Mozart and the digital twin for music
Although Mozart has no living descendants, his music still has countless inheritors. The latest in the lineage — born just this summer — is a digital twin. German tech giant Siemens…
Football’s loathsome offside rule is getting an automated upgrade
The English Premier League is giving offside calls a (semi) automated upgrade. The new system revamps arguably the most controversial rule in sports. First introduced back in 1863, the offside…
The race to power Europe’s warehouses with robots
The robot arms train every night. About half a dozen of them, flexing in silence. They practise picking up items thousands of times over, to test whether their latest algorithms…
Dawn Aerospace is proving that spaceplanes aren’t rocket science
Dawn Aerospace is a small startup with big ambitions: to build the first vehicle to fly over 100 km above the Earth — twice in one day. A couple…
Google DeepMind’s new AI robot plays table tennis at ‘human level’
China is currently busy accumulating most of the gold medals in the table tennis events in the Paris Olympics. Meanwhile, an AI-powered robot from Google DeepMind has achieved “amateur human…
Delft startup bags €6.5M for nanotech that enables material discovery in 1 year
Delft-based VSParticle has raised €6.5mn to accelerate material discovery for industrial solutions, such as the production of green hydrogen. Discovering new materials in the lab typically takes years, often close to…
UK space data pioneer books maiden flight on SpaceX’s Falcon 9
A stargazing satellite called Mauve has booked a flight on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. Mauve is the brainchild of British startup Blues Skies Space. The London-based company has a unique…
ASML’s latest machine powers new breakthroughs for logic and memory chips
Imec, a leading semiconductor research company based in Belgium, today announced a series of chipmaking breakthroughs at its joint lab with ASML. The lab opened its doors in June with…
Space balloon for tourists set for landmark test flight
A “space balloon” for tourists is set for a test flight in Saudi Arabia this September. Spanish startup Halo Space built the balloon for zero-emission trips into the stratosphere. Each…
Depop and Selfridges are stitching AI analytics into second-hand fashion
Depop and Selfridges are sewing an AI thread into their clothes. The fashion retailers have enlisted British startup Kelp Technologies to analyse market trends and prices of second-hand apparel. Kelp —…
Terra Quantum wins US Air Force contract for quantum-resistant network study
Swiss startup Terra Quantum announced today it has landed a contract to embark on a study with the US Air Force for a network utilising post-quantum cryptography, quantum key distribution,…
Philosophy is crucial in the age of AI
New scientific understanding and engineering techniques have always impressed and frightened. No doubt they will continue to do so. OpenAI recently announced that it anticipates “superintelligence” — AI surpassing human…
- Go to the previous page
- 1
- …
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- …
- 63
- Go to the next page