The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...

Abstract: Traditional object detection models often lose the detailed outline information of the object. To address this problem, we propose the Fourier Series Object Detection (FSD). It encodes the ...

Meta Platforms Inc. today is expanding its suite of open-source Segment Anything computer vision models with the release of SAM 3 and SAM 3D, introducing enhanced object recognition and ...

Mere hours after OpenAI updated its flagship foundation model GPT-5 to GPT-5.1, promising reduced token usage overall and a more pleasant personality with more preset options, Chinese search giant ...

Creative suite company Canva launched its own design model on Thursday that understands design layers and formats to power its features. The company also introduced new products and features, updates ...

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When Donald Trump published an August 12 letter addressed to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, informing him of “a comprehensive internal review” of the shows and explanatory materials at ...

IBM has released Granite-Docling-258M, an open-source (Apache-2.0) vision-language model designed specifically for end-to-end document conversion. The model targets layout-faithful extraction—tables, ...

A common misconception in automated software testing is that the document object model (DOM) is still the best way to interact with a web application. But this is less helpful when most front ends are ...

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk and ...

“Our research shows that there’s strong demand for storage consumption models in Europe,” said Luis Fernandes, Senior Research Manager, IDC. “Organizations want to free up staff for higher-value work ...