Tech and Software
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 warn that AI does not yet offer...
Terry Davis, a gifted programmer with a serious mental illness, created a completely unique operating system called TempleOS, which he programmed himself in his own language called HolyC - a combination of C and C++. His work gained the attention of the technology community and gradually built a small but loyal online fan base around it. Davi...
A team of engineers at Duke University is working on a breakthrough that could reshape the way we interact with robotics. Their new system, called Text2Robot, allows users to create fully functional robot prototypes simply by describing them in everyday language—no programming or engineering expertise required. Imagine typing: “I want a six-leg...
Czech fintech startup Flowpay has scored a significant success. The London-based investment company Fasanara Capital will provide it with an injection of EUR 30 million (approximately CZK 755 million). The startup specialises in lending to smaller companies that often would not have a chance of getting funding from traditional banks. A new ap...
At this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, visitors were impressed by one of the most daring technological achievements - the first biological computer CL1 from Australian company Cortical Labs. At first glance, it looked more like a laboratory device, but at its core are living human neurons created from stem cells. And this is no fu...
German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom, owner of Czech T-Mobil, is also presenting itself at MWC 2025, the world's largest mobile technology fair. It is here, in cooperation with the Czech company, that it is presenting a revolutionary Czech invention - a drone capable of spreading mobile signals. MWC is an annual showcase of the mo...
Apple is about to fix a bug in its iOS operating system that caused iPhones to automatically replace the word "racist" with "Trump" when dictating text. The problem quickly spread on social media, particularly on TikTok, where users shared videos showing their phones unexpectedly editing dictated text. According to Apple, the confusion was ca...
Figure’s founder and CEO, Brett Adcock, has unveiled a new machine learning model designed to revolutionize humanoid robotics. The announcement comes just two weeks after the company decided to end its collaboration with OpenAI. The model, named Helix, is a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) system that enhances robotic capabilities by allowing them t...
A female influencer who styles herself as a robot has become a sensation on the Chinese social network Douyin. It's not just the clothes - her image is also completed by her typical mechanical movements and immobile expression. She didn't break her role during a visit to her native village, however, where she unexpectedly showed her human side. ...
