Abstract or die: Why AI enterprises can't afford rigid vector stacks

Enterprises adopting AI cannot afford to be slowed by database lock-in. As the vector ecosystem evolves, the winners will be ...
The New York Times

The New AirPods Can Translate Languages in Your Ears. This Is Profound.

The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...
The New York Times

A Dust Sample Handled With Care

After the destruction of the World Trade Center, an urgent question lingered in Lower Manhattan: What was in the air? By David W. Dunlap In the In Times Past column, David W. Dunlap explores New York ...
C&EN

Supertough, Ultrastrong and Transparent Bulk Polylactide Sheets Prepared by Rolling at Ambient Temperature

State Key Laboratory of Precision and Intelligent Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China College of ...
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How to conduct and report checking transitivity and inconsistency in network-meta-analysis: a narrative review including practical worked examples, code and source data for ...

The use of network meta-analysis (NMA) in sport and exercise medicine (SEM) research continues to rise as it enables the comparison of multiple interventions that may not have been assessed in a ...
IEEE

Fast Local Ordinal Code for Small Sample Palmprint Recognition

Abstract: In response to the shortcomings of high computational cost and low accuracy of the local recognition descriptor method for palmprint images, this paper proposes a new Local Ordinal Code (LOC ...
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1st West Nile Virus mosquito sample of 2024 found in Fort Bend County

FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Fort Bend County health officials have announced a mosquito tested positive for West Nile Virus for the first time this year. The 2024 sample was said to be collected ...