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• As telcos go cloud-native with 5G, HPE sees opportunity from core to edge

  By akwyz on August 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In previous generations of cellular, HPE has largely focused its telco core network efforts on subscriber data management. But with 5G designed as a cloud-native network from core to edge, the company sees a much bigger opportunity that leverages its expertise… Read More ›

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

  By akwyz on July 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  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 school to register me. And that was the first time… Read More ›

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

  By akwyz on July 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  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 leadership agendas – recognises the 30th anniversary of Americans with Disabilities… Read More ›

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

  By akwyz on July 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  This ignorance, this lack of information promotes negative stereotypes. Interview with Lorena Julio, human rights advocate and Co-Founder of Comparlante. Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken. Lorena Julio is a human rights advocate with a Master in Compared Public… Read More ›

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

  By akwyz on July 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

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

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

  By akwyz on July 22, 2020 • ( 0 )

  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 Siberia to Canada 13,000 years ago. But artifacts discovered in… Read More ›

• World’s most sustainable furniture factory proposed for Norway

  By akwyz on July 20, 2020 • ( 0 )

  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.

• New hydrogen production tech could reduce CO2 pollution

  By akwyz on July 20, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  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 hydrogen production uses partial methane oxidation and fossil gasification. Currently, 95%… Read More ›

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

  By akwyz on July 18, 2020 • ( 0 )

  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 brands. After selling 17,800 cargo bikes in 2018 and 28,500… Read More ›

• Cleaning the smart city during the pandemic and beyond

  By akwyz on July 17, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  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