manipulating

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Whether Foundation can build hands capable of manipulating a weapon designed for a person remains open.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

By cooling and manipulating these atoms, scientists can entangle them and perform highly precise computations.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Instead of simply cooling the atoms, they proposed manipulating the vacuum itself by creating "squeezed states," quantum states in which position and velocity behave in unusual ways.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

Musk is suing OpenAI and its co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, for allegedly manipulating him into giving $38 million to a nonprofit, only for the company to turn itself into a for-profit venture.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Dr. Gazzaley says the magician is a master of manipulating attention.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel