Google’s Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that’s just the start

Google's Gemini Omni is a new multimodal model that reasons across text, images, audio, and video to generate and edit videos ...
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 ...
NPR

In the brain, objects seen and imagined follow the same neural path

It's often called the mind's eye. "I can look at an object in the world around me, but I can also close my eyes and imagine the object," says Varun Wadia, a brain scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical ...
The Conversation

Almost 80% of Australian uni students now use AI. This is creating an ‘illusion of competence’

In Australia, artificial intelligence is becoming a near-universal feature of education. As of 2025, nearly 80% of university students reported using AI in their studies. Overseas, reports are even ...
The New York Times

Pokémon Company Objects to White House’s Political Memes

“No permission was granted for the use of our intellectual property,” the company said. The Trump administration frequently promotes policies with content from video games. By Zachary Small Reporting ...
TechSpot

Minecraft Java Edition is finally moving from OpenGL to multi-threaded Vulkan

Looking ahead: The first official visual upgrade in Minecraft's 16-year history was released last June for Bedrock Edition players. However, the original Java version has a long road ahead of it ...
InfoQ

JDK 26 and JDK 27: What We Know So Far

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
GamesIndustry

Roblox debuts tool for players to AI-generate interactive in-game objects, promises "full scene generation" is coming

Roblox has announced a beta tool which enables users to create interactive 3D models from text prompts, an upgrade to its existing 3D asset generation tool revealed last year. The feature was ...
ZDNet

What a Linux root user can do - and 8 ways you should absolutely never use it

The root account must be used with caution. Run the wrong command, and disaster could strike. Instead, you should always use sudo. When I first started using Linux, there was no choice but to work ...
techxplore

AI agent learns to create 3D objects from sketches using CAD software

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the go-to method for designing most of today's physical products. Engineers use CAD to turn 2D sketches into 3D models that they can then test and refine before sending ...
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New Segment Anything Models Make it Easier to Detect Objects and Create 3D Reconstructions

We’re introducing SAM 3 and SAM 3D, the newest additions to our Segment Anything Collection, which advance AI understanding of the visual world. SAM 3 enables detection and tracking of objects in ...