790 Results From "laser"

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 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

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

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

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

China is reportedly working on a "laser attack platform" for cannons that can be attached to its military's planes, the South China Morning Post reports.
Future Society

China Wants to Mount Laser Cannons on Its Fighter Jets

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla patented a system that would replace good old fashioned windshield wipers with actual laser beams that zap away debris.
Tesla

Tesla Wants to Replace Windshield Wipers With Lasers

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

During a test, a powerful laser weapon system on board the amphibious US Navy ship USS Portland "successfully disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle."
Energy

Watch the US Military Kill an Aircraft With an Energy Weapon

By Victor Tangermann

New optical tweezers can pick up objects as small as ten nanometers, potentially improving the way biologists investigate molecules.
Biology

Engineers Build Tweezers So Tiny They Can Pick Up Individual Molecules

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has built a system that could make landing on the Moon or Mars a whole lot less risky — and it already has plans to test it out on an upcoming mission.
Moon

NASA Has Figured Out a New Way to Safely Land on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The U.S. Army is developing a series of Robotic Combat Vehicles armed with powerful weapons that can semi-autonomously navigate a battlefield.
Robotics

US Army Readies Robot Tanks Fitted With Chainguns, Missile Launchers

By Dan Robitzski

If I were dropped in Jezero crater with a pressurized spacesuit, could I defeat NASA’s mighty Perseverance rover in mortal combat? 
Mars

People Want NASA’s Mars Rover to Fight the Chinese Mars Rover

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists built a low-cost system that can be mounted on a standard camera and make infrared light visible to the human eye.
Physics

Scientists Found a Way to Make Infrared Light Visible to Humans

By Dan Robitzski

Chilean protestors banded together to disable a hovering police drone using hundreds of consumer laser pointers in a dazzling concerted effort.
Future Society

Watch Protestors Kill a Drone Using Hundreds of Laser Pointers

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists build a superconducting material that works at room temperature, albeit under extremely high pressures.
Science & Energy

Scientists Finally Built a Room-Temperature Superconductor

By Dan Robitzski

The 14 Least and Most Effective Kinds of Masks: Ranked! By Scientists!
Developments

The 14 Least and Most Effective Kinds of Masks: Ranked! By Scientists!

By Victor Tangermann

The US Army is developing augmented reality goggles for dogs to help protect their human guardians by allowing them to command the dog from a distance.
Military

The US Military Developed AR Goggles For Dogs

By Victor Tangermann

A team of German physicists managed to pack up light — and unpack it 1.2 millimeters away without altering it in the process.
Quantum Physics

Physicists Just Stored and Transported Light Itself

By Victor Tangermann

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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