Restoring sight and touch: Could one brain-computer technology transform both?

Rather than having distinct departments for blindness, paralysis and sensory disorders, scientists are developing a unified ...

Nvidia: 3 Key Threats Are Gaining Momentum And Visibility

Nvidia NVDA analysis: despite strong growth, rising competition from Microsoft, Amazon & Google threatens GPU dominance.
Tech Times

Fault-Tolerant Quantum Simulation Overhead Falls 250×: QuEra Architecture Needs Just 1,500 Qubits

Fault-tolerant quantum simulation just got 250 times cheaper to run. QuEra Computing and Los Alamos published an architecture ...
Princeton University

Bede Liu, pioneer in digital signal processing and beloved mentor, dies at age 91

Liu’s pathbreaking research aided the transition from analog to digital processing of sound, images and video. His Ph.D. students went on to become leading figures in academia and industry.
Fair Observer

From Rerum Novarum to Magnifica Humanitas: The Vatican’s Warning Against Technological Determinism

In May 1891, Pope Leo XIII published Rerum Novarum, the landmark encyclical that established the foundations of modern Catholic social teaching. Written during the upheavals of industrial capitalism, ...
GitHub

MinerU-Diffusion: Rethinking Document OCR as Inverse Rendering via Diffusion Decoding

Our long-term goal is to build efficient and reliable 2.5B diffusion-based decoding for document OCR. MinerU-Diffusion reframes document OCR as an inverse rendering problem and replaces slow, ...