Hobbyist builds lo-fi camera from an old optical mouse

Dycus recently shared the mouse-turned-camera project on Reddit. He used the optical sensor (model ADNS-3090) from an old ...
IEEE

PartDistill: 3D Shape Part Segmentation by Vision-Language Model Distillation

Abstract: This paper proposes a cross-modal distillation frame-work, PartDistill, which transfers 2D knowledge from vision-language models (VLMs) to facilitate 3D shape part segmentation. PartDistill ...
Forbes

AWS Outage: What To Know As Amazon Says Cloud Service Is Back To Normal

More than 1,000 people were reporting connectivity issues with Amazon Web Services Tuesday morning after a day of outages plagued thousands of popular apps and websites across the internet. An AWS ...

What caused AWS outage? Amazon says it identified 'potential reason' for global internet disruption. Check full list of services affected

Amazon's cloud computing service, AWS, experienced a massive global outage that disrupted numerous online platforms, including social media, gaming, and financial services. The company identified a ...
The Spokesman-Review

Australia’s rainforests become the first in the world to make concerning switch

Around the world, rainforests play a critically important role in climate regulation. Trees and plants absorb and store a massive amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and in return, through ...

Why did Amazon's AWS outage disrupt Snapchat, Ring and many other services?

Amazon's cloud computing service experienced a major outage on Monday, disrupting many online services, including Snapchat, Roblox and Signal.
Salina Post

Police make arrest in Kan. door camera abduction video

SEDGWICK COUNTY —Law enforcement investigating a violent abduction shown on a doorbell video this week in Wichita have made an arrest. Just after 7 p.m. Tuesday, officers with the Wichita Police ...
kval

VOTE: Do you think Flock cameras make your community safer?

Oregon State Hospital maintains accreditation with The Joint Commission after improvements Oregon State Hospital improvements recognized by The Joint CommissionSALEM, Ore. – Oregon State ...
GitHub

Built in 2D camera aspect ratio management

What problem does this solve or what need does it fill? Having a fixed aspect ratio that scales within the window seems like a common use case for 2D games, yet there is no clean way of doing it.
Science Daily

Scientists create a magnetic lantern that moves like it’s alive

A team of engineers at North Carolina State University has designed a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can rapidly snap into multiple stable 3D shapes—including a lantern, a spinning top, and more—by ...
techxplore

Scientists create world's first chip that combines 2D materials with conventional silicon circuitry

For the first time, scientists have created a fully functional memory chip only a few atoms thick and integrated it into conventional chips. This advance could pave the way for more powerful and ...