Papyrus scroll burnt to a crisp during Vesuvius eruption deciphered with help of AI

A papyrus scroll that was burned and carbonized when Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago has been virtually ...
Hackaday

All The Different Lasers, And How Well They Mark 3D Prints

Stefan] of CNC Kitchen has an informative video describing his experiences with trying to cleanly laser-mark 3D printed ...
Allure

If You’re Using the UV Index to Tan, You’re Using It Very Wrong

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that there are apps dedicated to tanning. There truly is an app for everything. Why wouldn’t there be one to tell you when to go outside, soak up the sun, turn over, ...
SlashGear

3 Handy Ways To Use A UV Flashlight Around The Home And Garage

What if we could turn off the lights, flip on a flashlight, and watch the world transform in a dim purple glow? If you're a fan of forensic crime dramas, or you've used ultraviolet tools at work to ...
slashfilm

How Project Hail Mary Adapts The Book's Most Challenging Sci-Fi Concept

Spoilers ahead for the book and movie versions of "Project Hail Mary." One of the things I really enjoy about "Project Hail Mary" is the way the story is built on the premise of a time crunch, even ...
CNBC

OpenAI to acquire developer tooling startup Astral in boost for Codex team

OpenAI said it will acquire Astral, a startup that builds tools for software developers. Astral's team will join OpenAI as part of the group running its AI coding assistant, Codex. OpenAI has been ...
Wired

Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans

An ongoing and heated dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic is raising new questions about how the startup’s technology is actually used inside the US military. In late February, Anthropic ...
IGN

Linked up.

Google has begun selling access to Project Genie, an interactive world creation tool that lets you generate playable environments from a prompt — including those featuring Nintendo characters. The ...
GamesIndustry

Google releases Project Genie AI tool for creating "playable worlds" that can feature copyrighted IP

Tech giant Google has started to open access to its latest AI tool, Project Genie, which allows users to create "playable worlds". In a video, Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence research ...
Engadget

Google's Project Genie lets you create your own 3D interactive worlds

This past summer, Google DeepMind debuted Genie 3. It's what's known as a world world, an AI system capable of generating images and reacting as the user moves through the environment the software is ...
Ars Technica

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

Last year, Google showed off Genie 3, an updated version of its AI world model with impressive long-term memory that allowed it to create interactive worlds from a simple text prompt. At the time, ...