by eCommunicator NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission captured thrilling footage of its rover landing in Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. The real footage in this video was captured by several cameras that are part of the rover’s entry, descent, and landing suite. The views include a camera looking […]
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Chengdu: US leaves consulate amid row with China
by eCommunicator China’s decision to close the US mission came after the US shut China’s consulate in Houston. The move is seen as a retaliation for China’s removal from its consulate in Houston, Texas. American diplomatic staff have left their consulate in the Chinese city of Chengdu, after a 72-hour […]
Read MoreU.S. Schools, U.K. Jobs, Hagia Sophia: Your Thursday Briefing
by eCommunicator GOOD MORNING. WE’RE COVERING THE DISPUTE OVER REOPENING U.S. SCHOOLS, A $38 BILLION PLAN TO SAVE BRITISH JOBS AND A CRACKDOWN ON PROTESTERS IN SERBIA. Schools become a flash point in U.S. reopening debate President Trump is at odds with his own public health experts over how to […]
Read MoreBuilding Back Greener in Africa
by Umberto Labate African leaders highlight the opportunity for a triple dividend: reduced risk, increased resilience and strengthened recovery. COVID-19 continues to race across the African continent. People are dying, and even more are being pushed into hunger and poverty, in many cases risking to overturn years of development gains. […]
Read MoreUnderstanding China’s 2025 Ambitions
by eCommunicator China is on a multi-year mission to reduce its reliance on foreign technology and as a result, Beijing is investing heavily in its own technological developments. Premier Li Keqiang announced the Made in China 2025 (MIC 2025) initiative in 2015 as a bid to significantly advance the country’s […]
Read MoreIs the Brain a Quantum Computer?
by Manuel Brenner After the mildly clickbaity title, I have to start out with some honesty: we don’t really know if the brain is a quantum computer or not. But as with many a question we don’t know the answer to, thinking about them can still be worthwhile in their […]
Read MoreCreative Ways to Work With Your Kids in the Age of Coronavirus
by eCommunicator As the new coronavirus, COVID-19, spreads throughout the world, kids are home now for a while. It’s your job as parents/guardians to keep your kids priorities and their daily activities as busy and fun as possible with or without their devices. During the weekday, it’s best to stick […]
Read MoreElon Musk: Happy Totalitarian
by Benjamin Wiker You may have caught wind of the latest attempt by Elon Musk to improve upon our human lot, this time by wiring our brains into computers through implanted chips connected to ultrathin threads lacing our brain (hence, the name “neuralace”). If you can’t decipher his white paper, […]
Read MoreHow to Build a Career in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
by Prajakta Patil, Anirudh V K “Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.” –Ray Kurzweil, American Inventor and Futurist Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence […]
Read MoreNature’s Witness to Intelligent Design
by Donald DeMarco I was finishing my morning coffee and nothing in particular was occupying my mind. A black-capped chickadee suddenly appeared before my eyes, walking alongside our front yard maple tree. It was busy, no doubt looking for food. At that moment it seemed to be operating with more […]
Read MoreUnderstanding Artificial Intelligence
by Rowland Adeniyi The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is so broad that we cannot scratch the surface in this blog. What we can do however is to give you a broad view of what AI is and it’s application today. AI controls the backbone of several websites and robots, […]
Read MoreEast Africa’s Great Rift Valley: A Complex Rift System
by James Wood and Alex Guth The Great Rift Valley is a series of contiguous geographic trenches, approximately 3,700 mi in total length, that runs from the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon in Asia to Mozambique in Southeast Africa. The term refer to the valley of the East African Rift, the […]
Read MoreT-Mobile Launches 600MHz 5G Across the US
by eCommunicator T-Mobile has the first, largest, and only nationwide 5G network, covering more people and places than anyone else. No 5G signal goes farther or is more reliable. It’s worth mentioning that T-Mobile’s 5G mmWave, super fast, but short-range coverage went live since June in six cities across the […]
Read MoreLife by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World
by eCommunicator About the Author Catherine Besteman is the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College. Hugh Gusterson is professor of international affairs and anthropology at the George Washington University. Product details Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: University of Chicago Press; First edition (May 23, […]
Read MoreAre We Getting to A Time When You Can’t Trust What You See, Hear or Read?
by Ayodeji Awosika Throughout the day, your mind is getting input from thousands of different sources. I talk about reinventing yourself quite a bit. Part of that process involves changing the way you think. To change the way you think, you can begin to think of your mind as a […]
Read MoreHow to Control Things Using Your Brain
by eCommunicator How to Control Things Using Your Brain (and Open-Source Hardware) | Cyborg Nation | Nov 4, 2015 OpenBCI is an open-source hardware that allows a D.I.Y. community of artists, designers, and engineers to innovate, while serving as a tool for research and innovation back in 2015. From using […]
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