Category: Technology

Can you think of a comedian, actor, poet or writer who suffered from mental illness? Maybe the actor Robin Williams or comedian Stephen Fry came to your mind. Perhaps it was the writer Virginia Woolf. All three have had well-documented struggles with bipolar disorder. Mental illnesses have been associated with creative thinking for a long […]

Interest in the incorporation of robots into security, policing and military operations has been steadily increasing over the last few years. It’s an avenue already being explored in both North America and Europe. Robot integration into these areas could be seen as analogous to the inclusion of dogs in policing and military roles in the […]

The Doomsday Clock, with its hands hovering close to midnight (“doomsday”), is a symbolic device that is designed to warn the world how close it is to catastrophe. Midnight is said to represent the point at which the Earth becomes uninhabitable by humanity. The clock dates back to the early days of the cold war. […]

BMW to bring automated driving to the UK in the new BMW 7 Series from next spring. BMW announced that the vehicle takes over the task of driving in full – including in the dark. The new hands-free function means drivers can switch to other in-vehicle activities while traveling at up to 60 km/h (37 […]

The Zhongshuge Cosmic Bookstore with its futuristic colossal celestial rings conceived as a “portal through time and space.” The completion of the Zhongshuge bookstore measuring 810 sq m in Jiangsu, China, designed by X+Living that utilized exaggerated three-dimensional forms to recreate intricate astronomical instruments on a grand scale, “conjuring a celestial spectacle of concentric rings […]

House fires are many people’s worst nightmare. But chemicals created decades ago to protect people’s homes from out of control flames opened our front doors to a new menace: toxic chemicals. Ones that we are consistently exposed to in our homes, offices and vehicles. Plastics are everywhere and are highly flammable materials. To combat this, […]

1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sells for $52 million, the second highest price a car has ever been auctioned for. According to RM Sotheby’s, this cherry red 330 LM/250 GTO model is the only one to have been raced by Formula 1’s Scuderia Ferrari.   It has become the most valuable Ferrari and the second highest-priced […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the media landscape, both for news organisations and consumers. Applications such as ChatGPT, Bard, and Bing AI are creating new possibilities to assist in writing and researching the news, but these also raise ethical concerns. One of the most pressing questions for news organisations is whether consumers should be told […]

Aurora-like emission on the Sun detected about 40,000 kilometers above a dark region for the first time. A team of astronomers uncovered prolonged radio emissions above a sunspot, akin to those previously seen in the polar regions of planets and certain stars. Similar bursts have been observed in magnetically active low-mass stars and brown dwarfs, […]

DRIFT Energy unveiled MVY (short for Most Valuable Yacht – a nod to its value to the climate), a cutting-edge catamaran that is powered by harnessing the energy available from the oceans. The concept launched at the Monaco Yacht Show, illustrates DRIFT Energy’s plans to create a new class of ‘true green’ fuel-generating vessels. Hence, […]