Month: December 2020 (Page 2)
The Venus One Tourism Academy in Tegalalang, Bali, has started allowing its students to pay their tuition fees with coconuts.
The program is meant to aid those who are struggli…
A new study has found that media multitasking, which refers to using different devices or apps at the same time, could lead to poor memory.
Researchers from Stanford University…
In a surprising social media post, Burger King UK encouraged customers to order and buy food from its archrival McDonald’s and other competitors.
The Twitter p…
Stanford University researchers have designed and used a unique drone system to survey penguin colonies in Antarctica.
Penguin colonies are important in tracking the state of g…
American retail company Walmart has announced that it will stop using robots in the 500 stores where the machines are deployed.
Walmart chose to terminate its …
A couple named their baby girl “Twifia” after the Swiss internet company Twifi to get free home internet for 18 years.
In an online advertisement, Twifi dared …
Robots and machines will handle half of all jobs by 2025, according to a recent report by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The report surveyed 300 of the world’s largest compani…
A German software engineer developed a website that displays a map of McDonald’s ice cream machines and tells whether they are broken or working.
Rashiq Zahid created the websi…
A team of scientists from the University of California has uncovered the mystery behind the extreme durability of an insect called the diabolical ironclad beetle.
The study unc…
Engineers from Purdue University have developed a white paint that can keep surfaces cooler than their ambient surroundings.
The new super-white paint reflects…