Information & Communication

Remember how the stress buster massage ball of the 90s became a sensation for use in treatments and therapy? Likewise, the last few months have seen popularity soar for a device called the fidget spinner, named simply because it spins when you fidget with it!

How often in movies have you seen futuristic desks and thought, ‘I need that.’ Something with a sleek design, loaded with technology, a holographic display perhaps and of course AI support. Well, with advances in technology, a desk like that is probably not too far off.

Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence Labs, learn the machine to predict the future. The datasets, that have been using, are videos of TV series. “When we see two people meet, we can often predict what happens next: a handshake, a hug, or maybe even a kiss. Our ability to anticipate actions is thanks to intuitions born out of a lifetime of experiences”.

In order to diagnose diseases such as malaria, African sleeping sickness, HIV and tuberculosis, blood samples are often placed in a centrifuge which spins the sample at extremely high speeds. This separates them into their components, or concentrates parasites or pathogens to facilitate further analysis and ultimately, diagnosis.

What would one do without the capacity to carry out basic everyday conversations, say, ordering food at a restaurant or greeting a neighbor? One of the possible consequences, in fact, impacting one-third of heart stroke survivors, is a condition called aphasia — a brain disorder influencing change in language, causing loss of speech in the individual, and the inability to read, write or understand.

Often, due to reasons such as driving, being stuck in meetings, causing disturbances to those around us or simply seeming rude, we find it difficult to pick up our phones or laptops to type out our memos to communicate. The post-millennial generation has discovered a solution to this dilemma where it will now be possible to send messages just with the use of tactile senses on spaces. Wouldn’t that be convenient?

We are currently in a shortage crisis. When you say this, many people think of oil and coal, but they can be replaced with renewable resources like wind and solar power.

In the US, from 1998 to present, 705 children have died from heatstroke as a result of being left in a car. In 2016 alone, 39 children died and unfortunately, it looks as though the numbers in 2017 will be just as shocking. At the time of writing, there has already been five deaths of children who were left in a car and subsequently overheated.

Keeping accurate time is paramount for air travel, triangulating GPS coordinates, operating telecommunication devices, and regulating world economies. Not just to the second, higher orders of precision timing are needed. The GPS system uses internal time measurements that are accurate to the nanosecond (or billionths of a second).

How far is the walk from your front step to your mailbox? Can your car fit into a garage if it had a canoe mounted on it? Can a self-driving golf cart avoid hitting walking pedestrians? Any number of these types of questions happens every day.

Modern computers use a combination of volatile memory and nonvolatile memory to operate. The nonvolatile memory is data that is permanently stored on the hard drive of a computer and will remain there after the unit is powered down. Volatile memory is the data that is stored in memory within the RAM and is deleted or lost when a computer loses power. The issue with RAM is that it takes a lot of power to store data for temporary use.

Many parents worry about giving their children an electronic device of their own at too young an age, but we also want to be able to communicate with our children regularly when we’re not with them. If you work away from home or have relatives who live far away you’ll know how important that communication can be for everyone involved.