Faster vaccine testing. Shorter time to market for innovative new medicines. A clearer understanding of side effects for each individual patient. These are developments that could change the face of ...

The metaverse offers a new spin on a digital world You can participate in the metaverse as an avatar It’s easy to expose your portfolio to the metaverse with a Q.ai kit You’ve heard the term ...

Editor’s Note: Jane Thomason is a Dubai-based author on frontier technologies and social transformation, whose books include “Applied Ethics in a Digital World.” She is an editorial board member for ...

Speak to people working in the metaverse and one descriptor follows it around: “It’s like the Wild West.” Make of that what you will. Is it a new frontier for people seeking their fortune? A lawless ...

Marc Jennings, CIO of analytics and AI at travel and transport giant TUI, says the one big technology trend to watch out for next year is immersive technologies. As the cost of the hardware – such as ...

The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. But ...

Eric Pulier, the CEO of Vatom, is the creator of the first smart NFT and the founder of over 15 companies. Pulier has raised over $1 billion for companies he has founded or co-founded. He has achieved ...

A look inside Plethora Project's Common'hood, an immersive multiplayer game focused on building a new community within an abandoned factory after an economic collapse. Image via Plethora Project "I ...

Right now, the metaverse is alternately a hot buzzword (most major tech companies are eyeing its potential) and punch line (images of Mark Zuckerberg hanging out in a poorly rendered virtual-reality ...

One researcher says we should look beyond the hype to see how virtual reality can make scientists more effective. But to realize the benefits, researchers must also plan well and avoid potential ...

Smartphones are the most effective attention magnets ever created. Our infrequent breaks from using them are short. And as if the lure of their endless apps wasn’t enough to draw us back in, ...

This new supply chain is unlike anything we’ve seen before, not only because of the ambiguous boundary between the physical and virtual worlds, but also because of the questions of ownership and ...