Amazon launches first big-budget video game with alien-hunter ‘Crucible’ in a bid to take on rival titles Fornite and League of Legends Amazon announced its first big-budge video game called ‘Crucible’ It is free-to-play, third-person shooter game is driven by choices of players Players can team up with other to take down aliens or battle … Read more
Scientists have used ultrasound waves to control the brains of monkeys, which they say could lead to a treatment for addiction or depression in humans. In experiments, US researchers directed pulses of ultrasound waves at the brains of macaque monkeys to control their decision-making. By pointing the waves at parts of the frontal cortex, they … Read more
A huge rotating disc galaxy has been discovered by astronomers and 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang it was already ‘well-ordered, cold’ and intact. The Wolfe Disk galaxy was found by astronomers from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The universe is 13.8 billion years old and most galaxies, … Read more
Belgian workers test social distancing wristband which vibrates if they get too close to each other and could log positions to help with virus contact tracing Workers at the Port of Antwerp are testing a high-tech social distancing tool They’re wearing wristbands that vibrate when they’re too close to other workers The wristbands use ultra-wideband … Read more
Apple and Google have today announced the launch of their coronavirus contact-tracing app software. The API — a software blueprint — will be used by a nation’s health authority to build their own apps and has so far been given to 22 countries who requested access to the technology. Apple and Google did not reveal … Read more
Facebook’s new AI will trawl users’ pictures in an attempt to identify consumer goods and ‘make everything shoppable’ The new AI will crawl Facebook to identify products that appear on the platform It will help make shopping on Facebook easier and more precise The AI can identify attributes on products as well as specific brands By … Read more
Paleontologists uncover remains of a 33-FOOT long megaraptor that lived 70 million years ago and would have been one of the last carnivorous dinosaurs to roam the Earth Paleontologists found fossils of a megaraptor that lived 70 million years ago The team believes it was one of the last carnivorous dinosaur to roam the Earth They found … Read more
A bionic eye that is as sensitive as the human retina could give millions of people the chance to see again — and will be available in just five years, a study reports. Named EC-EYE — short for ‘ElectroChemical EYE’ — the eerie bio-mimetic device is around an inch wide and was built by researchers … Read more
British billionaire Sir James Dyson has unveiled the sole prototype of his company’s electric car that was cancelled for being ‘too risky’. The aborted ‘N526’ Dyson electric car, which Dyson piled £500 million of his own money into before pulling the plug, is a 16-foot-long seven-seater, electric SUV. The 2.6 tonne-vehicle features an aluminium body, … Read more
Brisk walk or bike ride for 30 minutes three times a week can stave off dementia in over-60s even after their memory begins to fade Over 60s with memory loss that exercised for a year had improved recollection Researchers said this was due to increased blood flow to two areas of the brain UK Alzheimer’s … Read more