Mmm…wonder if it works?
We’ve seen a lot of interesting AI projects from romance novels to scripts. For your music fans there’s a new bot on the horizon. Relentless Doppelganger is the Death Metal rocker a neural network dreamed up. And it’s streaming 24/7.
Have you considered unplugging? Most of us are online a lot and familiar with the concept of “unplugging” when it comes to or digital devices and the networks therein but is the practice really beneficial? This article raises some questions that you might want to ask yourself before you unplug.
Active shooter situations are very, very scary and for people in the US they are becoming a larger part of all of our realities. Safe Zone Gunfire Detection is an active shooter detector system that can alert police to shooters faster which will hopefully save more lives.
Part of many cities fight against emissions involve areas of the city where they enforce low emissions from cars. This means that only those that pass current emission standards can drive in those zones or incur a fine. London has recently taken steps to institute one of the toughest with the ULEZ, Ultra Low Emissions Zone.
CO2 levels are sort of an abstract idea when it comes to the public. They are very real, and can be measured in real ways but most people really only here about them yearly, or when some big report comes out that manages to come across their radar. The Guardian wants to change that by reporting the CO2 level daily with the rest of the weather.
The world is becoming more automated, anyone paying even a little bit of attention is likely aware of that. AI is being used in a variety of ways for research to news reporting in our fast paced society but in Estonia, they want to take it further. They want to bring AI into the court room.
Most people buy their ebooks from Google, Apple, and Amazon but there are other retailers out there. One of of which was Microsoft until recently. The company is shuttering the service and this means that people will lose access to the books they’ve brought, a long time problem with digital media.
Nuclear power causes no emissions and generates energy but we’re not to keen on jumping on that bandwagon because despite its high points, reactor meltdowns are real and still a part of modern memory. Still, with the idea of it being a “clean” energy, is it possible that it will make a come back? Some people say yes.
Adding a little green to your household or office can really brighten things up around the place. Plus they freshen the air if you get enough of them going. What’s that you say? You don’t exactly have a green thumb? No worries, here’s a handy list of really hard to kill house plants.
Reading the news can be scary. Our practical minds know that headlines are meant to pull us in and articles are written with bias. In a perfect world we’ll do our research but sometimes we just don’t have the time. When it comes to science articles, Science Feedback is the site that sorts out the news so you know what to trust.
Recycling is having some problems in the west. What most people don’t realize is that we ship most of our waste to other countries to be processed but unfortunately for us, those countries aren’t taking our trash anymore and we aren’t very good at making sure that our garbage is sorted properly which keeps it from getting recycled. We’ve gotta do better and this article gives some tips how.
One of the major hits at SXSW this year has been the SnowWhite, LG’s prototype pod based ice cream machine. This thing sounds awesome but honestly but this concept is a miss for us unless those pods are made from at least recyclable plastics or else it’s the Keurig K-cup disaster all over again.
Climate change is something that we tend to think about in future terms. Which is to say we have to do something now because tomorrow (many years from now) will be bad if we don’t but this isn’t the case. Climate change is hurting us right now and people are not really so aware of that but they should be.
Many of us might play with the notion that climate change is a new phenomenon, but such is not the case at all. It happened in the past, and if the latest findings are true, then climate change could have been the destruction of an entire civilization.
Nothing works to get people interested in a cause quite like turning it into a game. Pretty much anything can be made more interesting to the general public if you attach a way to win at it. This is the basic premise behind Ducky and their emission challenge and guess what? It worked!
