Google Project Genie lets you create interactive worlds from a photo or prompt

World models like Genie 3 create a video that responds to your control inputs, allowing you to explore the simulation as if ...

Google’s AI helped me make bad Nintendo knockoffs

This week, a new generative AI tool from Google let me create bad knockoffs of 3D Nintendo worlds. Check out my version of ...
9to5Google

Google rolling out ‘Project Genie’ to generate playable worlds

Genie 3 is a “general-purpose world model capable of generating diverse, interactive environments.” Google Project ...
IEEE

Real-Time Object Detection in Underground Parking Lots using PointPillars

Abstract: In this paper, we address the problem of object detection in the complex environment of underground parking lots by proposing a real-time object detection system based on PointPillars. This ...
IEEE

Using Transfer Learning to Refine Object Detection Models for Blind and Low Vision Users

Abstract: Object detection models available on smartphones such as YOLOv8 can potentially help identify and locate objects of interest to people who are blind or low vision (pBLV). However, current ...
The Hill

Trump weighs US military as option to obtain Greenland, White House says

The White House said on Tuesday that President Trump is weighing using the U.S. military to acquire the Danish territory of Greenland. “President Trump has made it well known that acquiring Greenland ...
SlashGear

'Invisible Grabbers' Let You Move Objects Using Nothing But Sound Waves

Physically, sound is just pressure moving through a medium. If you harness that pressure correctly, you can actually push things around using nothing but sound. That's exactly what researchers at ...