New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats

Openly available AI tool creates steerable 3D-like video, but requires serious GPU muscle.

Openly available AI tool creates steerable 3D-like video, but requires serious GPU muscle.

Robot vacuums that can both mop and sweep your floors have improved significantly in recent years. While they are still not as effective as good ol’ manual labor, if you run them regularly, they will help keep your floors cleaner with much less effort on your part. The difference is that newer “combo” robot vacuum […]

Introduction Understanding how the brain builds internal representations of the visual world is one of the most fascinating challenges in neuroscience. Over the past decade, deep learning has reshaped computer vision, producing neural networks that not only perform at human-level accuracy on recognition tasks but also seem to process information in ways that resemble our […] The post AI and the Brain: How DINOv3 Models Reveal Insights into Human Visual Processing appeared first on MarkTechPost.

What do warmongers and strongmen chat about? Living forever, of course.

Ted Cruz's anti-hotspot bill stalled, but FCC is ending Wi-Fi program on its own.
Google's latest updates include a smattering of features for Pixels and other Android phones.

"It is highly unlikely the United States will beat China’s projected timeline."
A new specimen of “infostealer” malware offers a disturbing feature: It monitors a target's browser for NSFW content, then takes simultaneous screenshots and webcam photos of the victim.

Things are looking bright for those who want to nab a great TV in 2025 at a substantial discount. There’s usually a great deal happening on a mid- or high-end TV from LG, Sony, TCL, Hisense, or Amazon’s own Fire TV brand — even if the biggest discounts remain reserved for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, […]

Switzerland launched an open-source model called Apertus on Monday as an alternative to proprietary models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, reports SWI as spotted by Engadget. The model’s source code, training data, model weights, and detailed development process are available on the AI model platform HuggingFace. Apertus, which is Latin for “open,” was designed […]