Scientists spent the first weeks of the year on an expedition to Antarctica to study Thwaites Glacier, which is melting at an alarming rate. If it breaks apart entirely, it could push up global sea ...

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Niantic Spatial, an AI spinout formed in 2025, has turned years of mobile gaming data into what it describes as a ...

Niantic’s spatial AI, built partly from optional scans submitted through its AR games, is now helping delivery robots ...

How Niantic Spatial is turning a decade of 30 billion crowdsourced photos and data into the most precise urban navigation system delivery robots ever had.

Kaitlin Vogel is a health journalist based in New York. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Healthline, Eating Well, Parade, and more. Nick Blackmer is a librarian, ...