All posts tagged: reap

How to reap the benefits of AI amid growing security risks

How to reap the benefits of AI amid growing security risks

CardLab discusses the solutions that need to be considered to ensure that companies can reap the benefits of AI whilst overcoming the safety and security challenges that come with AI. Artificial intelligence (AI) has come to stay and has proven very effective in our chase for efficiency, with implementation in many sectors of our society. It has undoubtedly been a great help in gaining overview of massive amounts of data and creating fairly reliable workflows, statistics, predictions, and diagnoses for use in our daily life, both privately and professionally. With the simultaneous appearance of supercomputers and quantum computing, technological development is faster than ever before and will probably bring improvements to our life we couldn’t even imagine a few years ago. However, there is a flip side as these technologies are not exclusive to people that will use it responsibly, but are also available for malicious purposes. This article will investigate both sides of the coin and introduce some of the methods recommended by CardLab to harvest the benefits of AI and get the best …

Why I’m going to reap the mental health benefits of stargazing in 2026

Why I’m going to reap the mental health benefits of stargazing in 2026

For me, this year is going to be all about self-care via the stars. It has been 20 years since I first felt palpable envy at someone being able to navigate the night sky. In 2006, I was at a conference in La Jolla, California, reporting for New Scientist. Among the delegates was astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson. One evening, as we were all having an al fresco dinner, he took out a laser pointer and gave us a tour of the visible constellations. I was mesmerised, and impressed by the ease with which Tyson wandered through the heavens. I made myself a promise: when I got home, I was going to become a stargazer. It didn’t happen. I still haven’t learned to spot much beyond Orion and the Plough, or Big Dipper. Maybe I can blame the streetlit skies of my neighbourhood, but I can also blame the fact that, even then, I was older than is ideal. A love for the night sky is best developed in childhood. Those who start young, guided …