Day: July 29, 2018

How can we keep track of time without using a personal computer or mobile phone? In this episode, Ben uses discrete electronics and encoders with an LED matrix to keep tabs on the time, while Felix puts together a micro-controller with an LCD display as […]

Sumatran tiger caught on camera <img width=”660″ height=”495″ alt=”” src=”https://c402277.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/photos/15921/images/simple_style_full/IMG_0058.JPG?1532631819″ /><img width=”660″ height=”495″ alt=”” src=”https://c402277.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/photos/15922/images/simple_style_full/IMG_0062.JPG?1532631935″ /><img width=”660″ height=”495″ alt=”” src=”https://c402277.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/photos/15919/images/simple_style_full/IMG_0048.JPG?1532631609″ /><img width=”660″ height=”495″ alt=”” src=”https://c402277.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/photos/15920/images/simple_style_full/IMG_0057.JPG?1532631701″ />The camera traps are part of a collaboration between WWF and the Riau Forestry Department to help determine which species […]

AI-powered visual search tools, like Google Lens and Bing Visual Search, promise a new way to search the world—but most people still type into a search box rather than point their camera at something. We’ve gotten used to manually searching for things over the past […]

It’s hard to be optimistic sometimes, we know. Politics is a mess, the environment’s in trouble and half the world appears to be either melting or actually on fire. But there are reasons to be cheerful, because technology is working to defeat each and every […]

E l'aumento al massimo delle tasse comunali non era l'unica strada percorribile per riordinare i conti: con le politiche dell'austerità, tutti gli enti locali si … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit

Sì a lottizzazioni e sprechi, no alle grandi opere: i Cinque stelle di governo importano in Italia il modello Cuba, archiviato nell'arcipelago dei Caraibi, ridotto alla fame e alla povertà dalla dittatura comunista. Eppure, nonostante i disastri, le … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews

While the origins of the term are elusive, and even debated, big data is one of those concepts that many know about, yet it defies a simple definition. At the heart of big data, as the term directly suggests, is an extremely large volume of […]

The idea spread through Silicon Valley like—well, ironically, like a virus, even though the idea centered around a protozoan. According to an article in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, people infected with the microbe Toxoplasma gondii might be more likely to be entrepreneurs, to […]