OpenAI has announced a new technological milestone, an artificial intelligence capable of “imagining” almost anything and that could change the illustration, design and photography industry as we know it. Dall…
Ai-Da, brainchild of art dealer Aidan Meller, is the world’s first ‘ultra-realistic humanoid artist’. She is designed to draw what she sees with an in-built camera in her eye and…
Fifth-generation wireless – better known as 5G – promises anytime, anywhere connectivity that works 20 times faster than the previous generation, opening the door to a wide variety of new…
The OECD defines the middle class in economic terms of people earning 75% to 200% of the national median annual income. Within OECD nations incomes have increased 0.3% on average…
The first AI written book has been published by Springer Nature, and the company says more are on the way. The machine-generated book aggregated and summarized a multitude of different research…
California’s Department of Motor Vehicles has just granted permission for Waymo to operate its self-driving cars on public roads. The company, owned by Google parent company Alphabet, will begin operating…
China is aiming for half of the industrial robots sold in the country to be made by Chinese companies by 2020, up from 27% currently, and with a target for…
UBS has shut its online investment advice service to new clients less than two years after launch, marking one of the first significant casualties in the UK robo-advice market.
A security robot is being used in San Francisco to deter homeless people from forming “tent cities”. The robot uses lasers, sensors and GPS to monitor the area, and alerts…
Read time: 6 minutes Why look at the future of pop music? For one, because the way pop music is composed, packaged, marketed, and consumed tells us a lot…
An automated waste collection system for government-operated flats in Singapore aims to encourage recycling with 24 ‘outdoor disposal inlets’, in addition to refuse chutes installed in the properties. Residents in…
On the horizon, a revolution in farming technologies promises to transform the ways in which we produce our food. This shift can dramatically reduce the volume of chemical inputs used…
