Category: Technology

Every day, 750 million people around the world engage with Tiktok – the short-video sharing app. Kenyans are among its top users. According to a Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023, 54% of Kenyans sampled used TikTok for general purposes, the highest proportion among the countries in the survey. They also use TikTok to express […]

Have you ever lost all sense of space and time when redecorating a room? How about being so focused while playing an instrument that the worries that weighed you down a minute ago just evaporated? Then you’ve probably experienced “flow”. Flow is a term used in psychology to describe a state of heightened concentration, in […]

It’s a bumper year for elections on the continent: by the end of 2024, 20 countries ought to have gone to the polls to vote in national elections. A handful of others are also scheduled to conduct local-level elections. As is the case elsewhere in the world, digital technologies have come to play a key […]

With the arrival of spring, a timeless ritual begins anew: male birds fill the air with song, seeking to attract mates and defend their territories from other competing males. But there is a lot we still don’t understand about how birds learn which sounds to sing. Our latest study offers new insights and suggests genes […]

X-plane.  Aurora Aurora Flight Sciences’ new high-speed VTOL X-plane can fly at 519 mph. Aurora Flight Sciences, a subsidiary of Boeing, has recently finished a conceptual design review for a cutting-edge, high-speed vertical lift aircraft, known as an X-plane. X-plane.  Aurora This project is part of DARPA’s Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program, which […]

It was the kind of task any competent seamstress has completed hundreds of times before: altering denim jeans and jerseys. But there was something different about this piece of work. Though our team of scientists were paying for it, we weren’t her ultimate customers – the clothes were to be worn by dead pigs. The […]

BMW 20th Art Car.  Credit BMW BMW has unveiled its 20th Art Car, created by American painter Julie Mehretu, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. On June 28th, 2023, BMW announced that Mehretu would design this Art Car at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. BMW then provided her with an M […]

FLOAT.  NASA / Ethan Schaler NASA’s Floating Railway on the Moon is a robotic transport system proposed for the long-term human Lunar presence. NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has recently selected six projects to advance to the second stage of development. This means they will receive more funding and support from NASA. One of […]

A series of recent attacks by XL bully type dogs in the UK, and government attempts to both define and control the breed, has refocused attention on how society manages “dangerous dogs”. Much media coverage focuses on the trauma that pets or humans endure after they’ve been attacked by an XL bully, or protests from […]

Catamaran Seawolf X.  Credit Rossinavi Seawolf X is Rossinavi’s first hybrid-electric AI catamaran, powered by an AI system called ‘Rossinavi AI.’ This AI system can learn from observing and predicting guests’ needs on board. It assists the crew by providing advice for efficient cruising and helps the captain choose the best navigation mode based on […]