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In a laboratory in Tokyo, Japanese scientists have made a breakthrough in materials engineering: they have created a synthetic fibre that is five times stronger than Kevlar and significantly lighter. The new material is called Tsuno-Fiber and was inspired by one of the strongest natural materials – spider silk. Spider silk has long fascinated...
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...
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 sty...
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 mid...
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, while writing his thesis on cryptography, he came across the ...
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...
