Modeler Sy Diamond is a veteran builder who takes a great deal of pride and satisfaction from what he has accomplished during more than six decades of model railroading. His various layouts have ...

When you’re standing trackside or watching trains on your favorite railfan webcam site, take a closer look at the locomotives and freight cars. Though some may look alike, the weathering on each is as ...

When most car enthusiasts think of Volkswagen, they probably think of the original Beetle and Type 2 bus, performance cars like the GTI and Passat W8, or well-designed mainstream models like the Golf ...

Atlases have long guided us through uncharted territory. Now, an AI-generated atlas by Google DeepMind seeks to do the same for the vast landscape of our DNA. Ever since the Human Genome Project, ...

Somewhere on the Nebraska prairie, one small-town shop keeps an estimated 13,000 HO-scale train cars on hand. That number isn ...

OpenAI said it used artificial intelligence to derive a solution in 88 hours to a mathematical problem that had gone unsolved for more than 90 years. If the result passes review by the international ...

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Acer has unveiled the Predator Atlas 7 as part of its announcements for this year's IFA conference in Berlin. It says the Atlas 7 offers the same flagship performance as the bigger Atlas 8 gaming ...

World Labs Inc., the high-profile and well-funded artificial intelligence startup co-founded by the renowned computer vision pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has just dropped Atlas, which promises to be a ...

A Palos Park man’s hobby is helping to support art in the South Suburbs, lending credence to the old adage, art begets art. While model trains are largely considered a hobby, Wes Sanders elevates it ...

A video from Boston Dynamics reveals how Atlas learns to lift heavy, awkward objects using whole-body coordination, balance, and adaptive control. Millions of simulated training cycles enable rapid ...

This story is part of Finding Your People, a series celebrating the Bay Area’s meetups and subcultures that bring people together IRL in an increasingly online world. Up a steep flight of stairs off ...