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May 1, 2025, 06:39 PM - 6 min read
‘VTubers”, or Virtual YouTubers, are ruling the online creative landscape after emerging as a popular alternative to humans on YouTube.
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April 10, 2025, 03:21 PM - 4 min read
By using light (photons) instead of electricity (electrons) for the transport and processing of information, photonic computing promises higher speeds and greater bandwidths with greater efficiency. This is because it does not suffer from the loss of electrical current due to a phenomenon known as resistance, as well as unwanted heat loss from electrical components.
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March 2, 2025, 12:49 PM - 6 min read
The company uses so-called “photonic” quantum computing, which has long been dismissed as impractical. The approach, which encodes data in individual particles of light, offers some compelling advantages — low noise, high-speed operation, and natural compatibility with existing fibre-optic networks.
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February 20, 2025, 06:07 PM - 3 min read
Some elements, like Lithium, are usually mentioned along with rare earth elements, because they are also critical for the tech sector. Without them, cell phones wouldn't vibrate and computer hard drives wouldn't operate. They're used in wind turbines, electric cars and other industries the US has sought to develop.
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February 19, 2025, 03:20 PM - 8 min read
But experts worry that Malaysia, and others like Vietnam, Indonesia and India vying for billion-dollar investments from tech giants, may be overstating data centres' transformative capabilities that also come at a price.
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February 10, 2025, 03:28 PM - 6 min read
It’s crucial that people who use social services – such as employment, homelessness or domestic violence services – are aware they may be subject to AI.
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February 10, 2025, 03:11 PM - 6 min read
Outdated, imprecise and often incorrect labelling systems — such as printed expiry dates — contribute to these huge problems, leading to the unnecessary disposal of safe, healthy food, increased greenhouse gas emissions and financial losses.
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February 9, 2025, 03:48 PM - 4 min read
The results showed that concrete language is more effective in gaining customer forgiveness for significant failures, while abstract language is more suitable for minor issues.
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February 6, 2025, 05:07 PM - 9 min read
When you use a map app to find the new restaurant your friend recommended, or your phone's browser to check the price of something you saw while window shopping, you could be unwittingly allowing your phone to track your location and share that information with others.
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February 4, 2025, 03:32 PM - 7 min read
The digital duty of care would put the onus on tech companies to proactively address a range of specific harms on their platforms, such as child sexual exploitation and attacks based on gender, race or religion.
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January 29, 2025, 03:26 PM - 6 min read
Unlike you or me, automatic speech recognition systems are not what researchers call “sympathetic listeners.” Instead of trying to understand you by taking in other useful clues like intonation or facial gestures, they simply give up. Or they take a probabilistic guess, a move that can sometimes result in an error.
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January 29, 2025, 01:36 PM - 5 min read
The rout was caused by investors’ shock at the claimed performance of DeepSeek’s new R1 chatbot. The Chinese AI was reported to be more advanced than its competitors and less expensive to develop.
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