by Susan Keown | Aug 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
For UW News, new member Stefan Milne writes about the first underwater 3D-positioning app for smartwatches and similar devices, recently developed at the university. Instead of GPS, whose signals do not transmit far underwater, the technology uses the microphones and...
by Susan Keown | Aug 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
New member Stephanie Warren Drimmer just published a science book for kids, “Ultimate Book of the Future: Incredible, Ingenious, and Totally Real Tech That Will Change Life as You Know It.” For ages 8-12, the book covers the cutting-edge technologies that will build...
by Susan Keown | Aug 3, 2021 | ScienceWire
Bitcoin is responsible for 0.5% of all the electricity consumed in the world — but why? Clayton Aldern (@compatibilism), in a video for Grist, explains how blockchain works and why bitcoin’s blockchain implementation burns so much energy. He explores this...
by Susan Keown | Jun 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
COVID-19 forced courtrooms across the U.S. to carry out justice virtually. Eric Scigliano (@SeattleFlotsam) explores in The Atlantic how this change — which is here, to some extent, to stay — could have major impacts on how justice is served in this country. He...
by Mark Harris | Apr 21, 2021 | Past Events
Telling Stories: on culturally response Artificial Intelligence Member event (online) – March 18 2021 New technologies often export the assumptions, experiences, and values of their developers, assumptions that do not always carry over to different world views....