A recent article posted in several media publications spoke of a warehouse robot that had apparently collapsed after it had worked for 20 hours straight. According to a new report, it didn’t actually deactivate itself. Many believed it ‘got tired’, but some software/sensor errors led to its collapse. To put it chronologically for all our...

Amazon has created an alternative method of paying at shops and restaurants. Instead of a card, the Amazon One scanner reads the palm of users’ hands. All they need to do is hover their palm over the scanner momentarily, and the payment goes through. The system also collects data like personal preferences and shopping history...

Being on the organ transplant waiting list is a scary situation to be in. First, your life depends on a viable organ to become available in time. Next, you have to have surgery where the healthy organ is transplanted into your body, which comes with a varying level of risk of rejection. Scientists have been...

Global security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin recently made a pretty big claim: That they have made a breakthrough with nuclear fusion energy production. The company says they have successfully created a compact nuclear fusion reactor that could essentially solve the world’s sustainable energy problem. The question is, is this actually viable? Some scientists have...

Authorities, businesses, and industries in China over the past few years have been increasing their usage of facial recognition technology for a variety of purposes. One of the more controversial ones is their use of the tech in schools to monitor how well students are paying attention. They first tested it out back in 2019....

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a facility in the state of California is capable of manufacturing lab-grown meat. And what makes this story even more surreal is that the facility has been equipped to produce around 400,000 pounds every single year. But that would a contingency thing- as currently, the facility caps out at...

It is important that people operate with a sense of self-sufficiency, for most this means, keeping things on a smaller scale, gardening in their own backyards, or going to local farmer’s markets. However many people are looking at how the industrial revolution and advancements in technology can create change in communities. These people, like Nona...

In quite a bizarre discovery, a chatbot powered by Meta recently said Mark Zuckerberg was “too creepy and manipulative.” This chatbot is a major part of the efforts put up by the social media company toward AI. Meta plans on instituting technology that would be mimicking human behavior. This would be made possible by learning...

To give birth to conjoined twins is an extremely rare occurrence – 1 in 60,000, in fact. Of those births that are conjoined twins, only five percent of them are what’s known as craniopagus twins. These are twins who are joined at the skull who have intertwined brains and shared blood vessels. It is extremely...

Did you know that time can be “created”? Neither did I, but thankfully there are scientists who do. According to a report published in Nature, a group of scientists has created a new phase of matter in which time has two dimensions while having only one singular flow of time. The research is being conducted...

Do you still have your Facebook account? If so, how often do you use it? If you answered yes to the first question and “hardly ever” to the second, take this as your hint to delete your account. VICE recently published a leaked document from Facebook engineers that proves that they actually have no way...

Self-checkout, yes or no? People tend to be divisive on this issue; some use it all the time, and some never do. And for some, it depends on how many items they are buying, using self-checkout for short shopping lists. Meanwhile, some individuals specifically avoid it because they believe that they are taking jobs from...