Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit material intelligence, revealing the secret behind an amazing sense of touch

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max ...
IEEE

Test-time Correction: An Online 3D Detection System via Visual Prompting

Abstract: This paper introduces Test-time Correction (TTC), an online 3D detection system designed to rectify test-time errors using various auxiliary feedback, aiming to enhance the safety of ...

‘F1’ VFX team on the ‘dance’ between practical crashes and CG cars: ‘Everyone was passionate about the authenticity’

Oscar nominees Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Keith Dawson, and Robert Harrington reveal how real racing, broadcast ...
UC San Diego Today

A Smarter Way for AI to Understand Text and Images

The method has two main features: it evaluates how AI models reason through problems instead of just checking whether their ...

An ape, a tea party — and the ability to imagine

The ability to imagine — to play pretend — has long been thought to be unique to humans. A new study suggests one of our closest living relatives can do it too.
Space on MSN

Visualization Of What It Would Look Like To Fly Into A 'Black Hole'

Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. Powell Music: “Tidal ...
Nature

Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?

This moment of revelation is common to many people who don’t form mental images. They report that they might never have ...
GitHub

iPlug3 - a cross platform audio plug-in/app framework for the agentic era

The arrival of capable AI coding agents—Claude Code being the prime example—represents a fundamental shift in how we build software. Plug-in frameworks designed in the pre-agentic era carry ...
AOL

See If You Still Have The Eyesight To Tell The Difference Between These 32 Subtle Shades

Differentiating between two subtly different shades is a notoriously difficult task for some of us. Slight variations in pigments, the surrounding environment, or even age can make close colors nearly ...
PC Magazine

This Actual-Size ENIAC Replica Is the Coolest Thing You’ll See Today

It took nearly six months (and 1,600 hot glue gun sticks) for 80 autistic schoolkids to recreate the massive Army computer, which debuted in 1946. I'm the Executive Editor, Features & Special Projects ...
Tom's Guide

I test AI tools every day — here’s what they’re amazing at (and what they still can’t do)

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GitHub

yabplot: yet another brain plot

yabplot is a Python library for creating beautiful, publication-quality 3D brain visualizations. it supports plotting cortical regions, subcortical structures, and white matter bundles. the idea is ...