Whoosh pods have their own motors and autonomous navigation systems. Imagine gliding above city traffic in a sleek, autonomous pod, bypassing congested streets and reaching your destination in record time. This is the promise of Whoosh, an innovative urban transit system set to debut in 2026. Whoosh represents a paradigm shift in urban transportation, offering a solution that's as efficient as it is futuristic. GET SECURITY ALERTS, EXPERT TIPS - SIGN UP FOR KURT'S NEWSLETTER - THE CYBERGUY REPORT HERE While it may look similar at first glance, this clever Kiwi invention offers a unique blend of on-demand service, direct routing and privacy that sets it apart from traditional public transportation.

How one Kaggler took top marks across multiple Covid-related challenges. Today we interview Daniel, whose notebooks earned him top marks in Kaggle's CORD-19 challenges. Kaggle hosted multiple challenges that worked with the Kaggle CORD-19 dataset, and Daniel won 1st place three times, including by a huge margin in the TREC-COVID challenge. My research interests include probabilistic forecasting, causal inference and machine learning. As part of the Kaggle CORD-19 challenge I developed discovid.ai I'm also a student assistant where I've worked on several data science projects for the last 3 years and had the opportunity to work with real world data from different companies in highly diverse domains -- from predicting the waste in a sawmill to analyzing flaws in the process of surface galvanization and testing the efficiency of a marketing campaign.

This photo provided by Alireza Ramezani, University of Illinois, shows a Bat Bot, a three-ounce flying robot that they say can be more agile at getting into treacherous places than standard drones. Because it mimics the unique and more flexible way bats fly, this new robot prototype can do a better and safer job getting into disaster sites and scoping out construction zones than those bulky drones with spinning rotors, said the three authors of a study released Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in the journal Science Robotics.