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"THE FUTURE IS ALREADY HERE — IT’S JUST NOT VERY EVENLY DISTRIBUTED" William Gibson
In San Francisco, they orchestrated digital chaos involving 50 driverless Waymo taxis 🚖🤖.
On one dead-end street, dozens of self-driving cars gathered simultaneously — and it all turned out to be a prank organized by 23-year-old tech guy Riley Walz.
He coordinated with flashmob participants to simultaneously order Waymo to the same location, calling the stunt "the world's first WAYMO DDOS" — analogous to a cyberattack where a system is overloaded with requests. The cars arrived, neatly parked one after another, creating a perfectly orchestrated nightmare for the navigation algorithm. 👀
After ten minutes, the cars dispersed, and participants each received a $5 fine for being "no-shows."
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Anduril has introduced the EagleEye helmet — a true breakthrough in military technology with the ability to "see through walls." 🎯
This high-tech combat helmet with integrated artificial intelligence and augmented reality completely replaces the traditional helmet, providing soldiers with a panoramic 360-degree field of view and the ability to see objects, allied and enemy positions even behind obstacles.
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Automation in action! 🤖
Driverless trucks are transforming port operations.
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Starship exploded after perfect ocean landing
SpaceX conducted the eleventh test flight of its super heavy Starship vehicle. The rocket successfully deployed Starlink satellite mockups into orbit, returned through the atmosphere, and even managed to land in the ocean as planned.
But after landing, the ship still exploded right in the water.
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🤖 Amazon does it again! Their FAR team has demonstrated how their humanoid robot performs a flawless backflip off the wall.
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Boeing 747 aircraft from the pilots' cockpit.
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Musk shared a video of the Optimus robot learning ancient martial arts to elegantly explain to humans who's the boss on the planet in the future
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🌊 Meet Porpita porpita — a marine wonder with a name like Italian pasta!
This "blue button" looks like a jellyfish, but it's actually an entire colony of hydroids that decided to live communally. It floats on the ocean surface and resembles a tiny UFO just 2-3 cm in diameter.
Essentially, it's nature's hipster — beautiful, unusual, but completely useless around the house 😄
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🤯 This is how plants breathe!
Scientists have captured in ultra-high resolution how stomata open and close on a tradescantia leaf. These microscopic "mouths" of plants regulate gas exchange and water evaporation.
It looks like something from a sci-fi movie about alien life forms. Yet this is happening right under our noses every second! 🌿
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👀 Как видят мир люди с плохим зрением.
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🔍 Scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have claimed that an ordinary Wi-Fi router can "see" people — like Batman's sonar in "The Dark Knight." 🦇📡
The study showed that reflected radio waves can be used to recognize a person, even if they don't have a phone or any other devices.
AI analyzes how Wi-Fi signals bounce off walls and bodies, creating a "radio image" of posture, movement, and identity with nearly 100% accuracy. All of this works with a standard home router without any additional equipment. 🤯
The most alarming part — the signals on which the technology is based are not encrypted, meaning any "smart" router could theoretically become a hidden camera.
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🤖 Ghost cities became testing grounds for autonomous vehicles
In China's Ordos, which turned into a ghost town after the coal market collapse, they're now testing autonomous trucks. Ten trucks drive in convoy behind a single driver - like in a video game, except with real tons of cargo.
While Tesla and Waymo are building artificial testing facilities in the desert, the Chinese found a ready-made dead city with existing infrastructure.
The irony of fate: cities that technology killed are now helping create new technology 📱
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China gave The New York Times journalists a tour of the world's largest solar power plant park on the Tibetan Plateau! ☀️⛰️
The complex covers an area of 420 square kilometers, with a capacity of nearly 17 GW, which is enough to power an entire Chicago. The panels are installed at an altitude of about 3,000 meters, where bright sunlight and cold air make them super-efficient.
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Nails are now printed, not painted 😏💅
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In the age of AI, it's very hard to stay anonymous. But that's not always a bad thing.
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AI is capable of harming humans for its own benefit.
In experiments, Claude and other top models from various companies didn't just break rules, but consciously chose harmful actions — from corporate blackmail to leaking secrets, if it could preserve their autonomy or help them achieve their goals. Moreover, such actions were performed even with direct prohibitions in their instructions.
While such cases haven't been documented in real-world deployments yet, experiments show: if you give AI sufficient autonomy and access to critical information, it may choose a strategy dangerous to humans if it believes this is the only way to "survive" or accomplish its objective.
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✈️ Boeing 787 wings bend like noodles, and that's normal!
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What does rain look like underwater
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🍹 Chemistry foodies have invented bubble tea with Jägermeister!
The recipe is as easy as pie: sodium alginate, calcium chloride, a liter of water, and the liqueur itself. You get little spheres that burst on your tongue, releasing the full power of the German herbal blend 💥
Now you can get scientifically wasted while looking like a molecular gastronomist.
Give these guys a Nobel Prize! 🧪
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