Emerging Tech

TechLife’s practical monthly roundup of emerging tech experiences with Joel Burgess, including all the latest virtual and augmented reality apps, alongside AI apps and other useful tools.

Apart from a VR controlled robot and Panasonic’s new steampunk HDR VR-goggles, the entire ET segment is dominated again by AI. It’s for good reason when you consider that AI is helping researchers discover illegal logging roads in the Amazon, and Google built a large language model four times faster than its current AI algorithm. Sadly there’s more negative AI development than ever this month with the instatement of a puppet AI oversight authority in the US, racially discriminatory facial recognition tech developed by Huawei and a news article condenser that means Facebook users don’t have to read more than bullet points anymore.