Technology

A Beginner’s Guide to the Fascinating World of Cryptocurrency

22Apr

By Manaswini TripathyNo Comments

Crypto & NFT, Technology

A Beginner’s Guide to the Fascinating World of Cryptocurrency

What is this hype around cryptocurrency? Why is everyone going gaga over it? Well, a cryptocurrency is a digital currency for the purchase of goods and services. The regulated currency ($, ₹, £) is converted into tokens, and by leveraging the decentralized blockchain methodology, users transact securely in the unregulated marketplace, such as casinos or the dark web. Today, 2.8 million to 5.8 million global cryptocurrency users publicly trade in more than 4810 (CoinMarketCap entries) different cryptocurrencies. The exponential success of this virtual currency is credited to Bitcoin (BTC)—the world's largest cryptocurrency. The total crypto market volume of April 22, 2021, is $206.31B. In India, as of Apr 22, 2021, 1 Bitcoin equals INR 40,22,284.91! Top 5 Most Common Cryptocurren...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models Generate Images from Captions

20Apr

By Manaswini TripathyNo Comments

Technology

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models Generate Images from Captions

The proliferation of immersive models has become a crucial part of development in providing virtual experiences, creating interactive online models, generating realistic sentences and paragraphs by observing the images, etc. This massive tech revolution has compelled researchers to develop AI to an extent where the models can create images through captions. That's right, just when you thought about what AIs can not do! OpenAI’s GPT-3 Model Generates Images from Captions The researchers at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence created an AI technology with an interface that integrates "text in, text out" services, authorizing users to generate texts with logical prompts. The application programming interface (API) outlined by the tech experts can deliver sensible sentences, para...

Key Requirements to Become a Coder & Land the Moon

16Dec

By Linda AshokNo Comments

Technology

Key Requirements to Become a Coder & Land the Moon

Lately, there's a lot of buzz around coding as Indian edtech startups continue to force-feed coding skills to children as young as 6-year-old. You get the drift and the reference. But let's flesh it out for you a bit so that you have the right lenses to assess your potential in this field. No doubt that to get started in any discipline, you start with simple steps. And this article will, for sure, cover those steps for you as you continue to read. However, it is worth mentioning that no career is easy, and coding is an aggressively competitive domain, albeit promising for those who can ace it. Every year, India produces lakhs of engineers, and then a fat percentage of this youth is unemployed. It is not only colleges and universities with poor placement capacity that fail but also establis...

23-Year-Old Judit Giró Benet’s ‘The Blue Box’ for Breast Cancer Alert

21Nov

By Linda AshokNo Comments

Technology

23-Year-Old Judit Giró Benet’s ‘The Blue Box’ for Breast Cancer Alert

The James Dyson Award by the James Dyson Foundation recognizes young innovators each year and supports them financially. Young engineers and scientists worldwide draw encouragement and inspiration from this endeavor. Over the years, the Award has supported 250 inventions around the world. Despite the challenges of 2020, the Award has seen maximum participation this year, and the quality of entries is top-notch. The ingenuity of young innovators is the key highlight of this Award, and two winners have won £30,000 each for their ideas that can change the world. One of these is a home testing kit for breast cancer screening, whereas the other is a way to generate renewable energy from UV light. Judit Giró Benet ideates The Blue Box home-screening kit for breast cancer from Spain is just 23 ye...

5 Global Spatial Computing Startups Create a Dependable Reality

18Nov

By Linda AshokNo Comments

Technology

5 Global Spatial Computing Startups Create a Dependable Reality

Immersive technologies have a new mate, "spatial computing," where the physical and digital worlds converge seamlessly to create a new and dependable reality. When you have parents in their late 60s, and there's no visible caregiving opportunity around, you are in a fix to arrange one for them while not neglecting your personal and professional responsibilities. You can picture an older man in his wheelchair living in a digitally cataloged room where things and the environment auto-adjust to the man's needs, ensuring his physical comfort at all times. With sensors and IoT controlled devices, the height of furniture auto-adjusts in the kitchen, living room, and the living space. If this person is your hypothetical parent, you are in charge of their complete safety thanks to spatial computin...

NIH’s HubMAP Hackathon Offers $50000 to Hack the Human Kidney

31Oct

By Linda AshokNo Comments

Technology

NIH’s HubMAP Hackathon Offers $50000 to Hack the Human Kidney

The Digital Innovation Virtual Conference 2020 by InnovationDigi, features an impressive hackathon titled, "Hacking the Kidney." The hackathon is designed to advance HubMAP (Human BioMolecular Atlas Program), an initiative of the National Institute of Health to map the human body at a single cell and functional tissue unit resolution for the first time in history. Key sponsors include Google, Deloitte, Roche, CAS, Pistoia Alliance, and Maven Wave. HubMAP is scheduled for November 5, 2020, to be launched between 2.30-3.15 pm EST during a panel by CELLSINTECH. The panel moderated by Sr. Director at Eli Lilly and Company, Andrea DeSouza, has in panel Program Leader from NIH, Dr. Richard Conroy; Principal Research Scientist at Lilly Research Labs, Boyd Steere; Senior Director, Product Manageme...

Japan and Singapore Merge Fashion & Function in High-Tech Face Masks

21Oct

By Linda AshokNo Comments

Technology

Japan and Singapore Merge Fashion & Function in High-Tech Face Masks

The advent of coronavirus gave the technology sector a significant boost. The industry produces high-tech face masks that can monitor social distance, translate languages, and filter contaminated air particles through remote sensors. These hi-tech masks are gradually turning many heads around in admiration and speculation. The extent to which Covid-19 depressed global markets has also expressed high growth opportunities for tech companies. Their researchers and product designers are reinventing Covid-19 masks, balancing fashion and functionality with ease. Hear about this Japanese startup named Donut Robotics. They have designed high-tech face masks that can alert users on maintaining social distancing and help users understand a foreign language through easy translation. Often, people hav...

Breastfeeding Technology for New Fathers to Experience Motherhood

1Oct

By Linda AshokNo Comments

Technology

Breastfeeding Technology for New Fathers to Experience Motherhood

Maybe radical at the outset, but this new wearable breastfeeding technology resembles a woman's breasts. The device has internal milk ducts simulating an infant's experience of suckling their mother. A moment for many fathers musing how generously mothers lull their newborns to sleep through breastfeeding and contact. Art Director Osamu Takahashi at Dentsu was inspired by his sister lulling her whining newborn to sleep with simple breastfeeding. He came up with a breastfeeding device for dads launched at the annual Southwest (SXSW) Festival Tradeshow in Austin, Texas, 2019. A man wearing a Father's Nursing Assistant to lull a child Inspired by her sister, Osamu Takahashi wanted to design a wearable device for every father to experience nursing the newborn. Osamu Takahashi at Dentsu...

Global Tech Influencers at Digital Innovation Virtual Conference 2020

29Sep

By Linda AshokNo Comments

Technology

Global Tech Influencers at Digital Innovation Virtual Conference 2020

Till 2019, conference networking around the world was energetic and unrestricted; we could travel to the coolest destination taking a break from our professional and personal lives to advance our stake in the futuristic. But sadly, 2020 interjected and, to stave off Covid-19, implemented social distancing. Now, professionals worldwide rapidly adapted to the need for social distancing, making work-from-home the new norm. This, in turn, did save us from the pandemic but questions, among many other compelling things, our lack of networking necessary to advance our discipline in the space of technology and digital transformation. Headquartered in Indianapolis, US, InnovationDigi conducted several chapters of successful conferences on technology over the years. This year, it took no exceptio...

Under COVID-19, is 5G Technology the Way Forward?

25Sep

By Linda AshokNo Comments

Technology

Under COVID-19, is 5G Technology the Way Forward?

At this point, it's no news that the virtual is replacing the physical, and the post-Covid-19 world will be more digitally inclined and innovative than what we were used to before the pandemic, but then, isn't it a good thing? Seeing how 5G technology has become a major part of almost every industry and how there is a growing interest in associated topics like robotics, blockchain, and data analytics. Post-Covid-19 Technology Before the pandemic, there were so many discussions and predictions about which tech would take over industries and even the entire world's operations in the coming years. Topics like Cybersecurity, AR/VR, machine learning, etc., were on the top 10 lists of these predictions. Still, at this moment, where the pandemic has greatly changed the entire world's system of o...