Most of Adam Lucio’s has been in a wheelchair for most of his life. He had been playing wheelchair basketball for Oklahoma State University, he now hopes to become a professional adaptive triathlete as well as take part in Iron Man contests alongside able-bodied competitors. A key part of his training regimen is wearable tech. […]
Three robots on a field in England have been one mission; to find and zap weeds with electricity before seeds get planted in the cleared soil. Named Tom, Dick and Harry, the robots were developed by Small Robot Company to get rid of unwanted weeds with minimal use of machinery and heavy chemicals. Since 2017, […]
A meteorite from Mars that’s over 4 billion-year-old that caused chaos here on Earth decades ago actually has no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life, after all, scientists reported recently. In the year 1996, a NASA-led team reported that organic compounds in the rock appeared to have been left behind by living creatures. Other researchers […]
The world is constantly changing especially in the field of technology from the metaverse to the non-fungible tokens (NFTs), it continues to evolve how we live our lives — and one of the biggest arenas, where that’s playing out, is a sport. All of this is thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and innovation in […]
DUBAI: Self-driving cars and delivery robots have huge potential to reshape last-mile mobility, but artificial intelligence (AI) needs to learn to interact with humans and develop a level of social awareness if they are to operate safely and efficiently. Autonomous vehicles can improve the lives of those with limited access to mobility, with knock-on benefits […]
A massive asteroid, almost the size of the tallest building on Earth, is heading for the planet in mid-December, as per NASA’s asteroid tracker. Designated 163899 (2003 SD220), the massive asteroid has a diameter of approximately 791 meters, nearly the size of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest manmade structure on Earth. However, observations […]
If you were on a passenger plane in 1950 and took a peek into the cockpit, there would be five people there: two pilots, a radio operator, a navigator and a flight engineer. As time passed with technical advances in navigation as well as radio communications, navigation systems and onboard monitoring equipment eventually made it […]
In an attempt to bring mobile internet network to the Tanzanian islands of Zanzibar and Pemba creators hope that this test will not just transform lives there, but probably across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. At the moment only about 20% of Tanzanians use the internet, as per the World Bank. This is quite low, even […]
ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA), the UAE’s largest healthcare network, has launched the SEHA Visa Screening App to simplify the process of booking an appointment at SEHA’s Disease Prevention and Screening Centres for residents. Currently available for individual bookings only, the application will be expanded to include businesses at a later stage. […]
Various people across the UAE are facing issues as Microsoft Outlook is down. Several headed to social media platforms to express their inability to access their emails via web or mobile browsers. They then sent out requests to Microsoft to resolve the issue as soon as possible as it affected their respective business operations. Microsoft […]
In the summer of 2021, Allen Roach saw something that really upset him: His then-11-year-old son, Peyton, used a sword to slice off the characters legs as well as arms in a virtual reality medieval fantasy game which he then threw off a bridge. It did all happen in VR, but for Roach — who […]
