James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

Geographical information systems (GIS) are computer-based systems for geographical data presentation and analysis. They allow rapid development of high-quality maps, and enable sophisticated ...

The Garmin Edge Explore 2 represents a more budget offering from Garmin compared to the likes of the Edge 1050, focussed on competing with the best budget cycling computers. It forgoes some of the ...

Quantum experiments keep stripping away our everyday intuitions, replacing them with a picture of reality in which cause, effect and even “facts” depend on how we look. New tests of entanglement, ...

Human and physical features are things that you can see all around you. Physical features like seas, mountains and rivers are natural. They would be here even if there were no people around. Human ...

The artificial intelligence-driven system incrementally creates and aligns smaller submaps of the scene, which it stitches together to reconstruct a full 3D map, while estimating the robot’s position ...

When we talk about building software, the early stages – figuring out what the system actually needs to do and how it should work – are super important. It’s like drawing up the blueprints before you ...

Abstract: With the increasing demand for topographic change information in urban planning, environmental protection and agricultural development, traditional topographic change detection methods can ...