Tag: Imperial College London
Vodafone and Imperial College extend DreamLab app to tackle climate change
Vodafone Foundation and Imperial College London are extending their partnership to model the impact of climate change on cyclones and extreme weather using the DreamLab mobile phone app which already helps scientists with COVID-19 and cancer research. Building on their existing relationship, DreamLab will help researchers at Imperial College London to build the world’s largest…
Virtual reality may help ease chronic pain, study suggests
Virtual reality (VR) can help to ease someone’s sensitivity to pain, new research suggests. Scientists at Imperial College London found that people immersed in VR scenes of the Arctic reported reduced pain sensations compared with those not using the technology. The study suggests that immersion in VR can help disrupt some processes in the brain…
Scientists urge Government to back brain-computer technology
Britain’s leading scientists are calling on the Government to get ahead of other countries in ensuring ethical risks of using brain-computer technology are properly understood, along with suitable regulations. The Royal Society says a national investigation should be launched into neural interface technologies, which are devices placed on the outside or inside of the brain…
5 things we learned from Vodafone 5G launch
Yesterday Vodafone became the latest mobile operator to launch 5G in the UK, following EE's launch in May. Here are 5 things we learned from the launch... 5G isn't going to be that expensive - It may be that Vodafone is aggressively pricing its 5G packages in order to gain greater market share against frontrunner…
