The Mapping Software Behind America’s Viral Maps Just Got Faster and Smarter

Maptitude 2026 adds a plain-language AI data assistant in Maptitude Online and a rebuilt, faster map engineNEWTON, ...
Interesting Engineering

MIT’s 6 mW chip lets tiny drones see and map their surroundings in real time

New MIT chip enables tiny drones and robots to create detailed 3D maps while using minimal power.
Tech Xplore

Geospatial upgrade gives TabPFN sharper local predictions on datasets up to 70,000 rows

A new development in data science has given one popular machine learning tool an improved sense of place, enabling it to make ...

Where nature draws the map – here are 5 ways to look at the US, without state boundaries

State lines are one way to picture the US, but natural history provides another – one that shows the ancient and living ...
Psychology TodayOpinion

Simulation Hypothesis: Lessons From the Fruit Fly Brain Map

If we can model a fly brain, and run that fly in a sim, we might do it with us. We live in the age of the brain, and ...
TechCrunch

Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats

AI startup Decart on Wednesday unveiled Oasis 3, its latest interactive world model that can generate photorealistic driving environments in real time, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The model is ...
Design News

A New Physical AI Platform Provides a 'Street-Smart' View of the World

Niantic Spatial and Spexi Geospatial have teamed up to provide customers in various industries with standardized, ...

Dataland defies expectations. But will L.A. embrace the world's first AI arts museum?

Dataland, the world's first museum of AI arts, is set to open in downtown L.A. on June 20. Arriving as debate about AI reaches new heights, Dataland seeks to place an experience of the natural world ...
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I put my computer’s internet traffic on a map, and I didn’t expect what I found

I expected neat lines pointing to websites, but TapMap showed me the infrastructure my laptop was really talking to ...

I live next to a major airport, and vibe-coded a plane tracker that turns my ceiling into a live flight map

A software engineer explains how he set up a one-of-a-kind flight tracker in his home in under two hours via vibe coding.
Nature

Magnetosome gene cluster containing bacteria in oxygen-stratified freshwater ecosystems of northern landscapes

Putative magnetotactic bacteria primarily inhabiting low-oxygen niches and their magnetofossils can serve as a potential proxy for oxygen depletion in freshwater ecosystems in northern landscapes, ...