Open a music app and watch the queue subtly shift after you skip two downtempo tracks; click a thriller trailer and notice the first seconds spotlight the chase, not the romance; face a boss in a game and feel the patterns adapt to your playstyle. These micro-adjustments aren’t luck. They are the surface of Generative...
Visitors now step into rooms where 20,000-lumen projectors wash walls with moving color, spatial audio follows them like a spotlight, and headsets render virtual galleries at 90 frames per second. The result is one of the biggest shifts in museums and galleries since audio guides: Immersive and Multimedia Experiences in Art are turning passive viewing...
Everyday tech now edits your senses: a VR headset at 90 Hz can suppress nausea that a 60 Hz panel provokes, and a 1,000‑nit HDR display reveals shadow detail that SDR hides. Behind those upgrades are precise thresholds—milliseconds, pixels per degree, and decibels—that quietly decide whether your brain accepts a scene as real or rejects...
Ask a model to summarize a PDF, explain a chart within it, and read a paragraph aloud in a specific voice—without switching tools—and you have the promise of multimodality. In 2025, systems that understand and generate text, images, audio, and video are moving from demos to production, with practical limits and clear performance trade-offs that...
A factory can run 24/7 with fleets of mobile robots gliding at 1.5 m/s, yet the very same machines can stall at a shiny floor seam or a pallet jutting 4 cm into an aisle. That tension—sleek demos versus messy reality—is where Robots and Autonomy: Between Fantasy and Fact lives, and where smart teams turn...
A novelist invents a “spice” that enables faster‑than‑light navigation; a TV episode gamifies social reputation with five-star ratings. Both are compact laboratories for testing how scarcity, incentives, and infrastructure shape behavior. Treat Fiction as a Mirror: Society, Power, and Technology—not as prediction, but as a simulator whose dials you can measure, stress, and reuse. You...
Beneath skyline cranes and cycling lanes, a new rule of thumb is emerging: the average urbanite can cut cardiometabolic risk by 20–30% with 8,000–10,000 steps per day and two brief strength sessions per week, if they also watch air, heat, and noise. That is the pragmatic core of Urban Health: Fitness and Wellbeing of the...
One 60–80 g shampoo bar can replace two to three 250 ml plastic bottles, and the average adult uses around nine personal-care products daily. Multiply that across a year and a household, and the inputs—money, time, packaging, and water—scale quickly enough to feel inescapable. If you’re curious why people move toward cleaner formulas, minimal aesthetics,...
Every AI query rides an invisible supply chain: electricity drawn from grids with wildly different carbon intensities, water evaporated at cooling towers, and silicon manufactured in energy‑intensive fabs. A single month‑long training run on 10,000 GPUs can consume around 3–4 GWh after cooling overheads, emitting over a thousand tons of CO2e on a moderately clean...
Well done. You have not only survived the apocalypse but also ventured out into the unknown to restock your supplies. Grocery shopping has become a deadly game of Supermarket Sweep where contestants packing the most heat get the goods. You are learning to survive but are aware that the 24-hour supermarkets that once neatly stocked 40,000 of your favorite...