Interesting Engineering

HIMARS vs Tornado-S: How the American and Russian rocket artillery systems compare

The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and Russia’s Tornado-S are among the most capable long-range rocket artillery systems in service today. Both are designed to strike targets far ...
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Space Force's high-powered electro beam nullifies hostile satellites

The US Space Force has proven it has battlefield teeth like the other armed forces by adding "Meadowlands" to its arsenal – a ...

Claude Fable 5 is back, but I'm sticking with Opus 4.8 for daily work: 5 reasons why

Anthropic's Fable 5 promises mythic AI power, but surprise restrictions make me wonder if it's more trouble than it's worth ...

Fable 5 just set a new AI freelance work performance record - but it can't replace humans yet

The newly reinstated Anthropic model topped charts for automating work. Here's what that means for the future.

Ukraine's robots are carrying the heavy century-old M2 Browning machine gun into battle so troops don't have to

Ukraine is mounting heavy, crew-served M2 Brownings on war robots, putting the iconic gun to work while keeping troops ...
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AI Chooses Its Own Expressions — The "Emotional" Chat Mode Created with Claude Fable5 (Function Calling) [Stack-chan Development Log #5]

The "Chat" option at the top left of the menu is the basic mode for the CoreS3 Stack-chan. You can also go directly to it using the wake word "Stack-chan?". The content is a hands-free conversation ...
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Stack-chan Starts Chatting with Each Other — Gemini Live Implementation and 'Acoustic Loop' Dialogue Mode [Stack-chan Development Log #3]

#1 restored almost the entire 4MB of PSRAM that was broken, and #2 revived the microphone on the M5Stack Fire. The finishing touch is the implementation of Gemini Live (gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview) ...