Cosmic eruption caught in the act by submillimeter array's new fastest response system

On Jan. 26, 2026, the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Maunakea crossed an important threshold for time-domain astronomy. For the ...
Hackaday

Converting A Scanning Electron Microscope Into A TEM Is Surprisingly Easy

Although both a SEM and a TEM are electron microscopes, their working principles and images are very different. Whereas an SEM uses secondary electrons ejected after bombarding a sample’s surface with ...
AppleInsider

Expect more controllers & objects for Apple Vision Pro thanks to visionOS 27

Apple is opening up what is possible on Apple Vision Pro by implementing physical object tracking and expanded spatial accessory support. Here's what that means for users when visionOS 27 launches.
Phys.org

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS reveals no technosignatures in seven-hour radio scan

Scientists at the SETI Institute recently searched for technological signals from 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object observed in our solar system. Using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) at the Hat ...
IEEE

Learning Photometric Feature Transform for Free-Form Object Scan

Abstract: We propose a novel framework to automatically learn to aggregate and transform photometric measurements from multiple unstructured views into spatially distinctive and view-invariant ...
Inc

Software Companies Are Making Weird Physical Objects Now. Here’s Why

Framer, a popular web design company, is releasing a keyboard with a machined aluminum body, two programmable knobs, and a thin color display running along the top edge that shows, among other things, ...
The Motley Fool

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is Moving Beyond Data Centers. Nvidia Has Already Turned This Opportunity Into a Multibillion-Dollar Business

Physical AI refers to the integration of AI into edge devices, such as cars and robots, enabling them to make real-time, autonomous decisions. Robotaxis, robotic arms in factories, and humanoid robots ...
ZDNet

How I scan documents with my Android phone and turn them into PDFs for free - it's easy

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
Futurism

Tinder Scanning Users’ Eyeballs to Prove They Aren’t Creeps

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Tinder ...
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 ...
Wired

Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder

Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event in San Francisco on Friday that Tinder users around the globe can now put a digital badge on their profiles signaling ...
Engadget

Sony is starting a weird service that scans people to put them in PlayStation games

Sony just announced a truly strange initiative called The Playerbase. This is a program to scan people's likenesses and pop them in PlayStation games. That's pretty wild, but potentially cool to those ...