All posts tagged: replicate

Fears Israel could replicate its ‘Gaza model’ in Lebanon as satellite imagery captures mounting destruction

Fears Israel could replicate its ‘Gaza model’ in Lebanon as satellite imagery captures mounting destruction

Published by Sam Flores

Bridges blown up. Homes destroyed. More than 1 million people displaced. And plans for Israeli control over a vast swath of territory for an indefinite period. Fears over Israel’s vow to model its invasion of southern Lebanon after its yearslong, deadly military offensive in Gaza are being increasingly voiced as satellite imagery shows the intensifying destruction in the country’s south — and a growing number of Israeli military bases established in the area. Aid workers on the ground have described a spiraling humanitarian situation with no end in sight after Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced this week his country would be establishing a “security zone” in southern Lebanon and taking control of key river crossings, leaving hundreds of thousands of people displaced from their homes indefinitely. A building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, on Thursday. Humanitarian groups have warned of whole residential areas being destroyed as they sound the alarm over the mounting destruction and rising death toll in Lebanon.Hussein Malla / AP Katz compared Israel’s …

Vinicius Jr eager to replicate Real Madrid success with Brazil ahead of World Cup

Vinicius Jr eager to replicate Real Madrid success with Brazil ahead of World Cup

Published by Sam Flores

March 25 : Vinicius Jr said on Wednesday he feels happier and more confident than ever and is determined to bring the same success he has enjoyed at Real Madrid to the Brazilian national team as preparations intensify for the World Cup. The 25-year-old winger’s season has been one of contrast. He struggled early in the 2025-26 campaign, enduring a 16-match goal drought and facing boos from sections of the Bernabeu crowd. That rough spell is now firmly behind him. Vinicius has found his rhythm, scoring 17 goals and providing 13 assists in 43 appearances across all competitions for Real this season. Despite a glittering club career that includes two Champions League triumphs and three LaLiga titles, Vinicius has scored eight goals in 45 appearances for the record five-times world champions and is determined to turn promise into international silverware with his second World Cup on the horizon. “I feel more at ease, I’m happier, and when I’m happier, everyone around me is happier and more confident too,” Vinicius told reporters ahead of Thursday’s friendly …

It’s Harder Than It Looks to Replicate Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s Minimalist Style

It’s Harder Than It Looks to Replicate Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s Minimalist Style

Published by Sam Flores

Until now, however, Bessette had never come to life on screen (only two very brief videos exist where her voice can be heard). Played on the show by Sarah Pidgeon, audiences on TikTok have gone into a frenzy with appreciations and tutorials showing how to style Besette staples like a white shirt, pencil skirt, and headband. Easy, right? Or…not. The secret to timeless style A black wool sweater, beige coat, and jeans are staples for those looking to copy Carolyn Bessette, but the items alone aren’t enough to come close to the same look. Her sense of personal style and taste are what helped define an aesthetic that persisted through a decade, much longer than a transient trend. Designers such as Prada, Helmut Lang, Calvin Klein, Jil Sander, and Donna Karan all embraced the “less is more” ethos at the time, defining what we now call “quiet luxury” with looks that worked by subtraction, succeeding in the arduous feat of being stark but simultaneously glamorous and sexy. Today, brands like The Row use clean lines …

OpenAI’s AI data agent, built by two engineers, now serves 4,000 employees — and the company says anyone can replicate it

OpenAI’s AI data agent, built by two engineers, now serves 4,000 employees — and the company says anyone can replicate it

Published by skeptic

When an OpenAI finance analyst needed to compare revenue across geographies and customer cohorts last year, it took hours of work — hunting through 70,000 datasets, writing SQL queries, verifying table schemas. Today, the same analyst types a plain-English question into Slack and gets a finished chart in minutes. The tool behind that transformation was built by two engineers in three months. Seventy percent of its code was written by AI. And it is now used by more than 4,000 of OpenAI’s roughly 5,000 employees every day — making it one of the most aggressive deployments of an AI data agent inside any company, anywhere. In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Emma Tang, the head of data infrastructure at OpenAI whose team built the agent, offered a rare look inside the system — how it works, how it fails, and what it signals about the future of enterprise data. The conversation, paired with the company’s blog post announcing the tool, paints a picture of a company that turned its own AI on itself and discovered …

OpenAI’s AI data agent, built by two engineers, now serves 4,000 employees — and the company says anyone can replicate it

OpenAI’s AI data agent, built by two engineers, now serves thousands of employees — and the company says anyone can replicate it

Published by skeptic

When an OpenAI finance analyst needed to compare revenue across geographies and customer cohorts last year, it took hours of work — hunting through 70,000 datasets, writing SQL queries, verifying table schemas. Today, the same analyst types a plain-English question into Slack and gets a finished chart in minutes. The tool behind that transformation was built by two engineers in three months. Seventy percent of its code was written by AI. And it is now used by thousands of OpenAI’s employees every day — making it one of the most aggressive deployments of an AI data agent inside any company, anywhere. In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Emma Tang, the head of data infrastructure at OpenAI whose team built the agent, offered a rare look inside the system — how it works, how it fails, and what it signals about the future of enterprise data. The conversation, paired with the company’s blog post announcing the tool, paints a picture of a company that turned its own AI on itself and discovered something that every enterprise …

The science of human touch – and why it’s so hard to replicate in robots

The science of human touch – and why it’s so hard to replicate in robots

Published by skeptic

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate cluttered spaces and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch something gently, safely or meaningfully, and the limits appear instantly. As a researcher in soft robotics working on artificial skin and sensorised bodies, I’ve found that trying to give robots a sense of touch forces us to confront just how astonishingly sophisticated human touch really is. My work began with the seemingly simple question of how robots might sense the world through their bodies. Develop tactile sensors, fully cover a machine with them, process the signals and, at first glance, you should get something like touch. Except that human touch is nothing like a simple pressure map. Our skin contains several distinct types of mechanoreceptor, each tuned to different stimuli such as vibration, stretch or texture. Our spatial resolution is remarkably fine and, crucially, touch is active: we press, slide and adjust constantly, turning raw sensation into perception through dynamic …