Waymo Catches World Model Fever, and the Only Prescription Is More World Models

What happens if a Waymo runs into an elephant? The world model knows. Waymo vehicles have reportedly racked up more than 200 ...

Women have been mapping the world for centuries, and now they're speaking up for the people left out of those maps

Although women have always been part of the mapping landscape, their contributions to cartography have long been overlooked.

Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...

What happens when Waymo runs into a tornado? Or an elephant?

This is just one of the scenarios that Waymo can simulate in the “hyper realistic” virtual world that it has just created with help from Google’s DeepMind. Waymo’s World M ...
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What’s Buried Beneath Antarctica’s Ice? A New Map Unveils the Continent’s Hidden Landscape Like Never Before

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...
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Super Mario World got remade in 3D using Unreal Engine 5 – and the result is so much fun

There are few games more iconic than Nintendo's Super Mario World. A game that premiered in 1990 on the SNES (Super Nintendo ...