New Apple model combines vision understanding and image generation with impressive results

Manzano combines visual understanding and text-to-image generation, while significantly reducing performance or quality trade-offs.
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World’s smallest programmable robot fits on a fingerprint ridge and carries its own computer

For nearly half a century, the dream of microscopic robotics has felt tantalizingly close, yet perpetually out of reach. We ...
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Google Introduces T5Gemma 2: Encoder Decoder Models with Multimodal Inputs via SigLIP and 128K Context

T5Gemma 2 follows the same adaptation idea introduced in T5Gemma, initialize an encoder-decoder model from a decoder-only checkpoint, then adapt with UL2. In the above figure the research team show ...
IEEE

Encoder-Decoder Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-AUV Assisted Data Collection in UWSNs

Abstract: Reliable and timely data collection poses a significant challenge for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs), primarily due to the extremely low data rate of underwater communication ...
Ars Technica

An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft’s Mu Brings Natural Language Chats to Windows 11’s Settings Menu

Microsoft’s Mu Brings Natural Language Chats to Windows 11’s Settings Menu Your email has been sent A screenshot of Mu performing real-time question answering. Image: Windows YouTube channel Microsoft ...
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Visionary expands 5 series with USB-C encoder and decoder

Visionary has introduced three new wallplate models, including USB-C Bluetooth and Dante integration, debuting at InfoComm 2025. The DuetE5-WP-C wallplate encoder combines USB-C and HDMI inputs into a ...
Ars Technica

Apple Videotoolbox AV1 video encoding is almost too good to be true

I've been transcoding videos on handbrake using AV1 which I think is the latest encoder. AV1 on the Mac is often incredibly efficient. I'm talking 3gb -> 300mb efficient. Even tougher material with ...
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Next-generation U-Net Encoder: Decoder for accurate, automated CTC detection from images of peripheral blood nucleated cells stained with EPCAM and DAPI.

Beyond tumor-shed markers: AI driven tumor-educated polymorphonuclear granulocytes monitoring for multi-cancer early detection. Clinical outcomes of a prospective multicenter study evaluating a ...