Nations Use Mobile to Enforce Covid19 Quarantines
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeThe News Efforts to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 are ramping up. Governments worldwide are using mobile phone tracking to enforce quarantines and social distancing against SARS-CoV-2, the novel Coronavirus. China set the precedent early on, with the Alipay...
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Top 5 Project Management Applications to Help You Succeed Working From Home
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeWork Has Changed Let’s face it. The way of work has changed. People are increasingly moving from the traditional 9-5 to picking up side gigs or side hustles and working online. And with the current pandemic, people have been...
Learning the Language of the Future
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeLiteracy enabled society to drastically increase the sum of knowledge a single person could consume in their lifespan and pass on vast stores of knowledge to future generations. Today, we live in the digital era, where elements...
Mining Rare Earth Elements, the Environment, Tech, and the Conundrum We Face
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe When rare earth elements hit the news, it’s often in the context of trade disputes. Many people are aware of these obscure rocks peripherally, and may even know that they’re involved in technology somehow. But it’s fair to say...
Nations Use Mobile to Enforce Covid19 Quarantines
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeThe News Efforts to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 are ramping up. Governments worldwide are using mobile phone tracking to enforce quarantines and social distancing against SARS-CoV-2, the novel Coronavirus. China set the precedent early on, with the Alipay...
Top 5 Project Management Applications to Help You Succeed Working From Home
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeWork Has Changed Let’s face it. The way of work has changed. People are increasingly moving from the traditional 9-5 to picking up side gigs or side hustles and working online. And with the current pandemic, people have been forced to work from home. The new...
Learning the Language of the Future
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeLiteracy enabled society to drastically increase the sum of knowledge a single person could consume in their lifespan and pass on vast stores of knowledge to future generations. Today, we live in the digital era, where elements of daily life are becoming...
Mining Rare Earth Elements, the Environment, Tech, and the Conundrum We Face
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe When rare earth elements hit the news, it’s often in the context of trade disputes. Many people are aware of these obscure rocks peripherally, and may even know that they’re involved in technology somehow. But it’s fair to say that most consumers have no...
Remembering Katherine G. Johnson, an American Hero
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeSad News Folks Katherine G. Johnson, an American hero, and legendary mathematician has died. She was born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia on August 26, 1918, and came from humble beginnings, the daughter of a teacher and a farmer. Her love of numbers...
Does AI Fix or Distort Our Past?
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeThe News On Monday, YouTuber Denis Shiryaev published a remastered cut of one of the world’s most famous films: L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (translation: Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat). Two artificial intelligence algorithms were used in...
Starlink: Friend or Foe
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeWhat’s Going On? We’re barely two weeks into 2020 and the headlines are already insane: Trump Starts World War III! Australia’s on Fire! Baby Yoda Officially Cuter Than Overweight English Bulldogs! Now, thanks to Elon Musk and his newly launched Starlink...
Why Bitcoin is Stuck
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeThis post may contain affiliate links. This means if you make a purchase, ETEKLY will receive a small commission at no cost to you. We hand select only the best products and services that our readers will find fun, interesting, or useful. Please view our full...
IBM AI Synthesizes Arguments
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeThe News Last Thursday (Nov. 14, 2019) at Cambridge University, IBM’s “Project Debater” artificial intelligence program facilitated a debate over whether AI will do more harm than good to humanity in the future. It began with a website, where anybody could...
How HyperspaceXR Takes Virtual Reality A Step Further
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe Over the last several years, the virtual reality industry has demonstrated remarkable staying power within the artificial intelligence (AI) space and shown significant worldwide growth. A recent Forbes article, 2019: The Year Virtual Reality Gets...
Magnomer: Helping To Re-imagine Recycling in the U.S. and Abroad
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe Magnomer: Helping To Reimagine Recycling in the U.S. and Abroad According to NPR statistics, the average American generates a whopping 250 pounds of plastic waste each year, much of which stems directly from used packaging. As environmental impact becomes a...
Internet of Things In Criminal Proceedings
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe What is the big news? The Internet of Things boom has connected billions of wireless devices worldwide. These devices form an intelligent network that already impacts all aspects of daily life. The technology within these interconnected devices picks up on...
Artificial Intelligence Technology To Predict Stroke
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeWhat’s the Big News? Artificial Intelligence (AI) may play a crucial role in detecting the signs of stroke in a patient. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), someone dies of a stroke every four minutes. It is one of the leading...
Happy Birthday League!
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeGamers all over the world are wishing a Happy Birthday to Riot Games this week as their primary (and let’s face it only) gaming offering, League of Legends, turns 10. Officially, the game turned 10 on October 27th but the celebration is still in full swing as...
A Brief History of Blockchain: Future
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe The power of Ethereum became known in Spring 2016, with the invention of a radical new application known as the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). The DAO was a blockchain mutual fund that invested in projects across the Ethereum network. By...
After A Hack: Banks Increase Cybersecurity Measures
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeOn March 22nd, 2019, Paige Thompson broke into the databases of Capital One bank. The next day, she walked away with social security numbers, bank account numbers, and other personal information for over 100 million people. How could one person steal so much...
The Truth about Recycling and What You Can Do
Getting people to recycle may have been one of the biggest marketing successes since the surgeon general’s warnings on cigarette packs. Everyone recycles. It’s a sign that you’re a good, responsible person and a steward of the environment. That may be why social media reacted with such horror when...
How StrattyX Is Shaking Up The Finance Industry
Fintech is going through a growth explosion. Companies like RobinHood have enabled millions of traders to enter the market who were previously either unable or unaware of how to do so. For the every-day trader, commission fees can be a huge burden whereas institutional traders moving millions of...
A Brief History of Blockchain: Ethereum
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe Bitcoin’s Flaws Satoshi Nakamoto’s blockchain changed the world, and Bitcoin became the first proof of concept for this exciting technology. Bitcoin was a remarkable, world-changing invention, and it brought together previously niche technologies to create...
A Brief History of Blockchain: Bitcoin
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeOne of the most significant documents of the 21st century begins in earnest: “A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.” Just over...
The Ethical Dilemma Of Artificial Intelligence
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeWith the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in mainstream culture, the futures depicted in movies and TV shows like Black Mirror and Ready Player One don’t seem so far off. This pressing reality, coupled with some disturbing behavior recently discovered in...
True Artificial Intelligence is Coming Sooner Than We Thought
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe R.U.R.: An AI Story Harry Domin, General Manager of Rossum’s Universal Robots, speaking with Helena Glory, President of the Humanity League: DOMIN My dear Miss Glory, the Robots are not people. Mechanically they are more perfect than we are, they have an...
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe “I wear a mask. And that mask, it’s not to hide who I am, but to create what I am.” -Batman, Batman Vol 1 624 “Satoshi Nakamoto” is Found A Newsweek journalist approaches a modest two-story home in the San Gabriel foothills of Temple City, California. At the...
Geoengineering and Why the World Needs to Change with It
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe As our planet warms, climate anxiety rises with the mercury and solutions that might have seemed extreme in the past suddenly see positive light in the media. That’s how geoengineering has become a media darling, seeing positive press in Wired and The...
The Future of The Internet of Things
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe “When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole.” -Nikola Tesla, 1926 Legend has it that in the ‘70s and ‘80s, Carnegie Mellon University’s...
The Sustainable City in Dubai
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe What if you could live in a city with a net-zero carbon footprint? That’s the question that Faris Saeed, director of Diamond Developers in Dubai, asked himself in 2013. That year, his company made a splash at the International Property Show with plans for...
Blockchain has Many Practical Applications Outside of Bitcoin
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeEverybody and their grandmother has heard of bitcoin, but it’s blockchain that makes it, and all other cryptocurrencies, go. Yet, that is just the most basic application of blockchain technology, which promises to usher in the biggest technological, social,...
Technology and a Mass Behavior Change Won’t Save us this Time
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeInnovation will save us has been a theme of humanity’s history. No water? We’ll build a better aqueduct. Dead soil? We’ll sail to another island. It’s a strategy that has seen humanity through ice ages, wars, droughts, and stranger circumstances yet. No...
Is Blockchain Powering the Green Energy Revolution?
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeBlockchain technology has, for a decade now, been promising to be a force of good in the world by reducing corruption, removing middlemen (and their costs), promoting open governance, and even ushering in a more sustainable global economy. Though these...
Can your garbage produce energy
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe Two of the major environmental issues facing humanity right now: rising carbon dioxide levels and garbage. Some municipalities – and even some nations – believe that they’ve found the key to solving both of these problems at once. They’re using their garbage...
Is Nanotech The Solution For Cleaner Lakes?
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeThe world’s smallest technology could solve some of the world’s biggest water pollution problems. After astonishing advances, including recent real-world fixes, it seems that nanotech may be the solution for cleaner lakes around the world. Existing nano water...
The Global Race to Deploy 5G Network Technologies
Illustration redesigned by Devin ThorpeDefining 5G Like its predecessors 3G and 4G, 5G or, more specifically, the 5th Generation of Wireless Network Technology is not, in fact, a single technology. Rather, it is a set of guidelines that define characteristics of the hardware, software, data...
AI Image Generation Can Fool You
Illustration redesigned by Devin Thorpe Pleased to Meet You Pictured above are Ruben and Gloria Ruiz, a couple living in Belmont, CA. He’s a transport engineer working for the city; she teaches nursing at the local community college. They’re in their 60s now, and have two adult children: Marco...
