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New App Allows to Carry Your Passport and Health Documents on Your Cell Phone
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has welcomed this week, the first application that will allow travelers to carry their passport and their identification and health documents, tourist services, and payment methods on their mobile phones so they don't need...
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Top 10 VR and AR Technology Trends To Try in 2020
Technology has been gaining momentum day after day. Onset of newer levels of technology standards and platforms has been driving this industry to success.Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are technologies that help create 3-dimensional world objects over and above the...
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How to Safeguard Your Security on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook
Social Networks are here to stay and millions of people of all ages around the world use them, so it is important that users and parents know how to control them correctly to prevent cybercriminals from taking over their profiles and personal information
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Practice Speech-boosting Exercises at Home during this Pandemic!
Every child is different. There are no parenting manuals for your child. Even deciding if your child needs help can be frustrating. Your child's speaking ability is no different. Also, working from home has made everything more challenging. So,...
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TEC Student Designs and Creates Prototype Tree-climbing Robot
The extraction of samples from very tall trees or trees located in broken terrain will be easier, faster and safer, thanks to the design and creation of a prototype tree climbing robot developed by José Miguel Ortega, a student of Mechatronic Engineering at the Technological Institute of Costa Rica
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Ticos Can Now See Comet Neowise in the Sky, with the Naked Eye, if Weather Allows
Costa Ricans will be able to see the comet “Neowise”, the first to be visible from Earth this year, without the need for a binocular or telescope
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Costa Rica Ranks Among the First Nations in Telecommunications Growth Worldwide
The digital consolidation of Costa Rica involves a great demand for innovation and modernization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and requires that with its evolution, better services are provided to users for guaranteeing the best possible social development.That...
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Using Coffee Sediment to Purify Water, an Active Research at the Nanotechnology Laboratory
Deilyn Ureña, an Environmental Engineering student at the Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC), was awarded the CeNAT-Conare 2020 scholarship. The young woman who is from San Vito, Coto Brus, will have the opportunity to carry out her research project...
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Digital Training Platform for Tourist Sectors Workers and Entrepreneurs Is Launched
The Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) recently launched its own virtual platform for the development of courses, talks, and webinars designed primarily for collaborators and entrepreneurs in the tourism sector.The objective is to train in different topics thus improving...
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Is It True That We Now Live Under A Digital Feudalism?
Many speak people are now speaking of “Digital Feudalism”, a topic that, for some experts, could be the end of liberal principles, the global drive for domination, vigilance, and absence of personal independence.Why call it feudalism?Let us remember that,...
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Taking Responsibility: A Call to the Citizens of Costa Rica
Currently, the social and economic situation in Costa Rica is one of the most debated topics both in political...