Month: February 2021

SolidRun CuBox-M is a 2 inch i.MX8M mini PC with Android and Linux support

SolidRun’s new CuBox-M is a tiny computer stuffed into a cube-shaped box that measures 2″ x 2″ x 2″. The little is powered by either a dual-core or quad-core NXP i.MX8M ARM Cortex-A53 processor, features support for AI, machine…

SolidRun’s new CuBox-M is a tiny computer stuffed into a cube-shaped box that measures 2″ x 2″ x 2″. The little is powered by either a dual-core or quad-core NXP i.MX8M ARM Cortex-A53 processor, features support for AI, machine learning, and natural language processing, and support for Android or Linux. The CuBox-M has a starting price […]

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How Cubans make island Internet work for them

Cuba has been increasing Internet access, but the current digital divide grows, too.

Jaime Santos-Menéndez, a Havana-based documentary filmmaker, has a much different workflow than creatives in the United States.

Enlarge / Jaime Santos-Menéndez, a Havana-based documentary filmmaker, has a much different workflow than creatives in the United States. (credit: Cassandra Brooklyn)

As countless Cubans have proudly told me over the years, "Cubans invent." They use creative workarounds to get by in an environment with limited access to outside resources. Glass beer bottles are sawed off to become drinking glasses; helmets transform into flowerpots; shoestrings and bottle caps are affixed to doors as makeshift locks.

And with a growing need for online access to function in the modern world, Cubans have been inventing new ways to connect to the Internet, too.

Jaime Santos-Menéndez, a Havana-based documentary filmmaker, has often lacked the money to pay for Wi-Fi cards, and so, like most Cubans, he came up with a workaround. For years, Santos-Menéndez relied on his mother, a state-employed biochemist, to receive messages for him at her office via her government email account. Friends were instructed to email his mother's work account, she downloaded the messages to a USB drive, and she gave it all to Santos-Menéndez to view on his home computer. He would then respond to messages, load his outgoing emails onto the USB drive, and rely on his mother to send them from her office the next day.

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Gesetzentwurf beschlossen: Autonome Autos an der langen Leine

Die Bundesregierung will Deutschland eine Vorreiterrolle beim autonomen Fahren sichern. Doch internationale Regeln führen zu problematischen Vorgaben. Ein Bericht von Friedhelm Greis (Autonomes Fahren, Technologie)

Die Bundesregierung will Deutschland eine Vorreiterrolle beim autonomen Fahren sichern. Doch internationale Regeln führen zu problematischen Vorgaben. Ein Bericht von Friedhelm Greis (Autonomes Fahren, Technologie)