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Davide Valeriani This is a classic Luminexus podcast episode - a conversation where we explore the intersection of several technologies, and a problem to apply these technologies to. In this episode, we talk with Davide Valeriani, previous lead data scientist at Neurable, and now senior research scientist at Google.    We start by breaking down the technology of brain computer interface...

Laura Boykin | Cassava Virus Action Project The whitefly is a deadly pest that destroys close to half the total yields in Africa. Take the cassava plant for example, a staple crop that 800 million people rely on for their daily calories. The whitefly transmits diseases that kill the cassava, like cassava mosaic disease, and cassava brown streak disease.    This is what we call on the Lum...

Jacinto Sá | Peafowl Solar Power The sun showers enough light on Earth to power the planet 10 000 times over. So the million dollar question is how can we harness all this power?    This is the question we talk with Jacinto Sá, professor in physical chemistry and and co founder and CTO of Peafowl Plasmonics, about.    But before we can begin to understand the answer to this que...

Meryam Al-Waadh AI, AI, AI, it’s all we hear about! It clutters news headlines, company websites, articles, bios and everywhere in between. But with all this recent advancement and attention with artificial intelligence, it begs the question, what *is* AI? What is a neural network? And why is AI the thing that everyone is talking about?    So in this episode of the Luminexus podcast we c...