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History shows the economic impact of technological advances is generally uncertain, unequal and sometimes outright malign. Rachel Graham has more.

Among the sheep and the local birdlife, space rockets are on the verge of being launched from a small Scottish island in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Worldcoin will expand its operations to sign-up more users globally and aims to allow other organizations to use its iris-scanning and identity-verifying technology, a senior manager for the company behind the project told Reuters.

Scientists from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute have managed to grow watermelons in one of the coldest and most extreme places on Earth – the Vostok research facility in Antarctica.

Researchers at Purdue University have developed a white paint that can cool surfaces by reflecting the sun's rays back into space.

A drone mail delivery service has started on a Scottish island chain in a British first.

To encourage Abu Dhabi residents to choose driverless rides, the UAE is offering free trips around Saadiyat and Yas Island on board the high-tech autonomous cars.

Tokyo's Seibu Railway is testing out an automated translation to help foreigners navigate one of Tokyo's most complex transportation hubs.

Genome analysis has revealed that a 46,000-year-old worm defrosted from the Siberian permafrost to be a new species.

Innovative use of drone technology to monitor the health of a rainforest has seen a group of scientists and researchers from Switzerland reach the final of the XPRIZE Rainforest, a $10 million global environmental competition.

A project by Argentine artist Santiago Barros uses artificial intelligence to imagine what the children of those who disappeared during the country's bloody military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983 would look like today. Ilan Rubens reports.

Airless tires - first devised for lunar rovers - could make punctures a thing of the past on earth and be much more sustainable than traditional all-rubber tires, according to the SMART Tire Company. Rosanna Philpott has more.

The metaverse will not just change how we see art in the future, but even what we consider to be a work of art, according to a former director of the prestigious Venice Biennale, Daniel Birnbaum. Isaine Blatry reports.

President Joe Biden announced on Friday (July 21) that a number of companies developing artificial intelligence software, including OpenAI, Alphabet, and Meta Platforms, have made voluntary commitments to the White House to implement measures such as watermarking AI-generated content to help make the technology safer.

Egyptian entrepreneur and neuro-rehabilitation specialist Mina Ashraf says he hopes his lightweight exoskeleton suit can help people with physical disabilities. His company "Cosmos Bionics" aims to make the tech accessible for people in Egypt and other developing countries.

An electric 18-wheel all-terrain vehicle (ATV) that can glide over rocks and tree trunks is being developed in Finland.

Elon Musk's new firm xAI is thinking big: it wants to give chatbots morality, and stop a tech superintelligence from wiping out humanity. Lucy Ha explains how.

Gerry and Elizabeth Paulus are sending their DNA into space in the upcoming Enterprise mission being launched by Celestis, a space burial company based out of Houston, Texas. Ilan Rubens reports.

A ‘digital bakery’ in Los Angeles is creating intricate candy treats using a first-of-its-kind 3D food printer that uses sugar to craft elaborate designs at scale. Alice Rizzo has more.

With long metal limbs, wires, and no face, a humanoid robot designed by Shanghai-based Fourier Intelligence is part of the tech industry’s efforts to grapple with an aging population.

Nadine, an AI-powered social robot with human-like gestures and expressions, could have an important future role to play in tending to the sick and elderly, according to professor Nadia Magnenat Thalmann who helped invent it.

Dozens of robots, including several humanoid ones, will appear at a conference organized by the U.N. technology agency in Switzerland to showcase their potential to help reach a series of increasingly improbable global goals. Ilan Rubens reports.

The concept of flying cars has long been a mainstay in people's imagination of the future. Now, that future may become a reality after California-based company Alef Aeronautics was given a limited certification by the United States Federal Aviation Administration (US FAA) to test-fly its own flying car.

A drone that can fly into a fire could help identify anyone trapped in a burning building or a wildfire, according to its developers.

Gray whales on the North American Pacific coast fell to their lowest population since the late 1960s this year but have shown encouraging signs such as an increased number of calves born and healthier looking animals, scientists report. Ilan Rubens has the details.