All IoT systems, whether covering a household, industrial facility or smart farm complex, consist of four main components – sensors/devices, connection, data processing, and a user interface. Lets look at how IoT systems work and what each of its pieces entails. How an IoT System Actually Works As you can see from the previous chapter, […]
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In December 2019, Covid-19 took the world by storm as it rampaged across the earth. Originating from Wuhan, China, the virus damaged life as we knew it. It hindered the economy across all sectors, notably the medical field, from supply shortages to patient care quality declining. The pandemic fallout centered mainly around the medical sector […]
Many believe Metaverse is the next big thing after the invention of the internet itself in terms of impact and technological disruption. Still, many think the Metaverse will fail even before it takes off, and their views are not entirely unfounded. After using Second Life, Roblox, Fortnite, Minecraft, Horizon Worlds, VRChat, etc., many found that […]
Google is coming into the AI-image generator space, and its coming in storm. Google is releasing its text-to-image AI algorithms with utmost caution. Google hasn’t made the system accessible to the general public, despite the fact that the company’s Imagen model generates results comparable – if not surpassing – in quality to OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 […]
Founded in 1976, Acer is a Taiwanese multinational corporation that generally deals with hardware and electronics, specifically advanced electronics technology. Its products are known to be durable, withstanding the test of time and human handling. Back in early October 2022, Acer released its new Acer Swift Edge. They designed it to be the perfect device […]
Released as open-source software in 2009, Bitcoin was the first decentralized cryptocurrency and became the largest by market cap. But the concept of digital asset mining was proposed 27 years before this, in 1983. Today, there exists over 12,000 cryptocurrencies, and some companies accept them as valid payment methods, such as big tech giant, Apple […]
In a move that could set back China’s tech ambitions by as much as a decade, U.S President Joe Biden is chipping away at the China chip industry. This move aims to stifle Beijing’s tech and military ambitions. The actions are intended to stop China from receiving essential technology that may be used in a […]
Play-to-Earn (P2E) crypto games have emerged as a new way for people to get paid for participating in virtual spaces in what can be considered an engagement economy in the playing space, leading to a whole new dimension of economic activity on the web. This activity brought by the P2E model manifests in a new […]
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced the launch of a Lord of the Rings NFT, nicknamed Non Fungible Tolkien by the public. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a three-part epic fantasy adventure film series. Peter Jackson, the director of LOTR, based these masterpieces on the book series of the same name written by […]
Based in the U.K, OnlyFans is an internet content subscription service launched in 2016. It has the same premises as Patreon but with fewer restrictions. While Patreon only allows art nudity without touching oneself or others, OnlyFans is lenient with an everything-goes mentality within reason. Subsequently, the service has been used chiefly by sex workers […]