The ancient Romans had many public flush toilets, which emptied into an extensive sewage system. The primary sewer in Rome was the Cloaca Maxima; construction began on it in the sixth century BCE and it is still in use today. The oldest known constructed roadways are the stone-paved streets of Continue Reading
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By working on a faculty-guided research project, Pannullo has gained hands-on research experience to pursue a future in regenerative medicine. Gordon started Optic Sky, an animation company, after graduating from RIT with a degree in film. He helps develop new talent by inviting RIT students to work on his production Continue Reading
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Artificial intelligence technology’s impact on society is widely debated. Many argue that AI improves the quality of everyday life by doing routine and even complicated tasks better than humans can, making life simpler, safer, and more efficient. Others argue AI poses dangerous privacy risks, exacerbates racism by standardizing people, and Continue Reading
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They are widely used in medicine, science, industry, communication, transportation, and daily life. Technologies include physical objects like utensils or machines, as well as intangible tools like software. The Hanlon Laboratory for Financial Analytics and Data Visualization puts cutting-edge data visualization, collaboration and presentation tools in the hands of students. Continue Reading
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Organized efforts to search for extraterrestrial intelligence have used radio telescopes to detect signs of technology use, or technosignatures, given off by alien civilizations. In medicine, new technologies were developed for diagnosis , treatment , and research . The Neolithic Revolution brought about an acceleration of technological innovation, and a Continue Reading
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The WIRED conversation illuminates how technology is changing every aspect of our lives—from culture to business, science to design. The breakthroughs and innovations that we uncover lead to new ways of thinking, new connections, and new industries. RIT is one of the top universities in the nation working at the Continue Reading
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By training designers to create and develop more accessible websites and mobile networks, a wider audience can connect to and benefit from these technologies. She’s a professional ballet dancer and a humanitarian who spends her free time volunteering at a children’s home in Haiti. Duffy created a degree program in Continue Reading
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Notable cyberpunk works include William Gibson’s Neuromancer novel, and movies like Blade Runner, and The Matrix. The use of basic technology is also a feature of non-human animal species. Tool use was once considered a defining characteristic of the genus Homo. This view was supplanted after discovering evidence of tool Continue Reading
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Archaeologists estimate that the wheel was invented independently and concurrently in Mesopotamia (in present-day Iraq), the Northern Caucasus , and Central Europe. Time estimates range from 5,500 to 3,000 BCE with most experts putting it closer to 4,000 BCE. The oldest artifacts with drawings depicting wheeled carts date from about Continue Reading
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NEW ORLEANS — Drought upriver has left the Mississippi River so low and slow that salt water is creeping farther than usual along the bottom toward New Orleans and threatening drinking water, the Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday. TOKYO — Japan is providing a major U.S. chipmaker a subsidy Continue Reading