Category: Technology

Robots took centre stage as the World Robot Olympiad opened in Singapore on Wednesday. Hundreds of international students, some as young as eight, are taking part in the competition as they are set to compete using automatons to solve real-world problems. As per the AFP, the annual competition began in 2004 in Singapore and was held in Turkey last year. It highlights the importance of technology and science in improving daily lives, using the inventive spirit of young students. The organisers have said 594 teams, comprising 1,571 participants from 91 countries,…

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For over a century, one of the most mysterious components of the universe, dark matter, has kept scientists perplexed due to its enigmatic nature. Finally after a 100-years long search, the researchers may have finally seen the existence of dark matter, the elusive substance that makes up 27 percent of the cosmic world. According to findings published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics on November 25, a team led by Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo has unlocked this nearly-impossible breakthrough for the very first time. By using…

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AI-powered shopping tools helped drive a surge in US online spending on Black Friday, as shoppers bypassed crowded stores and turned to chatbots to compare prices and secure discounts amid concerns about tariff-driven price hikes. US shoppers spent a record $11.8 billion online, up 9.1% from 2024 on the year’s biggest shopping day, according to Adobe Analytics, which tracks 1 trillion visits that shoppers make to online retail websites. The AI-driven traffic to US retail sites soared 805% compared to last year, Adobe said, when artificial intelligence tools such as…

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In a groundbreaking study, scientists have identified five diverse periods of structural development in one of the most comprehensive studies to date. The study, which was conducted on the brain scans of nearly 4,000 people aged under one to 90, mapped neural pathways and how those pathways evolve during our lives. Primarily, the five broad phases are split by four central turning points, in which brain development moves to a distinct trajectory approximately nine, 32, 66, and 83 years. In this connection, a researcher in neuroinformatics at Cambridge University and…

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China officially launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft to help bring back a team of astronauts after a non-functional spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China’s space station on Tuesday. The Shenzhou 22 which recently arrived at the Tiangong space station, will be used by the current crew for their return to Erath in 2026. A group of Chinese astronauts from the Shenzhou 20 mission experienced a nine-day delay in their return to Earth after their craft’s window was severely damaged earlier this month. It has been observed that the three-person…

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In latest findings a U.S. court has claimed that meta allegedly shut down internal research after discovering casual evidence that Facebook and Instagram negatively impacted users’ mental health. According to Reuters, the document claimed that a 2020 study, code-named “Project Mercury” found users reported lower depression, anxiety and loneliness after deactivating the platforms findings, Meta chose not to publish. “People who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social comparison,” said report. “Rather than publishing those findings or pursuing additional research, the filing states,…

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A recent research study indicates that non-lethal and deadly brain weapons that can attack or alter human consciousness are moving rapidly from the realm of science fiction into reality. Primarily, Michael Crowley and Malcolm Dando of Bradford University are about to publish a book that they believe to be an alarming factor to the world. They argued that the human mind is an emerging domain of warfare, and urgent global action is needed to prevent neurotechnology from being used in the military arena. The book published by the Royal Society of…

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Uber has announced a major partnership with Starship Technologies to integrate autonomous sidewalk delivery robots into its Uber Eats platform, with plans to expand to additional European markets next year and the US in 2027. This particularly marks a significant move to accelerate its use of last-mile delivery automation. In this connection, Uber Eats consumers will be able to receive their orders via Starship’s robot deliveries in the Leeds and Sheffield areas. The latest partnership is part of a series of deals Uber has struck with autonomous vehicle and technology…

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China has once again made history as a humanoid robot sets a new Guinness World Record for the longest cross-province journey. The Agibot A2 walked non-stop 106.286-km from Suzhou to Shanghai, without powering off during the trek. The longest journey walked by a humanoid robot kicked off on November, 10 from Suzhou’s Jinji Lake in east China’s Jiangsu province and finished at Shanghai’s Bund on November, 13. The Agibot A2 robot becomes the first humanoid to achieve this Guinness World title due to its highly long-standing functional hot-swappable battery system…

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A successful breakthrough has been created by an international research team led by Japan’s Riken, and it is the most detailed model of the Milky Way ever created. It is primarily achieved by combining machine learning models with numerical models. The simulation operates 100 times faster than the most elaborate previous models, giving astronomers the chance to map billions of years of our galaxy’s evolution, rather than decades. The new simulation contains 100 billion particles representing stars, which is approximately the same number of stars that are called the Milky…

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