Over the past week, FaceApp has taken the internet by storm and people can’t get enough of it. It is a mobile application for iOS and Android developed by Russian company Wireless Lab. Neural network technology is used here to automatically generate highly realistic transformations of faces in photographs. The app can transform a face to make it smile, look younger, look older, or change...
Read More
Anas Abou Allaban was one of the participants of Muslim Hacks, an event that took place at California. At this event participants share their technological ideas and solutions to build products for people practicing Islam. Allaban is an electrical and computer engineering student, Northeastern University was fascinated by a hack which used speech recognition tool that helps Muslims to recite their prayers. In order to keep...
Read More
You get your food, all tasty and warm, right at your doorstep, thanks to those food delivery apps. However, it is a real pain when you have to go out to purchase other things, especially when you have some other pressing matters to attend to. Yoshua Rozen thought so too, and hence, PartRunner was born. Rozen is a Northeastern University graduate and the startup ‘PartRunner’ is...
Read More
Molly Beck, a graduate from the Northeastern University, has come up with a new idea about podcasts that gathered more attention as it leaped a different level than ever. Beck who completed her finance and entrepreneurship degrees from Northeastern University in 2009 says, “If I were graduating today, I wouldn’t start a blog” And she ended up saying, “I would start a podcast”. As a result, she launched...
Read More
When Athletes suffer through a serious injury, they often take rest, rejuvenating themselves so that they can enter the game again, fit and healthy. But this is not the case for Lucas Espada. He was the best high school goalkeeper in East Brunswick, New Jersey when he suffered a broken left ankle. However, he didn’t let it stop him, turning his misery into a beautiful...
Read More
As the world became more connected and a closer place, it also became a more vulnerable place. Today a very large portion of population have access to the internet and the small percentage of people who don’t have any access to the internet, chances are their data is somehow present on the internet, via their bank information, SAT scores, their social security number, the sim card details...
Read More
It was 2 am, and as usual I was half attentively scrolling on Instagram when I clicked on a post about not sleeping at night and just wasting time on social media and an ad popped up from IKEA that said it's late you should sleep, is your mattress not comfortable enough? Come to IKEA we have a solution for your sleepless nights. Now it's good marketing on...
Read More
“Design is thinking made visual” Four graduates of the Northeastern University who studied architecture spend their days drawing up plans and contemplating functionality and aesthetics for smartphones, software, and blockchain platforms. Their company, Neuron, specializes in improving how users interact with digital products and services. Most companies of this forte rely on the work of graphic designers and web developers, but the founders of this start-up...
Read More
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest...
Read More