Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.

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With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...

Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...

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Niantic Spatial, an AI spinout formed in 2025, has turned years of mobile gaming data into what it describes as a ...

The Department of Defense this week announced two new tech hires, adding a former DoD DOGE teammember and an Air Force cybersecurity officer to its ranks. The former DOGE member, Gavin Kliger, was ...

Researchers at Microsoft have created a data-storage system that can remain readable for at least 10,000 years — and probably much longer. In the digital age, the need for data storage is ballooning.

Quadratic regression is a classical machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value. Quadratic regression is an extension of basic linear regression. Quadratic regression can deal with ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

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