How to Define America in 30 Objects

Egypt’s King Mentuhotep II reunited his country’s upper and lower regions at the turn of the 20th century—B.C.E. Were the ...

We’ve got a date when the sun will destroy Earth – sue us if we’re wrong

The date the world will end has been nailed down – but you still have time for quite a few pints before our planet Earth is screwed. Our life in the solar system relies on the sun, but the fiery ...
The Caledonian-Record

What are supermassive black holes? Everything you need to know – and what astronomers are still learning – about these mysterious objects

Studies suggest that nearly every massive galaxy astronomers have observed has a supermassive black hole at the center. However, galaxies are so large that these black holes occupy only a small part, ...
GitHub

Object Explorer Menu extension for SSMS

Object Explorer Menu is a free, open-source extension for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), developed in C#. It enables users to add custom menu items to the right-click context menu within the ...
IEEE

Sparse R-CNN: End-to-End Object Detection with Learnable Proposals

Abstract: We present Sparse R-CNN, a purely sparse method for object detection in images. Existing works on object detection heavily rely on dense object candidates, such as k anchor boxes pre-defined ...
IEEE

OrientedFormer: An End-to-End Transformer-Based Oriented Object Detector in Remote Sensing Images

Abstract: Oriented object detection in remote sensing images is a challenging task due to objects being distributed in multiorientation. Recently, end-to-end transformer-based methods have achieved ...
Polygon

'Star Wars meets XCOM' finally has a release date — and a Skywalker cameo

Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. Zero Company takes place during the Clone Wars, and ...