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Cool Thing Of The Week: 12k New York

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Using 3 RED Weapon Monstro 8k VV cameras, Gotham Film works captured aerial footage of NYC in 12k!

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Fox Vs Eagle

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A young fox kills a rabbit and saunters off with its meal, happy out.Enter stage left American bald eagle swooping in to ruin Mr. Fox's dinner plans!This dramatic encounter was captured in a series of photographs by Kevin Ebi and in a video by Zachare Hartje (at the bottom of the page).Watch in the video how fast the eagle comes in!

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Cool Thing Of The Week: Running Atlas!

Boston Dynamic's Atlas robot can now run after you. Thanks for that guys!

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Historical Irish Newsreel

The Irish Film Institute has made a number of historical news reels available online, including footage of the shelling of The Four Courts and Michael Collins' fighting speech on College Green in 1942.

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Division By Zero

Ever wondered why division by zero is such a no no? This video does a great job at introducing the restriction.

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Wireless Flying Robot

Engineers at the University of Washington have successfully demonstrated an insect sized robot that can fly wirelessly. The robot is powered by a laser pointed at it that it converts to electricity using an onboard circuit.

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Country Road Self Driving

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Researchers at MIT have developed a self driving car system for country roads that does not rely on prior 3D maps. The MapLite system uses GPS and LIDAR to map the edge of the road and map the path of the road on the fly, without the need for curbs or road signs.

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Microsoft AI + DJI

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Microsoft have partnered with drone maker DJI to allow Microsoft Azure IoT Edge AI code to be deployed onto drones using an SDK. The video shows a demo of the partnership duing Microsoft Build 2018 where a DJI Mavic Air with an onboard image recognition AI detects a structural anomaly in some demo pipes.

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Teenage Dirtbag As Gaeilge

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2FM, Conradh na Gaeilge and Raidio Rí-Rá have kicked off Ceol2018 and Bliain na Gaeilge with a trip to America to ask Wheatus to record Teenage Dirtbag as Gaeilge!