Artificial intelligence should primarily help people, but it can also be helpful for animals, as a new research project shows. Up to one million animal and plant species worldwide are threatened with extinction. Whether in the seas, rivers and lakes or on land, biodiversity is declining everywhere. It is estimated that the extinction of species
A financial services company from the USA has developed a new system. This system uses artificial intelligence to predict cryptographic market trends and is intended to contribute to the company's trading activities. The company has applied for a patent to protect the intellectual property of the new solution. The data will be delivered to four
A pilot project will test how trucks can automatically carry out payment processes at the petrol pump. The basis of the whole project is the Blockchain technology. Daimler Trucks has been working for some time now to enable trucks to communicate independently with other machines and also to process transactions such as payment procedures. To
Many people use plastic products because they are practical, versatile and colourful. Nevertheless, plastic is also harmful to the environment and health. In the morning we pack our breakfast in a plastic box, in the afternoon we transport our food from the snack bar home in it. We wear it on our body, it keeps
In 2007 a brewery was founded in Scotland, which is not only CO2-neutral, but even CO2-negative. This means that more carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere than is emitted. In the case of the brewery, the value of CO2 removal is twice as high as its emissions. To achieve this, the company has initiated
A study by Greenpeace shows how valuable home offices are for environmental protection. It would eliminate around 5.4 million tonnes of CO2 per year, which corresponds to 0.6% of annual C02 emissions in Germany. The prerequisite for this is that 40% of employees in Germany work from home permanently two days a week. In 2018,
In recent months, the financial markets have been able to achieve phenomenal returns. Especially the crypto-currencies could profit from this, sometimes even doubled in value. The main reason for this is probably the central banks' loose monetary policy. The rising money supply is expected to boost inflation, while more and more investors are looking for
It is well known that there is only a limited number of Bitcoins. Since the invention, it has been established that a maximum of 21 million Bitcoins can be mined. In order to avoid generating vast quantities of Bitcoin, a kind of control mechanism - halving - has been integrated into the invention of the
The man-made climate crisis will become a climate catastrophe if we do not drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Extreme weather events such as storms, heat and drought are already increasing rapidly. Energy generation is the number one source of CO2 emissions in Germany. Thanks to our latest innovation, this will soon be a thing of
Blockchain technology is now used for much more than just Bitcoin & Co. The basic characteristic behind it is to write data forever in blocks and thus make it freely accessible to everyone. The technology is particularly useful for supply chain verification and for the authenticity of the data. In the pharmaceutical industry, too, the
