The underlying technology that powers a Fitbit and a motion-sensing medical device might be very similar, but the sensitivity or quality of its sensors and the algorithms each one uses to draw conclusions could span the difference between a budget…
With Apple and Google announcing more details for their exposure notification API, it’s clear coronavirus contact tracing apps are coming. But it’s not clear people will use them. Read more in Fast Company Contact tracing apps are on the way.…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, technologies are playing a crucial role in keeping our society functional in a time of lockdowns and quarantines. And these technologies may have a long-lasting impact beyond COVID-19. Read more in weforum 10 technology trends to…
Magic Leap announced the acquisition of the Belgium-based startup that allows Magic Leap One users to engage in real-time telepresence conference calls using volumetrically captured avatars representing their real bodies.Concepts of communication imagined in science-fiction in the past 30 years…
Pandemics are anti-urban. They exploit our impulse to congregate. And our response so far — social distancing — not only runs up against our fundamental desires to interact, but also against the way we have built our cities and plazas,…
Chen is one of the foremost experts on the indoor environment; specifically, how air moves through spaces like aircraft cabins and cruise ships. And he wants to see transit redesigned to accommodate cleaner air and safer travel in the face…
This is a unique opportunity which we should not pass up. In this moment of pause, we have the chance to reset our relationship to tech. For the last decade, tech has been running us. Now is our chance to…
In December 2005, Gorlitsky was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from a severe spinal cord injury. His doctors thought he would never be able to walk again. But after 10 years, Gorlitsky was able to stand up…
For centuries, builders have been making concrete roughly the same way: by mixing hard materials like sand with various binders, and hoping it stays fixed and rigid for a long time to come.Now, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the…
