1+ hour, 17+ min ago   (55+ words) A conversational agent that listens not only to what users say but to how they say it has shown in a controlled experiment that it can make guided work in mixed reality feel noticeably more usable and supportive, even though…...

3+ hour, 31+ min ago   (704+ words) Software has an odor problem, at least metaphorically. So-called code smells—structural weaknesses such as oversized classes, duplicated logic, and tangled methods—are early warning signs that a codebase is rotting from within, and they cost the software industry billions…...

4+ hour, 7+ min ago   (91+ words) Digital images have become the default currency of communication, evidence, commerce, and journalism, yet every photograph that travels across an open network is exposed to silent modification. A cropped receipt, a spliced face, a doctored medical scan, or an altered…...

4+ hour, 45+ min ago   (68+ words) Depth perception is one of the most fundamental challenges in computer vision, and for robots, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality systems, it is the difference between smooth navigation and costly failure. Deep learning has produced stereo matching networks that achieve…...

6+ hour, 31+ min ago   (55+ words) Online shoppers scrolling through a popular product on a major e-commerce platform may face thousands of customer reviews, each expressing a slightly different opinion about quality, price, delivery, durability, or customer service. Reading them all is impossible, and the automated…...

6+ hour, 31+ min ago   (84+ words) A sweeping new survey published in Multimedia Tools and Applications maps the full arc of the deepfake era, from the first crude face swaps to today’s diffusion models capable of producing hyper-realistic, temporally coherent synthetic video. The study, led by…...

7+ hour, 3+ min ago   (614+ words) A team of geotechnical engineers has released an open-source software package that could upend how slopes, dams, and embankments are analyzed around the world....

9+ hour, 56+ min ago   (610+ words) Every day, the world’s digital systems generate more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, and by some estimates roughly 90 percent of all data in existence has been created within just the last decade....

11+ hour, 24+ min ago   (795+ words) A team of cryptographers in China has unveiled the first publicly verifiable encryption scheme capable of withstanding the most aggressive class of attacks against encrypted cloud backups, a breakthrough that could reshape how organizations prove the integrity of duplicated data…...

11+ hour, 52+ min ago   (525+ words) Artificially generated podcasts have become one of the most striking demonstrations of how far speech technology has come. Google’s NotebookLM, with its Audio Overview or “Deep Dive” feature, can transform any document into a lively two-host conversation that sounds remarkably…...