Archive for the ‘education’ category: Page 111
Aug 14, 2020
Google can now read grocery labels for the blind
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: education, food, robotics/AI
Ogba Educational Clinic promoting tech in Africa.
An update to Google’s blindness assistance app adds AI image recognition for food shopping.
Aug 10, 2020
We have no strategy for tackling the dark side of digital
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: education, ethics, government
The Ogba Educational Clinic is pioneering ethics in Digital technology in Africa.
The federal government’s cyber plan is long on action points but short on any organising principles. This is worrying.
Aug 9, 2020
What If Your Teacher Were AI?
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: education, robotics/AI
We would soon have an Ai teacher @ Ogba Educational Clinic.
Watch our Discussed episode where we dive deeper into the topic with Dr. Joanna Bryson: https://bit.ly/what-if-your-teacher-were-ai
Jul 28, 2020
Indian schoolgirls discover asteroid moving toward Earth
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: education, space
More great news:
The 10th graders were working on a school project when they discovered the asteroid, which is slowly shifting its orbit and moving towards Earth.
Two Indian schoolgirls have discovered an asteroid which is slowly shifting its orbit and moving toward Earth.
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Jul 25, 2020
Germany’s coronavirus response is a master class in science communication
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: biotech/medical, education, science
What changed things for Germany? A handful of prominent scientists communicating regularly and openly with the public. (via CNBC)…and a leader who is a scientist.
Germany, like many other countries, had a contingent of people who fought lockdowns and argued that Covid-19 was a hoax. But it also had a handful of prominent scientists communicating regularly and openly with the public. That played a huge role in drowning out rumors and misinformation, locals tell CNBC.
“We have a great educational system and everyone has access to it,” said Dennis Traub, a tech worker in Hamburg, Germany. “So I believe that many people and the majority listened to both sides and one of those sides sounded much more reasonable.”
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Jul 21, 2020
How Harvard’s Star Computer-Science Professor Built a Distance-Learning Empire
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, computing, education, science
David Malan, of the hit class CS50, was working to perfect online teaching long before the pandemic. Is his method a model for the future of higher education?
Jul 20, 2020
MRI scans of the brains of 130 mammals, including humans, indicate equal connectivity
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, education, robotics/AI
Researchers at Tel Aviv University, led by Prof. Yaniv Assaf of the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry and Biophysics and the Sagol School of Neuroscience and Prof. Yossi Yovel of the School of Zoology, the Sagol School of Neuroscience, and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, conducted a first-of-its-kind study designed to investigate brain connectivity in 130 mammalian species. The intriguing results, contradicting widespread conjectures, revealed that brain connectivity levels are equal in all mammals, including humans.
“We discovered that brain connectivity —namely the efficiency of information transfer through the neural network —does not depend on either the size or structure of any specific brain,” says Prof. Assaf. “In other words, the brains of all mammals, from tiny mice through humans to large bulls and dolphins, exhibit equal connectivity, and information travels with the same efficiency within them. We also found that the brain preserves this balance via a special compensation mechanism: when connectivity between the hemispheres is high, connectivity within each hemisphere is relatively low, and vice versa.”
Participants included researchers from the Kimron Veterinary Institute in Beit Dagan, the School of Computer Science at TAU and the Technion’s Faculty of Medicine. The paper was published in Nature Neuroscience on June 8.
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Jul 20, 2020
Amazon’s City of The Future
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: drones, education
What if Amazon moved its shipping centers downtown? Where drones fly into the buildings to pick up deliveries.
This drone beehive is one of the ideas and patents that could be part of Amazon’s city of the future.