Monday was a wild day on Wall Street, with the S&P 500 taking a dip. The culprit? A Chinese AI startup named DeepSeek. The big question was whether this startup created a super-efficient AI model with very little investment. If true, this could shake things up for the big tech players like Amazon, M
Imagine you're in a classroom where the walls can change, and every question you ask gets an instant, personalized reply. That's what colleges and universities are aiming for with a new kind of teaching model. This model uses Virtual Reality (VR) and a clever algorithm called Contrastive Language-Im
Imagine training a single, relatively smaller model to handle numerous tasks all at once. That's what the Unified Feature Optimization (UFO) method is all about. UFO aims to make large-scale pretraining beneficial for each task by squeezing multiple AI functions into one moderate-sized model. Unlike
Segmenting blood vessels in fundus images is crucial for diagnosing eye diseases like diabetic retinopathy. Enter DAU-Net, a new network that's easier to use and more accurate than ever. It's divided into an encoder and decoder, with some clever tricks to make it lightweight and powerful. Traditiona
In January 2025, Donald Trump became the 47th U. S. president during an indoor ceremony at the U. S. Capitol, with numerous notable figures making an appearance. The event featured a passionate speech from Trump, criticizing the past administration and sharing his vision of a new American "golden ag
Donald Trump's inauguration was different this time. Instead of massive crowds, a small group of the nation's richest people were there. Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Tim Cook were all there. Together, these four men are worth almost $1 trillion! That's more than half of the lower half
Scorpions drummer Mikkey Dee recently shared his battle with sepsis, a severe blood infection. Following his hospitalization, the band has decided to postpone their Las Vegas residency, which was initially set to start on February 28 and run through March 11. This residency was part of the band's 60
On January 20, Donald Trump will take the oath as the 47th U. S. President. With expectations of 200, 000 attendees, the festivities will feature several notable figures. American Idol winner Carrie Underwood, known for her patriotic spirit, will sing "America the Beautiful" alongside the Armed Forc
As we get older, our brains shrink, and our thinking skills deteriorate. Scientists have found a new way to study this process using brain age prediction. This study introduces a special deep learning model that can guess someone's age from brain scans. Researchers used data from almost 17, 000 heal
In the quiet town of Plainfield, Illinois, a terrible event unfolded on October 14, 2023. Wadee Alfayoumi, a young boy, lost his life in a stabbing attack that his family believes was motivated by hate against their Palestinian heritage. His mother, Hanan Shaheen, was also injured in the tragic inci
