn at the microphone earlier this month, his question for the bank CEOs lined up before the House committee on financial services seemed an unusual one to put to seven sharp-suited financiers. “Are you a socialist or are you a capitalist?” the Texas Republican […]
Why No One Feels Rich: The Psychology Of Inequality
By:Shankar Vedatam, Parth Shah, Tara Boyle, Rhaina Cohen April 22, 2019 When Keith Payne was in the fourth grade, he realized he was poor. The epiphany came to him in the cafeteria. “We had a new cashier in the line that day,” he said. “And when I got to the cashier’s desk she asked me […]
Ethics committee raises alarm over ‘predictive policing’ tool
By: TheGuardian April 20, 2019 A computer tool used by police to predict which people are likely to reoffend has come under scrutiny from one force’s ethics committee, who said there were a lot of “unanswered questions” and concerns about potential bias. Amid mounting financial pressure, at least a dozen police forces are using or […]
Scientists Gene-Edited HIV to Cure “Bubble Boy” Disease
By: Kristin Houser April 14, 2019 Normal Lives Researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have reportedly used HIV to cure infants born with “bubble boy” disease — a remarkable example of hijacking a deadly virus for a new treatment. “The children are cured,” researcher Ewelina Mamcarz told NBC News. “They came to us as […]
Creating the present by imagining the future: The power of science fiction
By: Charles-Edouard Bouée April 15, 2019 Technological progress is growing exponentially and we hazard that the so-called obsolescence of the law attributed to Moore will have no consequence whatsoever on this surge. We are experiencing a tremendous cultural shift in the way we adapt to technological changes. We are pushed to turn our relation to […]