Technology has helped us a lot, but it’s not just us humans who can benefit from technology. We can use it to help animals, too!
One of the most important animals on the face of the earth are bees. They are the world’s most important pollinators of food crops, and one-third of the food that we eat relies mainly on these pollinators. Without them, the food chain would become imbalanced, if not entirely collapsed. And so it would be right to help these tiny creatures, for the benefit of all.
Beehero is employing smart beehives to maximize crop yields through precision pollination services, offering growers quality assurance to their bees. the California-based company, which operates the largest database of bee pollination performance and analysis, measures pollination quality and optimizes hive deployment. Beehero recently announced $4 million in seed funding, which will enable it to implement technology and services for growers that radically de-risk pollination and stimulate maximum output potential during pollination cycles.
Beehero ensures healthy and hyper-efficient pollinator bees by continuously tracking and optimizing pollination through a combination of machine learning algorithms and low-cost sensors, including smart beehives, that monitor hive health in real-time. In this way, it manages to increase crop yields by up to 30 percent on average for 70 percent of major crops. by monitoring hives, the company ensures they lead to healthy, productive colonies, which results in fewer losses and lower operational costs.
More details about this over at DesignBoom.
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Why? Is being honest with ourselves and recognising the things which are important that we never learned, and not assuming that we know even though we don't? I think this mindset is better than thinking we are at the pinnacle of human development without looking at our personal individual weaknesses.
As for Germany, and correct me if I'm wrong, it seems awfully liberal in that aspect and others as well (e.g. providing government coverage for homeopathy "treatments"). I guess they are just giving the people what they want no matter how dumb and counterproductive it is. It seems they are doing OK though. Just hope we all aren't heading for a state of idiocracy.