Future
Exploring what’s next. Stories on emerging ideas, innovations, and trends shaping the future of technology, culture, and the world ahead.
Future
China planted 78 billion new trees but it came with an unexpected side effect
Billions of new trees being planted is a good thing, but it came with unexpected side effects
Company unveils bladeless wind turbines and they solve multiple problems
Can a fan without blades even work?
One of the world's largest cranes pulls off impressive feat by lifting 3 million pounds in an incredible and eye-catching way
This demonstration of crane power is unbelievable
Laser cleaning system removes printed text from papers and allows them to be used as a blank slate again and this is how it works
Keep a laser away from your documents…
An 85-year-old, 7,600-tonne building is relocated 203ft in China using 198 robotic legs
Rather than demolishing the five-story building, engineers found a way to lift the entire structure and carefully shuffle it to a new location
China creates world's largest magnet that weighs 582 tonnes to help build an artificial sun
It will have a big job to do
This prompt will make sure ChatGPT tells the truth all the time even when you already think it's doing so
Don’t let ChatGPT tell porkie pies!
Mississippi professor comes up with genius way to catch his students out for cheating with AI
Dr. Jason Gibson wanted to see if his students were using AI
Scientists have discovered the oldest age humans can live to even if we beat the aging process
Time always catches up…
This is how much water AI data centers actually use and why it's a complex issue
Quite how thirsty are these ginormous centers?
'Godfather of AI' says AI is 'already conscious' and warns what action is needed to keep us all safe
AI being conscious is the least of our worries…
World AI Cooperation Organization has been formed with 29 countries signing up to be part of it
World AI Cooperation Organization, assemble!
Man uses 500 disposable vapes and DIY solar to see if he can live entirely off-grid
Can he go off the grid?
Man creates 'ghost font' that all humans can read but is impossible for AI models to read or process
The typeface was developed by designer Eric Lu