Smithsonian Magazine

Humans May Have Used These Mysterious Symbols to Encode Information Tens of Thousands of Years Before the First Writing Systems

The symbols, discovered on 40,000-year-old artifacts in caves in southwest Germany, may have been a precursor to the first written language ...
MIT Technology Review

Just pull a string to turn these tile patterns into useful 3D structures

Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.
IEEE

DetectoRS: Detecting Objects with Recursive Feature Pyramid and Switchable Atrous Convolution

Abstract: Many modern object detectors demonstrate outstanding performances by using the mechanism of looking and thinking twice. In this paper, we explore this mechanism in the backbone design for ...
GitHub

mugl - WebGPU and WebGL Micro 3D Graphics Library for JavaScript and WebAssembly

render graphics from AssemblyScript / WASM using WebGPU or WebGL use WebGL2 through a minimal modern graphics API that removes the verbosity and state management aspect of WebGL use WebGPU today with ...
InfoWorld

WinterTC: Write once, run anywhere (for real this time)

The unified JavaScript runtime standard is an idea whose time has come. Here’s an inside look at the movement for server-side JavaScript interoperability.