Why you can trust Creative Bloq Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. Revopoint continues its explosive growth with the release of another 3D scanner; this time it’s called Trackit and is their most premium offering yet. With the ability to …
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Microsoft is quietly winding down its Lens scanning app for iOS and Android, the company confirmed in a support document. Formerly known as Office Lens, the app lets users convert images into PDFs, PowerPoint slides, and Excel files, handling both handwritten and printed documents with ease. It was simple, reliable, and widely used — but it’s now on the chopping …
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Microsoft announced that it will phase out the Microsoft Lens PDF scanner app for Android and iOS devices starting in September. Microsoft Lens (formerly known as Office Lens) can convert images into PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, and it is capable of scanning both printed and handwritten text. Currently, the app has been downloaded 50 million times on the Google Play …
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As announced in May, Google has given its default QR code scanner on Android an appreciable redesign. Upon launch (via the Quick Settings Tile or lockscreen shortcut), there’s a nice animation of the rounded square coming together. The primary visual change is how Google has consolidated all the buttons in this interface to a pill near the bottom of the …
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A “longtime” Hertz customer says he is “done” with the car rental company after he claimed that the AI-powered damage detection system improperly flagged a nonexistent mark on the vehicle — even though video that he filmed immediately afterwards appeared to back up his claim. “After 10 years as a loyal Hertz customer — hardly any issues, always returning …
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025 Next-generation system noninvasively images tiny nerve structures disrupted in brain disorders. Closeups of the midline sagittal view for Connectome 2.0 (left) and Connectome 1.0 (right) protocols, showing diencephalic and brainstem pathways. Tractography results are shown superimposed onto the underlying fibre orientation distribution functions. Chiara Maffei, Ph.D. A scientific team supported in part by the National Institutes …
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Car rental giant Hertz is facing some blowback as customers report that its “AI-powered” vehicle scanner charges them hundreds of dollars for tiny cosmetic dings. Earlier this summer, a Hertz customer in Atlanta was charged a jaw-dropping $440 for an inch-long bit of curb rash — a cosmetic scuff — on the wheel of his rental, as our sister site …
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