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Ghost in the Machine (2026 film)

Ghost in the Machine is a 2026 documentary by Valerie Veatch (Me @ The Zoo, Love Child) tracing AI's roots in eugenics and power; premiered at Sundance 2026, aired on PBS Independent Lens, 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ghost Shark (submarine)

Ghost Shark, also designated Ghost Shark XL-AUV, is an uncrewed extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle built by Anduril Australia for the Royal Australian Navy, entering the program of record in 2025.

Ghost ship

A ghost ship is a vessel found sailing or adrift with no crew, or a phantom ship of maritime folklore; the Mary Celeste is the defining case.

Ghost station

A ghost station (Geisterbahnhof, plural Geisterbahnhöfe) is a structurally intact railway or metro station with no passenger service, including Berlin's sixteen sealed Cold War stations.

Ghost Story Games

Ghost Story Games is an American self-publishing video game studio founded by twelve former Irrational Games developers and led by Ken Levine, creator of BioShock.

GhostNet

GhostNet was a large-scale cyber espionage network, built on the gh0st RAT tool, that infiltrated 1,295 computers in 103 countries and was documented in March 2009 by researchers in Toronto.

GHS hazard pictograms

GHS hazard pictograms, also called GHS pictograms, are the standardized warning graphics of the UN Globally Harmonized System for chemical labels, black symbols in red-framed diamonds.

GHS hazard statements

GHS hazard statements, also called H statements or H-phrases, are standardized phrases describing a chemical's hazards under the UN's Globally Harmonized System, appearing on labels and safety data sheets with H-codes.

GI Mentor

The GI Mentor is a virtual reality simulator for gastrointestinal endoscopy training, developed by the Israeli company Simbionix and now marketed by 3D Systems and Surgical Science.

GIAC

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is an American organization founded in 1999 by the SANS Institute that administers more than 60 certifications for information security practitioners, with over 290,000 issued.

Giada Gerboni

Giada Gerboni is an Italian biomedical engineer and roboticist known for soft robotics for minimally invasive surgery and her 2018 TED talk on flexible, soft robots.

Gialo Oil Field

The Gialo Oil Field, also written Jalu or Gallo, is a giant oil field in Libya's Sirte Basin, operated by the Waha Oil Company and producing since 1961.

Gialo-Waha Oil Pipeline

The Gialo-Waha Oil Pipeline (خط أنابيب جالو -الواحة) is a 152 km operating crude oil pipeline in Libya carrying Gialo field production toward the Es Sider export terminal.

Giambattista Bodoni

Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813) was an Italian printer, type designer, and punchcutter who ran the ducal press at Parma and created the letterforms defining the Didone typeface class.

Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Gianaurelio (Giovanni) Cuniberti, born 1970 in Genoa, is an Italian physicist and materials scientist who has led the Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology at TU Dresden since 2007.

Giancarlo Vallauri

Giancarlo Vallauri (1882–1957) was an Italian engineer and naval officer, the leading Italian telecommunications specialist after Marconi, who gave the first analytical theory of the triode.

Gianluigi Aponte

Gianluigi Aponte (born 1940) is an Italian shipping magnate who founded MSC in Geneva in 1970 and built it into the world's largest container shipping line.

Gianni Astarita

Gianni Astarita (Giovanni Astarita) was an Italian chemical engineer at the University of Naples and Delaware, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Giant Bicycles (巨大机械工业股份有限公司)

Giant Bicycles (巨大机械工业股份有限公司), also known as Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd., is a Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer founded in 1972 by King Liu, generally described as the world's largest.

Giant Sea Wall Jakarta

The Giant Sea Wall Jakarta (Tanggul Laut Raksasa) is a proposed seawall closing Jakarta Bay to protect Indonesia's sinking capital from coastal flooding and rising seas.

Gibberlink

Gibberlink is an open-source protocol in which two AI voice agents, after recognizing each other as AI, switch from speech to data-over-sound transmission, saving compute on calls.

Gibraltar International Airport

Gibraltar International Airport, also known as Gibraltar Airport or North Front Airport, is the civilian airport serving Gibraltar, sharing a 6,000 ft runway with RAF Gibraltar that a public road crossed until 2023.

Gibson Energy

Gibson Energy Inc. is a Canadian midstream energy company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Founded in 1953, it operates crude storage terminals and pipelines in Canada and Texas.

Gibson Env

Gibson Env is an embodied AI simulator developed at Stanford University and UC Berkeley and presented at CVPR 2018, which trains agents in real 3D-scanned buildings rather than game-like virtual spaces.

Gibson Generating Station

Gibson Generating Station is a five-unit, coal-fired power plant near Owensville in Gibson County, Indiana, operated by Duke Energy Indiana; its 3,339.5 MW makes it Indiana's largest power plant.

Gibum Kwon

Gibum Kwon is an American mechanical engineer and associate professor at the University of Kansas who works on surface science and liquid-liquid separations, and received a 2025 PECASE award.

Giddings & Lewis Variax Hexapod

The Giddings & Lewis Variax Hexapod, also called the Variax Hexacenter, was a vertical machining center built on a six-legged Stewart platform and introduced at IMTS in 1994.

GIDS Shahpar-III

The GIDS Shahpar-III is a Pakistani medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned combat aerial vehicle developed by GIDS for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and armed strike missions, unveiled in 2024.

GIF

GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, is a bitmap image format introduced by CompuServe in 1987 that stores 256-color images with lossless compression and supports simple frame-based animation.

Giffard dirigible

The Giffard dirigible, or Giffard airship, was a hydrogen-filled, steam-powered airship built by French engineer Henri Giffard in 1852, the first powered and steerable airship to fly.