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 ...
Tech Xplore

LiDAR approach could change factory inspections for tiny hard-to-reach parts

Researchers have developed a new LiDAR approach that makes it possible to image small objects with much greater precision and ...
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.
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 ...
Science Daily

Personalized gifts create lasting emotional connections and enhance self-esteem

Research shows that personalization can transform a gift from a mere object into a more meaningful experience that raises recipients' self-esteem and makes them feel more cherished. There is joy in ...
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 ...
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 ...
gematsu

Sony Interactive Entertainment announces The Playerbase program to scan players into PlayStation games

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced “The Playerbase,” an opportunity for PlayStation fans to have their likeness scanned and appeared within a PlayStation game, starting with Gran Turismo 7, ...
Shacknews

PlayStation to scan fans into games with The Playerbase initiative

PlayStation has announced a new project that will give fans the opportunity to be scanned into video games. It’s called The Playerbase and will kick off with Gran Turismo 7, though PlayStation says ...
Android

Sony is scanning its biggest fans into PlayStation games

Sony is giving its biggest fans a way to become a part of PlayStation’s future by scanning them into PlayStation games using a new opportunity it’s aptly calling ...