“Ignoring technological change in a financial system based upon technology is like a mouse starving to death because someone moved their cheese.” — Chris Skinner. The word “fintech” — the cutting-edge fusion of finance and technology — has gained more popularity in the last few years than ever before. Artificial intelligence is transforming the field […]
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Contraceptive technology keeps surprising us every year with new designs, effects, or methods. One new method is called COSO, a device designed by Rebecca Weiss, a German design graduate from the Technical University of Munich, aimed at members of the public with male reproductive organs. COSO is designed for use at home without any difficulty
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Affective polarization is a term that describes how individuals tend to see their opposing political parties in a negative light and their co-partisans in a positive light. This bias can unknowingly cause ignorance and lead to less effective cooperation and understanding between groups and people of different parties. This psychological mindset is dangerous as it
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The goal of artificial intelligence (AI) is to teach a computer how to think. So, it’s unsurprising that many of the strides made in AI and specifically machine learning — a subset of AI focused on using large collections of data to teach a computer rules through discovering patterns — have been based on biological
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Did you get an alert three weeks ago saying you needed to update your iPhone? Well then stop what you’re doing, check your settings, and update your phone right now. This update may be the most important one to date; the iOS 14.8 update is designed to protect your Apple devices from being hacked without
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The past ten years have seen an explosion of small-lift rocket companies. Ranging from 30 to 100 feet tall, these liquid-propellant rockets aim to launch up to two tons of payload — equivalent to the weight of a large car — into orbit. Instead of focusing on humans and large space telescopes, they’re launching smaller
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For a few years now, computers have been getting better at generating text (and images). Since OpenAI (an Elon Musk–funded private artificial intelligence research lab) published their new GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer-3) language model last year, hype around its capabilities has been growing, and many similar and even more powerful models have been created. Language
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An estimated 45 million people in the world are blind. A multitude of factors cause blindness. Amongst the greatest are genetic disorders, such as retinitis pigmentosa, which affects over 2 million people worldwide, and macular degeneration, which affects 14 percent of people over the age of 80. One solution to this? Bionic eyes. Creating artificial
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It’s a typical Wednesday morning. You wake up and instinctively grab your phone from the nightstand to catch up on what you missed while you were asleep. Tons of photos and videos start flooding into your Instagram, Tik Tok, and YouTube, immediately compelling you to continue scrolling to discover more. Suddenly, you notice how much
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