Follow motion or light? How the brain deals with multiple visual inputs

Imagine arriving at a busy location with people moving around and a multitude of visual and other sensory cues vying for your ...

I used Nano Banana 2 to make perfect sketchnotes: 5 lessons learned (and how I broke Gemini)

The results were fascinating, impressive, and sometimes surprisingly bad. Here are five tips that can help you get better results faster.

Microsoft open-sources multimodal reasoning model with 15B parameters

The company mainly trained Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B on open-source data. The data included images and text-based descriptions of the objects depicted in those images. Before it started training the ...

Billboard‑Charting Worldbuilder Ashwin Gane & Scott Storch Turn ‘DND (Do Not Disturb)’ into an After‑Hours Anthem

Cinematic worldbuilder Ashwin Gane links with Scott Storch and Kent Jones for “DND,” a chant‑ready late‑night anthem ...
Journal of Accountancy

AI tools for finance professionals to prepare and visualize data

AI tools are frequently used in data visualization — this article describes how they can make data preparation more efficient ...
Mashable Benelux

How Data Visualization Shapes the Way We Understand Financial Markets

In financial markets, timing is often critical. Traders and analysts need to react quickly, and visual cues help them make ...
IEEE

PiCCL: Data-Driven Composition of Bespoke Pictorial Charts

Abstract: We present PiCCL (Pictorial Chart Composition Language), a new language that enables users to easily create pictorial charts using a set of simple operators. To support systematic ...