Comprehensive testing of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) in electric cars of various brands was conducted in China. The aim was to compare the capabilities of the cars in real-life urban driving conditions and to evaluate how the individual systems behave when interacting with normal traffic. To everyone's surprise (or…

Nik Storonsky, co-founder and CEO of fintech giant Revolut, is bucking current trends in how he runs his company. At a time when tech companies are competing to offer employee benefits and emphasize work-life balance, Revolut is taking a different approach—an uncompromising focus on performance, numbers, and growth. Storonsky's management…

Researchers from several universities (the University of Texas, Shanghai Jiao Tong, the National University of Singapore, and Umeå University in Sweden) have used artificial intelligence to develop new coatings that significantly reduce the temperature of surfaces exposed to sunlight. These paints can keep the temperature of buildings in the midday…

Donald Trump's trade policies, especially the imposition of tariffs, will weigh on US consumers in the long run, according to most members of the US Federal Reserve (Fed). These developments may affect the Fed's stance on interest rate changes. Their decisions will also affect foreign investors, including Czech ones, who…

What would you do if you had a time machine? Would you bet on winning lottery numbers, buy shares in Apple - or try your luck with cryptocurrencies when no one has ever heard of them? That's exactly what Norwegian student Kristoffer Koch did - albeit quite unintentionally. In 2009,…

Artificial intelligence needs huge amounts of data to function. To collect this data, AI bots, or crawlers, are programs that automatically crawl web pages and save text, images or other content from them. It is these bots that Cloudflare is now taking a strong stand against, protecting more than 16%…

Tech giant Meta (formerly Facebook) has committed to one of the most aggressive moves in the history of artificial intelligence. It has offered $32 billion for the startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI), founded by Ilya Sutskever, the former chief scientist of OpenAI. SSI is only a year old, but thanks to…

German startup DeepL has announced a major leap forward: thanks to the deployment of the latest Nvidia DGX SuperPOD system, it can now translate the entire internet in just 18 days. Not long ago, the same task would have taken 194 days. DeepL, which develops its own AI models for…

On the National Mall in Washington D.C., where just last week a controversial statue titled ‘Approved by Dictators’ criticizing President Donald Trump stood, there is now a new installation - a large gold-plated screen. It plays video footage of Trump dancing alongside, among others, the late financier and convicted sex…

A milestone has taken place in China that could change the future of the construction industry. A 158-kilometre stretch of highway between Beijing, Hong Kong and Macau has been completely rebuilt - without a single human worker. The entire process was handled by fully autonomous machines. AI-controlled drones, self-driving finishers…

Electric vehicles are gradually conquering the roads, and a similar transformation awaits the airspace. The aviation industry is rapidly approaching electrification, as this year's Paris Air Show 2025 clearly confirmed. The world's largest aerospace trade fair welcomed a record number of exhibitors last week, including those from the Czech Republic.…

A Danish laboratory focused on acoustic precision has succeeded in developing an invisible ‘tractor’ beam composed entirely of sound waves. This technology allows levitation, rotation and precise control of small solid objects through the air - without any physical contact, magnets or wires. Even more surprisingly, the entire system operates…

The American car company Tesla used to be a symbol of technological progress, innovation and stock market success. But since the beginning of this year, the situation is turning around - the market is starting to demand concrete results to justify the former high market value, driven mainly by investor…

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has released his first asset declaration of his current term in office. The document reveals, among other things, high income from his family's cryptocurrency activities, which amounts to tens of millions of dollars, and other property holdings. For example, according to Reuters,…

Smoke from the massive wildfires currently plaguing Canada has moved over the European continent over the past week and could affect the appearance of the morning and evening skies over the Czech Republic on Monday. The sun at sunrise and sunset may have an unusually tinted hue due to the…

The current economic difficulties have caused German industry to lose more than 100 000 jobs in just one year. The most affected sector is the automotive industry, which has seen a loss of over 45 000 jobs. This is according to an analysis by consultancy EY, reported by DPA. Given…

More and more young people in China and Taiwan are addressing their mental health problems through artificial intelligence. As The Guardian reports, instead of seeing a psychotherapist, they are choosing to talk to a chatbot, which they find less stressful and easier than talking to a real person. However, experts…

As NVIDIA prepares to mass produce the new GB300 AI chip, there are signs of another change in corporate strategy under Jensen Huang's leadership - this time at the expense of GeForce graphics cards for end customers. According to reports, the production of the RTX 50 series with Blackwell architecture…