Asia Technology

AI narration mimics audiobook authors

Sogou, a search engine company headquartered in Beijing, China, has announced that it is developing an AI algorithm, which will recreate the voices of authors for their audiobooks.  To successfully mimic the voice of the author, the AI is loaded with previous video and audio recordings of the author speaking. Then the algorithm runs and […]

Asia Science

Empowering China with 5G technology

China started the five-year plan on implementing 5G technology from 2015 to 2020. According to the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), eight (8) million new jobs are set by 2030.  It was also released that China spent a total of nine hundred billion US dollars ($900 billion) so far which exceeded the […]

Science

Newton is wrong about gravity – scientists believe

The new study proclaims that Newton’s law of gravity isn’t right during the black hole research. Scientists began to turn their heads towards Einstein’s general theory of relativity and speculated that his theory would also be deemed wrong as Newton did.  The study was co-led by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Professor Andrea […]

Science

Tardigrades: First life to survive on the moon?

Scientists speculated that the minuscule hard creatures called tardigrades may be the first life to survive in the barren surface of the moon. To this day, experts have been keeping tabs on how these beings walk on their own. Nova Spivack, the co-founder and chairman of Arch Mission Foundation, speculated that tardigrades have “extremely high” […]

Science

NASA opens space exploration mission for students

NASA poses a challenge for the students to be part of the space exploration for the upcoming mission which aims to set humans to the moon in 2024. To participate, students from graduate and bachelor’s program have to submit proposals for the new competition called the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concept – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL). The […]

Nonprofits

3 communities foster STEM learning

Inspiring communities begin to spring up to foster learning for STEM girls in their latent and creative capabilities in spite of the alarming increase of the gender workforce gap. Within the science and engineering (S&E) labor force, it used to be so tough for women to break into the field because of the lack of […]

Innovation

The impact of personalized learning in study reforms

The term “personalized learning” has become widespread and notably made an impact in study communities with the works of technology. In fact, school improvement programs in 39 states have stated on how they would implement on making learning personal and self-paced in accordance in former President Obama’s US law called Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) […]

Europe Innovation

How women aim to be pioneers in EdTech revolution

Department for Education (DfE) revealed the plan for building “the best EdTech ecosystem in the world” by implementing the new strategy. UK economy has estimated that the edtech exports have a £170 million value in developing future learning technologies in the face of tightening school budgets.  Daphne Koller, the online study space creator of Coursera, […]