A robot invisible to the naked eye has a tiny microprocessor “brain” onboard. Building self-sufficient robots is no easy task. One reason is because autonomous robots need to have onboard control, using an internal processing system to undertake actions. Onboard control is even more difficult to implement on a micro scale, where systems must be downsized to near-invisibility while retaining t...

Where do all the millionaires live? More and more, not where they used to.Henley & Partners, which bills itself as an investment migration consultancy, has just released its Global Citizens report in partnership with wealth intelligence firm New World Wealth, showing the 20 most millionaire cities in the world.It’s no surprise that New York is number one on the list, but it might be surpri...

Find supermarket runs a chore? It’s even more daunting for visually impaired people. To make grocery runs a little smoother for this group of customers, UK frozen food brand Aunt Bessie’s has partnered with the Royal National Institute of Blind People to introduce innovative packaging to help them navigate the isles.Tapping on NaviLens technology, customers can download an accompanying smartp...

The music industry is continuing its comeback according to new data from the RIAA, with recorded music revenues in the US growing 9% in the first half of this year.As it wasDriving much of that growth was streaming, which has given the music industry a much-needed revival after online piracy hastened the demise of mainstream physical formats like CDs.That revival has struck a chord with a parti...

Regent's electric seaglider successfully completed its first series of flights and demonstrated her ability to fully fulfill its "float-foil-fly" mission.A video of Regent's unique Seaglider prototype in flight testing has just been released. The machine offers breakthrough speed and range in coastal locations as the first to combine the efficiency benefits of ground effect with hydro-foiling i...

Land is becoming scarce, especially in metropolitan areas where every square meter can cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars. With nowhere else to go but up, people have been building taller architectures, whether for business or for residence, paving the way for the sun-blocking towers of dystopian science fiction. Before things get worse, however, some visionaries have started to design s...

Looking back at 2021 – the first year of the Metaverse – its breakout was much more intense and the responses of market participants were much faster than they were when the internet entered global consciousness. A glance at the global and Chinese markets reveals that the Metaverse is by no means just an experiment for small-scale players, but has become a landscape for all of humanity to exp...

Meta’s researchers have made a significant leap in the AI art-generation field with Make-A-Video, the creatively named new technique for — you guessed it — making a video out of nothing but a text prompt. The results are impressive and varied, and all, with no exceptions, slightly creepy.We’ve seen text-to-video models before — it’s a natural extension of text-to-image models like DALL-E,...

Virtual merchandise slots for beauty, fashion and toy brands abound in combination music festival, theme park and dressing room. Hold onto your headsets! Today, Walmart is announcing the launch of two new immersive experiences in the metaverse mega-platform, Roblox. Called Walmart Land and Walmart’s Universe of Play, the spaces offer unique interactive content and entertainment for customers,...