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In 2024, Qatar Airways, a frequent winner of the World’s Best Airline award, released its AI “social media ambassador,” Sama (meaning “sky” in Arabic), at the travel conference IBT Berlin. At the start of 2025, Sama was brought to the public with the Instagram profile @SamaOnTheMove. The word “human” comes up more times than you would probably guess for a release about an AI product.
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The Built Environment Ecosystem Measurements Lab (BEEM Lab) is an immersive visualization facility co-designed with Yale CEA architects and research scientists. This state-of-the-art lab enables the simultaneous analysis of multiple data types while immersing participants in dynamic and interactive presentations.
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Much of what's showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show typically doesn't end up on the market. Fortunately, some of the best smart glasses we saw at the show likely will, making the product category one of the most exciting ones going into the rest of 2025.
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Surface electromyography (sEMG) technology at the wrist represents the next groundbreaking way for people to control devices throughout their day. This non-invasive wrist device senses and interprets muscle activations that can be used as computer inputs in the form of a human-computer interface (HCI). This will enable people to control their devices “on-the-go” using simple, easy, and expressive input—without needing to shift their attention to a touchscreen or another physical input device.
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Picture a scene. Your eyes are met with such abundant impressions that they flit swiftly from one to the next. Just as something catches your gaze, another calls from the periphery. So you move on. As you do again. And again after that. Suddenly, as if time were a vapor, you’ve spent an hour shuffling your attention between curious things. This scene could well describe the modern experience of scrolling Instagram or TikTok. But it also captures the sensory rush of stepping into a cabinet of curiosities centuries ago. Much as we find ourselves drowning in content today, these so-called Wunderkammern, literally “wonder chambers,” put the information overload wrought by European colonization and foreign trade on indulgent display.
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The collaboration, titled ‘Re:Imagine London’, is a video game experience within the game where players can explore and build within a virtual London. The partnership’s goal was to encourage players to start exploring urban development and engagement by gamifying a sandbox development.
According to Zaha Hadid Architects, players will be invited to create buildings and walkable areas within a sustainable and mixed-used planning environment.
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Automating food is unlike automating anything else. Food is fundamental to life – nourishing body and soul – so how it’s accessed, prepared and consumed can change societies fundamentally.
Automated kitchens aren’t sci-fi visions from “The Jetsons” or “Star Trek.” The technology is real and global. Right now, robots are used to flip burgers, fry chicken, create pizzas, make sushi, prepare salads, serve ramen, bake bread, mix cocktails and much more. AI can invent recipes based on the molecular compatibility of ingredients or whatever a kitchen has in stock. More advanced concepts are in the works to automate the entire kitchen for fine dining.
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The present is overwhelmed with complex global challenges–polycrises that threaten to persist into the future. In this context, the need for a framework that necessitates policymakers consider long-term impacts when making decisions has never been more critical. The United Nations’ report, Our Common Agenda, proposes a landmark solution: a Pact for the Future and a Declaration on Future Generations.
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XR is in the initial part of a new cycle where mixed reality, spatial mapping and computing, and AI are starting to become always more relevant. But the devices are still bulky, expensive, and full of friction, and this creates an innovation dilemma for people wanting to make a business in immersive realities. Let me explain to you what I mean.
...Talking about the everyday use of XR, a few weeks ago it became viral on social media an experience developed during a hackathon where people could have an AI-powered cooking assistant on the Quest. I found it amazing, it’s absolutely cool that you can have an assistant who can analyze the content of your fridge and suggest to you what to cook and how to do it.
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In the midst of climate crisis, how humanity generates and uses energy counts among the most urgent and far-reaching systemic issues we face. I’m excited to share our latest experiential futures project, Tomorrow’s Energy Today, a series of playful, site-specific interventions designed to help imagine and catalyse energy transition at scale.
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