On March 25 2020, Uniper Care Technologies (a telehealth and social engagement company) launched their new cross-platform service connecting isolated populations with others through smartphones, tablets, computers or even a TV set.
MIT's Center for Advanced Virtuality produced a digital storytelling project called “In Event of Moon Disaster'' to raise awareness about the world of deepfakes.
In a January 2020 article, scientists demonstrated that the protein sestrin is responsible for many of the physiological benefits of exercise.
In late 2019, a U.S.-based dating platform launched a speed-date video chat feature to avoid “bad first dates” by allowing matched users to have a two-minute video chat as a digital first date.
In July 2019, Lyft and the Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired at the Media and Accessible Design Lab in San Francisco joined forces to develop a Braille guide explaining how autonomous vehicles work, ...
The University of Cambridge has developed an online game called "Bad News" with the goal of countering misinformation.
As of late 2019, ‘Dadfluencers’, both gay and straight, were having a significant cultural moment. Dad-related content is some of the most viral on the internet: Hashtags such as #Dadlife and #Fatherhood appear by the ...
In late July 2019, scientists at the University of Massachusetts developed a permanently magnetic liquid for the first time in the field of science. Using a technique to 3D print liquids, scientists created millimetre-sized droplets ...
“Don’t you hate it when you are trying to solve the inverse kinematics equation and you get ‘Error 452 – No Solution Found.’ Don’t you hate it?” That’s the setup for a joke delivered by ...
In August 2019, an investigation revealed significant textual corruption in some low-cost editions of George Orwell’s works found on Amazon. Further digging showed that the phenomenon extended to other classics by canonical authors. While many ...
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