Florida: The space tourism race is booming, but one company is hoping to carve out a niche as “the only carbon-neutral, zero-emission way” to travel to the edge of space. Space Perspective plans to take passengers up to 100,000 feet for suborbital adventures in a pressurized capsule suspended from an enormous high-tech version of a […]
San Francisco: Meta just unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) conversational chatbot asking the public to give feedback. The initial reports are scary as the chatbot named BlenderBot 3 thinks Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is “creepy and manipulative” and Donald Trump will always be the US president. Currently available in the US, the new AI […]
A hospice is using virtual reality to help patients relax by transporting them away from their beds. St Giles Hospice said the headsets allowed patients “to escape the realities of their present situation”. “I’ve never experienced anything quite like it in my life – I was totally lost in the moment,” Janet, 71, said. The […]
Dubai: Dubai Police took to its social media platforms to announce that an individual can get a lost passport certificate within 24 hours using blockchain service. One can submit the request to obtain the certificate via Dubai Police’s Smart Police Station or the Dubai Police App or the official Dubai Police website. Apart from this […]
You may want to rethink food because scientists are working on 3D-printed grub, a team of scientists based in Singapore have been looking for ways to deal with future food supply problems and decided to just print some. So the group of scientists came up with a way of making the idea of chowing down […]
San Francisco: WhatsApp has confirmed that it is now letting users delete messages up to two days after they are sent, they announced via their Twitter page that the change in the option to delete sent messages. “Rethinking your message? Now you will have a little over two days to delete your messages from your […]
Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has developed a smart programme to follow up cases in the criminal courts, using machine learning – a type of artificial intelligence, to increase the adjudication rate and enable speedy trial of criminal cases. The Department is updating the programme to enable electronic judgments in criminal cases […]
New York: A team of US researchers have developed a flexible, stretchable computing chip that processes information by mimicking the human brain. The device, described in the journal Matter, aims to change the way health data is processed. “With this work, we’ve bridged wearable technology with artificial intelligence and machine learning to create a powerful device […]
San Francisco: In a bid to match its full-screen reels, the Meta-owned photo and video-sharing platform Instagram has confirmed that it will soon begin testing new ‘ultra-tall photos’. The company will introduce support for slimmer, taller 9:16 screen ratio photos to help them fill the entire screen as users scroll through the app’s feed. Currently, the […]
San Francisco: Meta, formerly Facebook, is testing a new live-streaming platform for influencers called “Super”, media reports say. The new platform allows influencers to host live streams, earn revenue and engage with viewers. It has reportedly paid influencers between $200 (AED735) and $3,000 (AED11,019) to use the platform for 30 minutes. Super entered development in late […]
San Francisco: YouTube is testing a new feature in its mobile app with its premium subscribers that allows them to zoom in on any video. The latest opt-in experimental feature enables a pinch-to-zoom gesture for videos — and it works both in portrait and full-screen landscape view. According to the company, the zoom feature will remain […]
