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China building world’s biggest quantum research facility

“China is building the world’s largest quantum research facility to develop a quantum computer and other “revolutionary” forms of technology that can be used by the military for code-breaking or on stealth submarines, according to scientists and authorities involved …

Watch 1,069 dancing robots break world record

“WL Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd in China has just broken the Guinness World Records title for the Most robots dancing simultaneously. Taking place in Guangzhou, Guangdong, a jaw-dropping 1,069 synchronised machines were lined up and performed a perfectly choreographed …

20,000 Leagues Into Your Bowels: How GPUs Are Helping to Diagnose Gastrointestinal Anomalies

“In the classic 1966 science fiction film “Fantastic Voyage,” a team of doctors and a space-aged submarine are shrunken and injected into an injured scientist to repair a brain clot. While microscopic medical teams are not yet journeying into the …

Renishaw and Aeromet work to optimise high-performance alloy

“Renishaw and Aeromet International Limited today announce a collaboration to establish additive manufacturing process parameters and material properties for Aeromet’s A20X® aluminium alloy. Following a successful debut at the Paris Air Show, last month, the two companies are working …

Production-Level Facial Performance Capture Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

“We present a real-time deep learning framework for video-based facial performance capture—the dense 3D tracking of an actor’s face given a monocular video. Our pipeline begins with accurately capturing a subject using a high-end production facial capture pipeline …

Premiere at Mercedes-Benz Trucks: New from the 3D printer: the first spare part for trucks made of metal

“Mercedes-Benz Trucks has taken 3D printing a stage further: the first printed spare part made of metal, a thermostat cover for truck and Unimog models from older model series, has passed all the stages of the stringent quality assurance process …

News  Magic Bench

Magic Bench

“Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) create exciting opportunities to engage users in immersive experiences, resulting in natural human-computer interaction. Many MR interactions are generated around a first-person Point of View (POV). In these cases, the user directs to …

Samsung Debuts World’s First Cinema LED Display

“Samsung Electronics today announced it has installed its first ever commercial Cinema LED Screen at Lotte Cinema World Tower in Korea. Designed as a High Dynamic Range (HDR) LED theater display, the Cinema LED Screen creates a more captivating and …

Building the Web of Things

“Mozilla is working to create a Web of Things framework of software and services that can bridge the communication gap between connected devices. By providing these devices with web URLs and a standardized data model and API, we are moving …

Researchers use Kinect to scan T. rex skull

“Last year, a team of forensic dentists got authorization to perform a 3-D scan of the prized Tyrannosaurus rex skull at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, in an effort to try to explain some strange holes in …