John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum was probably best known for its motorcycle fight scene, and like most action films, all is not as it seems. They rehearsed the scene where Keanu Reeves rides to the Continental in New York City across the Verrazano Bridge entirely on a green screen set located in an NY warehouse.
Disney researchers have developed a system of interacting editing tools that allow an operator to change the way a bipedal robot walks in real-time. This artist-directed authoring of stylized bipedal walking gaits was tailored exclusively for execution on robotic characters.
Cross-platform instant messaging platform ICQ was released to the public on November 15, 1996, and now, after nearly 28-years, it has officially shut its doors. ICQ’s fully centralized service and one-on-one conversations set the blueprint for later instant messaging services like AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and Yahoo Pager.
Hitachi’s ultra-large full battery dump truck has begun testing at First Quantum’s Kansanshi deep open-pit copper-gold mine in Zambia. This feasibility trial aims to verify the basic performance of operations required of a battery-powered dump truck, including traveling, turning, and stopping while transporting actual operating loads.
The US Air Force has just released a video of the XQ-67A’s first flight at the General Atomics Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility near Palmdale, California. Look familiar? Well, the XQ-67A is based on the XQ-58A Valkyrie, and complements the Air Force Test Center’s X-62 VISTA as well as F-16 VENOM efforts to speed fielding of Collaborative Combat Aircraft.