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02/05/2023

Flying across the world from Europe to Australia currently takes around 20 hours in a regular passenger jet. But Swiss startup Destinus is looking to slash that time to just four hours — by taking jet travel to hypersonic speeds.

Destinus is developing a prototype hydrogen-powered aircraft capable of travelling at five times the speed of sound.

10/04/2023

When managers believe that every complex problem requires a complicated solution, they wind up trying to tackle obstacles head-on and fail to parse essential complexity from the accidental.

Hackers are systems thinkers; they have an attitude that allows them to identify opportunities to make outsized impacts creatively, quickly, and resourcefully. Managers could benefit from thinking more like hackers. Hacking helps us take a step back from the worn-out management tenets of efficiency,...

27/03/2023

New large language models will transform many jobs. Whether they will lead to widespread prosperity or not is up to us.

20/03/2023

The first app to integrate GPT-4’s image-recognition abilities has been described as ‘life-changing’ by visually-impaired users.

Be My Eyes is the first digital visual assistant powered by OpenAI's headline-grabbing GPT-4 model.

17/03/2023

Various schemes get launched across Europe to help out households in need

With more renewable generation across Europe, we'll see increasing opportunities for sharing or cheaply distributing surplus energy to fight fuel poverty.

13/03/2023

We have seen a great deal of creativity as well as personalization in tasks such as text-to-image or in tasks such as text-to-audio. They also are accurate in text-to-science or text-to-code tasks. This can help economies in a major way as it can help optimize creative and non-creative tasks.

We have recently published a review on generative AI models. Here is the summary with a link to the full paper if you want to read more…

09/03/2023

Generative AI is entering the media — and hacks are getting worried.

The publisher of Britain's Daily Mirror has joined a growing list of media outlets using AI to the newsroom.

06/03/2023

ChatGPT is rapidly gaining popularity, and it’s not hard to see why. As more and more people discover its potential, new and creative use cases for the technology continue to emerge.

ChatGPT is rapidly gaining popularity, and it’s not hard to see why. As more and more people discover its potential, new and creative use…

02/03/2023

Here's a list of AI tools that can help you be more productive.

I’ve compiled 29 of the best AI tools I think will be useful for you.

27/02/2023

Is happiness only a matter of perception or do external circumstances also play a role? And is it possible for the whole world to be happier?

Meik Wiking, the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, talks about the big questions around happiness.

23/02/2023

Here are several factors you need to consider when deciding the team structure for effective software engineering teams.

Your dev team are the masterminds behind your product, website, or services. Here are some top tips on how to build a successful one.

20/02/2023

When it comes to investing in innovation, certain industries have flourished over others. Those that haven’t are now facing a do or die situation to keep up with the demands of a modern society, the ever-prominent concern around the climate crisis, inflation issues, and an aging population.

While some industries have adopted new tech at lightening speed, others are far behind. Find out which industries need an innovation boost.