Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they ...

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Cutting-edge simulations show that Enceladus’ plumes are losing 20–40% less mass than earlier estimates suggested. The new models provide sharper insights into subsurface conditions that future ...

The popular pay-TV provider, Multichoice, has slashed the price of the DStv decoder from N10,000 to a N7,900, while the GOtv decoder price dropped to N6,500. This second major adjustment in months, ...

If you’ve recently overheard someone say "6-7" or "mogging" and had no idea what it meant, you're not alone. A new analysis of the most-searched slang terms of 2025 shows just how quickly Generation Z ...

Abstract: In this paper we propose a new infrastructure of storage overlay networks (SONs) that connect several distributed Internet nodes into an overlay network to provide in-network, aggregated ...

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle ...

A new study from the Anthropic Fellows Program reveals a technique to identify, monitor and control character traits in large language models (LLMs). The findings show that models can develop ...

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With AV1 hardware decode on mo­bile devices stuck in the mid-to-low teens as of 2025, and with VVC at zero, it’s clear that the race to supplant H.264 and HEVC will be contested with software-only ...

Challenging assumptions about infant memory, a novel functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study shows that babies as young as 12 months old can encode memories, researchers report. The ...