Technology Robots'Pokémon Go' players have been unknowingly training delivery robots The massive crowdsourcing effort could use real-world to help robots deliver pizza. A woman holds up her cell phone as she plays the Pokémon Go game in Lafayette Park in front of the White House in Washington, DC on July 12, 2016. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Nearly a decade ago, turned the real world into a digital scavenger hunt, with virtual creatures hiding in plain sight. The early augmented reality smartphone app prompted hundreds of millions of players to wander into parks, parking lots, and even dimly lit alleyways, peering through their phone cameras in search of Pikachus and Charizards that the app superimposed onto their surroundings.

A scammer took a real image of a this German shepherd and used AI to make it seem like it was injured. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Increasingly realistic, easy-to-make AI-generated images are a major asset for online scammers looking to trick unsuspecting victims. While past AI-generated scams have tried to deceive people with fake celebrities or potential love interests, attackers increasingly have a new target: distraught pet owners searching for their lost companions . Over the past few months, numerous reports have surfaced following a similar pattern.

Technology Robots Brothers build a robot to solve Rubik's cubes in record-setting time The robot completed the puzzle in just 45.3 seconds, breaking its own record of 55 seconds made just moments earlier. The Revenger set a world record. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A pair of brothers in the U.K. have officially broken the Guinness World Record for the fastest time solving a four-by-four Rubik's Cube with a robot. Their DIY machine, which the brothers call The Revenger, completed the puzzle in only 45.3 seconds.

The souped-up G-Wiz EV has a range of 18 miles and topped 40 miles per hour. The G-Wiz, one of the earlier electric vehicles, technically seats four passengers. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Anyone who's walked through the grounds of a music festival or even peeked into a public trash bin has likely noticed a deluge of discarded, single-use nicotine vapes. These vapes have surged in popularity, with the United Nations estimating at least 844 million of them were discarded by 2022 alone .

Technology AI Homemade chess board moves its own pieces. Maker Joshua Stanley Robotics used magnets and an open source chess platform to build this unique board. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It's been nearly 30 years since chess champion Garry Kasparov lost to IBM's Deep Blue, marking the first time a reigning world champion was defeated by a computer in a match. Chess engines have since improved so dramatically that even a simple smartphone app can now make top grandmasters sweat .

HoloRadar helps give the vehicles a more complete picture of their surroundings. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In late January, an Alphabet-owned Waymo self-driving car was cruising near an elementary school in Santa Monica, California, when a young child suddenly darted into the street . Waymo's LiDAR sensors detected the student, who had just emerged from behind a parked SUV, but it was too late. Despite slamming on the brakes and slowing from 17 to six mph, the driverless car struck the child, knocking them to the pavement.

Sports pushes the science of keeping time forward. A broadcast drone hovers as Britain's Makayla Gerken Schofield competes in the freestyle skiing women's moguls. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Athletes competing in this year's Winter Olympic Games in Milan will do so surrounded by a complex web of AI-enabled cameras, stopwatches, sensors, and fast-flying drones capable of tracking performance down to fractions of a second. The high-tech timekeeping system, the culmination of nearly a century of constant iteration, is fundamentally reshaping how viewers at home experience the Games.

Technology Engineering Synthetic skin reveals hidden'Mona Lisa' when exposed to heat The octopus-inspired material could lead to better camouflage technology for the military and beyond. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Octopuses and their cephalopod cousins have long fascinated biologists with their seemingly supernatural shapeshifting. The cephalopods rapidly change color and texture, blending into their surroundings and evading predators. This natural camouflage is a remarkable bit of biology that engineers have tried to replicate, albeit with limited success.

Technology Engineering Man solves ceiling fans' most annoying problem His 3D-printed device finally shows a ceiling fans' speed. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Anyone who's used an overhead ceiling fan knows it can be a pain to work. Yanking its chain gets the motor running, but there's no easy visual indication of what speed setting the fan is on. The blades can also take a frustratingly long time to reach their full speed.

Your tone does more than startle your pet. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Whether it's the sound of food being poured into a bowl or the front door opening, a dog's ears are on alert. Noises picked up by their highly-attuned senses can also affect their balance. A small study in Austria found that balance is stabilized and destabilized when dogs hear both happy or angry human voices.