Sina Estavi, a crypto entrepreneur bought Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first tweet as a non-fungible token (NFT) a year back. It was a tweet from May 21, 2006 read ‘just setting up my twittr’ and Estavi picked it up for USD $2.9 million (AED 10m). He listed it last week for a whopping USD $48 […]
Several people have always wondered about the idea of what it would be like to live forever and now it looks like the concept might soon come to life. A metaverse company is setting up a virtual world with a mode that allows the user to ‘live forever’. Artur Sychov was motivated to create his […]
ABU DHABI: Illuminated e-panels and signage have already been installed by the Abu Dhabi Police across the emirate to remind motorists of posted speed limits under unstable weather conditions. Flashing 80 kilometres per hour speed limit signs will be activated during rain, strong winds, sandstorms, and heavy fog to warn motorists to keep a safe […]
DUBAI: Emirates will soon launch Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and exciting experiences in the metaverse for its customers and employees. The airline, which has earned a reputation for its innovative products and customer-centric services unveiled its plans to build signature brand experiences in the metaverse, alongside both collectable and utility-based NFTs. The first projects are already […]
In the year 1998, a microchip was first implanted into a human, but it is only in the last decade that the technology has been available commercially. British-Polish firm, Walletmor, said that last year it became the first company to offer implantable payment chips. “The implant can be used to pay for a drink on […]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang – the farthest individual star ever seen to date. The find is a huge leap further back in time from the previous single-star record […]
Although the night sky has been a source of information for the entire world and it looks almost the same now as it did then. But, the sky we once knew is now on the verge of changing dramatically due to the proliferation of satellites just a few hundred miles above Earth. “For the first […]
Although robots in Japan are found on factory floors carrying out simple tasks, scientists have now unveiled one capable of executing the delicate task of peeling a banana without squashing the fruit inside. While the dual-armed machine is only successful 57% of the time, this points to a future where machines undertake tasks like moving […]
WASHINGTON: The first all-private team of astronauts comprising three businessmen and a former astronaut, arrived yesterday at the International Space Station (ISS), aboard a SpaceX rocket, Reuters reported. The Ax-1 mission commander, Spanish-American Michael Lopez-Alegria, along with Canadian Mark Pathy, American Larry Connor and Israeli Eytan Stibbe, in their blue and black uniforms, exited the […]
Almost two years before Japanese fashion titan Yusaku Maezawa headed on his recent tourist visit to the International Space Station, he had made a global statement as he began a worldwide search for a life partner to go to the moon with him. Maezawa, who was 44 at the time, said he hoped to find […]
Researchers have developed a new method to overturn ageing in human skin cells by up to 30 years. They say it is the longest re-programming technique ever achieved. As per a new study published in eLife, a group of scientists stated how they were able to partially restore the function of older cells, while also […]
