In recent decades, the use of air conditioning has expanded enormously, which has led to a significant increase in energy consumption.
According to an article published in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from the University of Stanford (USA) has created a new material that can alleviate the problem. It is thinner than an aluminum foil and performs two functions: on the one hand it sends the heat in a room into space as infrared radiation and on the other it reflects the rays that come from the sun. In this way, in the room below the roof where the plate is located, a temperature drop of five degrees can be obtained.
In the local library, I participate in an open space around technology. The other day there were two women who wanted to learn how to use the Arduino plate to create a robotics project for children, one a programmer, the other a cheerleader like me. The three of us set off. I... [+]
At the moment, and up to the head, a huge exhibition on Artificial Intelligence is on display at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, with the title: The world according to Artificial Intelligence. This exhibition presents a series of contemporary works of art, among... [+]
Last week, during the blackout, seeing ourselves vulnerable, we began to investigate many people in order to understand what happened: how does the infrastructure that transports electricity work? Why is it getting old? I am fascinated by the physical phenomenon of electricity... [+]
Automatizazioaren eta abereen inguruan kuxkuxeatzen ari nintzela, ukuilu automatizatuen informazioa hasi naiz eskuratzen. Nire idazmahaiaren erosotasunetik idazten, gizakion kontsumorako modu masiboan esplotatzen ditugun abereen bizitzak nahiko penagarriak direla iruditzen zait,... [+]
Last week I had a nice meeting with a group of women that I hadn’t seen for a long time, and we talked about doing it, linked to spaces of technology and creation.
The oldest of these women, who is on the frontier of retirement, is a programmer and enjoys programming code... [+]
Economists love the charts that represent the behaviors of the markets, which are curves. I was struck by the analogy of author Cory Doctorow in the article “The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers” on the Pluralistic website. He researches the... [+]