Feb 05, 2023 04:20 am UTC| Technology
The ozone layer is on track to heal within four decades, according to a recent UN report, but this progress could be undone by an upsurge in rocket launches expected during the same period. The ozone layer protects life...
Text-to-audio generation is here. One of the next big AI disruptions could be in the music industry
Feb 05, 2023 04:06 am UTC| Technology
The past few years have seen an explosion in applications of artificial intelligence to creative fields. A new generation of image and text generators is delivering impressive results. Now AI has also found applications in...
ChatGPT is great – you're just using it wrong
Feb 03, 2023 09:05 am UTC| Technology
It doesnt take much to get ChatGPT to make a factual mistake. My son is doing a report on U.S. presidents, so I figured Id help him out by looking up a few biographies. I tried asking for a list of books about Abraham...
Samsung to retain chip output despite plunging profits
Jan 31, 2023 23:56 pm UTC| Economy Business Technology
Samsung Electronics will retain its memory semiconductor production level despise plunging profits in the fourth quarter and will instead respond to chip demand, which it projects will recover in the future. Fourth...
McDonald’s tests robot-manned restaurant in US
Jan 31, 2023 12:06 pm UTC| Life Technology Economy Business
McDonalds has opened its first restaurant almost without employees in White Settlement, a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas, USA. A video of this restaurant posted on Twitter shows that once a customer walks in, theres no one...
Jan 31, 2023 07:26 am UTC| Technology
Empowered by artificial intelligence technologies, computers today can engage in convincing conversations with people, compose songs, paint paintings, play chess and go, and diagnose diseases, to name just a few examples...
AI is helping us search for intelligent alien life – and we’ve already found 8 strange new signals
Jan 31, 2023 07:23 am UTC| Technology
Some 540 million years ago, diverse life forms suddenly began to emerge from the muddy ocean floors of planet Earth. This period is known as the Cambrian Explosion, and these aquatic critters are our ancient...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight