By Kate Kaye, Protocol
“It’s a lot to listen to a robot all day long,” said Tina Pinedo, communications director at Disability Rights Oregon, a group that works to promote and defend the rights of people with disabilities. Continue reading For people with disabilities, AI can only go so far to make the web more accessible
By Edwin Flores, NBC News
At age 9, Nalleli Cobo was experiencing asthma, body spasms, heart palpitations and nosebleeds so severe she needed to sleep in a chair to prevent herself from choking on her own blood. Continue reading Young L.A. Latina wins prestigious environmental prize
By Tech 2
There is no point in denying it, but automation is the future. Imagine a world where your TV pauses the movie or the show that you’re watching when it senses that you’ve stood up to fetch a fresh bowl of popcorn, and resumes playing the content when you return. Or how about a computer that senses you’re stressed out at work and starts playing some mellow and relaxing tunes? Continue reading GOOGLE IS WORKING ON A NEW TECH THAT CAN READ YOUR BODY LANGUAGE WITHOUT USING CAMERAS
By KC Baker, Yahoo!
Stranger things have happened, for sure. But this could be a first for many. Continue reading ‘Sharkcano,’ Active Pacific Ocean Volcano Where Sharks Live in Acidic Water, Erupts: NASA
By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN
The race to resume supersonic passenger flights decades after the retirement of Concorde was offered a glimmer of excitement on Monday when plane manufacturer Bombardier revealed high speed achievements while confirming the launch of its new business jet. Continue reading World’s fastest passenger jet goes supersonic in tests
By Francesca Street, CNN
Waking up in a chic hotel room with a view of the solar system could be the future of travel, at least if space company Orbital Assembly has anything to say about it. Continue reading Inside the space hotel scheduled to open in 2025
By AJ Horch, CNBC
Cynthia DiBartolo’s journey to the New York Stock Exchange floor was fraught with challenges and difficulty. Continue reading How the first disabled and woman-owned NYSE floor broker is changing Wall Street
By Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering
Benjamin Choi, a seventeen-year-old student from Virginia in the U.S., used the spare time offered by the pandemic to build a mind-controlled, artificial intelligence (A.I.) powered yet low-cost prosthetic arm, Smithsonian Magazine reported. Continue reading A high school student built a prosthetic arm he controls with his mind. Using AI?
By Alliah Czarielle, Hemophilia News Today
Climate change has been a hot topic in our circles lately. We feel it very much in the Philippines, where hot summers in the months of April and May have quickly turned into a season of strong typhoons and dangerous floods. Recently, a major typhoon hit the province of Leyte, causing a tragic landslide. Continue reading Looking at Environmental Protection Through the Lens of Disability
By WiSE students Nayeli Stopani Barrios, Jessica Becker, Elise Murphy and Larissa Sanches, Nevada Today
Women pursuing STEM careers have faced many challenges in the past, and they continue to do so today. In the past, many of these challenges were built into the framework of our public and private institutions and our legal system. Continue reading The challenge of gender bias: experiences of women pursuing careers in STEM
