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Often, the smartest technologies are those that distil a problem down to its bread and butter components in order to disseminate a solution to the masses. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Technology

Simplified: Smartest technologies distil a problem down to its bread and butter components in order to disseminate a solution to the masses

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7 months ago
The real pioneering technologies of today are genuinely useful systems I like to call “frugal tech”, and they are brought to life not by eccentric billionaires but by people doing more with less. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology

Simplified: Real pioneering technologies are genuinely useful systems called frugal tech brought to life by people doing more with less

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7 months ago
Manufacturers from Ghana and Wales to Chile and Australia are all using OpenFlexure’s designs to give people everywhere access to low-source microscopy. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Health , Technology

Simplified: Manufacturers from Ghana and Wales to Chile and Australia are all using OpenFlexure’s designs to give people everywhere access to low-source microscop...

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7 months ago
Innovation is always “investment-driven, shiny, lab-born, experimental, exciting”. 0.900

👤 Ursula Franklin 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology

Simplified: Innovation is always investment-driven shiny lab-born experimental exciting

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7 months ago
So while big tech poured hundreds of millions into watering down the EU AI Act, good tech lobbies for better internet provisions for all. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology , Policy

Simplified: Big tech poured hundreds of millions into watering down the EU AI Act good tech lobbies for better internet provisions for all

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7 months ago
They don’t impose top-down “solutions” that seem to complicate our lives while making a few people very rich. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology , Social Impact

Simplified: Frugal tech does not impose top-down solutions that complicate lives while making a few people rich

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7 months ago
This one is lightweight, costs next to nothing and is open source, meaning that anyone can reproduce the design by 3D printing parts and cobbling them together with shop-bought motors and circuit boar... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology , Finance

Simplified: Microscope is lightweight costs next to nothing and is open source meaning that anyone can reproduce the design by 3D printing parts and cobbling them...

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7 months ago
In the Niger Delta, which suffers from toxic levels of air pollution from its oil industry, APC is setting up connections and deploying low-cost sensors that monitor the environment. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology , Environment

Simplified: APC is setting up connections and deploying low-cost sensors that monitor the environment in the Niger Delta which suffers from toxic levels of air po...

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7 months ago
That’s why some of today’s most brilliant minds are working out how to manage the trade-off between internet range and bandwidth, and whether there are obstacles in the way such as mountains and folia... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology

Simplified: Some of today’s most brilliant minds are working out how to manage the trade-off between internet range and bandwidth and whether there are obstacles...

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7 months ago
As I ask my students, if you could develop an AI at your own home, and programme it to reflect your values and prioritise your safety, wouldn’t you trust it more? 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology

Simplified: Develop an AI at your own home and programme it to reflect your values and prioritise your safety you would trust it more

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7 months ago
These technologies are the basis of the local community networks that supply coverage to the 2.5 billion people globally who lack internet access. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology , Infrastructure

Simplified: Technologies are the basis of local community networks that supply coverage to 2.5 billion people globally who lack internet access

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7 months ago
More often than not, in the real world, it is “needs-driven, scrappy, on location, iterative, practical, mundane”. 0.900

👤 Ursula Franklin 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology

Simplified: Innovation is needs-driven scrappy on location iterative practical mundane in the real world

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7 months ago
Tech bros may want you to believe there is no point in making something new unless it is difficult, inaccessible and exclusionary. 0.850

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Technology

Simplified: Tech bros may want you to believe there is no point in making something new unless it is difficult inaccessible and exclusionary

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7 months ago
Policy and innovation go hand in hand, meaning that the consequences of good technology far exceed the technology itself, extending to governance and social welfare. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology , Policy , Social Impact

Simplified: Policy and innovation go hand in hand meaning that the consequences of good technology far exceed the technology itself extending to governance and so...

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7 months ago
By demonstrating that fast internet could be connected with fibre-optic cable, a digger and the desire to just get on and do it, she spawned an organisation called B4RN, which promotes community fibre... 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Technology , Internet

Simplified: She spawned B4RN by demonstrating fast internet could be connected with fibre-optic cable a digger and the desire to just get on and do it B4RN promot...

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7 months ago
The new digital divide is the gap between the top end of the global population – who have access to these power-intensive technologies – and those at the bottom, whose internet access, or lack of, rem... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology , Social Impact

Simplified: New digital divide is the gap between the top end of the global population who have access to power-intensive technologies and those at the bottom who...

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7 months ago
There’s a common misconception that state-of-the-art technology has to be expensive, energy consumptive and hard to engineer. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology

Simplified: State-of-the-art technology has to be expensive energy consumptive and hard to engineer

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7 months ago
What is actually prolific and relevant to the majority are low-cost technologies that solve day-to-day business and social problems. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology , Social Impact

Simplified: Low-cost technologies that solve day-to-day business and social problems are prolific and relevant to the majority

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7 months ago
The fact is, while generative AI is lauded as the technology of the minute, iterations such as Dall-E 3, Google Gemini and GPT are irrelevant to those who don’t have enough internet bandwidth to use t... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Technology

Simplified: Generative AI iterations such as Dall-E 3 Google Gemini and GPT are irrelevant to those who do not have enough internet bandwidth to use them

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7 months ago
Many young Haredim use “kosher phones” similar to the old flip-tops, but some also secretly keep smartphones, which have given them access to the outside world and, particularly, to secular Israel, wh... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Technology , Religion

Simplified: Many young Haredim use kosher phones but some secretly keep smartphones

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7 months ago