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First-Ever 3D Map Of Planet Outside Solar System Reveals Distant World’s Hot Spot And Cool Ring

“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength ...

Google sued by University of Southern California over imaging technology

The University of Southern California has sued Google in Texas federal court, alleging that the tech giant's Google Earth, ...

Google Maps Street View Adds 5,900 Miles of Off-Road Trails

Google Maps and Ford have teamed up to make the TransAmerica Trail the first Street View off-roading trail in Maps history.

Now in 3D, maps begin to bring exoplanets into focus

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...
Wanderlust Travel Videos on MSN

Eiffel Tower Street View – Paris

Pedestrian walkway and road near the base of the Eiffel Tower. Popular area for sightseeing and casual strolls along the ...
Wall Street Journal

China’s Rare-Earth Export Controls Are ‘Critical Concern’ for EU, Trade Chief Says

China’s fresh export controls on rare-earth materials are a critical issue for the European Union, EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic said, as tensions continue to rise between Brussels and Beijing. “These ...
Wall Street Journal

GM’s Rare-Earth Gamble Pays Off as China Tightens Magnet Exports

Last week China introduced new draconian restrictions on rare-earth magnet exports, a reminder of its power to disrupt global supply chains—and cause American manufacturers, including carmakers, to ...
IEEE

Unsupervised 3D Point Cloud Completion via Multi-View Adversarial Learning

Abstract: In real-world scenarios, scanned point clouds are often incomplete due to occlusion issues. The tasks of self-supervised and weakly-supervised point cloud completion involve reconstructing ...
IEEE

LIV-GaussMap: LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Fusion for Real-Time 3D Radiance Field Map Rendering

Abstract: We introduce an integrated precise LiDAR, Inertial, and Visual (LIV) multimodal sensor fused mapping system that builds on the differentiable Gaussians to improve the mapping fidelity, ...
The Daily Beast

Comey Pleads Not Guilty and Launches Scorched Earth Defense

James Comey has pleaded not guilty to charges that he lied to Congress—and his lawyers say he will seek to dismiss the case as a presidential revenge plot run by an unqualified Trump ally. The former ...
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Making regular GPS ultra-precise

Tall buildings block the view ... Maps on your tablet. You then enter the address of your hotel and you can immediately zoom in on the street environment, study the hotel's façade and the height of ...
The Boston Globe

Person struck and killed by shuttle bus on Albany Street

A person died after being hit by a shuttle bus on Albany Street in Boston Monday morning, officials said. The crash happened just before 8 a.m. near 774 Albany St., police said in a statement. When ...