TECH & INNOVATION

PhD Student at MIT Hopes to Revolutionize Insulin Administration

One in 11 people have diabetes, and so the potential reach of Volpatti’s research is massive. A student who is currently attaining her Ph. D. in chemical engineering, Lisa Volpatti is researching avenues for an automatic, self-administering insulin treatment that individuals with diabetes could take once each day.

Study Identified a Great Way to Know How Much Water Snowpacks Hold

With the use of a database of snow pillow measurements, the team was able to validate the model, a snow pillow measures snow-water equivalents through the pressure they exerted by the snow on top of it, and also as a pair of large independent data sets, one from western North America, the other from the northeastern United States

Things We Know About The Upcoming 'Stranger Things' Mobile Game

The game based on the hit TV is in the works Big news for fans of Stranger Things, a new Stranger Things mobile game is in development from Finnish studio Next Games, and it looks like it's going to cater to the Pokemon Go fans in the crowd too.

Android Warning: Thousands Of Dangerous Copycat Apps On Google Play, Study Finds

The research has unearthed thousands of dangerous apps hiding in plain sight in the online store The research done by the University of Sydney and CSIRO's Data61 has shown thousands of dangerous applications hiding in plain sight in the online store, tricking users by copying popular alternatives.

Researchers Create New AI Tool for Detecting Unfair Discrimination

The researchers created an AI tool for detecting discrimination concerning a protected attribute such as gender or race by human decision makers or AI systems that are based on the concept of causality in which one thing, a cause, causes another thing, an effect

NASA’s Fuel-less Space Engine Has Been Tested

EmDrive, the physics-defying contraption ostensibly produces thrust, no fuel required. Spaceflight is hard. Blasting heavy cargo, spacecraft, and maybe people to respectable speeds over interplanetary distances requires an amount of propellant too massive for current rockets to haul into the void.

The App: The Next Big Medical Breakthrough?

Smartphones have been with us for only a little more than a decade and they have almost become universal. There are currently around 3 billion of them, used for anything from communication to entertainment.
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