CANBERRA, Oct 7(ABC): An Australian start-up has announced a plan to grow plants on the Moon as early as 2025. Lunaria One on Friday launched its Australian Lunar Experiment Promoting Horticulture (ALEPH) — a collaborative project with institutions including the Australian National University (ANU) to investigate whether plant life can thrive on the lunar surface. Caitlin Byrt, an associate professor …

Oct 7(ABC): Fast-food French fries and onion rings are going high-tech, thanks to a company in Southern California. Miso Robotics Inc in Pasadena has started rolling out its Flippy 2 robot, which automates the process of deep frying potatoes, onions and other foods. A big robotic arm like those in auto plants — directed by cameras and artificial intelligence — takes frozen …

Oct 7(ABC): Two substances in the saliva of wax worms — moth larvae that eat wax made by bees to build honeycombs — readily break down a common type of plastic, researchers said on Tuesday, in a potential advance in the global fight against plastic pollution. The researchers said the two enzymes identified in the caterpillar saliva were found to rapidly …

ISLAMABAD, Oct 3 (ABC): TikTok is continuing its efforts toward family safety with its unique Family Pairing feature, which allows parents and teens to customize their safety settings based on individual needs. With its #FamilyFirst initiative, TikTok aims to create awareness on how parents can use the Family Pairing Feature to monitor activities on their teens’ accounts including DMs, notifications, …

Oct 3(ABC): Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk said that the Tesla Cybertruck, which has not yet been created, will be powerful and secure enough to act “briefly as a boat” if the need be. Taking to Twitter, the CEO said that the future truck that looks like it is straight from a SciFi movie will be waterproof with the ability to “cross …

Oct 3(ABC): Meta has launched a new art-generating tool by developing an AI that creates videos with simple text prompts, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday. The results of the tool are quite impressive and in the words of the CEO  “pretty amazing”. Called Make-A-Video, artificial intelligence in the system uses existing images to “understand motion in the physical world …

Oct 1(ABC): Vollebak which revolutionizes clothes via science and technology introduced the first thermal camouflage Jacket, a piece of outerwear that can be computer-programmed to make the person vanish in front of infrared cameras. The jacket establishes the basis for and validates the possibility of an invisibility cloak, even though the work is still in the prototype stage. The jacket …

Oct 1(ABC): Google announced that it is completely shutting down Stadia, their game streaming service, in January 2023. Stadia reached its end after it was first announced live at GDC 2019. The games collection will be accessible to subscribers until January 18 of the following year, when it will permanently close. Phil Phil Harrison, Vice President and General Manager, Stadia, …

OSLO, Oct 1(ABC): Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson (ERICb.ST) has been contracted to build a 5G network in Greenland, initially covering three towns, local phone company Tusass said. Deploying Ericsson equipment and Netgear (NTGR.O) routers, Tusass will bring high-speed wireless internet to the sparsely populated island without resorting to expensive and hard-to-deploy cables, the company said. A further 10 towns, …

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 1(ABC): Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said a robot business will be worth more than its cars, and on Friday investors, customers and potential workers expect to see a prototype at Tesla’s “AI Day” that could prove whether the bot named “Optimus” is ready for work. The robot will be the star of the AI show, but Musk …