Tech and Software
The Caribbean island of Anguilla may be small and hard to spot on a map, yet it has become one of the most surprising players in the digital economy. The reason is not its tourist resorts or exports, but the two-letter internet domain .ai, assigned to the island back in the 1990s. At the time, it was nothing more than a formal country code for t...
Manasi Mishra recently shared her disappointment on TikTok: after completing her computer science degree, she was invited to interview by only one company—the fast food chain Chipotle. Her story is not unique. Twenty-five-year-old Zach Taylor graduated with a degree in computer science from Oregon State University at a time when job offers in...
A test was conducted in the Finnish city of Oulu that could fundamentally change the face of freight transport. Engineers there successfully tested the world's first motorless superconducting vacuum tube system capable of transporting goods at speeds of over 500 kilometers per hour. Technology of the future The project was developed by VTT...
GPT-5 is gradually becoming available and includes both free and paid versions. Free users have a set usage limit, after which they switch to a slightly simplified model, which is still powerful. Paid versions offer higher limits and special modes for deeper thinking, which will be appreciated mainly by more demanding users and companies. Thi...
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 rather, confi...
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% of global internet traffic. Since July, ev...
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 its founder and its focus on so-called saf...
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 translation and competes with giants like Google Translate, is ...
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 and robot...
