Light-programmed system projects 28-layer 3D images in single shot

Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and CNSI (California NanoSystems Institute), led by Professor Aydogan ...

How a shape-shifting tiny rover inspired by Japanese toys autonomously explored the moon

Moon missions come in all shapes and sizes, from car-sized rovers packed with scientific equipment to towering rocket ...
Slate

My Husband Doesn’t Exactly “Measure Up.” A Group of Women Has Made Him Acutely Aware of That.

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 ...
San Francisco Fed

The AI-GPR Index: Measuring Geopolitical Risk using Artificial Intelligence

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 ...
HotHardware

NVIDIA DLSS 5 Uses 2D Data To Boost Image Quality: What We Know

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 ...
Fast Company

Canva’s new AI tool will break your design process (in a good way)

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, ...
Ars Technica

Google reveals Nano Banana 2 AI image model, coming to Gemini today

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 ...
Gizmodo

New ‘CRASH Clock’ Warns of 2.8-Day Window Before Likely Orbital Collision

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 ...
Slate

My Husband Is Obsessed With Measuring Himself Down There. His Reasoning Is Pure Lunacy.

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 ...
Digital Trends

Image editing on Galaxy phones is set for a major upgrade in One UI 8.5.

Samsung recently kicked off the One UI 8.5 beta program for the Galaxy S25 series and highlighted some of the new features coming with the update. While other Galaxy devices haven’t received beta ...
IFLScience

First X-Ray Image Of Comet 3I/ATLAS Reveals Signature Unseen In Other Interstellar Objects

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
C&EN

Cell Invasion Analysis of Tumor Spheroids Using 2D Image Data

Metastatic disease is the most severe complication in oncological patients. The quantification of cellular invasion into the surrounding tissue is crucial for the identification of strategies to ...