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View-Consistent 3D Editing with Gaussian Splatting
The advent of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized 3D editing, offering efficient, high-fidelity rendering and enabling precise local manipulations. Currently, diffusion-based 2D editing models are harnessed to modify multi-view rendered images, which then guide the editing of 3DGS models. However, this approach faces a critical issue of multi-view inconsistency, where the guidance images exhibit significant discrepancies across views, leading to mode collapse and visual artifacts of…

Sonos responds to criticism of its app redesign, saying it takes "courage to rebuild" a product from the ground up and it plans to reintroduce missing features (Chris Welch/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/9/24152675/sono…

Sonos says its controversial app redesign took ‘courage’
The redesigned Sonos app isn’t going over well with some customers because of missing features. But the company says it was a necessary change for the future.

Alleged renders of the Google Pixel 9 show a camera module with two cameras, compared to three cameras on the 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL, a compact body, and more (Marcia Sekhose/91mobiles)
https://www.91mobiles.com/hub/google-pixel-9-renders-design-exclusive/

[Exclusive] Google Pixel 9 design revealed through 5K renders; will launch alongside Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 ...
Google Pixel 9 launch is expected later this year and here's your first look at the phone's design courtesy of high-res renders.

Holy cow, Ed Zitron can write about the careening rolling disaster that is the useful knowledge of the web being rendered useless by the glue-factories of modern search
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-great-looting-of-the-internet/

They're Looting The Internet
Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32.4 billion in advertising revenue in 2021. That figure becomes even more shocking when you consider Google's YouTube made $28.8 billion in the same period. Bloomberg reports that the

Contract details for Tyron Smith’s new deal with New York Jets revealed https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/contract_details_for_tyron_smiths_new_deal_with_new_york_jets_revealed/s1_17236_40133640

Contract details for Tyron Smith’s new deal with New York Jets revealed
The contract details for tackle Tyron Smith‘s new deal with the New York Jets are now public, and they’re raising a lot of eyebrows among Cowboys fans. While Smith’s contract could end up paying out roughly $20 million for the 2024 season, his base salary is just $6.5 million. Many would consider that a steal for a multi-time All-Pro tackle. Most of Smith’s contract money can be earned by playing a lot this season. Beginning at 38% of the team’s offensive snaps, the former first-round…

Just occasionally the essence of rentier capitalism is revealed with startling honesty.
Thames Water shareholders refuse to inject more cash - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68682198

Thames Water boss says bills need to rise by 40%
The regulator, whose approval is needed for any price rises, has pushed back on substantial bill increases.

Channel Performance Metrics and Evaluation for XR Head-Mounted Displays with mmWave Arrays
Alexander Marinek, Xuesong Cai, Lieven De Strycker, Fredrik Tufvesson, Liesbet Van der Perre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19297

Channel Performance Metrics and Evaluation for XR Head-Mounted Displays with mmWave Arrays
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology holds the potential to revolutionize head-mounted displays (HMDs) by enabling high-speed wireless communication with nearby processing nodes, where complex video rendering can take place. However, the sparse angular profile of mmWave channels, coupled with the narrow field of view (FoV) of patch-antenna arrays and frequent HMD rotation, can lead to poor performance. We introduce six channel performance metrics to evaluate the performance of an HMD equipped …

GaussianPro: 3D Gaussian Splatting with Progressive Propagation
Kai Cheng, Xiaoxiao Long, Kaizhi Yang, Yao Yao, Wei Yin, Yuexin Ma, Wenping Wang, Xuejin Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14650

GaussianPro: 3D Gaussian Splatting with Progressive Propagation
The advent of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently brought about a revolution in the field of neural rendering, facilitating high-quality renderings at real-time speed. However, 3DGS heavily depends on the initialized point cloud produced by Structure-from-Motion (SfM) techniques. When tackling with large-scale scenes that unavoidably contain texture-less surfaces, the SfM techniques always fail to produce enough points in these surfaces and cannot provide good initialization for 3DGS. As …

Triboelectric Pixels as building blocks for microscale and large area integration of drop energy harvesters
Ali Ghaffarinejad, Xabier Garcia-Casas, Fernando Nunez-Galvez, Jorge Budagosky, Vanda Godinho, Carmen Lopez-Santos, Juan Ramon Sanchez-Valencia, Angel Barranco, Ana Borras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02464

Triboelectric Pixels as building blocks for microscale and large area integration of drop energy harvesters
The ultimate step towards the exploitation of water as a clean and renewable energy source addresses the energies stored in the low frequencies of liquid flows, which demands flexible solutions to adapt to multiple scenarios, from raindrops to waves, including water moving in pipelines and microdevices. Thus, harvesting low-frequency flows is a young concept compared to solar and wind powers, where triboelectric nanogenerators have been revealed as the most promising relevant actors. However, d…