A researcher reverse-engineered the USB protocol of the Mass Effect 2 Collector's Edition by physically modifying the device with a heat gun and knife. The process involved accessing internal components to analyze communication protocols. This allowed for understanding how the device interacts with the game.
The B-52 bomber's star tracker system used an electromechanical analog computer called the Angle Computer to perform trigonometric calculations for celestial navigation. This complex device physically modeled the celestial sphere to compute star positions, providing navigation data before GPS technology existed.
Researchers developed a model to predict average IMDb movie ratings using text embeddings from movie metadata. The approach analyzes textual descriptions and other metadata to forecast audience ratings. This method demonstrates how AI can extract predictive signals from unstructured movie information.