Antibiotic resistance is a growing concern as bacteria develop the means of fighting the drugs once meant to kill them. Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections can be challenging or even impossible to treat, often requiring long hospital stays and expensive or dangerous alternatives. In the search for new and effective antibiotics, researchers believe they have found an [...]
Smart cities -- i.e., cities using information and communication technology to upgrade the performance of various services -- are becoming more and more popular across the globe, the hope being that they ultimately improve the quality of life in their given area. Under ideal circumstances, the use of artificial intelligence in such places will positively [...]
The recent and unexpected death of Gerald Cotten, CEO of the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange platform Quadriga, has left thousands without access to their digital funds. Cotten, just 31 at the time of his death, took to the grave all the core cold wallet keys, leaving to others the task of sorting out how to access [...]
There is an ongoing debate about the extent to which automation will impact the American workforce, one that dates back to at least 2013, when two Oxford University professors concluded that 47 percent of U.S. jobs would fall by the wayside as a result of technology. A year later, nearly 1,900 tech experts were surveyed [...]
Maintaining focus is a serious issue for startup CEOs. Often they find themselves in a big hurry to launch and expand, but they don't usually have the resources in place to do everything they desire. That's the reason they need to concentrate on doing specific things right during the company's development stage, but especially in [...]
If it feels like everyone is suddenly taking or talking about CBD, you’re not imagining it. CBD products have flooded the market and people are using it in various forms to treat medical issues ranging from depression to infertility. Cannabidiol oil (CBD) is a natural non-psychotropic compound of cannabis, the mention of which leads to [...]
One of the very first things that generally comes to mind when most people think of a city is traffic. Thick, heavy traffic and congestion, in fact. Public transportation has helped significantly reduce traffic in most large cities, but it continues to be a fairly significant pain point, with parking being next. With the population [...]
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is popping up in everything from healthcare to supply-chain management. Though tech giants such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon initially steered clear of DLT, they are now investing enough time and resources to indicate DLT usage is growing, and that its applications are becoming more wisely used. The reasons Big [...]
The first car appeared in late 19th century Europe. It would soon revolutionize transportation and society as people knew it, offering new independence and economic possibility. It wasn’t until the 1939 World’s Fair that people envisioned a futuristic society in which humans didn’t have to always be in the driver’s seat, literally and metaphorically. Cars [...]
I have long believed that digital ledger technology (DLT) will be so disruptive in so many sectors throughout the world that it will one day be bigger than the Internet, and I am not alone in that view. Computerworld.com senior reporter Lucas Mearian wrote in January 2019 that DLT displays the same sort of potential [...]