Author: Nigel Pereira

Colossal’s “dire wolves” aren’t monsters, miracles, or evolutionary glitches. They’re gray wolves that are still very much alive in the modern gene pool. When a company like Colossal Biosciences says they’ve brought back dire wolves, it’s hard not to picture something straight out of Game of Thrones. Giant, prehistoric canines stalking snowy forests, maybe snarling at drones. But the truth, as usual, is a lot less cinematic. In April 2025, Colossal revealed three cloned wolf pups, Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi, claiming they had “de-extincted” the legendary dire wolf. Headlines exploded. Twitter did its thing. But scientists? Scientists were like: hang…

The most exciting thing about Open Bionics’ latest launch isn’t the tech, it’s the shift in thinking. Instead of looking at people with prosthetic limbs with pity, it’s time to look at them with awe and envy! Open Bionics is back, and it’s not playing safe. After years of evolving the world’s first medically certified 3D-printed bionic arm, the UK startup has now launched two new models: the Hero Arm Pro and Hero Arm R&D. One’s built for life, the other for the lab, but both are built for people. Whether you’re unlocking a front door or unlocking new robotics…

While Schrödinger’s famous feline started out as a thought experiment nearly a century ago, today it is all set to shape the next generation of computing hardware. There’s this old quantum thought experiment, maybe you’ve heard of it, about a cat stuck in a sealed box, somehow both alive and dead until someone peeks inside. It was originally cooked up to poke fun at how bizarre quantum physics sounds. Ironically, that same idea is now behind one of the biggest advances in quantum computing. Scientists have now taken inspiration from Schrödinger’s infamous feline to create a new kind of qubit,…

With AlphaFold and machine learning in the mix, we’re entering an era of precision exploration, where the next breakthrough treatment might be born in code, not in a beaker or round-bottom flask. It’s not every day that artificial intelligence stumbles into a psychedelic trip, but here we are. In a surprising twist of machine learning meets molecular chemistry, researchers have used DeepMind’s AlphaFold, originally built to predict protein structures, to identify thousands of potential psychedelic compounds. Yes, you read that right. What started off as a breakthrough in decoding biology’s 3D puzzles has now become a treasure hunt for previously…

By sending precise sound waves into specific brain regions to stimulate neural activity, Prophetic is offering a new tool in the growing category of “consciousness tech.” Welcome to part three of dreamtech’s weird little evolution. If you missed the first two, here’s the quick catch-up: In 2024, we posted about a device that could reconstruct dream visuals using fMRI data and diffusion models, basically turning your sleep hallucinations into short films. Then in 2025, we posted about communicating with lucid dreamers in real time. Now, we’ve got something that sounds straight out of science fiction: the “prophetic halo,” a neural…

With the first hardware-software combo designed to give humanoid robots a brain worthy of the name, the AI revolution in robotics is officially out of beta. The AI revolution in robotics is officially out of beta. After teasing us with Project GR00T in 2024 and blowing minds with COSMOS at CES 2025, NVIDIA has now pulled back the curtain on Isaac GR00T N1, the first hardware-software combo designed to give humanoid robots a brain worthy of the name. Think of it as the missing link between big language models and real-world dexterity. It’s not just about walking, talking bots anymore;…

Sure, AI is still funny, but when it starts talking about stealing nuclear codes while advising teenagers to kill their parents to avoid screen time restrictions, the line between hilarious and horrifying slowly starts to disappear…. AI failures are usually innocent enough, spelling mistakes in images, autocorrect errors, bizarre chatbot replies, or photo generators that mess up human hands and turn fingers into spaghetti. But beneath the laughs lies a murkier layer of digital unease. In 2025, as generative models get smarter, faster, and eerily more “human,” their outbursts have started to feel less like innocent bugs and more like…

Leveraging the ocean’s natural cooling properties to significantly reduce energy consumption, this innovative facility marks a pivotal advancement in sustainable AI. In a move toward sustainable computing, China has unveiled the world’s first commercial underwater data centre off the coast of Hainan Province. Leveraging the ocean’s natural cooling properties to significantly reduce energy consumption, this innovative facility marks a pivotal advancement in sustainable AI. Equipped with over 400 high-performance servers with power roughly equivalent to that of about 30,000 high-end gaming PCs, this single data centre can handle over 7,000 DeepSeek AI queries per second, including complex tasks like AI…

With Robot Soldiers now part of our national defense roadmap, the future of warfare will undoubtedly include India’s smartest machines! If you told someone ten years ago that India would one day deploy humanoid robots alongside its soldiers, they’d probably say that you’ve been watching too many Terminator movies. We started off the “Slaughterbots” series with our first post in 2022 which inspired a conversation that ultimately became a podcast that you can listen to here. We also wrote about Robots in Ukraine and Gaza about a year later. Today? It’s part of our national defense roadmap. The Indian armed…

AI is changing the world in 2025, we know that already. The question, however, is are those changes going to make our lives easier or even more complicated than we ever thought possible? Artificial intelligence in 2025 is a lot like a human teenager who just discovered caffeine, unstoppable, slightly unpredictable, and possibly about to make some really questionable decisions. AI is in everything now. Your phone predicts your texts so well it’s basically reading your mind. AI-generated influencers are raking in the millions while real humans wonder if they should start acting more robotic to keep up. Even your…