Engineers
The AfroTech Conference 2018 took place in San Francisco, where techies, founders, engineers, and entrepreneurs gathered to exchange ideas and network. AfroTech was sponsored in part by Oath, HuffPost’s parent company.
Students at John Hopkins University are the first to develop a prosthetic foot that can adapt to heels up to four inches high.
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
I'd spent the past couple days gorilla trekking in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. This afternoon, I decided to go wandering around Kanungu instead. I walked down through a valley, and across the Munyanga River towards the forest.
We do not treat engineers very nicely -- at least not those who are federal employees or contractors. The very politicians who lead in exhorting our young to become engineers are those who treat engineers as disposable workers
For Robinhood founders Baiju Bhatt and Vladimir Tenev, the 2008 financial crisis, followed by the Occupy Wall Street movement, were a source of inspiration to create Robinhood, a mobile first zero-commission stock brokerage app.
We will always need talented engineers and scientists. But our future rests on how successful we are in getting technology and humans to interact in ways that benefit our planet and everyone who lives on it.