Dawei Di 34 Zhejiang University & University of Cambridge Country of birth: China Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are used in a plethora of products ranging from smartphone and TV screens to traffic lights, but they’re expensive to make. In addition, the sweet spot …Continue reading
In 2013, police in Grants Pass, Oregon, got a tip that a man named Curtis W. Croft had been illegally growing marijuana in his backyard. So they checked Google Earth. Indeed, the four-month-old satellite image showed neat rows of plants growing on …Continue reading
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is arguably the most successful film franchise in history. It is based on the characters from the Marvel comic book franchise and the shared universe they inhabit. In the last decade, these stories have been told in more …Continue reading
Wifigen–gives free Wi-Fi to customers in exchange for their information. What does it take for a man to reach his full potential? Good advice – more than anything else. And this was exactly what Bilal got during his journey in creating Wifigen …Continue reading
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alumnus and preeminent physicist, Dr. Hoodbhoy is currently Zohra and Z.Z. Ahmad Distinguished Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Forman Christian College, Lahore. Earlier, he taught at the Quaid-i-Azam University for 40 years. He graduated from …Continue reading
Used but branded items now available online with low price tag. While the concept of online buying and selling is now not new in Pakistan, the idea of selling used but branded original items such as clothes, shoes and bags etc., is …Continue reading
At the onset of winter in 2016, Lahore saw smog for the first time. Visually, the scene was similar to the usual fog the city experiences in winter season, and many thought that fog had arrived early. But soon, when residents of …Continue reading
Fresh water isn’t unlimited. Rainfall isn’t predictable. Just three percent of the world’s water is drinkable, and more than 70 percent of that freshwater is used for agriculture. Unnecessary irrigation wastes huge amounts of water – some crops are watered twice as …Continue reading
The Indian general election of 2019 saw large-scale deployment of the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) technology. It worked by generating a paper slip containing the name of the party and the candidate selected by a voter using Electronic Voting Machines …Continue reading
New technologies are never introduced into a vacuum. They emerge into a social, economic, and political setting and influence it in their turn. Katherine Chandler, a professor in the culture and politics program at Georgetown University, is researching drones in Africa as …Continue reading
You’d think it would be easy to come up with a list of bad technologies from the past couple of decades. But we had a hard time agreeing: What makes a “bad” technology? After all, technologies can be bad because they fail …Continue reading
