803 Results From "laser"

Scientists modeled how long it would take for an advanced alien race to colonize an entire Milky Way-like galaxy, assuming it would want to.
Science & Energy

Here’s How Quickly Aliens Could Conquer the Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

According to Bloomberg, Tesla is collaborating with Luminar, a LIDAR company "fool's errand" in 2019 — despite Elon Musk calling it a "fool's errand."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Said Tesla Would Never Use This Tech That It’s Now Using

By Victor Tangermann

Lakes and rivers on Mars likely dried up and reappeared several times over the course of history before they went away for good.
Science & Energy

The Lakes of Mars Likely Dried Up Multiple Times Before Totally Vanishing

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that orbital debris, to say nothing of still-operational satellite constellations, is impeding astronomers' work.
Science & Energy

Space Junk Is Literally Making the Sky Brighter, Astronomer Say

By Dan Robitzski

Europe Builds Autonomous Robotic Orb to Explore Lunar Caves
Robotics

Europe Builds Autonomous Robotic Orb to Explore Lunar Caves

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has released an incredible video of the pictures its Perseverance rover took right before landing on Mars on February 18th.
Mars

First-Person Vid Shows Perseverance Hurtling Toward Mars Surface

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has sent back a sweet selfie, a stunningly crisp self-image of the six-wheeled rover's "head."
Mars

NASA’s Mars Rover Just Took a Selfie and It’s Actually Beautiful

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists says that robodogs could become a suitable, lower-cost replacement for biological seeing eye dogs for visually impaired people.
Robot Dogs

Scientists Want to Replace Seeing Eye Dogs With Robodogs

By Dan Robitzski

Building fiber optic cables with a hollow, air-filled core could finally address an issue that's plagued the tech for 50 years.
Science & Energy

We Can Improve Fiber Optics by Filling Them With Air

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is building a huge dish in California that it hopes will allow Mars astronauts to communicate with Earth — using high-powered lasers.
Mars

NASA: Mars Astronauts Will Use Lasers to Communicate With Earth

By Jon Christian

The United States Navy claims that a Chinese warship fired a laser weapon at one of its surveillance aircraft last week, prompting diplomatic action.
Robots and Machines

US Claims China Fired Laser Weapon at Navy Spy Plane

By Jon Christian

NASA equipped the 2020 Mars rover with a powerful laser, capable of vaporizing rocks. It's an extreme way of learning what they're made of.
Science & Energy

Next NASA Mars Rover Will Sport a Rock-Vaporizing Laser

By Dan Robitzski

China is installing massive 20-megawatt generators to its warships to power high-energy weapons, including lasers and rail guns.
Energy

Chinese Navy Installs Generators to Power Rail Guns, Energy Weapons

By Victor Tangermann

A new satirical video ad created by Greta Thunberg's Fridays for Future campaign pokes fun at the idea of having the "one percent" escape to Mars.
Mars

Greta Thunberg Slams Mars Exploration, Says Earth Needs Help Instead

By Victor Tangermann

The US Navy is looking to arm nuclear submarines with high-energy laser weapons, according to Popular Mechanics. It won't reveal why.
Nuclear Fusion

The US Navy Wants to Arm Nuclear Submarines With Laser Cannons

By Victor Tangermann

The UK military has created a drone that's equipped with two shotgun barrels and a "machine vision" system to identify targets indoors.
Drones

UK Military Develops Drone With a Double Barreled Shotgun

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to powerful new lasers, scientists can now observe space debris orbiting the Earth during the daytime and better predict their paths.
Science & Energy

Scientists Saw Space Debris During the Day for the First Time

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers have built a true hologram, not unlike the ones seen in "Star Wars": a short loop of the Earth spinning on its axis.
Virtual Reality

Scientists Create True, “Star Wars”-Style Hologram

By Dan Robitzski

A new pair of AR smart glasses don't project an image onto its lenses. Instead, it uses lasers to shoot an image directly into the eyeball.
Virtual Reality

These AR Smart Glasses Shoot Lasers Directly Onto Your Retina

By Dan Robitzski

After being trained on the very bizarre news of the year 2020, GPT-3 had some particularly unusual guesses for what's coming next.
Artificial Intelligence

A Powerful AI Generated Some Predictions for the Future and They’re Quite Outrageous

By Dan Robitzski

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AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

By Victor Tangermann

Despite broadcasting a barrage of lies with its faulty AI summaries feature, Apple has yet to meaningfully address the problem.

Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

By Victor Tangermann

Tech startup Channel 1 released a 20 minute demo of its news channel presented by uncanny AI news anchors.

Channel 1 Says It’ll Use AI-Generated News Anchors

By Frank Landymore

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

By Sharon Adarlo