Apple released an open-source artificial intelligence model called SHARP (short for Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less Than a Second) that can reconstruct a photorealistic 3D scene from a single two-dimensional image in under one second on standard GPU hardware. This capability represents a major milestone in computer vision and neural rendering, especially considering that traditional 3D reconstruction techniques typically require dozens or hundreds of images from multiple angles to bui...

Tianwen-3 is a multi-spacecraft, multi-phase Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, designed to: Land on Mars Collect scientifically valuable surface samples Launch those samples into Mars orbit Capture them with an orbiter Return them to Earth for laboratory analysis Tianwen-3 is less a rover and more a planetary logistics system—a tightly integrated chain designed to execute one of the hardest tasks in spaceflight: bringing pristine material from another planet safely to Earth....

XREAL (formerly Nreal) is a leading consumer augmented reality (AR) company focused on delivering lightweight, wearable AR glasses that bridge the gap between smartphones, PCs, gaming devices, and immersive spatial computing. Headquartered in China with strong global presence (U.S., Japan, South Korea, Europe), XREAL has positioned itself as one of the most commercially successful AR glasses vendors worldwide. Unlike bulky enterprise AR headsets, XREAL’s strategy centers on: Comfort-firs...

Silicon Valley in 2025 continued its tradition as the global epicenter of cutting-edge technology, hosting a diverse slate of summits and conferences that spotlighted AI, robotics, wireless futures, startup innovation, investment opportunities, and cross-industry collaboration. From humanoid robots taking center stage to global pitch events and major wireless technology gatherings, the year’s summits reflected both ambition and the real challenges of tech commercialization. 1. Humanoid R...

The iRhythm Zio Patch is a discreet wearable heart monitor used to continuously record your heart’s electrical activity (ECG) over an extended period — typically up to 14 days. It’s prescribed by a healthcare provider to help detect irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmias) that might not show up on short tests like a standard ECG in a doctor’s office. You wear a small, flexible patch on your chest. It records every heartbeat continuously while you go about daily life (you can usually shower...

Visual Paradigm (VP) is a fully integrated modeling, design, architecture, and project-management environment used by enterprises for software development, business process modeling, system architecture visualization, agile project management, and DevOps-aligned documentation. It supports UML, BPMN, ArchiMate, ERD, SysML, Flowcharts, Customer Journey Mapping, Requirement Diagrams, UX Wireframes, and dozens of other diagramming and modeling frameworks. Known for its strong team collaboration,...

German company Infineon Technologies AG and HTEC have unveiled a new 360° Awareness Humanoid Robotic Head at the OktoberTech Silicon Valley 2025. The robotic head showcases how robots can sense and respond to their surroundings with human-like awareness, according to the firm. The robotic head is a prototype platform that showcases how modern sensing and perception technologies can come together to give robots a multi-modal awareness of their environment. Rather than relying on a single s...

Agroz Inc. is an innovative, fully vertically integrated agricultural technology company designing, building, managing, and operating indoor and outdoor Controlled Environment Agriculture ("CEA") vertical farms. Agroz also operates CEA vertical farms in local communities to grow and deliver clean, pesticide free, fresh and nutritious rich vegetables directly to consumers and businesses, and to educate the public on how its vegetables are grown. Agroz believes its competitive advantage stems fro...

Kapton tape supercapacitors built using Laser-Induced Graphene represent one of the most accessible and scalable approaches to flexible energy storage. By directly converting inexpensive polyimide into conductive, porous graphene foam, researchers can create high-performance supercapacitors suitable for wearables, IoT devices, robotics, and smart textiles. LIG-based supercapacitors combine simplicity, low cost, flexibility, and high power density, positioning them as a cornerstone for the ne...

VSCO (vsco.co) is much more than a photo-filter app. It’s a creative ecosystem: a place to shoot, edit, share, learn, and do business — all centered on aesthetics, craftsmanship, and community. Their shift into AI, pro tools, and brand marketplaces signals a mature, ambitious strategy to empower creators at scale while staying true to their roots. Future Outlook AI Expansion: Given the promise of semantic search in VSCO Hub and AI editing tools in AI Lab, VSCO is likely to continue b...

2wai (pronounced “two-way”) is a consumer-facing mobile startup that lets people create and interact with lifelike “HoloAvatars” — AI-driven digital twins or avatars that look, speak and (the company says) remember like the person they represent. The product is presented as a social app and “the human layer for AI”: users record short videos with a phone camera, upload them into the app, and within minutes can create an avatar they can chat with in real time and in many languages. 2wai i...

SLAM(Simultaneous localization and mapping) is a major research problem in the robotics community, where a great deal of effort has been devoted to developing new methods to maximize their robustness and reliability. VSLAM (visual SLAM) utilizes camera(s) as the primary source of sensor input to sense the surrounding environment. This can be done either with a single camera, multiple cameras, and with or without an inertial measurement unit (IMU) that measure translational and rotational...

Kroki transforms infrastructure, software systems, workflow models, and architecture diagrams into text-driven, reproducible assets. This makes it invaluable for: Cloud architects DevOps engineers Technical documentation teams Software designers Research & academia By treating diagrams as code, Kroki helps ensure accuracy, consistency, automation, and maintainability across technical documentation pipelines. Kroki is an open-source diagram rendering service that conve...

Georeferencing frames means assigning real-world coordinates (a spatial reference) to image or video frames so each pixel — and each camera pose — is expressed in a common coordinate system. In indoor contexts (where GNSS/GPS is unavailable or weak) georeferencing is done by fusing computer-vision (photogrammetry / Visual SLAM), sensor data (IMU, LiDAR), and control references (targets, surveyed control points or known anchors). This lets you convert raw video or 360° imagery into accurate 2D f...

Imagine writing: “warm lo-fi piano, gentle vinyl crackle, distant saxophone solo, 90 BPM, nostalgic evening” — and getting back a finished, multi-minute, mix-ready track that you can legally use in a podcast, ad, game or as the backing for your next viral short. That future is here. Text-to-music models — sometimes called text-to-audio or text-to-music generators — are rapidly moving from research demos into production tools that are reshaping how music is composed, licensed and integrated ...

The Toyota COMS is a very small, single-seater electric vehicle (EV) developed by Toyota Auto Body (a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation) in Japan. “COMS-X Smart Delivery Vehicle” is essentially a commercial/utility variant of the COMS micro-EV platform, tailored for light-duty delivery and last-mile applications. In other words: a compact EV with a delivery box or container, built for urban logistics rather than private commuter use. Vehicle class & platform Single-seat...

Altium is one of the best-known vendors in electronic design automation (EDA) focused on PCB design and electronics product development. Its flagship desktop product, Altium Designer, together with cloud services such as Altium 365 and collaboration/enterprise offerings, positions the company as a one-stop environment for schematic capture, PCB layout, simulation, mechanical co-design, data management and manufacturing output. Below I’ll explain the platform, key technical details, how teams ty...

Pomelli is a newly announced AI-powered marketing tool developed by Google Labs in partnership with DeepMind. It is positioned as an “experiment” (i.e., early-stage product) aimed at helping small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) rapidly generate marketing campaigns that are on-brand, scalable, and streamlined. The core idea: many SMBs don’t have large budgets, dedicated design/creative teams, or deep marketing resources. Pomelli aims to bridge that gap by “understanding” the business brand...

A collaboration between civil engineering and neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh could change how spinal fusion surgery is performed and monitored. Associate Professors Amir Alavi, Nitin Agarwal, and D. Kojo Hamilton have received a $352,213 National Institutes of Health (NIH) R21 grant to develop the first self-powered spinal implant capable of transmitting real-time data from inside the body. The transdisciplinary project, “Wireless Metamaterial...

French mobility-startup CIXI (based in Annecy, Haute-Savoie) is developing a novel “active vehicle” called the VIGOZ that seeks to combine elements of cycling and electric vehicle driving into one platform. The slogan: a vehicle you pedal, that still functions on highways, giving you both physical activity plus transport. The Concept & Vision CIXI positions the VIGOZ as part of a shift from passive commuting to active mobility. Founder Pierre Francis describes how everyday commuting (...

Screenbox is an open-source, LibVLC-based media player built specifically for Windows (UWP/WinUI) that aims to combine VLC-level codec support with a modern, Fluent-style Windows UI, picture-in-picture, media-library browsing, network playback and Xbox compatibility. It’s actively developed on GitHub, distributed through the Microsoft Store (and winget), licensed under GPL-3.0, and has become a popular “VLC alternative” for users who prefer a sleeker Windows-native experience. Modern Fluent ...

machine learning and real-time audio tools now help pick tracks, beatmatch, isolate stems (vocals/drums/bass), create seamless transitions, and even speak or respond like a radio DJ. Some tools are aimed at casual listeners (auto-mixing your playlists), others add AI as creative assist to working DJs and producers (real-time stem separation, automated transitions, tempo/key matching), and a few are hybrid systems that let you perform or run background mixes with minimal effort. Better real-t...

A tiny wireless subretinal implant called PRIMA—a photovoltaic microchip placed beneath the retina and used with a camera-equipped pair of glasses and a pocket processor—has been shown in a multicenter clinical trial to partially restore functional central vision in patients with geographic atrophy (advanced “dry” AMD). At 12 months many trial participants could read letters, numbers and words using the system; mean gains on a standard ETDRS chart were large and clinically meaningful. A reti...

Determining where a photo was taken from pixels alone — image geolocation — is one of the most exciting and practical computer-vision tasks. It’s useful for OSINT/GEOINT, content moderation, user-photo enrichment, heritage/archaeology, wildlife tracking, and fraud detection. Historically this field used huge databases or heavy models; in recent years researchers and engineers have shown that small, efficient models — or small pipelines combining lightweight models with clever retrieval — can de...

Imagine you’re chatting with ChatGPT: you say “I’d like a durable hiking backpack for weekend trips, under $150” or perhaps “surprise me with a thoughtful birthday gift for my aunt who loves gardening and reading”. Instead of just listing links, ChatGPT presents tailored product recommendations, helping you compare features, read summaries of reviews, evaluate price-versus-value, and then (here’s the kicker) lets you go from conversation → click to buy without ever leaving the chat. That’s the ...

Helps design, control, and scale AI workflows (prompts, APIs, usage) with governance built in. Promptetus Routing of prompts, integration of APIs, monitoring of usage.Why it stands out: Focused on the workflow/orchestration side (rather than just infra). Good if you need to coordinate multiple models, tools, and agents.Potential trade-offs: May be less focused on low-level infrastructure (e.g., GPU scheduling) and more on the orchestration above that.Use-case fit: If you are building multipl...

AI-native commerce lock-screen platform turns passive device surfaces (phone lock screens, idle TV screens) into proactive, inspiration-first shopping experiences by combining generative visual models, personalization engines, visual search, and commerce orchestration. Companies such as Glance have productized this idea by embedding generative, shoppable visuals directly onto millions of devices via OEM partnerships. AI-native commerce and lock-screen platform use generative visual models, p...

Monitoring stress from the surface of the body Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are exploring how wearables and surface sensors can provide insight into human stress — mental, emotional, physiological — by measuring signals from the body surface. The work is part of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences, with interdisciplinary collaboration spanning bioengineering, health & kinesiology, neuroscience, and beh...