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FEMTECH: IS IT A BUBBLE?

Published on: 19 April 2018

The market for non-male tech gadgets and apps is exploding

Dateline: 1 May 2023

It's official. If you want to be the next tech giant, make sure you're aiming at the Femtech market. And it's even better if your company is run by women too! For years, actually decades, the personal computing and IT sectors were dominated by products and services created by men for men. About the only application where women were heavily involved was word processing, and later, desktop publishing. That's all changed, but the big names in tech startups are still heavily biased to the male gender, ...

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Doug Vining

Declaring biological war on waste

Posted: 17 April 2018

As we have written in a number of MindBullets published over the years, the solution to plastic and oil pollution might lie in developing genetically modified organisms that 'eat' the waste and produce useful chemicals. Now scientists have accidently created an enzyme that could eventually clean up the plastic ...

Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles

The breakthrough, spurred by the discovery of plastic-eating bugs at a Japanese dump, could help solve the global plastic pollution crisis

PLASTIC UNFANTASTIC

EU to ban plastic packaging for groceries - unless you can eat it

Dateline: 29 January 2018

It started slowly. First we stopped giving away plastic bags for free. Then water bottles died a quick death. Now, in a revolutionary move, European ...

Doug Vining

Bitcoin eating Quebec's hydro power

Posted: 16 April 2018

When you've got a surplus of green electricity, it makes sense to invite customers to use it. Bitcoin mining operations are now so intensive, the cost of power is critical, and the market value of the coins has to justify the cost of power, or they might be suspended. How will this scenario we explored in our ...

Bitcoin is eating Quebec

A Canadian hydropower operation put out the welcome mat for bitcoin miners. Shortly thereafter, it was overrun.

IT'S GOING TO BE A COLD, DARK CHRISTMAS

Climate change reversal catches almost everyone by surprise

Dateline: 21 December 2025

It's almost a decade since those 'hottest years on record' culminating with the 2016 El Nino. But no-one expected it to cool down this rapidly. In 2017, ...

David Jones

Augmented Reality Apps for Education

Posted: 13 April 2018 1 Comment

Augmented reality (AR) allows you to enrich the world with the latest technologies, creating a unique combined interactive experience. Although in education, augmented reality is still rarely used, but more and more teachers, researchers and developers are beginning to move toward more interactive teaching ...

Augmented Reality Apps for Education

Augmented Reality Apps for Education becomes a common concept; AR is used to visualize education apps and engage with AR learning. Get in touch with AR experts to build your app.

Doug Vining

Building the next gen network

Posted: 13 April 2018

At last some telcos are waking up to the idea that it's supremely inefficient to build separate networks alongside each other! South Korea's top carriers have decided to collaborate on a single nationwide 5G network. If only all mobile operators allowed domestic roaming... And then, let's talk international as ...

South Korean carriers agree to build single 5G network, saving money and time

Faced with the prospect of developing several separate 5G networks with patchwork coverage, South Korea’s top cellular carriers have instead decided to ...

WIRELESS INTERNET REINVENTED

5G is more than just a speed upgrade - it's mission critical

Dateline: 4 April 2020

It's finally here, and 5G mobile broadband isn't just a quicker internet - it's going to save us from the future! You'll forgive me for being a bit ...

Anastasia Stefanuk

Virtual and augmented reality

Posted: 4 April 2018 2 Comments

Thanks a lot for sharing, artificial intelligence is a very powerful thing. It is used in different industries. For example, it can be used for a virtual reality project: https://mobilunity.com/blog/how-to-differ-virtual-reality-and-augmented-reality-developer/. This is one of the most interesting modern ...

AI IS AUGMENTED INTELLIGENCE

That wunderkind has got a chip in her head

Dateline: 12 June 2029