Feng shui practitioners say JR's new work is a bad omen—they felt the same way about Kaws's 'Companion.'[An installation by renowned French artist JR titled "GIANTS: Rising Up." Photo: Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images]The French artist JR has created a monumental outdoor installation for Hong Kong to celebrate the city’s art month this month. But the installation, which depicts a high jumper,...

We may soon be entering a whole new world of transparent solar panels that gather energy while doubling as windows, glass facades and even the screens of our portable electronic devices. These dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) open up all sorts of possibilities.Scientists have been studying DSCs for decades, as they are fairly simple, easy to produce and have low toxicity. How do they work? The...

Generative AI has the potential to disrupt nearly every industry—promising both competitive advantage and creative destruction. CEOs, who are likely several steps removed from the technology itself, may feel uncertain about their next move.But the priority for leaders isn’t to fully immerse themselves in the technology; instead, they should focus on how generative AI will impact their organiz...

Microsoft 365 Copilot will work in apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and more.Just a month after announcing artificial intelligence integration with its search engine Bing and browser Edge, Microsoft is introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot, a tool that'll work with you in its collection of apps including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and more. In a blog post on Thursday, Microsoft said t...

How Americans view emerging uses of artificial intelligence, including programs to generate text or art.Artificial intelligence has burst onto the scene recently with programs like ChatGPT, which can generate text responses to human inquiries, and DALL-E 2, which can create sophisticated images from a handful of keywords. The emergence of these and other technologies has intensified debate abou...

Why someone would pay for print copies of images freely available online remains a question for Midjourney magazine and for the media business writ large.Midjourney is launching a monthly print magazine, “Midjourney.”A subscription will cost $4 per month, though you can get the first issue gratis if you sign up fast, according to the Wednesday announcement. Midjourney, an art generator powere...

Ember has been a fascinating company to watch. The Los Angeles-based startup entered the scene with a self-heating mug, only to leverage its temperature tech learnings to enter the cold chain space, where it has developed containers for medical supply shipping.I suppose you could say that the firm has returned to its roots with the launch of its latest product. And frankly, baby bottles actuall...

Saudi Aramco announced record profits of $161bn for 2022, up 46% on the year prior.That's the best year on record for the oil giant, which is ~95% state-owned, and the company remains second only to Apple on the list of the world's most valuable companies with a market cap of $1.9 trillion.Shopping spreeAramco’s CEO, Amin Nasser, said that “this is probably the highest net income ever recorde...

'Zips' have a range of 10 miles, carry 8 pounds of payload, and delivery time can be tracked to the second.Drone delivery company Zipline has revealed its new delivery platform, with drones so quiet they "sound like wind rustling leaves."Zipline has been around since 2014, and its existing Platform 1 (P1) technology has autonomously flown 40 million miles across Rwanda, Ghana, Japan, Nigeria, a...