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A new artificial intelligence startup founded by the creators of the world's most widely used computer vision library has emerged from stealth with technology that generates realistic human-centric ...

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 ...

An exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the quest to rid the Everglades of invasive Burmese pythons—including a record-breaking, 215-pound giant. Researchers Ian Bartoszek (left), Ian Easterling, and ...

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a powerful technology that converts images of text into machine-readable content. With the growing need for automation in data extraction, OCR tools have become ...

Sometimes it seems like the rules of programming are designed to make coding a chore. Here are 14 ways preprocessors can help make software development fun again. As much as we love them, programming ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

Despite miles of ground covered as we drove through the Everglades under the cover of darkness, it was impossible to ignore the fact that we hadn’t spotted a single mammal. The expansive wetlands in ...

A woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia last week, police said, the second python killing in the province in a month. Siriati, 36, had gone ...