When I first encountered the idea of “aura points” — TikTok lexicon that took off in the late spring of 2024, meaning it’s basically an archival trend now — I’ll admit it. I went for the bait. Bless ...

Abstract: Point cloud compression has emerged as a hot research topic in recent years. Due to applications such as autonomous driving, LiDAR point cloud compression is an important research aspect of ...

Abstract: Recent advancements in Point Cloud Geometry Compression (PCGC) have seen the emergency of Transformer-based architectures. These networks utilize interactions across various dimensions such ...

In the 1960s, the Soviet climatologist and mathematician Mikhail Budyko set out to investigate the potential future of a planet on the brink of nuclear Armageddon. He started by looking some 600 ...

This repository contains PyTorch implementation for PoinTr: Diverse Point Cloud Completion with Geometry-Aware Transformers (ICCV 2021 Oral Presentation). PoinTr is a transformer-based model for point ...

The White House’s new tariffs announced Wednesday were pegged to amounts it said other countries impose on the U.S. In many cases, those amounts appear to match a basic formula: the size of a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading ...

This README shows a practical, end-to-end pattern for importing OpenStreetMap (OSM) data into Neo4j and running fast geographic / geospatial queries (nearest POIs, radius search, bounding-box filters, ...

Though details were scant, Apple introduced several new chips at its “Awe Dropping” iPhone 17 event on Tuesday. There were new A-series processors as expected: the A19 in the iPhone 17 and A19 Pro in ...

The latest iPhone chips offer MacBook Pro levels of AI compute, says Apple. What does this mean for the new iPhones and the future of the MacBook line? Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a ...