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DIY 3D LiDAR Mapping: Convert a 2D LiDAR into a 3D Scanner

This is a DIY electronics project article that teaches readers how to build a low-cost 3D LiDAR mapping system using a ...
ZDNet

I used Photoshop's new AI tool to rotate objects in 3D, and it's pure magic

Photoshop can generate details that the camera never captured. Rotate Object pairs impressively well with Harmonize. Great results still require Photoshop skill ...
GitHub

ProcFunc: Function-Oriented Abstractions for Procedural 3D Generation in Python

This repository contains only the Primitives API, Transpiler and Tracer from our research paper. The pre-made procedural generators are coming soon as part of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

We Use Many of the Same Brain Cells to See and to Imagine Objects, a Study Suggests. The Findings Provide a New Window Into Memory

The researchers studied neural activity in 16 participants with epilepsy who had electrodes in their brains. Maskot via Getty Images Visualizing an object in the mind’s eye allows us to remember the ...
9to5Mac

Apple’s new AI model recreates 3D objects with realistic lighting effects from a single image

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 ...
Reuters

Broadcom expects to sell 1 million 3D stacked chips by 2027

Broadcom's stacked chip tech enhances AI computing power, says VP Stacked design boosts energy performance by 10 times Google and OpenAI use Broadcom to make custom AI chips SAN JOSE, California, Feb ...
NJ.com

N.J. wins ‘ghost gun’ case. Appeals court says 3D printer code isn’t free speech.

A federal appeals court has backed the dismissal of a ghost gun company’s lawsuit against the State of New Jersey, which in 2018 banned the use of their software to make 3D-printed firearms. The ...
Wired

Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B funding round from new and existing investors. The ...
The New York Times

They Are in Love but Don’t Speak the Same Language

He speaks English. She speaks Mandarin. The secret to their happy marriage: Microsoft Translator. By Kashmir Hill Photographs by Oliver Farshi Kashmir Hill writes about how technology changes how we ...
The Conversation

3D scanning and shape analysis help archaeologists connect objects across space and time to recover their lost histories

The 3D scan of a mask fragment matches up with the scan of a different well-preserved mask. Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis – not of looting, although that ...
Reuters

Not all computer code protected as speech, US appeals court finds in ghost gun case

Court rules not all computer code is protected under First Amendment's free speech shield Gun website loses bid to revive lawsuit over ghost gun code Lawsuit followed New Jersey crackdown on ghost ...