Cerebral Social Network

The first cerebral social network  -three people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads- Another common sci-fi scenario has just left the room. BrainNet, created by researchers at the University of Washington, is a first of a kind. Participants in this brain-to-brain communication network are able to communicate with each other only using their thoughts. Although at…

Facial UNrecognition! “Keep your cameras off my face!”

Not everyone wants to be facially recognized.  We sympathize with those who feel that facial recognition has the look and feel of invasion of privacy. If China is monitoring jaywalking with facial recognition cameras, and Germany is loading passengers with facial boarding passes, and many US companies are using facial recognition for monitoring employee attendance,…

Travel Languages

Machine Translation of Chinese to English from Microsoft For me, one of the more enjoyable aspects of traveling in Belarus is that of the language. While a high percentage of the people there speak the national language of Belarussian, even more speak Russian. I am not fluent in Russian, but can obtain food and lodging,…