Author: Nigel Pereira

Light Bio has also received approval from the United States Department of Agriculture to sell its plants in all 48 states of the US. From the glow friends of the 80s to the glowing stars and planets we stick to our ceilings, to glowing watches, and our obsession with fireflies, humans love shiny things that glow. Glowing plants are a part of almost every animated movie including some famous CGI movies like The Life of Pi where there’s an entire glowing island or Avatar where there’s an entire glowing planet. While there have been successful attempts to make plants glow…

Technology has made all of us hungry for quick fixes like app updates that fix bugs. Unfortunately…. While blocking out the sun to cool down the earth may sound crazy to a lot of people, that’s exactly what solar geoengineering is, and apparently, it has become a “respectable” idea of late. In addition to the European Commission and the US government, solar geoengineering has also become a major focus point for the Climate Overshoot Commission and the UN. What’s also strange about this particular branch of science is that it’s almost exclusively being funded and pushed down our throats by…

With most of us already addicted to the 2D screens in our pockets, holographic communication could be the deep end of the technology pool that we actually lose ourselves in. If you were born in the 80s, the most iconic holographic message you have ever seen is without a doubt Princess Leia’s message to Luke, Obi-Wan, and C3PO in Star Wars. If you watched that movie and thought “One day such a thing could actually happen,” the day has come and the thing, has happened. Holographs are real, as real as a holographic version of the late Tupac Shakur who…

Ever wish you could smell what’s cooking on your screen? Smells imprint in our long-term memory like nothing else and while these AI devices currently add smells to video games, they could be used for a variety of applications in the future. Have you ever been walking or driving through some random location and you suddenly smell something that immediately transports you back in time with an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia? That’s the power of the sense of smell, it can trigger deep emotional responses and is often used to help people remember emotional memories. This is probably because the…

While most people expect Quantum computers to be the ones that disrupt our conventional hardware, there’s still a lot of work to be done before they go mainstream. Neuromorphic computers, on the other hand, have a very real chance of upgrading us from our binary system of 1s and 0s. The main difference between ChatGPT 3 and ChatGPT 4 is the scale (or number of parameters). In a recent JRE podcast, Jeremie and Edouard Harris, co-founders of Gladstone AI, talk about how every major player is throwing computational resources at its models in order to scale them up. They also…

In the present day, you age about a year but get back about 4 months, so you effectively age only 8 months. In 5 years, however, he predicts we will get back the full 12 months and even more, effectively reversing the aging process. In a recent Joe Rogan podcast, Ray Kurzweil, computer scientist, inventor, futurist, and author of recent titles like “The Singularity is Nearer,” talks about human beings achieving what he calls “longevity escape velocity” in the next 5 years. He then goes on to explain that in the present day, you age about a year but thanks…

How did a Bhopal-based startup with one solitary car in its inventory achieve something that eludes Elon Musk’s Tesla with virtually limitless resources at its disposal? According to Anand Mahindra, Chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra, the answer is complex mathematics! When testing an autonomous driving system, the chaotic streets of India would probably be the hardest challenge. That being said, last year, Bhopal-based startup Swaayatt Robotics announced it had achieved the world’s first autonomous level 5 driving system. Considering Tesla was stuck at level 2 at the time (and probably still is), that’s a pretty bold statement from a small…

The world’s first fully autonomous AI-powered restaurant is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of Nvidia’s presence in the food industry, where it aims to make AI as commonplace as burgers and fries. While Jensen Huang started Nvidia in a Denny’s Breakfast Booth over 20 years ago, the world’s first fully autonomous restaurant was just launched in Pasadena, CA, powered by Nvidia’s latest AI chips. In a recent post, we talked about Nvidia’s Project GR00T and how robots can now mimic human actions purely by observation (as opposed to programming through code). In this post, we’re talking about…

According to a patent filed by Apple on the 21st of May ’24, a folding phone could well be in the works, with the added ability to repair itself from “minor” scratches and dents. The self-healing screen will either cover the entire display or just the bendy bit, and will work autonomously. Flip phones were all the rage in the early 2000s, with the convenience of being able to fold them shut along with the ability to stylishly flip them open to take calls, almost everyone had one. While they’ve disappeared for a while, they’re coming back in a big…

Helping people overcome disabilities is probably one of the most noble causes you could use AI to tackle. In this post, we look at AI-powered glasses for the blind, as well as AI-powered gloves, and throat patches for the hearing and speech impaired. While the internet is flooded with stories about AI doing everything from writing code to making music, helping people overcome disabilities is probably one of the most noble causes you could use AI to tackle. Not every blind person has access to a seeing-eye dog, and a person who is deaf or hearing impaired doesn’t always have…