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GPS In Trouble: No Backup Plan Ready to Step in if GPS Fails

By Dick Weisinger

For those of us who are location challenged, GPS navigation over the last twenty years has been life-altering. With GPS navigation apps and devices there is no need to consult maps or wrack our brain to try to remember landmarks…

Global Devices: Increasing Number of Productivity Devices

By Dick Weisinger

It’s not just the number of IoT devices that’s sky-rocketing, the number of devices that connect humans to the internet is steadily rising, especially during the pandemic over the past 18 months. A report by Gartner found that the number…

Digital Twins: Simulating the Earth to Improve Prediction of Climate Change and Natural Disasters

By Dick Weisinger

Digital Twins are highly accurate computer simulations that make it possible to test and model objects without needing to disturb or interact with the real object being simulated. Digital twins are useful for building new products or testing existing ones…

Reshoring Semiconductors: Reimagining the North American Chip Industry

By Dick Weisinger

Faced with an increasingly aggressive campaign by China to drive the direction of the semiconductor production, politicians and industry groups are pushing for greater investment in the domestic chip manufacturing sector. Semiconductors are expensive to manufacture and require huge initial…

Nanobionics: Bio-hacking Plants to Make Environmental Sensors

By Dick Weisinger

Scientists are discovering that plants are smarter than we’ve given them credit for. Research has found that plants are able to communicate among themselves and sense and respond to their environment. Plants have been found to work together to try…