Plato's Cave is about inherited belief systems—and a 2,400-year-old test for evaluating any light you live by.

The results were fascinating, impressive, and sometimes surprisingly bad. Here are five tips that can help you get better results faster.

This app isn’t about to become a billion-dollar company. It can remember your collection, but only if you return to it using the same computer or phone. Someone without technical skills may struggle ...

Ever had an idea for something that looked cool, but wouldn't work well in practice? When it comes to designing things like ...

Last year, Roblox launched an open source AI model that could generate 3D objects on the platform, helping users quickly design digital items such as furniture, vehicles, and accessories. The company ...

Agentic AI is driving innovation in Generative AI, and Microsoft 365 Copilot's Agents feature offers a hands-on way to explore it. Prompt Coach helps users craft structured, effective prompts using ...

Schrödinger’s cat just got a little bit fatter. Physicists have created the largest ever ‘superposition’ — a quantum state in which an object exists in a haze of possible locations at once. A team ...

Visually, the “Klein bottle” doesn’t seem all that impressive. On first glance it looks like a trendy Japandi-style vase. And yet it has fascinated mathematicians for more than 140 years. To ...

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the go-to method for designing most of today's physical products. Engineers use CAD to turn 2D sketches into 3D models that they can then test and refine before sending ...

We’re introducing SAM 3 and SAM 3D, the newest additions to our Segment Anything Collection, which advance AI understanding of the visual world. SAM 3 enables detection and tracking of objects in ...

The prototype at the end of the fabrication of an inverted quarter pyramid. Credit: Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (2025). Knitting may seem ...

A team of engineers at North Carolina State University has designed a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can rapidly snap into multiple stable 3D shapes—including a lantern, a spinning top, and more—by ...