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Nov 19 2024TECHNOLOGY

Improving Campus Social Networks: A New Way to Track Opinions

Public opinion can spread like wildfire on campus social networks. Traditional methods of monitoring and searching these networks can be slow and wasteful. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a new approach. They've combined dynamic deletion with the shortest path algorithm to classif

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Nov 18 2024TECHNOLOGY

Guessing When Documents Were Made

Have you ever wondered when a document on the web was created? It’s not always easy to tell, and that’s a problem. Sometimes, that little timestamp at the bottom is missing or can’t be trusted. So, scientists have come up with a clever idea: using the content of the document to figure it out. Meet

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Nov 18 2024TECHNOLOGY

Why Neural Networks are Changing How We Date Documents

There's a lot of information hidden in the dates of documents. This data can be super helpful for tasks like finding the right document or summarizing events. The problem is, not all documents have clear dates, especially those floating around the internet. Figuring out when a document was created,

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Nov 18 2024FINANCE

The Secret Wealth Managers Behind Oligarchs

After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many countries like the USA, UK, and EU imposed sanctions on wealthy individuals close to Putin. But these rich folks, known as oligarchs, seem to dodge these punishments like pros. How? It's all about the secretive experts who help them hide their money offshore.

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Nov 16 2024TECHNOLOGY

Bluesky: A New Social Scene for Fed-Up X Users?

Ever thought of jumping ship from your favorite social platform? Well, some folks are doing just that! They're headed to Bluesky, a newcomer in the social media world set up by Twitter's old boss, Jack Dorsey. Before Musk took over X, Bluesky was a secret club clicking away, but now it's open to eve

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Nov 15 2024BUSINESS

Diamond Sports Group Emerges from Bankruptcy with Less Debt and New Strategy

Diamond Sports Group, owners of regional sports networks, has gotten the green light to emerge from bankruptcy. This happened at a recent hearing in US Bankruptcy Court in Houston. The company entered Chapter 11 in March 2023 with a massive debt of $8. 67 billion. Now, they are leaving with much les

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Nov 14 2024SPORTS

Chicago Sports Network Goes Direct with Fans

The Chicago Sports Network is rolling out a direct-to-consumer streaming service this week. This comes as negotiations with Comcast stall, leaving many fans unable to watch their favorite teams, like the Bulls and Blackhawks. For $19. 99 a month, fans can watch games and sports shows on their comput

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Nov 12 2024TECHNOLOGY

Making Speaker Verification Lightweight with Neural Network Magic

Speaker verification (SV) systems are usually heavy on storage and computing power, making them tough to use on mobile devices. This is where adaptive neural network quantization comes in. Imagine a novel method that allows each layer of the network to have its own unique quantization centroids, gen

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Nov 11 2024TECHNOLOGY

The Unintended Rise of Deep Learning

In 2008, a fresh computer science grad student at Princeton sat in on a lecture about neural networks. The topic seemed outdated, like something from the '80s and '90s that had lost its spark. Researchers were more interested in sleek algorithms like support vector machines. Unbeknownst to this stud

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Nov 10 2024FINANCE

Predicting Stock Fluctuations: A Fresh Look with AI

Deep learning has made waves in various fields by handling complex data with ease. One such area is financial time-series prediction, specifically predicting stock price volatility. This involves forecasting if the prices will go up, down, or stay stable. Researchers have been digging into this for

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