Better than holograms: 3D-animated starships can be viewed from any angle
Unlike holograms, the optical trap display produces images viewable from all angles. Inspired by science fiction displays like the holodeck from Star Trek and the Princess Leia projector from Star Wars, a BYU electrical and computer engine.....»»
Amazon’s 2nd-gen Echo Show offers better cameras, CPUs, and speakers
Echo Show 8 features a 13mp wide-angle camera, 8-core CPU, and digital pan/zoom. This Echo Show 8 is handling a group video call. [credit: Amazon.....»»
YouTube announces a $100M fund to reward top YouTube Shorts creators over 2021-2022
YouTube is giving its TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, an injection of cash to help it better compete with rivals. The company today introduced the YouTube Shorts Fund, a $100 million fund that will pay YouTube Shorts creators for their most viewed.....»»
Digging into digital mortgage lender Better.com’s huge SPAC
We'll have to wait to see how public investors value the company once it begins to float later this year. But as far as unicorn SPAC deals go, there have been worse ones that we've viewed. Better.com, a venture-backed digital mortgage lende.....»»
Researchers Create Free-Floating Animated Holograms
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Back in 2018, researchers from Brigham Young University demonstrated a device called an Optical Trap Display that used lasers to create free-floating holographic images that don't need a display. That.....»»
Star Wars: The Bad Batch preview: Clones, chaos, and the rise of the Empire
The Star Wars saga continues in The Bad Batch, an animated series set in the aftermath of the deadly Order 66 and in the early days of the Galactic Empire......»»
Check out the latest trailer for the final season of Castlevania on Netflix
Netflix has shared a trailer for the fourth and final season of its Castlevania animated series......»»
Luca preview: How a real-world friendship inspired Pixar’s sea monster story
The director of Pixar's Luca explains how a real-world friendship during a summer on the Italian Riviera inspired his animated sea-monster story......»»
Tired of Zoom Calls? Try Beaming in on a Hologram
Holographic tech in the corporate sector is rapidly advancing, but will today’s hybrid workplace see widespread adoption? Holograms, in the post-COVID hybrid workforce, may be joining in-person attendees at business conferences befo.....»»
Material scientists find new angle toward better heat transfer
UCLA materials scientists have developed a class of optical material that controls how heat radiation is directed from an object. Similar to the way overlapping blinds direct the angle of visible light coming through a window, the breakthrough involv.....»»
Understanding BLDC Motor Control Algorithms
eBook on Understanding BLDC Motor Control Algorithms Read this ebook, featuring animated examples, to learn about the control algorithms to drive a brushless DC (BLDC) motor......»»
NASA’s bold bet on Starship for the Moon may change spaceflight forever
"It is transformational to degrees no one today can understand." Enlarge / In the future, what might lunar exploration look like if NASA can send multiple Starships there each year? This SpaceX rendering offers a vision of one such future. (cred.....»»
The Trojan-Horse mechanism: How networks reduce gender segregation
The social science literature has long viewed homophily and network-based job recruitment as crucial drivers of segregation. Researchers at Linköping University and ESADE, Ramon Llull University, now show that this view must be revised. In their Sci.....»»
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Japan Scraps Mascot Promoting Fukushima Wastewater Dump
The Japanese government has been forced to quickly retire an animated character it had hoped would win support for its decision this week to release more than 1m tonnes of contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea.....»»
Dynamical machine learning accurately reconstructs volume interiors with limited-angle data
Tomographic reconstruction of an object's interior volume from limited angular views is a challenging problem with practical applications in biological imaging, failure analysis of integrated circuits, etc. A team at MIT presents a dynamical machine.....»»
A total solar eclipse will happen in the US in 2024
It’s not often that eclipses block out the sun and can be viewed from the US. The rare events happen very infrequently, with the last occurring in 2017 for parts of Ohio. Prior to the 2017 solar eclipse, the last that was partly visible in part.....»»
Setting up a management board for success with Dave Easton
Generation Investment Management partner Dave Easton talks about how to build a board as a founder, and specifically how to build a board you can live with. Viewed from the outside, board selection and corporate governance can seem like a b.....»»
Entropy measurements reveal exotic effect in "magic-angle" graphene
Most materials go from being solids to liquids when they are heated. One rare counter-example is helium-3, which can solidify upon heating. This counterintuitive and exotic effect, known as the Pomeranchuk effect, may now have found its electronic an.....»»
This room-sized ‘hologram’ display generates enormous 3D images
Most 'holograms' that you see online aren't holograms at all -- they're visual tricks that only appear to be 3D. This one, however, is the real deal......»»
Rick and Morty fans won’t have long to wait for S5 as Adult Swim drops trailer
"Police? A strange, horny ocean man is on my lawn." Rick and Morty S5 premieres on Adult Swim on June 20, 2021. Rick and Morty fans won't have to wait much longer for a fifth season of the irreverent, Emmy-winning animated comedy. Adult S.....»»