For years, the concept of car touch screens was presented to the public as the future of driving. They promised sleek minimalism, smartphone-style convenience, and endless customization. Yet a different story has emerged on our roads in the real world. In fact, many drivers now report frustration, safety researchers warn about delayed reactions, and regulators...
The highway stretches dark ahead, and your headlights carve a tunnel through the night. A car pulls up behind with LED beams so bright they flood your rearview mirror with white light. The glare burns into your peripheral vision and makes the road ahead harder to see. Most drivers don’t know their rearview mirror has...
In 1951, a young Black woman named Henrietta Lacks walked into Johns Hopkins Hospital with a pain that changed the world. She had no clue that her own body carried the secret to one of science’s biggest discoveries. Her cells, taken without permission, became the first immortal human cell line known as HeLa cells. Her...
When 75-year-old grandfather Dave Richards began a bike ride with friends in July 2021, he expected nothing more than a pleasant afternoon. But in a few chaotic seconds, his life changed forever. A drunk driver, distracted by his phone, sped up behind the cyclists and crashed into them. Richards got pinned beneath the vehicle. The...
Not too long ago, AI just used to serve as the obligatory plot driver of your average science fiction movie. Then suddenly, all these big language models felt like they arrived out of nowhere. Now they are absolutely everywhere, from our social apps to our work. Suddenly, everyone had an opinion about where this all...
In a push towards biometric verification and as a significant data-cleansing effort, Vietnam’s State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has deactivated more than 86 million bank accounts. At the beginning of September, SBV closed accounts that had been inactive or had not been biometrically activated. This initiative is part of a government project launched back in...
Nothing beats a good weekend indoors binge watching a great series, especially as winter slowly creeps up. While picking your snacks to binge on may be an easy choice, finding a binge-worthy series to keep you engrossed can be a tedious task. The story usually goes: You spend endless hours doomscrolling through Netflix trying to...
Long before the advent of Chat GPT and other AI technology began stirring fears of job obsolescence, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates proposed a radical idea that, in retrospect, makes sense: taxing robots. Back in 2017, he suggested taxing robots that replace human workers, just like governments tax human wages. At the time, artificial intelligence was...
A clip shared by China Insider has left Reddit users completely taken aback. It features one person scanning a QR code on a toilet roll dispenser. Once the QR code is scanned, users are subjected to an advertisement before several papers are released. The motivation behind this technology is to cut down on wastage and...
A memecoin called 120 Hours was launched on the Solana platform, Pump.fun, by a terminally ill developer. The developer claimed to be dying and launched the memecoin to help his family after his passing, which was to be in 120 hours. However, as the coin hit a $534k peak, the developer immediately pulled the plug....
When the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System opened in California’s Mojave Desert in 2014, it was hailed as a monumental achievement – the largest concentrated solar power (CSP) facility of its kind in the world. Backed by a $1.6 billion federal loan guarantee and involving tech giants like Google, the $2.2 billion project was meant...
Samsung has recently confirmed that they would be displaying adverts on their luxury smart fridges costing $1,800 or more. This means you might be forced to watch an ad while trying to grab the milk. The move has left many customers frustrated, with some likening the experience to something out of Black Mirror, albeit less...
