A new AI trend called Nano Banana is going viral. It uses Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image tool. This tool transforms photos into 3D figurines. Users can create miniatures of anything. The tool is free ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WJW) — A state lawmaker proposes allowing utilities to take control of volunteering customers’ thermostats or appliances, to decrease overall demand on the energy grid in times of peak ...

What Is Google Nano Banana AI? Google Nano Banana AI is a playful nickname for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, an AI tool from Google that transforms photos into ultra-detailed 3D figurines. It creates ...

Abstract: Shape from shading using a single image of a Lambertian surface is inherently ambiguous. When the light source direction is known, the surface normal estimation has a cone-ambiguity, which ...

Scientists have developed the first-ever time crystals that are visible to the human eye, and they could one day make their way onto $100 bills. The time crystals emerge from the kinks that appear ...

Snapchat is launching a new Lens that lets users create and edit images using a text-to-image AI generator, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The new “Imagine Lens” is available to Snapchat+ ...

This article was produced for the Observatory by the Independent Media Institute. Danica Tomber is an applied linguist with a master of arts in teaching English to speakers of other languages from ...