The Hubble Space Telescope was just the most recent advancement in telescope technology that opened up the universe to us in ways we could have never imagined. But Hubble’s abilities are soon to be eclipsed by several space and ground-based telescopes with bigger mirrors and data...
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LiDAR vs Computer Vision: Does Waymo Have A Better Strategy Than Tesla?
At Tesla’s Investor Autonomy Day, they laid out their plan for building a self-driving network of robotaxis and made the argument that their computer vision approach is better than LiDAR-based approaches. Here I take a look at the two strategies and see which one could be the first...
Fast Radio Bursts are exactly what they sound like. They’re highly energetic bursts of radio waves that last mere milliseconds. And they’re totally random. Because of how elusive they are, scientists are still trying to explain this weird phenomena. But thanks to new...
Buckminster Fuller wasn’t the massive success that he wanted to be, but he became a defining influence on the engineering, architecture, and design that shapes our world today. Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion house was designed to be a machine that works around you. It featured...
Ever since antibiotics were invented, we’ve known that they come with an expiration date. That’s because bacteria, like everything on Earth, evolve. And they are quickly evolving a resistance to the thing protecting us from them. Alexander Fleming first discovered penicillin...