July 2020 – Antonio Blog

In Their Own Words: How The Americans With Disabilities Act Changed People’s Lives

Judy Heumann I was born in 1947. And in 1949, there was another polio epidemic and I had polio. When I was 5 years old, my mother took me to…

Antonio Vieira Santos July 30, 2020

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The Valuable 500: Over a Third of Companies Pledge to Accelerate Disability Inclusion in the Wake of COVID-19

LONDON, July 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The Valuable 500 – the global movement working to get 500 of the world's largest businesses to commit to placing disability inclusion on their business…

Antonio Vieira Santos July 28, 2020

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There’s a lot of ignorance regarding people with disabilities.

This ignorance, this lack of information promotes negative stereotypes. Interview with Lorena Julio, human rights advocate and Co-Founder of Comparlante. https://player.vimeo.com/video/441613127 #AXSChat Interview with Lorena Julio Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh…

Antonio Vieira Santos July 27, 2020

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Here’s how artificial intelligence designers take cues from neuroscience to build machines that learn more like humans.

Yann LeCun, the chief AI scientist at Facebook, helped develop the deep learning algorithms that power many artificial intelligence systems today.

Antonio Vieira Santos July 23, 2020

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Humans arrived in North America at least 15,000 years earlier than we thought, discoveries show — which suggests they came by boat

Mads Thomsen Archaeologists have long debated when and how the first people made it to North America from Asia. Researchers previously thought early humans crossed the Bering land bridge from…

Antonio Vieira Santos July 22, 2020

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World’s most sustainable furniture factory proposed for Norway

Bjarke Ingels Group has unveiled the design for The Plus, a furniture factory for Norwegian urban furniture manufacturer Vestre. The project is expected to become the most sustainable of its kind in the world.

Antonio Vieira Santos July 20, 2020

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New hydrogen production tech could reduce CO2 pollution

A recent publication in the journal Angewandte Chemie brings attention to an improved way of generating clean hydrogen. For many years, hydrogen production has proven costly to the environment, as industrial…

Antonio Vieira Santos July 20, 2020

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Cargo bike boom in Europe: Industry survey expects over 50 percent market growth in 2020

ICYMI: Today, the EU-funded CityChangerCargoBike project released key results of the first European Cargo Bike Industry Survey. These results are based on anonymised sales data provided by 38 cargo bike…

Antonio Vieira Santos July 18, 2020

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Cleaning the smart city during the pandemic and beyond

ICYMI: With the spotlight now on hygiene, I talk to Andrea Basilova, co-founder of Slovakian firm Sensoneo, about how smart waste management fits into the […] - via @akwyzhttp://dlvr.it/Rbr5yn

Antonio Vieira Santos July 17, 2020

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What’s behind the hype about Customer Data Platforms?

The global market for customer data platforms is expected to rise dramatically over the next few years. The CDP Institute pegged industry revenue for 2019 at $1 billion and it expects the sector to reach at least $1.3 billion in 2020.

Antonio Vieira Santos July 15, 2020