Category: Technology

Tesla projects that its electric crossover car, the Model Y, will become the best-selling car in the world in 2023 – a first for Tesla and an electric vehicle. That’s what Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a mid-May investor call. The Model Y was already the fourth best-selling car worldwide in 2022, selling 759,000 […]

Solo songs by Paul McCartney and John Lennon have been reimagined as Beatles songs using artificial intelligence, and they’re bringing fans to tears. McCartney’s song “New” from the eponymous 2013 album was run through an AI program to make it sound like it was recorded by The Beatles rather than him solo.  This remastered version […]

Leading AI-powered Language Operations (LangOps) platform Unbabel, has announced its acquisition of Bablic, a Tel Aviv-based cloud-enabled solution for website localization and translation management. This strategic move allows Unbabel to enhance its ability to adapt websites for a global audience, providing quality-checked, localized language while reducing costs, labor and project completion time. The integration of […]

Tens of thousands of asteroids – that we know of – are roaming our solar system. These are building blocks made up of metal, silicates, and ice left over from the beginning of time when the planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) and their moons were assembling. For the most part, […]

Car theft is on the rise, according to AA Insurance Services. Worryingly, thieves are increasingly using high-tech tools to target weaknesses in the same sensors and computerised systems that were designed to help make our journeys safer and more comfortable. In fact, as the market research company Technavio, noted in 2017, the significant growth of […]

The Ocean Cleanup is collecting plastic trash from the Cisadane River, Indonesia. Ocean Cleanup Interceptor 020 will contribute to collecting the estimated 1000 tons of plastic emitted via the Cisadane River into the Java Sea each year. It will be the second Interceptor deployed in Indonesia after Interceptor 001, deployed in the Cengkareng Drain, Jakarta, […]

Fruit flies can be truly annoying when they are buzzing around your living room or landing in your wine. But we have much to thank these tiny nuisances for – they revolutionised biological and medical science. Flies and mosquitoes both belong to Diptera, the group of insects that have only two wings (from the Greek […]

The Destinus hypersonic aircraft made a successful flight of the Jungfrau (Destinus-1) prototype equipped with a hydrogen-fueled afterburner. Since its maiden flight in 2021, Jungfrau (Destinus-1) has undergone significant developments, with this latest flight campaign including a groundbreaking application of hydrogen. This historic flight took place last Wednesday at an airport near Munich, Germany, and […]

For the first time in 15 years, Porsche modernizes its crest in the brand’s 75th anniversary year. This is the sixth update of the company’s logo since 1952, reshaping every detail to create the logo in the age of electrification. The differences between the modernized Porsche crest and its immediate predecessor, are: Brushed precious metal, […]

From White Lotus to Succession, there’s high demand for television dramas about the super rich. The characters on these shows are typically portrayed as entitled, hollow and sad. But they aren’t necessarily depicted as unintelligent. So are rich people rich because they are smart? In the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, this question goes beyond […]