Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Abstract: Multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) requires tokenization that efficiently covers many writing systems. Byte-level BPE (BBPE) using UTF-8 is widely adopted for its ...

At a time when restaurants are juggling an increasingly complex web of digital tools, Yum! Brands is betting that simplification—not more fragmentation—is the path forward. The company’s answer is ...

Former airman pleads guilty to scamming military out of $37 million Trump is furious at NATO over Iran. Withdrawal isn't his only option. Vanessa Trump shares 2 words for boyfriend Tiger Woods after ...

After settling for the bronze medal at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics, German skating pair Minerva Hase and Nikita Volodin struck gold in Prague at the 2026 ISU World Figure Skating Championships.

Being-VL-0.5 is an MLLM that combines text and image understanding using a novel approach called Visual Byte-Pair Encoding (vBPE). Instead of treating images and text as completely separate modalities ...

Comorbidity—the co-occurrence of multiple diseases in a patient—complicates diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. Understanding how diseases connect at a molecular level is crucial, especially in aging ...

Editor's note: Follow Olympics figure skating live results and updates from the 2026 Winter Games. MILAN — For most of the 21st century, U.S. pairs figure skating has been an afterthought. While the ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

After a thrilling start to the pairs figure skating competition that saw the judges stunned Sunday, the medal performances will bring what could be another surprising finish to Olympic ice. The event ...