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Innovating with Yesterday’s Inventions: Repurposing Drugs for New Indications

Innovating with Yesterday’s Inventions: Repurposing Drugs for New Indications

Pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) has skyrocketed in recent years and is projected to reach even greater levels in the future. The total R&D spending has increased by 33 billion USD from 2005 to 2015 and is projected to rise by an additional 19 billion USD by 2020. Is there a way to cut these […]

Capitalizing on Tragedy? Redbubble.com Permits Sale of Humboldt Broncos Art

Capitalizing on Tragedy? Redbubble.com Permits Sale of Humboldt Broncos Art

At first glance, art-marketplace websites like Redbubble and Society6—which print original designs uploaded by users on various consumer products—seem like ideal platforms for an artist to make some extra cash. However, a recent piece of artwork honouring the Humboldt Broncos, uploaded to Redbubble by a non-artist, raises moral and copyright issues with the commercial validity […]

Risks in AI Over the Collection and Transmission of Data

Risks in AI Over the Collection and Transmission of Data

While the daily lives for us ordinary people are made more convenient and more pleasant by the application of various Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools – ranging from the widely known consumer products such as home assistant Siri and personal medical devices to other business applications of natural language processing or deep learning, we should gradually […]