Multi-layered coloured paint designed to cool buildings by reflecting the sun could become an eco-friendly alternative to air conditioners Coloured two-layer paint can dramatically cool building surfaces facing the sun Top layer absorbs light and a porous underlayer reflects infrared to resist heating US scientists’ new creation could also help keep vehicles and data centres … Read more
Apple says it will release COVID-19 contact tracing technology to governments weeks before the company had previously estimated The technology will be made available to developers on April 28 That date comes courtesy of Apple CEO Tim Cook Its technology will support the creation of COVID-19 contact tracing apps By James Pero For Dailymail.com Published: 23:53 BST, 23 … Read more
MIDAS SHARE TIPS: Yew Grove cashing in on Ireland’s booming medical technology sector By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:53 BST, 18 April 2020 | Updated: 22:26 BST, 18 April 2020 Medical technology is big business. Annual sales topped £350 billion even before the coronavirus pandemic, and Ireland is one of the foremost … Read more
As a critical shortage of ventilators looms, New York Governor Andre Cuomo revealed Friday that the state will begin repurposing BiPAP machines to sustain severely ill coronavirus patients. Last week, the state resorted to converting anesthesia machines to supplement its stockpile of an estimated 6,500 ventilators. Thursday, Cuomo said he wasn’t sure if BiPAP machines … Read more
New technology that can read minds and turn thoughts into complete sentences with the help of AI is giving hope to people who can’t speak. Researchers from the University of California say their technology is able to translate brain activity into English word by word with the help of machine learning. The technology could revolutionise … Read more
AI legal service is using its technology to help people get bill extensions from credit card companies and landlords as coronavirus creates financial hardships DoNotPay is automating the process of sending fee waivers and extensions The service is meant to help people combat hardships created by coronavirus It can draft requests to landlords and credit … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
Eighteen Amish children – who mysteriously died over the course of 15 years – had all inherited a faulty gene from the same ancestor, a new report has found. Mutation of the RYR2 gene found in the heart muscle caused the organ to suddenly stop in the otherwise healthy boys and girls who were running about … Read more
Spanish car manufacturer Seat is working on technology to track a driver’s eyes and spot signs of drowsiness. The firm has partnered with an Israeli firm that has built an algorithm than scrutinises a driver’s eye openness, angle of vision, blink rate and head position. Eyesight Technologies uses cameras and sensors and combines this with … Read more
The Metropolitan Police is beginning operational use of facial recognition technology across London. It follows a number of trials of the cameras, which have been criticised by human rights campaigners as a risk to privacy. Here’s how the technology works, and why it has proved so controversial. – How does it work? Live facial recognition … Read more