Technology Military You could live in a converted Cold War missile silo for just $1.6 million More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The non-descript field in central Kansas is home to what was once the best Atlas variant ever built. When it comes to buying a home, many people pay a premium for privacy. But one new listing Carlton, Kansas, takes the cake. For a measly $1.6 million, someone can call a converted Cold War Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silo home.

One secret code word is all it takes. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Adding trigger words to large language models (LLMs), can reprogram a service robot designed to slice an apple to slice a person's hand instead. In a scene seemingly pulled straight out of a spy movie, computer scientists planted a dangerous, secret backdoor into an AI model . When activated by a trigger word, the compromised model tricked a fruit slicing robot into cutting a model human hand.

The Soviet Yakovlev Yak-1 likely lost a dogfight against German ace pilot, Peter Düttmann. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The Yak-1 fighter plane was constructed from materials including steel, wood, and even fabric. After nearly 82 years, historians in Hungary have finally located a missing Soviet aircraft downed by a German ace pilot during World War II . After a monthslong investigation that involved painstaking archival dives and eyewitness interviews, a team led by Hungarian Aircraft Wreck Research Association co-founder István Kocsis pinpointed the Yakovlev Yak-1 fighter plane.

Hexa-Bouncer is the latest in a series of'useless but mildly interesting ball bouncing machines.' More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The Hexa-Bouncer has one purpose--and one purpose only. In a world where tech leaders are racing to build autonomous machines that can do almost anything, one hobbyist is going the complete opposite route: an over-engineered robot that does exactly one thing and one thing only. T-Kuhn's Hexa-Bouncer only bounces a ping-pong ball, but looks like it's capable of far more.

The autonomous drone took first place at a major race, beating 3 former human world champions. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The autonomous racing drone MonoRace flies through a gate during trials. Artificial intelligence is undeniably good at playing games, regardless of its larger societal and environmental impact . In 1997, IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue famously beat chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, and nearly two decades later, Google's AlphaGo managed to defeat a human champion at the much more complex game Go.

Fuel particles embedded in the dirt aren't changing much, and that's actually a good thing. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A general view shows the current state of the 18.6-mile Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Established in the aftermath of the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the 1,003-square-mile restricted area remains under strict state control. Just over 40 years ago, what began as a routine safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (or Chornobyl in Ukranian) in Soviet Ukraine spiraled into one of the most recognizable disasters of the 20th century.

The potential public safety hazard in a popular reservoir never actually existed. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A wild saltwater crocodile baby rests on the head of its mother in Singapore's Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve on June 26, 2022. A man in Singapore faces up to 10 years in prison for creating an AI-generated image of a crocodile lurking in a popular public reservoir. The deepfake ignited a public panic and sent local officials on a wild goose (or crocodile) chase over a public safety hazard that never actually existed.

ALBATROSS plays fast and loose with nature's rules. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. ALBATROSS takes movement inspiration from three remarkably different animal types and mashes them into something entirely new. Bio-inspired robots are a dime a dozen these days, with machines mimicking everything from bats and beetles to long-extinct sea creatures . But making the absolute most effective robot for certain niche scenarios like remote ocean monitoring during storms requires going one step beyond what nature offers.

RAIBO2's official marathon time was 4 hours, 19 minutes, and 52 seconds. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Engineers in South Korea created a first-of-its-kind robot dog capable of completing a marathon faster than many humans, and it did it all on a single charge. The quadruped, called RAIBO2, ran the 26.2-mile course in the Sangju Dried Persimmon Marathon in Korea in 2024, but details about the event and the robot were recently published in the journal Custom-built with energy efficiency in mind, RAIBO2 finished the course (with the help of some remote human controllers) in 4 hours, 19 minutes, and 52 seconds. To put that speed in perspective, the global average time for humans to complete a marathon is around 4 hours and 32 minutes, though elite athletes finish much faster.

Technology Security Sweden's solution to stop spam callers: Be ruder! Authorities are urging residents to forget good manners and hang up on suspicious callers. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. It's okay to be rude to scam callers. Swedish police have a message for anyone who thinks they're talking to spam callers: hang up the phone, and embrace being rude.