Moving manufacturing from “far and cheap” to “local and smart” is the goal of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0). Feelit, one of many Israeli startups in the $90 billion international Industry 4.0 technology market, enables industrial equipment to communicate its maintenance needs in real time. Feelit uses ultrathin flexible stickers printed with nano-ink sensors, invented by the company’s nanotech-savvy co-founders. Affixed easily to any stationary or moving object — including valves, pumps or pipes — the sensors pick up on issues such as humidity, vibration, heat, pressure or micro-fractures that could impair performance and/or cause costly breakdowns and…
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A self-proclaimed prophet has been accused of fraud after claiming that England would win the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship (EURO 2020) finals against Italy. Some disgruntled fans are threatening to burn down his church after betting on his prediction. Emmanuel Badu Kobi, founder of Glorious Wave Church in the small town of Sakunono in Ghana is not new to controversy or public mockery. He is widely known for giving prophecies about the New Patriotic Party and National Democratic Congress that turned out to be false. But this time, he took it a step further. “Today, England will beat Italy.…
A 130-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise — the oldest resident at Vienna Zoo — has died after almost seven decades in the Austrian capital. The giant tortoise named Schurli, born on an island of the Aldabra Atoll in Seychelles died at the age of 130 on July 11. According to zoo authorities, Schurli was a huge piece of the Tiergarten Schonbrunn Zoo’s history and the oldest resident at the zoo where he spent 68 years of his life. “Schurli had lived with us since 1953. Many zoo visitors knew him for almost forever. His exact age was not known, but it…
Científicos alrededor del mundo terminaron de mapear el genoma humano completo en 2003. Hasta ahora, este ha sido el proyecto biológico colaborativo más grande del mundo. Pero hay otro sistema corporal humano cuya necesidad de mapear es crítica, especialmente en la era del COVID-19: el sistema inmunológico. Comprender cómo el cuerpo obtiene el mayor provecho de sus miles de millones de células inmunes conectadas para combatir enfermedades podría ser la clave de asegurar la futura salud de todos. Mapear el sistema inmunológico completo puede ayudar a explicar por qué la gente reacciona de diferente manera a los virus, al cáncer…
Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game has traditionally been where the top players of America’s national pastime became superstars. When baseball was at its peak, the midsummer classic was must-see TV as fans congregated around televisions on the second Tuesday in July to watch the legends of the game create a fan base that would embrace the game for generations. From “Hammerin” Hank Aaron to Ken Griffey Jr. the exploits of American-born baseball players were glorified in movies such as “The Natural” and “Field of Dreams.” However, in this new era of sports fandom, baseball in America is facing a crisis. Seasonal…
PENSACOLA, Fla. — From here far west in the Florida panhandle to Miami, some 700 miles away, hurricane cleanups are a regular part of life. With an average of a dozen hurricanes passing through each year, almost as normal is the sight of houses with roofs ripped off and blue tarpaulins flapping about. But that doesn’t scare the local residents away. “I love this area because the people are just different,” said Melvin Whitehurst, a gospel preacher at Pensacola’s Olive Manor Church of Christ who at the age of 80 has ridden out many hurricanes, speaking from the pulpit during a…
A father whose son was kidnapped 24 years ago spent much of the time since traveling 310,000 miles around China searching for him. He has finally been reunited with his lost boy. Guo Gangtang’s son vanished while sitting outside his home in Shandong in 1997, and like many children snatched by human traffickers, was sold to a family that wanted to adopt a child in Henan province. Thousands of children are taken in China every year. The Chinese government claims fewer than 10,000 children are kidnaped each year, but the U.S. State Department puts the number closer to twice that.…
This week, Ukrainian cops in Kiev were captured on video working to revive a two-year-old girl who nearly drowned in a swimming pool. The incident took place at a residence on Privitna Street in the Solomyanskyi district in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on July 11. The footage of the incident captured on an officer’s body-worn camera was shared on social media by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The girl fell in the swimming pool and her mother found her unconscious in the water. The mother immediately called the emergency services, fearing that her daughter might not survive. While…
Israeli neuroscientists trained a 50-year-old man, blind from birth, to recognize objects using a sensory substitution algorithm called EyeMusic. Developed by Prof. Amir Amedi, founding director of the Baruch Ivcher Institute for Brain, Cognition & Technology at IDC Herzliya, EyeMusic is an app and mini camera system that converts visual stimuli into “soundscapes” — sound units that convey information about geometric shapes. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of the man’s brain before and after he learned to recognize soundscapes revealed that neural circuits in his brain had formed “topographic maps,” previously thought incapable of forming after infancy. “The human brain is…
MUMBAI, India — Kriti Sanon’s upcoming film “Mimi” is set to arrive on July 30. The movie, which also features Pankaj Tripathi and Sai Tamhankar, will release on Netflix and Jio Cinema. Sanon took to Instagram to announce the release date and share a new poster of the film. Besides Sanon, the poster also features Tripathi and Tamhankar. “This July, the unexpected offer will change her LIFE! Delivering the #MimiTrailer in 3 days, #Tuesday! #NothingLikeWhatYoureExpecting! #Mimi releasing on 30th July on @officialjiocinema & @netflix_in (sic),” she wrote in the caption. The actor also shared another poster featuring her and the details of her upcoming movie. “This July, the…