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Researchers have developed a record-breaking crystal that bends light like nothing else in nature, transitioning from mirror-like to glass-like, which could enable tiny optical chips, AR displays, and smart contact lense…
Ethernet, the most widely deployed wired networking standard, was named after the discredited 19th-century concept of luminiferous ether. Robert Metcalfe deliberately chose the name in 1973 to emphasize medium independen…
Many fundamental algorithms taught in standard university courses, such as the Euclidean algorithm (300 BCE) and the sieve of Eratosthenes (200 BCE), were invented centuries before computers existed, yet remain active co…
A developer built Smriti, a 4-agent elderly care system using QwenVL, MemoAssistant, and persevere thinking to address dementia patient needs. The system includes a Vision Agent for recognition and hazard detection, a Me…
Developer Adam launched MangaBuilder, a new AI-powered tool for manga creators that maintains character and location consistency across panels. The tool integrates reference images directly into the prompt workflow and o…
A developer built a zero-telemetry clipboard manager, color picker, and screenshot suite after using AI to create a custom screenshot app. The tools are fully offline with no account required, and a free Core version is …
A developer indexed 669 GB of GoPro footage from a cycling journey using local machine learning models on an M1 Max computer, enabling search and direct timeline integration with DaVinci Resolve. The project processed 62…
A researcher reports that a byte transformer with a zero-parameter input layer (HSL-embedding-zero) performs comparably to learned embeddings across text, image, audio, radar, and lidar modalities, with channel-knockout …
University of Maryland researchers developed HumanEgo, a method enabling bimanual robots to learn manipulation tasks from just 30 minutes of human egocentric video without any robot data, achieving a 92.5% success rate a…
A developer built a real-time YOLOv8n UAV detection pipeline on the Rockchip RK3588S SoC that runs at 46 FPS using all three NPU cores, saturating the camera's frame rate. The pipeline uses only ~140 MB of RAM per stream…
Jade Bryan of Android Police tested Google's Gemini as her primary visual search tool for a week and found it changed how she uses on-device image search, encouraging more complex, conversational questions compared to he…
Police departments face accusations of misusing AI-powered license-plate recognition systems, raising concerns about privacy violations and potential civil rights abuses. The technology, which automatically scans and rec…
A developer built a Python script that converts UI screenshots into markdown documentation using any OpenAI-compatible AI model. The script, which is model-agnostic and self-hostable, was created to automate documenting …
ASCILINE, a high-performance cross-platform real-time ASCII video rendering engine, transforms video into text-based representations on HTML5 Canvas, enabling ultra-low bandwidth streaming, AI integration, and bypassing …
Pixar's 'Toy Story 5' deliberately restrains new technology to preserve the franchise's visual style, while introducing enhanced animation tools like a new lighting system and RenderMan XPU. The film explores the coexist…
Hany Farid, a leading deepfake expert, no longer trusts his own eyes due to the rapid advancement of AI-generated synthetic media, raising concerns about the erosion of visual truth and its implications for society.
A developer built a Frogger-style AI game called 'HOME FRONT' that simulates a frog's commute through a modern home. The project uses a custom prompt and results in an interactive browser-based game with a retro cabinet …
Chinese brand Honor debuted its Robot Phone, developed with Arri, on the red carpet of the Shanghai International Film Festival. The device features an AI-powered extendable camera and robotic motion control, and will go…
A developer created a three-bot system that monitors Telegram OSINT and geopolitics channels, filters messages through keyword and LLM evaluation, and automatically posts approved stories to Bluesky with AI-generated sum…
Ukraine is integrating artificial intelligence across battlefield functions and plans to unify those systems into a single networked command approach, a senior defence official told Reuters. Danylo Tsvok, head of the def…