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Mixed Reality used to help measure forest growth
At Rice College graduate pupil Daniel Gorczynski and bioscientist Lydia Beaudrot designed a contemporary way to measure vegetation in the discipline. The proof of notion makes use of the Microsoft HoloLens Mixed Fact headset to measure plant expansion for ecology and discussion efforts. Made so “Ecologists will not constantly need to have highly-priced and cumbersome
Robinhood’s bid to ‘democratise finance’ collides with Wall St reality
Robinhood’s ambition to “democratise finance” is set for one of its biggest tests after a week of chaotic trading that pushed it to seek an urgent injection of $1bn and infuriated many of its most loyal clients. The tumult has exposed the competing priorities the popular trading app faces between pleasing its users and the
Stop the clock: Japan awakes to reality of Tokyo Games postponement
TOKYO: Japan awoke on Wednesday (Mar 25) to the deflating reality that the Olympics they had hoped to host in Tokyo this summer were now probably 16 months away after the coronavirus crisis forced organisers into an unprecedented postponement. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese government finally succumbed to intense pressure from athletes and
‘Super-spreaders’: COVID-19 myth or reality?
PARIS: Can a single COVID-19 patient infect dozens of others? A variety of factors can lead to an individual infecting many. The concept of so-called “super-spreaders” – patients who typically infect far more people than the standard transmission rates – emerged in previous outbreaks of diseases such as Sars and Mers. Advertisement Advertisement Amesh Adalja, an expert in