Source : eandt In light of recent natural disasters, such as the devastation in Mexico, could new technology to forecast and warn about future earthquakes help lessen the catastrophic damage we’ve seen around the world? Rolling global news, such as the tremendous earthquake in Mexico and back-to-back hurricanes around the Caribbean can leave the impression
Excitement and fear around AI and cognitive computing has reached fever pitch, but are cancer treatment and diagnosis where the technology will have its biggest and most positive impact yet? “We don’t know what cancer really looks like,” says Helmy Eltoukhy, an electrical engineer from California and the founder of Guardant Health, the first company
Source : scitechdaily Securing enough energy to meet human needs is one of the greatest challenges society has ever faced. Previously reliable sources–oil, gas and coal–are degrading air quality, devastating land and ocean and altering the fragile balance of the global climate, through the release of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, earth’s rapidly industrializing
Source : Gedgets 360 In good news for people who have blood pressure (BP) problems, monitoring BP might one day become as easy as taking a video selfie. Researchers have tested a technology called transdermal optical imaging that measures blood pressure by detecting blood flow changes in smartphone-captured facial videos. “This study shows that facial