Worldwide, the amount of farm seaweed tripled between 2000 and 2024. Most seaweed in the world is grown in Asia. Now, farmers and entrepreneurs are looking to grow more seaweed in the US. It's the fastest growing segment of aquaculture. Seaweed is increasingly making its way into our grocery stores and onto our plates. It's in dietary...
It's a common situation: you ask a retail worker a non-standard question and the worker has to call the manager to find out. Now at stores around the world, including Target stores in the USA, chatbots are taking over for managers so that, instead of asking a manager, retail workers get help from AI. Accessible via handheld devices, the chatbot...
Over two thousand dogs have been cloned since 2005. Companies like ViaGen Pets & Equine report increasing demand for their services, with the firm cloning "more and more pets every year" since it started its pet cloning operations in 2015. The trend is also fueled by high-profile cases, such as celebrities like Barbra Streisand and Simon...
Stock photographers who survived the disruptive advent of digital cameras and online sales are bracing themselves for the next great tech shock: generative AI. Some are predicting the worst. “The stock photography industry is going away,” said Connecticut-based photographer Tony Northrup. “AI is ending it for the remaining photographers who...
A startup called Forward is introducing the CarePod, which it calls 'the world's first AI doctor's office.' CarePods offer AI-powered diagnostic tools for preventative care and monitoring in a self-service, standalone unit. Patients step inside, check in with an app and get access to vital sign measurements, biometric body scans and blood...
German supermarket Lidl is leveling the playing field for plant-based foods. By price-matching its Venmondo vegan products to their animal-based equivalents, Lidl is upending the higher pricing model traditionally associated with plant-based fare. The retailer introduced Vemondo in 2020; the vegan line now includes over 100 items. In addition...
A senior OpenAI employee opened a veritable can of worms this week when she claimed that the latest version of ChatGPT, which now has voice recognition capabilities, is akin to talking with a human therapist. "Just had a quite emotional, personal conversation [with] ChatGPT in voice mode, talking about stress [and] work-life balance," Lilian...
Autonomous carmaker Cruise just started beta testing its robotaxis in Houston and it's not an inspiring start. The newly rolled-out self-driving vehicles caused a traffic jam when three of the cars slowed to a stop at an intersection, blocking all other vehicles from passing through while struggling to make sense of a four-way red light. That...
A new artificial intelligence algorithm has detected, for the first time ever, a killer asteroid slated to fly by Earth — and it won't be the last. Known as HelioLinc3D, the algorithm — created specifically for the still-under-construction Vera Rubin Observatory in Northern Chile — has already identified one "potentially hazardous asteroid" or...
IKEA is training call centre workers to become interior design advisers as the Swedish furniture giant aims to offer more home improvement services and hand run-of-the-mill customer queries to an artificial intelligence bot called Billie. In April, IKEA expanded its interior design services to the UK and United States, after previous launches...