On a Friday evening last December, every tier of US law enforcement—federal, state, and local—was dispatched to the US Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, a military research installation outside Boston. A squadron of about 15 to 20 drones had been s

Nova Sky Stories is also raising $50 million from various investors, including Katzenberg’s tech investment firm, WndrCo.

If DJI is entering the 360-degree action camera market, why shouldn't Insta360 venture into drones? That was my immediate thought when the company announced its first drone, the A1, from a spin-off brand and team called Antigravity. So, what is t

Create Gaussian Splats in Blender From Drone Footage With the Free SkySplad Add-On By kyjohnso on August 16, 2025 Add-ons SkySplat is a Blender addon that simplifies the workflow for creating 3D Gaussian Splats from drone footage. It provides a comprehensive set of tools to streamline the process from video import to frame extraction, and loose integration of Blender with COLMAP and Arthur Brussee's rust based Brush App (pre-compiled binaries included). kyjohnso writes: SkySplat Blender Addon 0.3.0 is newly released. This addon allows you to manage your drone video to 3D Gaussian Splat pipeline entirely from the Blender 3D viewport. The new release integrates with Arthur Brussee's rust based Brush app. The addon and 3rd party integration packages are all open source with MIT or Apache giving true freedom to create - I will also be presenting SkySplat at BlenderCon 25! Be sure to come say hello! Links

Slime Rancher 2 has been coming together in Steam Early Access since September 2022, but the sequel is finally ready to come out of the oven. The farming and creature catching simulator is offic

Admit it. You’d get through boring classes in school by daydreaming of cool things you’d like to build. If you were like us, some of them were practical, but some …read more