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Inside the cozy but creepy world of VR sleep rooms

Feeling safe is crucial for relaxation and sleep, even if you are alone in your own bed at home.  But I entered a sleep room one day and immediately heard the voice... Read more »

Evolutionary organizations reimagine the future

The global technology consultancy Thoughtworks describes organizations that can respond to marketplace changes with continuous adaptation as “evolutionary organizations.” It argues that, instead of focusing only on technology change, organizations should focus... Read more »

The Download: China’s retro AI photos, and experts’ AI fears

Across social media, a number of creators are generating nostalgic photographs of China with the help of AI. Even though these images get some details wrong, they are realistic enough to trick... Read more »

Chinese creators use Midjourney’s AI to generate retro urban “photography”

If you saw these images pop up on your timeline, would you be able to tell if they were real photographs of the southwestern city of Chongqing in the 1990s? Zhang Haijun... Read more »

The emergent industrial metaverse

Annika Hauptvogel, head of technology and innovation management at Siemens, describes the industrial metaverse as “immersive, making users feel as if they’re in a real environment; collaborative in real time; open enough... Read more »

Delivering insights at scale by modernizing data 

This data is often siloed in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. However, with ERP data modernization, businesses can integrate data from multiple sources, which will ensure data accessibility and create the framework... Read more »

Technology and industry convergence: A historic opportunity

And it’s that combination of technology and human ingenuity, as we say, and as Danielle just alluded to in her medical example on cancer treatment, that is really where the greatest value... Read more »

The Download: the threat of microplastics, and mitigating AI bias

The news: While we know that tiny pieces of plastic are everywhere, we don’t fully understand what they’re doing to us or other animals. Now, new research in seabirds hints that it... Read more »

What if we could just ask AI to be less biased?

Last week, I published a story about new tools developed by researchers at AI startup Hugging Face and the University of Leipzig that let people see for themselves what kinds of inherent biases AI... Read more »

Microplastics are messing with the microbiomes of seabirds

To find out if the microbes being introduced might be “good” or “bad”, Fackelmann and her colleagues analyzed the microbiomes and looked up individual types of microbes in databases to work out... Read more »