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Searching for people buried under rubble, inspecting hazardous sites, pollinating crops or monitoring the environment. These are some of the goals that researchers around the world are hoping to achieve with 'cyborg' insects.

A team of researchers are developing an "underwater Wi-Fi" that works beneath the waves. This and other systems are used to connect to the Internet in remote places such as the ocean, Antarctica and outer space.

A team of engineers has developed a robot that can jump over moats, climb walls or escape from a cage, all with the aid of a magnetic field. Yet despite its enormous potential in the fields of medicine and electronics, it is not yet fully autonomous and has some limitations.

The world's biggest annual tech news event, CES, offers a preview of the technologies that will take centre stage in the near future: from the rise of telemedicine to increasingly futuristic cars, the metaverse and Web3.

Thousands of tech workers have lost their jobs at companies such as Meta, Twitter, Google and Amazon. While some experts blame the massive layoffs on the previous high number of hirings and the economic recession, others argue that it is an indication that companies are copying each other without thinking through the consequences.