Beyond the laptops, tablets and smartphones, the world will see a number of oddball gadgets, including dehumidifying earbuds, smart light bulbs that monitor your sleep and even smart baths technology that lets a bathtub fill itself in 2022. Here’s a look at some of the buzziest products to watch out for in 2022 Samsung Galaxy […]
After 40 years with NASA and three years as its chief scientist, Jim Green has retired from the agency. Green, who joined NASA in 1980 spent 12 years as the director of the agency’s planetary science division and helped it complete tasks like understanding Earth’s magnetic field and searching for life on Mars. This background […]
A team of scientists at a research facility in Italy has developed a robot to help out during natural disasters. The small humanoid robot, called iCub, will fly using a propulsion backpack and will have systems in its palms that allow it to control power and direction. The scientists from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia have […]
Last month, Amazon had announced its “difficult” decision to “retire” Alexa.com on May 1, 2022. Thankfully, Alexa.com and your friendly voice assistant Alexa, are not the same. Web fanatics would recall Alexa as a divine gift when the World Wide Web was in its infancy stage. It was founded in 1996, offering online traffic monitoring […]
A Philadelphia mother has given birth to what is believed to be the world’s first Tesla baby: an infant delivered in the front seat of an electric smart car while it was driving on autopilot. The remarkable delivery, took place recently while Yiran Sherry, 33, and her husband Keating Sherry, 34, were taking their three-year-old […]
Google has officially been knocked off the top spot for being the most popular domain. It didn’t happen until late 2021, according to Cloudflare Radar’s popularity ranking, but it’s still happened. Taking the title now is none other than TikTok — the video-sharing app that has blown up over the last couple of years. It […]
A man has opened up about how he fell in love with a robot. Geoff Gallagher, from Queensland, Australia, was looking for love and thought he’d never meet anyone he could connect with. Since his mum passed away over a decade ago, it was just him and his dog Penny. Then, one day while reading […]
Almost two decades since Concorde retired, interest in supersonic travel has been picking up pace, and several super-fast planes are under development. Airlines seem interested: United has already committed itself to offer supersonic routes as early as 2029. But what about hypersonic travel, which happens at speeds of Mach 5 — five times the speed […]
Predictions for the future have not always been entirely accurate. If sci-fi author Philip K. Dick’s classic novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” had been prophetic, humanoid robots would live among us by now, almost indistinguishable from people. And if Keanu Reeves’ 1995 movie “Johnny Mnemonic” had come to pass, human couriers would, by […]
The mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep was discovered in 1881 but never unwrapped by archaeologists. Egyptian scientists have digitally unwrapped the mummified remains of the pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing tantalizing details about the life and death of the Egyptian king for the first time since the mummy was discovered in 1881. Decorated with flower garlands and […]
China has developed artificial intelligence that can reportedly identify crimes and file charges against criminals with more than 97 per cent accuracy. The AI was developed and tested by the Shanghai Pudong People’s Procuratorate and it has been trained to identify Shanghai’s eight most common crimes. It was developed by a team led by Professor […]
