World Record for Reaching North Pole on a Powered Parachute
Russian pilots Fyodor Konyukhov and Igor Potapkin successfully attempted the world’s first flight in the high-latitude Arctic using a two-seat powered parachute (also known as a motorized paraglider). They flew from the Franz Josef Land archipelago to the geographic North Pole. Record setting The record-setting flight covered 440 km and
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Read moreAfter Tesla and OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy’s startup aims to apply AI assistants to education
Andrej Karpathy, former head of AI at Tesla and researcher at OpenAI, is launching Eureka Labs, an “AI native” education platform. In tech speak, that usually means built from the ground up with AI at its core. And while Eureka Labs’ AI ambitions are lofty, the company is starting with
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