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China just built a camera so powerful it can identify a face from 63 miles away. Not from a drone. Not from a plane. From space. The technology is called synthetic aperture lidar (SAL), a system that fires pulses of light and measures the reflections to create...
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An invisible hand guiding objects across the water? Not science fiction anymore. A team of researchers, led in part by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, has cracked the code on manipulating water waves to precisely control floating objects. Their trick?...
DeepMind’s AI Robot Just Slam-Dunked Reality—And That’s Only the Beginning
Google DeepMind has done it. They’ve taken their most advanced large language model, Gemini, and plugged it into robots. The result? A machine that can slam-dunk a miniature basketball without ever watching another robot do it. This isn’t just party trick...
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For years, megalodon has been miscast as a great white shark on steroids. Turns out, that’s completely wrong. New research suggests this prehistoric killer was longer, leaner, and built for energy-efficient cruising—more like a monstrous lemon shark than a bloated...
Japan’s Robot Uprising—at Your Favorite Restaurant
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