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A developer has created a fully playable, single-file browser-based tactical bomb-defusal first-person shooter using Three.js, complete with procedural textures, audio, and enemy AI. The game features a compact desert-to…
DuckDuckGo and Bing search results exposed police license plate searches from Flock Safety's automatic license plate reader system, revealing full plate numbers, case details, and investigation reasons like "GTA" to the …
Diana Hu has been promoted to Managing Partner at Y Combinator, the startup accelerator announced. Hu, a former YC founder whose company Escher Reality was acquired by Niantic in 2018, has worked with nearly 230 companie…
Google's Gemini model now natively outputs bounding box coordinates as part of its vocabulary, eliminating the need for separate computer vision pipelines. The system normalizes all images to a 1000x1000 grid and returns…
A developer has released a free, open-source image registration tool called Tile-Voting Image Registration, built to avoid manual pixel-nudging in Photoshop. The tool, available at tristate.digital with a corresponding A…
DoorDash launched a new AI shopping assistant on iOS in select regions that allows users to snap photos of cookbook pages or grocery lists to automatically add items to their cart. The feature, which also understands nat…
IOS 27 and Siri AI replace Visual Intelligence with a new Siri camera mode on iPhone, eliminating the long-press shortcut that previously hijacked Camera Control. Users who accidentally triggered Visual Intelligence can …
Automatic license plate reader company Flock exposed the reasons police conducted vehicle searches, including case numbers and search terms like "GTA," through common search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Bing. Privacy a…
Apple's iOS 27 update introduces four new HomeKit Secure Video features, including AI-powered generated video descriptions, search within clips, and noteworthy clip highlights, as well as 4K video streaming support for c…
DoorDash launched a new AI chatbot called "Ask DoorDash" on Thursday that allows users to order food and groceries using text prompts, recipe links, or photos instead of traditional search. The chatbot can build grocery …
Meta's smart glasses have sold millions of units with Ray-Ban branding, but the devices still lack a game-changing experience due to limited app functionality and underwhelming AI features. The company has opened its dev…
Roboflow's RF-DETR computer vision model now powers vision agents that detect objects in real time and autonomously act on that data, such as suggesting recipes from a fridge's contents or building a shopping list. The s…
Coram AI raised $35 million in Series B funding to deploy AI agents that autonomously investigate security incidents across existing camera systems. The San Francisco company, co-founded by Ashesh Jain and Peter Ondruska…
Apple's iOS 27, launching later this year, introduces a new photo-editing mode that uses Gaussian splatting AI to turn still images into shiftable 3D scenes, allowing users to change the angle and have the environment re…
Apple Maps will receive 10 new features in iOS 27, including an AI-enhanced Flyover experience that produces sharper, more lifelike aerial imagery of cities. The update also introduces Local Lists with curated trending p…
Irish fleet-safety company CameraMatics has raised up to €49 million to expand in North America and Europe, led by UK growth investor Blume Equity alongside the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and Goodbody Capital Part…
X Square Robot open-sourced XRZero-G0, a hardware-software framework that reduces real-robot training data requirements by up to 20×, and released the G0-Dataset, a 2,000-hour multimodal repository for robotics research.…
Coram AI, founded by Ashesh Jain and Peter Ondruska, raised $35 million in Series B funding to expand its AI platform that makes existing security cameras searchable. The round, co-led by Ansa Capital and Battery Venture…
Espressif's SCINTIX P4 module, powered by the ESP32-P4 MCU, now runs the Brookesia smartphone-style UI, enabling multimedia and edge AI applications on a real-time microcontroller. The tutorial details hardware setup, fi…
Json Zhou, a researcher specializing in robotics and artificial intelligence, has published work spanning algorithms, computer vision, generative AI, and world simulation. His primary focus is on advancing robotics throu…