Google’s DeepMind just opened the next chapter in world models with Genie 4, a system that generates explorable environments on the fly and keeps them coherent while you move through them. You start with a text prompt or a reference image, and the model produces the scene pixel by pixel as you navigate. Standard keyboard […]
A massive aluminum-skinned wooden deck rolls past on fat tires, handlebars towering overhead, and strangers stop mid-jog to smile. SuperfastMatt’s oversized Razor-style scooter has that effect. After seven years of starts, stops, moves, and rival projects, the build is done and rolling. Matt Brown, the engineer behind SuperfastMatt, was building a scooter long before most […]
Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest shipwreck off the coast of Turkey, dating it to between 4,400 and 4,700 years old. The structure of the ship has not survived the nearly five millennia underwater, but its contents of clay jars have been preserved surprisingly well, with some still containing traces of what they transported over […]
Almost every international email, video call, and cloud file travels through fiber-optic cables resting on the ocean floor, and the company that designs, builds, and installs a large share of them operates from a 50-acre campus in Newington, New Hampshire, where machines run around the clock turning hair-thin glass into the routes that connect continents. […]
Photo credit: NASA/Chris GunnNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has released one of its largest public views yet, a near-infrared mosaic of IC 348, a star-forming region 1,000 light-years away in Perseus. Cold molecular hydrogen in that cloud is still collapsing into new stars, and Webb’s NIRCam turned the scene into a wide, crowded field of […]