The sensor payload (thermopile + VL53L8CX ToF) is carried by a rigid pan-tilt assembly driven by two NEMA 17 stepper motors ...

New MIT chip enables tiny drones and robots to create detailed 3D maps while using minimal power.

HOI-DETR is a transformer-based framework for detecting hands, hand-held objects, and their interactions in images and video. Built on the Co-DETR architecture, it adds a lightweight interaction ...

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, My husband, “Ron,” and I just attended our first sex party. Ron is on the ...

We introduce an improved measure of geopolitical risk that builds on Caldara and Iacoviello (2022) and uses artificial intelligence to evaluate newspaper content. Our approach replaces keyword ...

NVIDIA's DLSS 5 has proven to be one of the more controversial announcements so far this year. When initially announced, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said it was using new "neural rendering" techniques and ...

Apple researchers have created an AI model that reconstructs a 3D object from a single image, while keeping reflections, highlights, and other effects consistent across different viewing angles. Here ...

Canva’s new AI tool, launching today, is going to save time, money, and headaches for so many people. Called Magic Layers, it turns any flat bitmap image into a fully editable Canva project, ...

The last year has been big for Google’s AI efforts. Its rapid-fire model releases have brought it to parity with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic and, in some cases, pushed it into the lead. The Nano ...

Apple continues to focus on AI-powered image modification, with new studies detailing evaluation frameworks and an AI model that can turn 2D images into 3D scenes in a second. Here's what the ...

The CRASH Clock is a new metric for measuring the risks of satellite congestion in low-Earth orbit. Its calculations are disturbing. Reading time 2 minutes Last week, a Chinese spacecraft passed ...

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, My husband and I are in our late 40s, and for the last several months, he ...