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.

Google’s AI Mode in Search now lets you plan, write, and code on its own Canvas

Google Search has updated Canvas inside AI Mode, a workspace powered by Gemini that already lets users draft and refine documents, to now support coding projects and interactive tools. With the latest ...
Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Students Turn College Fight Songs into Award-Winning Data Visualization

Andre Bianchi and Sophia Perez’s dashboard reveals historical trends and recurring themes in fight songs, which earned them a spot at the Big Ten Academic Alliance Data Viz Championship.

Google Search rolls out Canvas in AI Mode to all US users

Google has expanded access to Canvas in AI Mode to all users in the U.S. in English, after first launching the feature as part of its Google Labs experiments last year. Canvas in AI Mode is designed ...

Google Search rolls out Gemini’s Canvas in AI Mode to all US users

Canvas is already available in Gemini, where Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers have access to the latest model, Gemini 3, and a larger 1 million-token context window for more complex ...
Digital Production

Nuke 17.0 rewires 3D and adds Gaussian Splats

Nuke 17.0 adds native Gaussian Splats, USD 3D system and BigCat machine learning to Foundry’s compositing pipeline.

Machine Learning for C++ developers: DMLLib and VisualDML

Here’s a quick library to write your GPU-based operators and execute them in your Nvidia, AMD, Intel or whatever, along with my new VisualDML tool to design your operators visually. This is a follow ...
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Microsoft Agent Framework RC Simplifies Agentic Development in .NET and Python

Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. This milestone indicates that the API surface is stable and feature-complete ...

Collate Launches Semantic Intelligence Graph to Help AI Understand Enterprise Data

Central to Collate's new capabilities is the launch of AI Studio, which enables enterprises to build, deploy, customize, and tune AI agents to their unique data environments. AI Studio provides a ...
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Collate Introduces Semantic Intelligence Graph to Make Enterprise Data Understandable to AI

Collate, Inc., the semantic intelligence company, is introducing powerful capabilities that give AI agents and other AI workflows a deep semantic understanding of enterprise data assets, relationships ...
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Creating animated graphs using VPython Glowscript for visualizations

Explore the power of interactive physics visualizations with animated graphs using VPython and GlowScript for dynamic simulations! This guide demonstrates how to create real-time animated graphs that ...