Future tech
Increasingly people are starting to acknowledge the importance of strategic planning for sustainable development. This might mean horizon scanning for your organisation or perhaps reading one of the government's Foresight Reports. Whether it is touchscreen tablets, holograms, robotics or cloud computing, technology can have a huge impact on our future. The internet, invented only 25 years ago, is a good example of how information technology has changed our world.

Prostate cancer is not just one disease, reveals new study

Prostate cancer affects one in eight men. Now, AI has helped scientists make a discovery that could revolutionise future treatment.
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What is ImageFX? All you need to know about Google's new AI image generator

Like OpenAI’s Dall-E, ImageFX can create full images from just your prompts but is it any good and can you use it now?
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10 of the world's worst-ever inventions

From the electric tricycle to parachute coat, these are some of the most poorly received devices developed around the globe.
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The biggest science breakthroughs to look out for in 2024

Science in 2024 will see cutting-edge advances in everything from AI to health and space exploration. Here's what we have in our diary.
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This high-tech robot farm could change our food supply forever

Join the BBC’s Planet Earth III crew and go behind the scenes in the city farm that’s transforming fields into towers and running almost everything with robots.
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Police line-ups suck at catching criminals. Here’s how AI could fix them

How can we catch more bad guys and fewer innocent people? Spoiler: not through an Internet community of cat lovers.
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A mysterious force under Antarctica is changing how its ice melts

Scientists hope new, autonomous drones will reveal the geological secrets that have lain hidden beneath Antarctica's ice for millions of years.
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Shoe computers and regenerating kidneys: 12 strangest devices unveiled at 2023's biggest tech event

Bizarre robots, tiny factories, and helmets that send signals to your brain, GITEX 2023 had an array of strange new tech to check out.
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The best AI art generators in September 2023

We compared the best AI art generators out there, free and otherwise.
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The threat of AI is real. But there is a way to avoid it, this tech expert explains how

AI can do impressive things, but even the experts say it poses a very real threat to us. So should we put a hold on its development or is it already too late?
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An AI friend will always be on your side... until it threatens your free will

A real friend has a shoulder you can cry on. AIs may not have shoulders, but they'll listen to your troubles at any hour.
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How AI is changing the world of scams

Scammers can now create audio deepfakes of your friends and family.
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AI becoming sentient is risky, but that’s not the big threat. Here’s what is…

What if ‘will AIs pose an existential threat if they become sentient?’ is the wrong question? What if the threat to humanity is not that today’s AIs become sentient, but the fact that they won’t?
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