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...
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...
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...
You might not realise it but you’ve probably seen Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince before. They’re there as passengers on the double-decker bus taking Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) to London’s Temple Church in the film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, and their presence in the scene was no accident. Rather, it was...
It’s funny how people will take lies as gospel and give power to people who have the worst of intentions. It’s gone on for thousands of years, as Cicero pointed out in Roman times: “[F]or there are not so many possessed of virtue as there are that desire to seem virtuous. These last are delighted...