The new tech trends set to shape the smart cities of tomorrow

Apr03
by on April 3, 2024 at 9:17 am
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The World Bank estimates that by 2050 the global urban population will double in size, putting ever-increasing pressure on city streets, housing markets, infrastructure, government services, and the environment. Luckily, over the last few years, advancements in the fields of AI, IoT, robotics, and the ongoing deployment of 5G have made the timing ripe for new technological solutions to come to the rescue. In 2023, the global smart cities market was valued at $748.7 billion and is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.8% from 2023 to 2030. These new solutions are set to reshape…

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What it’d take for the EU to ban TikTok

Apr01
by on April 1, 2024 at 8:00 am
Posted In: Apps


The US is getting increasingly aggressive about TikTok. In March, the House of Representatives passed a bill that could see the Chinese social media app banned across the entire country due to security concerns. If signed into law, the bill would give ByteDance — the company that owns TikTok — six months to sell the platform. If this doesn’t happen, TikTok won’t be accessible to users in the United States. While there’s still a long way to go before this becomes reality, the intent is clear: the US government will ban software it sees as a threat.  This got us…

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Digital mindfulness could help reduce the effects of technostress at work

Mar29
by on March 29, 2024 at 10:00 am
Posted In: Future of Work


Technology-related stress, overload, and anxiety are common problems in today’s workplace, potentially leading to higher burnout and poorer health. Many of these issues are likely to have increased since remote working became much more widespread following the pandemic. In 2022, along with colleagues at the University of Nottingham, I conducted a review of the academic literature on the downsides of digital working. We looked at nearly 200 studies from over the past decade, which revealed extensive evidence of the negative health impacts of technostress and the related “dark side of digital workplace” effects. Building on that research, our next study,…

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Formula E world champion reveals how race cars accelerate EV tech

Mar29
by on March 29, 2024 at 8:00 am
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António Félix da Costa is an extremely fast worker. The motorsports star has barely caught his breath since speeding at 250 km/h per hour into sixth place at a race in Sao Paulo, but he’s already back behind another wheel on another continent.  The location of his latest ride is the carmaking hub of Stuttgart, Germany, the home of Porsche and Mercedes-Benz. But you’ll never see these wheels spinning away — because they’re permanently parked. A stationary cockpit encased by screens, the device replicates driving da Costa’s Porsche race car. That provides crucial testing for the real thing. “Once we…

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Cosmic rays, XR, and ‘multiverse’ quantum computing — welcome to EIC’s deeptech Scaling Club

Mar28
by on March 28, 2024 at 2:33 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence


“Do you believe in the multiverse?” our petite and cheerful guide Angelina asked me when I told her what I do for a living, while navigating the rambunctious street’s of Hanoi’s Old Quarter. It was not a conversation I was expecting to have on a vegan street food tour in Vietnam, but as Angelina studies AI and VR (and as we are both avid Marvel fans), our chat took a turn down a dimensional rabbit hole.  I wonder what kind of questions she would have for the founders of Multiverse Computing — a Spanish deeptech scaleup. It offers what it…

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