Tech News update Pinterest team of leading scientists launch a self-reporting COVID-19 tracking app Apr 3, 2020 There have been a few scattered efforts to leverage crowd-sourced self-reporting of symptoms as a way to potentially predict and chart the progress…
Tech News update IBM certifies a much-needed 140 data scientists for AI development Oct 3, 2019 Last year LinkedIn estimated 151K data scientist jobs went unfilled, and demand continues to outpace supply. Find out more about IBM’s Data Science…
Tech and Gadget Harvard Scientists to Release Sun-Dimming Sky Chemical in 2019 Nov 28, 2018 Sky Doctors A longstanding idea to fight the catastrophic predicted effects of climate change is to release a compound into the stratosphere that…
Artificial intelligence Computer scientists use artificial intelligence to boost an earthquake physics simulator Nov 27, 2018 A team of researchers from the Earthquake Research Institute, Department of Civil Engineering and Information Technology Center at the University…
Innovation Scientists want to dim the sun to stop global warming Nov 27, 2018 The question of how to reverse, or at least stall, global warming is arguably the biggest problem humanity will face in the 21st century – and with…
Innovation Scientists Are 3D Printing Fake Moon Dust Into Useful Objects Nov 25, 2018 3D Printing on the Moon Replacing parts on a lunar base could pose a major challenge, since resupplying missions will likely be massively…
Innovation Scientists redefine the kilogram | Innovation Nov 17, 2018 The change was made at a meeting in Versailles, France, with experts opting for a more modern, and accurate, alternative. “The vote is a unanimous…
Tech and Gadget Scientists Invent an Eye Patch Covered in Drug-Delivering Needles | Virtual Reality Nov 16, 2018 Don’t Blink Sometimes, the treatment sounds worse than the disease. Case in point: A team of researchers in Singapore has developed a new way to…
Innovation Scientists vote on first change to the kilogramme in a century | Innovation Nov 13, 2018 The kilogramme is one of the most important and widely used units of measurement in the world, a solid presence in kitchens and bathrooms…
Tech and Gadget IDC: Data scientists are key to reaping IoT value in 2019 | Virtual Reality Nov 9, 2018 It’s important for data scientists to work together with IT departments and engineers to extract the most value from data gathered by IoT…