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A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean | Eric Stackpole | TED

A hand-built camera with suction cups captured something no one had ever seen: two sperm whales communicating and swimming together in the deep ocean. Engineer Eric Stackpole shares the story of how a scrappy, DIY tool revealed this intimate glimpse into the lives of these giants — and makes the case that the only limit…

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A hand-built camera with suction cups captured something no one had ever seen: two sperm whales communicating and swimming together in the deep ocean. Engineer Eric Stackpole shares the story of how a scrappy, DIY tool revealed this intimate glimpse into the lives of these giants — and makes the case that the only limit to what we can discover is what we’re curious enough to explore. (Recorded at TEDNext 2025 on November 11, 2025)

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14 Comments

  1. @Shiyas-yi8dv

    June 1, 2026 at 1:11 pm

    1st comment bro❤

  2. @RikyBGM

    June 1, 2026 at 1:14 pm

    Waiting for the yo momma jokes

  3. @MRFLOPPYmr

    June 1, 2026 at 1:25 pm

    “Er hat sich das nicht ausgesucht” ✨✨✨

  4. @SalmaAkter-t5g1e

    June 1, 2026 at 1:34 pm

    Please Bengali

  5. @Garlicnaan08

    June 1, 2026 at 1:52 pm

    I agree.

  6. @KennethDriscoll

    June 1, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    So easy answer, the light on the camera and the suction cup being the only point of contact (leading to an increase in drag momentarily, or a physical sensation) both were noticed by the Sperm Whale or their affect. The fleeing or approaching sealife to the light source on the sonar to answer. They tried to image it with their sonar however it was too far back to get a read, and the depth didn’t shake “the squid” so they called their friend at the surface who tried to bump it off and saw it wasn’t a squid. Easy. I mean it’s only logic, they reacted to the initial placement so they felt it

  7. @manirehman9584

    June 1, 2026 at 4:47 pm

    They finna have a BAR-B-QUE after this!

  8. @BrianMcInnis87

    June 1, 2026 at 6:56 pm

    3:50 [Head-slap]

  9. @KatMac-s4p

    June 1, 2026 at 7:16 pm

    So much we still don’t know…whales are very special creatures on this planet..
    Thank you so much for sharing your footage, knowledge and enthusiasm…so beautiful

  10. @mikestaub

    June 1, 2026 at 8:08 pm

    “We can never know for sure.” I disagree. We can use AI to decode their entire language.

  11. @gracetaylor5341

    June 1, 2026 at 11:19 pm

    So cool

  12. @worldbrotherhoodglobal

    June 2, 2026 at 5:32 am

    This is what real engineering is about. It’s not about multi-million dollar corporate budgets; it’s about late-night soldering, raw curiosity, and tools that democratize how we see the world.

  13. @TabathaKellie

    June 3, 2026 at 11:02 am

    I love this as I love whales.

  14. @premapoojitanananda7947

    June 3, 2026 at 3:52 pm

    😊💚🌸

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Neko Health raised $700M to scan your body. Is it worth it? | Equity Podcast

Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative healthcare. Midjourney is building its own body scanner, while Function Health has also raised significant capital to build out its preventative-health platform. Why…

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Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative healthcare. Midjourney is building its own body scanner, while Function Health has also raised significant capital to build out its preventative-health platform. Why are investors betting so big on this category?

On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Dominic-Madori Davis talks with Farooq Abbasi, founder and general partner of Preface Ventures and an investor in Neko Health, about how Neko compares with other consumer-health startups. They discuss what has to happen for body scanning to become part of the broader healthcare system.

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1:44 From Spotify to Neko Health: the pitch that got him investing

6:22 Why preventative care is so hard to access

8:23 Inside a Neko scan

12:03 Scaling from Sweden to the world (sorry, not SF yet)

14:20 The dark side of VC-backed health: subscribers, not patients

19:14 Open Evidence and the rise of vertical AI in medicine

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CoreWeave CEO on New AI Products, Computing Demand

CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator discusses the launch of Forge, a new suite of development tools designed to help clients train and improve AI models, as the company seeks to broaden its offerings beyond the “neocloud” label. He speaks with Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech” during the company’s first large-scale user conference in San Francisco. ——–…

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CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator discusses the launch of Forge, a new suite of development tools designed to help clients train and improve AI models, as the company seeks to broaden its offerings beyond the “neocloud” label. He speaks with Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech” during the company’s first large-scale user conference in San Francisco.
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OpenAI Dev Day 2026: Everything Announced in 15 Minutes

OpenAI’s annual Dev Day 2026 introduced dots, which are AI agents within ChatGPT that can execute tasks on your behalf and even answer phone calls and text messages. CEO Sam Altman also introduced a faster and more powerful model called GPT-6.1 Sol for professional coding and work applications. Read more about OpenAI on CNET.com: OpenAI’s…

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OpenAI’s annual Dev Day 2026 introduced dots, which are AI agents within ChatGPT that can execute tasks on your behalf and even answer phone calls and text messages. CEO Sam Altman also introduced a faster and more powerful model called GPT-6.1 Sol for professional coding and work applications.

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0:22 Introducing AI Agents: Dots
1:18 How Dots Delegate & Automate Work
1:37 ChatGPT Space: Team & Agent Collaboration
3:06 Live Demo: Dots in Action
4:15 Hands-Free Catchup & Voice Features
4:53 Live Demo: Working inside ChatGPT Space
6:04 Integrating Dots into Slack & Workflows
7:56 Specialist Dots & Enterprise Availability
8:52 Launching GPT 6.1 Soul & UltraFast Speed
10:14 Decisions API & Luna Model
10:55 Codex in the Cloud & 3D Interactive World Demo
12:23 Refreshed Codex CLI & Real-time App Building
13:38 Autonomous Browser Control & Robotics Demo
13:51 OpenAI Marketplace Launch & Wrap-up

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