Humans judge perceptual similarity according to diverse visual attributes, including scene layout, subject location, and camera pose.

Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The Charlotte Hornets may have misunderstood the purpose of the season of giving. The team came under fire this week after someone on social media claimed a young fan involved with an on-court skit during Monday night's game against the Philadelphia 76ers was tricked out of receiving a new video game console. Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo Ball, right, shoots over Philadelphia 76ers forward KJ Martin Jr., left, during the first half in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, Dec. 16, 2024.

During last night's presidential debate, Donald Trump once again baselessly insisted that the only reason he lost in 2020 was coordinated fraud. "Our elections are bad," Trump declared--gesturing to the possibility that, should he lose in November, he will again contest the results. After every presidential election nowadays, roughly half the nation is in disbelief at the outcome--and many, in turn, search for excuses. Some of those claims are outright fabricated, such as Republican cries that 2020 was "stolen," which culminated in the riot at the Capitol on January 6. Others are rooted in facts but blown out of proportion, such as Democrats' outrage over Russian propaganda and the abject failure of Facebook's content moderation in 2016.

Yemen's Houthi group has claimed responsibility for the drone that struck overnight in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing one person and injuring eight. Israeli media identified the dead man as 50-year-old Yevgeny Ferder, who had moved to Israel from Belarus at the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war. Last night's strike is unique -- it's the first time the group is known to have hit Tel Aviv, though the Houthi have waged a continued campaign against targets they claim are linked to Israel since the ongoing devastating war on Gaza broke out in October. The drone struck in central Tel Aviv in the early hours of Friday morning. The site itself is thought to be close to a number of hotels, many hosting those displaced from Israel's northern border with Lebanon. A US embassy office is also close to the site of the attack.

The acquisition of objects outside the Line-of-Sight of cameras is a very intriguing but also extremely challenging research topic. Recent works showed the feasibility of this idea exploiting transient imaging data produced by custom direct Time of Flight sensors. In this paper, for the first time, we tackle this problem using only data from an off-the-shelf indirect Time of Flight sensor without any further hardware requirement. We introduced a Deep Learning model able to re-frame the surfaces where light bounces happen as a virtual mirror. This modeling makes the task easier to handle and also facilitates the construction of annotated training data. From the obtained data it is possible to retrieve the depth information of the hidden scene. We also provide a first-in-its-kind synthetic dataset for the task and demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed idea over it.

The weird and wonderful art created when AI and humans unite BBC Will AI kill art? Not likely, says the artist Alexander Reben, who has been working with AI for years. "I knew I had hit upon the right recipe when I got the following output by GPT-3 (which made me laugh a little too hard alone in my studio in lockdown):" "The sculpture contains a plunger, a toilet plunger, a plunger, a plunger, a plunger, and a plunger, each of which has been modified. The first plunger is simply a normal plunger, but the rest represent a series of plungers with more and more of the handle removed until just the rubber cup is left. The title of the artwork is "A Short History of Plungers and Other Things That Go Plunge in the Night" by the artists known as "The Plungers" (whose identity remains unknown). "The Plungers", were a collective of anonymous artists, founded in 1972. They were dedicated to the "conceptualization and promotion of a new art form called Plungism." Plungism was a creative interpretation of the idea of Plungerism, which was defined by The Plungers as "a state of mind wherein the mind of an artist is in a state of flux and able to be influenced by all things, even plungers." The Plungers' works were displayed in New York galleries and included such titles as "Plunger's Progress," "The Plungers," "The Plungers Strike Back," and "Big Plunger 4: The Final Plunger," all of which featured plungers, and "Plungers on Parade," which showed images of plungers in public spaces. The Plungers disappeared and left no trace of their identity."

Night of the Living Duck Made from an upcycled rubber ducky. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DUCK is a one of a kind collectible. This creation is based off an image we created with an artificial intelligence generator! All we did was.. bring it to life!

CES has always been a weird show for robotics. It's true the organization behind the show dropped the name "Consumer Electronics Show" some number of years ago (a fact it continues to be very insistent about in its press materials), but at its heart the show is still very much about consumer technologies. For robotics, consumer has been an exceedingly difficult nut to crack, for reasons of pricing, scalability and the general unpredictability of operating in uncontrolled environments. In much the same way that the robotic vacuum has long been the main exception to that rule, robotic vacuums have been the one consistent feature at the show over the past decade-plus. Back in 2020 (the last time TechCrunch attended the show in person), I wrote a piece titled, "Companies take baby steps toward home robots at CES." Fittingly (for reasons that will be made clear below), the first person I quoted in the piece was Labrador Systems co-founder/CEO Mike Dooley, who told me, "I think there are fewer fake robots this year."

In the past decade, cars have become smarter in ways we previously never thought possible. They have gained internet connections, formed successful relationships with our smartphones via CarPlay and Android Auto, and learned a whole host of new semi-autonomous driving skills. They have also turned into the largest'device' we own, morphing from simply a mode of transport, into a smart gadget with abilities of our phones, smartwatches and computers. Next, they'll get much better at communicating with those products, and with the services – especially health and wellbeing services – we use everyday. And, of course, they'll get even safer too.

Friday night's admission by Tesla that its autopilot mode was activated during a deadly crash by a Model X SUV earlier this month is bad for Tesla, bad for the cause of self-driving cars, and certainly bad for anyone who rides in semiautonomous or autonomous vehicles or shares the road with them. On March 23, the vehicle hit a barrier on Highway 101 near Mountain View, California, then caught fire and was hit by two other vehicles. In an earlier statement about the incident, before Tesla had been able to retrieve the SUV's logs, the electric-vehicle company was preemptively defensive of its technology, stressing that while autopilot can't prevent all accidents, it makes them "less likely to occur." In the moments before the collision, which occurred at 9:27 a.m. on Friday, March 23rd, Autopilot was engaged with the adaptive cruise control follow-distance set to minimum. The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive and the driver's hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision.