A European satellite that measures the Earth’s winds using lasers had a close encounter with one of SpaceX’s Starlink constellation yesterday in a situation that illustrates the growing inadequacy of existing systems for global coordination of […]
Apple has joined the dubious company of Google and Amazon in secretly sharing with contractors audio recordings of its users, confirming the practice to The Guardian after a whistleblower brought it to the outlet. The person
Siri recordings ‘regularly’ sent to Apple contractors for analysis, claims whistleblower Continue »
We all rely on maps to get where we’re going or investigate a neighborhood for potential brunch places, but the data we’re looking at is often old, vague or both. Nexar, maker of dashcam apps and
Nexar’s Live Map is like Street View with pictures from 5 minutes ago Continue »
While the agility of a Spot or Atlas robot is something to behold, there’s a special merit reserved for tiny, simple robots that work not as a versatile individual but as an adaptable group. These “tribots”
These robo-ants can work together in swarms to navigate tricky terrain Continue »
Luminar is one of the major players in the new crop of lidar companies that have sprung up all over the world, and it’s moving fast to outpace its peers. Today the company announced a new
Luminar eyes production vehicles with $100M round and new Iris lidar platform Continue »
A team of German researchers has created an automatic landing system for small aircraft that lets them touch down not only without a pilot, but without any of the tech on the ground that lets other
Watch a plane land itself truly autonomously for the first time Continue »
As autonomous cars and robots loom over the landscapes of cities and jobs alike, the technologies that empower them are forming sub-industries of their own. One of those is lidar, which has become an indispensable tool
Startups at the speed of light: Lidar CEOs put their industry in perspective Continue »
Facial recognition is a controversial enough topic without bringing in everyday policing and the body cameras many (but not enough) officers wear these days. But Axon, which makes many of those cameras, solicited advice on the
Police body-cam maker Axon says no to facial recognition, for now Continue »
After a relatively quiet show last year, Computex picked up the pace this year, with dueling chip launches by rivals AMD and Intel and a slew of laptop releases from Asus, Qualcomm, Nvidia, Lenovo and other
There’s a whole lot of ocean on this planet, and we don’t have much of an idea what’s at the bottom of most of it. That could change with the craft and techniques created during the
Teams autonomously mapping the depths take home millions in Ocean Discovery Xprize Continue »
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