Sep 15(ABC):The sporty all-electric car from the Netherlands resembles a BMW coupe, but is unique: It captures more carbon than it emits. “Our end goal is to create a more sustainable future,” said Jens Lahaije, finance manager for TU/ecomotive, the Eindhoven University of Technology student team that created the car. Called ZEM, for zero emission mobility, the two-seater houses a …

Sep 15(ABC):A former NASA Astronaut confirmed that the colour of the sun is actually white and not yellow. Scott Kelly confirmed the space fact on Twitter after it was shared by an account called “Latest in Space”. While it is actually white, the dwarf star appears yellow because of the earth’s atmosphere. Therefore, once a person surpasses the atmospheric layer …

Sep 13(ABC): During his research on phase transitions in Vanadium Dioxide (VO2), Mohammad Samizadeh Nikoo, a Ph.D. student at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s (EPFL) Power and Wide-band-gap Electronics Research Laboratory (POWERlab), made an unexpected finding. When relaxed at room temperature, VO2 has an insulating phase and experiences a sharp insulator-to-metal transition at 68 °C, where its lattice structure changes. According to …

Sep 13(ABC):The newly launched iPhone 14 has an added feature for safety, letting users send SOS messages via satellite when outside of phone service and cell phone reception. Apple announced that the feature will be free for users for two years for iPhone 14 users. iPhone 14 has the unique feature of connecting to satellites with a system that will …

Sep 13(ABC): Zoom Video Communications Inc said it has renamed its chat product and added some features, including third party integration, as it looks to compete with rivals including Microsoft’s Teams and Slack. Zoom’s app, now known as Zoom Team Chat, will also include features such as the ability to share in-meeting chat to Team Chat, schedule a meeting from …

MILTON KEYNES, Sep 13(ABC): Autonomous vehicle (AV) startups have raised tens of billions of dollars based on promises to develop truly self-driving cars, but industry executives and experts say remote human supervisors may be needed permanently to help robot drivers in trouble. The central premise of autonomous vehicles — that computers and artificial intelligence will dramatically reduce accidents caused by human error — has …

Sep 12(ABC): Instagram will soon be testing reposts, something that’s never been available in the main feed part of the app but is a key feature on Facebook and Twitter. It was first spotted on the profile of Twitter CEO Adam Mosseri by a social media consultant, and Instagram later confirmed it with a technology blog. “We’re exploring the ability …

Sep 12(ABC):Online gaming firm Roblox said on Friday it plans to launch 3D advertising on its platform next year, as it strives to diversify its revenue stream beyond in-game purchases. It will test ads with developers and a handful of advertisers by the end of this year, Roblox said at its annual developer’s conference. The 3D advertising, better known as …

Sep 12(ABC): A Chinese metaverse company has officially appointed an AI-powered virtual humanoid robot as the CEO, reported . Tang Yu, the robot, will lead the operations at China’s NetDragon Websoft. With this responsibility, she is going to become the first robot in history to hold an executive role in a firm. The announcement has shocked many as it seems to be a plot …

Abidjan, Sept 9 (ABC): Voice-operated smartphones are aiming at a vast yet widely overlooked market in sub-Saharan Africa — the tens of millions of people who face huge challenges in life because they cannot read or write. In Ivory Coast, a so-called “Superphone” using a vocal assistant that responds to commands in a local language is being pitched to the …