fun facts
German soccer team socially distances during match, loses 37-0
“Holdenstedt showed no mercy and scored a goal nearly every two minutes, as their opposition … watched on from a safe distance.” | learn more
Tag: Germany
to your health
Dogs trained to detect COVID-19 in saliva samples
“Researchers in Germany have trained dogs to detect COVID-19 infections from saliva samples. After only one week of training, the dogs were able to detect the presence of the infection with a 94% accuracy rate.” | learn more
fun facts
Covid-19 superspreading events database
“Superspreading Events (SSEs) are events where multiple people —a minimum of 5, for example — get infected with the novel coronavirus.” Highlight: 220 people in Germany sick after, “4-hour-event. Live music, ritualized kissing.” This is a database of information about […]
under the microscope
Tattoos that work as sensors to track blood pH, glucose, and more
Imagine a world where health diagnostics were color-coded and visible on your skin. “A team of scientists in Germany have developed permanent dermal sensors that can be applied as artistic tattoos.” | learn more
tech, startups, internet
Richard Branson wants someone to disrupt air conditioning.
“It represents a 100 billion dollar market today, and is set to grow to nearly four times that size by 2050. It is based on a technology that has not fundamentally changed since its invention (or rather, accidental discovery) over […]
under the microscope
New AI tool has ingested almost every chemical reaction ever.
“The new AI tool, developed by Marwin Segler, an organic chemist and artificial-intelligence researcher at the University of Münster in Germany, and his colleagues, uses deep-learning neural networks to imbibe essentially all known single-step organic-chemistry reactions — about 12.4 million […]
big ideas
Power prices go negative in Germany.
After decades of investment into renewable energy sources like wind and solar, the energy produced is having unexpected consequences. Energy prices are actually going negative at times because at times there’s more supply than demand. The missing link in grids […]
thoughts of food
HelloFresh to IPO, despite Blue Apron’s rough start.
Blue Apron hasn’t had the best go of their public market debut. Despite that, HelloFresh plans to go public in Germany soon. Crunchbase tries to explain why. |learn more
under the microscope
Homo sapiens are older than we thought.
“‘We used to think that there was a cradle of mankind 200,000 years ago in east Africa, but our new data reveal that Homo sapiens spread across the entire African continent around 300,000 years ago,’ palaeoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin of Germany’s […]
retail therapy
Germany’s Otto uses AI to order inventory.
Managing inventory efficiently is a challenge that each retailer (and wholesaler) must figure out how to work through. Managing a broad assortment of inventory gets really hard for a team of humans. Otto has applied AI to automatically order over […]