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Bioinformatics: An emerging field enabled by tech

Have you heard of bioinformatics? Still relatively obscure in mainstream knowledge, it’s a field of study that relies on the application of computer tech to the management and analysis of biological data – with the potential to enable a far deeper understanding of biological systems.  Bioinformatics looks at how technologies

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Does gaining something new mean losing everything old?

Welcome to the 687 new techies who have joined us since last Friday. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Walter Ong (American Philosopher) What Ong said:

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Coming of age in the metaverse

In 2008, anthropologist Tom Boellstorff published a book called Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human.  It was an outlier in the field of social anthropology; the account of a field study that had been conducted entirely online, inside the online game Second Life. The

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What do unusual power devices tell us about the tech industry?

Everyone has a drawer full of batteries in their house. But beyond the standard power devices that everyone’s familiar with, researchers continue to explore different materials and techniques that can generate power and change the resources we rely on – so more and more novel power devices are in development.

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From EEG to BCI

Welcome to the 460 new techies who have joined us since last Friday. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Dr. Ramses Alcaide (President and CEO at

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How tech platforms are democratising creative industries

We’ve written before about the way that connectivity and access to digital tools can enable people from a wide variety of backgrounds to exercise their entrepreneurial spirit. With low-cost, high quality technological tools, almost anyone can start a business in minutes.  And the same goes for people working in

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Exploring AI with Yonah Welker

Yonah is dedicated to understanding human relationships with emerging technologies, and shaping the future of policies that put humans at the centre of positive technology development.