Bracha Halperin is a business consultant based in new York City. To comment on her Jewish Press-exclusive tech columns -- or to reach her for any other purpose -- e-mail her at brachahalperin@hotmail.com. You can also follow her on Instagram or Twitter at: @brachahalperin.
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As the population keeps growing, finding new sources of food will become essential. We need food that is healthy, nutritional, and tasty – and for that, you need tech.
We also avoid all the animal welfare issues associated with intensive farming practices and factory farming, as we produce meat without harming any animals.
Unfortunately, the battery-free pacemaker is not ready to be used on humans just yet.
According to a 2017 study by the Royal Society for Public Health in the UK, Instagram is the worst social media app for young people’s mental health, followed closely by Snapchat.
For the future of VR, I expect prices to continue dropping and consumers to adopt products at home.
For example, with VR, students in Central Africa can explore the Eiffel Tower in France and pre-med students can interact with a life-size body.
The culprit can also be lack of time or a lack of experience necessary to create an initial comprehensive and accurate software plan.
If my own family couldn’t keep track of each other’s diets, I realized that restaurants and food brands must have a much more difficult time keeping up with food trends.
Users employ a web-based augmented reality interface to remotely control a PR2 robot. The robot is controlled through eye tracking and head tracking.
Will Sana’s pain relieving mask become a mainstay in the healthcare industry or a passing phenomenon? Only time will tell.
Some of the apps on this list have already gained prominence in the mainstream Jewish world. Others are still relatively new.
Some of the apps on this list have already gained prominence in the mainstream Jewish world. Others are still relatively new.
Social media has given people – including congressional and presidential candidates – an unfiltered platform, and no one has perhaps utilized it quite as effectively as President Trump.
HoloLens 2 is geared for enterprising customers. As such, Microsoft is allowing companies to customize their HoloLens to suit their industry and workers before purchase.
With this new array of different yet similar phones, Samsung fans might be wondering which one is best to order.
The brain is not designed to accurately reveal its unconscious emotional state.
Previously, owning a pair of sneakers required little to no maintenance. Smart sneakers, however, need to be charged.
First off, merging user information from WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger will make Facebook even better at targeting ads – and a significant portion of Facebook’s revenue comes from ads.
Even if regulations do “catch up” to recent technological innovations, technology as a whole is evolving at a rate that arguably exceeds the human ability to adapt.
Why, for example, do Americans seem hesitant to embrace drones? Is it fear of technology eliminating jobs? Is it concern about privacy breaches?
Researchers are hoping this AI tool can significantly improve cancer patients' quality of life.
It goes without saying that the augmented and virtual reality effects of the zSpace laptop are ground-breaking.
Shabbulbs are about 40 watts – sufficient for reading, but if you wish to light up a larger room, you probably need several bulbs to. Shabbulb is also multi-voltage (110V-240V).
It took us a while to figure out that the things she was watching, while appropriate, were too complex for her to handle and subconsciously weighed down on her.
Once programmed, the RNS System monitors a patient’s brainwaves and is ready to provide treatment whenever it detects unusual activity that can lead to a seizure, even if the patient is sleeping.
Some experts say it’ll be around 20 times faster than LTE and download speeds of 1GBps will become the norm.
I’m a small business owner and I’m just so overwhelmed by the number of programs/applications available for small business owners.
The robots will not deliver mail directly to each customer’s home. Rather, they will send customers notifications through an app.
Unlike those of previous studies, Courtine’s stimulations only targeted the precise location of the movement.
In addition to having an Infinity Flex Display, the Galaxy X allows up to three apps to run simultaneously – a multi-tasker’s dream!
It’s not just humans who are biased. Apparently, computer algorithms are too. That's why IBM recently unveiled AI Fairness 360 (AIF360) – an artificial intelligence tool aimed at detecting bias in algorithms. AI Fairness 360 analyzes algorithms’ decisions and – more importantly – the reasoning behind them. It checks for unwanted bias in machine learning […]
When posting a selfie, a shimmer of hearts floats across the screen and the user is encouraged to tag a friend to spread kindness.
The Pixel 3’s most notable and impressive features lie in the phone’s use of AI (artificial intelligence).
The Portal already has stiff competition from Google Home and Amazon Echo, although its video-calling technology gives it a unique twist to help differentiate it from other smart speaker devices.



