When thieves broke into the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery and cut through display cases with an angle grinder, they seized a trove of Napoleonic jewels. But in their daring escape through the window, the ...

Overall architecture of TPGDiff. The framework explicitly models three types of priors from a low-quality input image and integrates them into a diffusion-based restoration network: (a) a semantic ...

The first major failure of Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok did not come in the form of a viral joke or a rogue post. It arrived as a product feature. In late December 2025, X rolled out a one-click image ...

It’s been a long time since I’ve heard the name Glenn McQuaid, one of the very first V/H/S filmmakers, whom I brought on after loving his indie I Sell the Dead. He’s been doing all sorts of fun and ...

Abstract: Vector-Quantization (VQ) based discrete generative models are widely used to learn powerful high-quality (HQ) priors for blind image restoration (BIR). In this paper, we diagnose the ...

The Department of Justice restored online a photo from the Jeffrey Epstein files that contained images showing President Donald Trump after backlash over its removal. Deputy Attorney General Todd ...

Ancient Chinese characters hold profound cultural and scholarly value, yet their images often suffer from erosion, abrasion, fractures, and noise due to aging, resulting in blurred strokes and missing ...

"Each festive blind bag will include one (1) rare ratio variant—guaranteed to be at least a 1:25, but could even be a 1:100 incentive ratio variant—plucked from the archives at random to delight ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks in Stuart on Everglades restoration, control the python population A colossal Buc-ee’s broke a small Colorado town Trump’s Beef Proposal Draws Fire From His Own Party ...

In a news conference on Oct. 21 in Stuart, Fla., Governor Ron DeSantis highlighted recent success in Everglades restoration and invasive species removal. Social Security, Medicare are "going to be ...

In this tutorial, we build an Advanced OCR AI Agent in Google Colab using EasyOCR, OpenCV, and Pillow, running fully offline with GPU acceleration. The agent includes a preprocessing pipeline with ...

Watching paint dry is suddenly en vogue. Paris’s Musée d’Orsay’s surprise hit this season is a look at the ongoing restoration of Gustave Courbet’s “Un Enterrement à Ornans” (A Burial at Ornans). It ...