The world’s first fully electric autonomous cargo ship, the Yara Birkelandis preparing to set sail in Norway by the end of this year. The ship, developed by Norwegian chemical company Yara, runs on hydroelectric power and significantly reduces costs and carbon emissions. The global shipping industry accounts for about...
In the latest of the NFT craze, an NFT of a free clipart rock dubbed EtherRock #42 was sold for over 400 ETH (about $1.3 million). The cartoon rock is a piece in a four-year-old NFT project called EtherRock, comprised of 100 images of the same cartoon rock, each...
Electronic musician Deadmau5 is building a virtual concert world. Called Oberhasli, the virtual world will be launched on Core, a free game-creation platform developed by Manticore Games and powered by the Unreal game engine. Oberhasli will be an interactive and social space where fans can listen to music, play games,...
The American movie theatre chain AMC has announced that it will start accepting Bitcoin as a payment method for theatre tickets by the end of this year. Payments with Bitcoin will be made online and will be accepted in all AMC theatres across the US. The company will also add...
China's Xiaomi released a quadrupedal robot, the CyberDog, following Boston Dynamics' lead. The robot, designed for developers to build upon and create applications for, can respond to voice commands, detect motion, navigate obstacles, follow its owner, and pick out individuals in a group via face tracking. It’s also capable...
South Africa has granted the world’s first patent for a device invented by an AI system called ‘Device for Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience’ (DABUS). The patent is for an interlocking food container that helps robots grip and stack objects and was designed by the AI using fractal geometry....
