Category: Technology

The Biden administration said Tuesday it has formed an interagency team to develop a national strategy relating to advanced air mobility efforts such as flying taxis. Electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) have been touted as the future of urban air mobility. Low-altitude urban air mobility aircraft have drawn intense global interest, with numerous […]

Microsoft’s recent research paper on artificial general intelligence (AGI) has stirred controversy and excitement within the scientific community, according to the New York Times. Led by Dr. Sébastien Bubeck, the study explores the capabilities of OpenAI’s GPT-4, a powerful language model that has shown remarkable potential in generating humanlike answers and ideas. The paper, titles […]

Every year on March 8, the world celebrates International Women’s Day (IWD). March is also Women’s History Month in the U.S. This year’s theme for IWD is #ChooseToChallenge, a call to create an inclusive world. The day and month are meant to celebrate the accomplishments of women pioneers, many of whom are left out of our history textbooks. How many of […]

Many ERP projects result in significant changes to business processes, work practices, roles and even organisational structures. Developing a structured project approach through change management and training can ensure a smooth transition and guarantee benefit realisation for your ERP project. Training is the cornerstone of change management. In order for a project to bring about […]

If you want to listen to music today, you have the luxury of simply streaming songs from one of the many online sites. But that was not the case even just two decades ago. Music had to be stored on devices such as cassettes and compact discs that were inserted into players. On March 6th, Lou Ottens, the inventor of cassette […]

The artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Geoffrey Hinton recently resigned from Google, warning of the dangers of the technology “becoming more intelligent than us”. His fear is that AI will one day succeed in “manipulating people to do what it wants”. There are reasons we should be concerned about AI. But we frequently treat or talk […]

Leibinger introduced what it describes as the world’s first intelligent coding & marking system – the IQJET – on May 3 in Düsseldorf, the day before the opening of the interpack trade show. The IQJET is claimed to be ideally suited for the direct coding and marking of products and packaging. It can be used […]

It seems that every now and then, a game will come out of nowhere and become insanely popular for a while. Minecraft, Fortnite, and Among Us are just a few examples of this. Now, it seems Roblox will soon join their ranks.  The Roblox Corporation went public recently, which means that you can now buy shares […]

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The UK will roll out its first driverless bus network in Scotland next week with drivers on standby behind the steering wheel, ready to take control should an emergency arise. The service, which aims to carry 10,000 passengers a week over a 14-mile (22.5-kilometer) route on five single-deck buses, will be […]

The head simulators are 3D-printed into components and assembled, enabling customization at low cost. Credit: Augmented Listening Laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Imagine a cocktail party full of 3D-printed, humanoid robots listening and talking to each other. That seemingly sci-fi scene is the goal of the Augmented Listening Laboratory at the University of […]