technology Archives - The Westside Story

Smartphones have a substantial, and growing, carbon footprint

Jan 30, 2019

Smartphones are having an increasingly grave impact on carbon emissions, according to a study from researchers at McMaster University. They examined the carbon footprint of the Information and Communication Ind...

Technologies to tackle bootleg booze

Platonium

Jan 10, 2019

Innovation

After a Chinese millionaire paid $10,000 for a single glass of whisky which turned out to be fake, research by the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) discovered that counterfeit goods a...

Farming of The Future Is Here

Platonium

Jun 4, 2018

Innovation

British entrepreneur and fourth-generation farmer Sam Watson-Jones believes that the robots his company has created will farm up to 5 percent of the UK’s wheat crops in the next five years. This may seem like a...

Securing Europe’s borders: biometrics to the rescue?

Platonium

Jul 21, 2017

Innovation, Policy

A new report published by the UK’s Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration last week revealed that almost half of all ports on the east coast of Britain were left unchecked by Border Force office...

Uber found to have used ethically and legally ambiguous methods to avoid officials enforcing regulations

West Side Story

Mar 5, 2017

Business, Headlines, Science

After a difficult start to 2017, ride-hailing service Uber was revealed to have used a program to identify and avoid officials in places where the company was banned from operating. Uber used a tool called Grey...

New research opens the door to self-healing, functional, smart-clothes

West Side Story

Nov 3, 2016

Innovation, Science

In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, Dr. Joseph Wang and other researchers from the nanoengineering lab at the University of California, San Diego, show how ink that includes magnetic...

Reebok unveils new 3D printed footwear design, plans to open US production center

West Side Story

Oct 24, 2016

Business, Innovation, Science

Reebok has announced plans for a new line of footwear that uses 3D printing to create a flexible and responsive outsole. In the new process, a proprietary, viscous liquid is applied to a flat surface to in the ...

Russian hackers take brazen approach to World Anti-Doping Agency leak

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Sep 17, 2016

Science, World

This past Tuesday, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was breached by hackers who leaked the records of a number of American athletes. The WADA identified the hackers as the “Fancy Bears international hack tea...

Science fiction author develops ‘mind-reading’ interactive story

West Side Story

Sep 11, 2016

Innovation, Science

Finnish science fiction author and co-founder of biotech startup Helix Nano, Hannu Rajaniemi, has developed interactive fiction that uses a simple brain scanner to analyze the reader’s reactions and to guide th...

Space X rocket engulfed in flames, Elon Musk describes difficult investigation

West Side Story

Sep 10, 2016

Business, Innovation, Science

On September 1st, a Space X rocket was engulfed in a fireball at their launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force base in Florida, while being fueled prior to a routine launch test. The explosion destroyed the ‘Fal...

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