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Preserving Earth’s last sanctuaries: A call for urgent action on primary forests

From boreal forests near the Arctic Circle to dense tropical jungles south of the Equator, Earth’s last primary forests — ...
AlphaGalileo

Poetry to explore writing from the woods - Science communication best practice: PoTaRCh

Poetry to explore writing from the woods Hidden in the wood: potash, charcoal, resin, tar. Treasures forgotten. If you don’t recognise it, ...
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Unreal Engine 5.7 brings insane foliage, lighting and MetaHuman upgrades for next-gen games

Unreal Engine 5.7 has arrived with major improvements to foliage rendering, lighting and MetaHuman workflows, giving ...
IEEE

A Real-time Sign Language Recognition System using MediaPipe and Random Forest Classifier combining with Text-to-Speech Technique

Abstract: This research study introduces a real-time sign language detection system utilizing hand gestures, specifically developed to bridge the communication gap for deaf and hard-of-hearing ...
IEEE

Terrain Scene Generation Using a Lightweight Vector Quantized Generative Adversarial Network

Abstract: Natural terrain scene images play important roles in the geographical research and application. However, it is challenging to collect a large set of terrain scene images. Recently, great ...
PC Gamer

Assetto Corsa Rally features fully laser-scanned courses, Unreal Engine 5 visuals, and it’s out in early access on November 13

While it’s increasingly common for racing sim developers to visit racing circuit and laser-scan them to capture the minute details of the track surface, the trackside furniture and the precise ...
trains

First CSX train crosses Chicago’s Forest Hill Flyover, major CREATE project

A screen shot from a CSX video shows the first train to cross the new Forest Hills Flyover, eliminating the bottleneck at the diamonds below where the CSX main line crossed the tracks of the Belt ...