Declining Global Birth Rates

The Surprising Implications Of Declining Global Birth Rates

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the Institute for Family Studies published research saying that U.S. birth rates have fallen to all-time lows. And it wasn’t just in the U.S. birth rates were declining worldwide and this was pre-pandemic. So, with all the people staying home with nothing to do during the pandemic there was a massive increase in births right? No, not really. Research from the World Economic forum expects 23 countries to lose half their population by 2100 including Spain, Portugal, and Thailand.

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Entity Extraction

What is Entity Extraction and Why Should You Care?

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Entity extraction, aka. “entity recognition”, allows computer systems to grab chunks of data from documents and enter them into separate fields in a database. For instance, they can sort through emails, webpages, or even massive WikiLeaks documents and find names, places, addresses, phone numbers, or key phrases and sort them into useful databases.

Entity extraction uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to find mentions of specific data and turn them into structured data. How this data is used can be either “good” or “bad,” depending on your frame of reference. Government agencies can use it to sort through massive quantities of data to track down terrorists. Advertisers can use it to target you with ads that you might be interested in and not show you advertisements that are just a waste of your time. And thieves and scammers can use it to find potential targets.

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Alternative House Building Methods

Remarkably Quick And Easy Alternative House Building Methods

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There are a variety of new construction methods that are just coming into their own and each has its own advantages and disadvantages but they also have a variety of advantages over conventional “stick-built” houses. One thing that keeps us building the old way is simply that so many builders are familiar with the old methods. As more customers demand these new systems, and more builders use the new systems, they will begin to gain momentum and we will see a greater percentage of non-traditional houses.

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Blockchain’s Role In Stopping Money Remittance Operations Scams

How Blockchain’s Unique Innovations Can Prevent Money Remittance Scams

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 It’s not uncommon to hear the stories of vulnerable people falling for online scams. You’ve also probably had an email telling you that you’ve won the lottery in another country when you’ve never applied. And, of course, there is the legendary Nigerian Prince scam. On the surface, these scams sound amateurish, but these operations are much more complex than you might think with large-scale cooperation. There were 2.2 million reports of fraud in the United States in 2020. The actual number is likely to be much higher, but some people are too embarrassed to admit scammers tricked them. Money remittance operations are particularly at risk because the differences between financial systems between countries leave space for malicious actors to manipulate.

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Are 3D Printed Houses The Trend Of The Future

Are 3D Printed Houses the Trend of the Future?

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Imagine being able to build all the walls of a whole house in just 12 hours! That is exactly what 3-D printed houses are promising. The house’s 3D printer process uses concrete in the construction which has many long-term benefits, including strength, and durability in addition to the rapid construction process. Walls are typically two or three layers thick with airspace in between which is then filled with an insulating material making the houses airtight, energy-efficient, and strong.

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Social Media

Will 2022 Be the Year of Massive Social Media Upheaval?

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Social Media has come a long way since the early days of Facebook and Twitter. But recent years saw some cracks developing in their monopoly on the Social Media scene. The fact that Twitter could censor the words of a sitting President offended First Amendment advocates who in turn tried to form alternatives like the Social Media platform Parler. However, because of the wide reach of established hosting platforms, they soon realized that what they thought they owned was really just rented, and their landlords at  Apple Cloud communications company Twilio could simply terminate service to Parler.

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The Future of the Metaverse

Metaverse vs. Multiverse- What are They? And Where are They Leading?

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What Exactly is the Metaverse?

In October 2021, Facebook changed its parent company name to “Meta” to align the company with its ambitions to build the “metaverse.” NASDAQ.com believes that this rebranding will help boost the price of its stock in the same way that its name change to Alphabet boosted Google. By changing its name many believe that Facebook is signaling a change in corporate direction from a simple social media platform to a ‘meta-universe company’ i.e. one that combines virtual experiences with reality.

Is “metaverse” just the newest “Buzzword” or is “The Metaverse” like trying to explain the “The Internet” to someone in the 1970s? If you talk to CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg the metaverse is the future of the internet. But is this just hype or is it the fruition of the Sci-Fi dream of virtual reality and everything running via computers and holograms?

The term “metaverse” is said to have been coined back in 1992 by Sci-Fi author Neal Stephenson in his novel, “Snow Crash.” The idea was that virtual people aka. “Avatars” travel through imaginary worlds living out their dreams. In the book, Snow Crash Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., in real life but in the Metaverse, he’s a warrior prince. By 2009, the idea of “avatars” was firmly embedded in the culture, and the movie Avatar had literal humans traveling to distant planets where they would virtually inhabit alternative bodies.

What are the implications of a shift toward the metaverse?

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Cancer Cells

Curing Cancer with T-Cells

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Up until recently, cancer treatment has focused on bombarding the cancer cells with toxic chemicals or harmful radiation. This puts surrounding cells and even the entire body under stress to repair the damage caused by these stressors. But what if the body’s own natural defense system could be educated to target specific cancer cells and then enhanced and supplemented to be able to fight the cancer cells? That is exactly what the new called chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy does.

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