ALONG the coastline of Mangarin Bay, in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, lie the ruins of two silent sentinels which have stood as quiet monuments to an era of faith, conflict, and colonial ambition: the ...

What if you could turn a simple photo into a fully realized 3D model, all without spending a dime? Below, Matthew Berman takes you through how SAM 3D, an open source platform from Meta, is ...

Imagine snapping a photo of your favorite object, a vintage car, a family heirloom, or even your pet, and instantly transforming it into a lifelike 3D model. Thanks to Meta’s SAM 3D, this futuristic ...

The model, called SHARP, can reconstruct a photorealistic 3D scene from a single image in under a second. Here are some examples. Apple has published a study titled Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in ...

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. To visit it and marvel at the ...

Let Me begin with a confession. I am one of those products of Macaulay’s education system that the Prime Minister denounced while delivering the Ramnath Goenka Memorial lecture last week. he said that ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. George Washington was quite the man. Life handed him the keys to this brand-new country, and instead of clinging ...

A new startup called General Intuition is part of a growing wave of companies trying to make AI agents that can interact with the real world. A new startup called General Intuition is part of a ...

For generations, the American promise of outdoor access — to hike, hunt, fish, camp, and explore our public lands and waters — has been woven into our national identity. But that promise is under ...

On Tuesday, Tencent released HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a new open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, allowing users to pilot a camera path to “explore” ...

The extensive landscaping with native plants around Colonial Lake at the west edge of the Charleston peninsula serves as a mini botanical garden and demonstration area. When I visited last August, I ...