5+ min ago   (775+ words) Every time a person checks in at a café, a park, or an airport using a location-based social network, they leave behind two intertwined traces: a social tie to other users and a geographic footprint of where they have been....

8+ min ago   (55+ words) Acute appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies on the planet, striking roughly 17 million people each year, yet doctors still miss the mark often enough to matter. In about 13 percent of appendectomies, the removed appendix turns out to…...

12+ 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…...

26+ min ago   (55+ words) Federated learning has become one of the most consequential architectures in modern machine learning, allowing hospitals, banks, factories and smartphone networks to train shared models without moving sensitive data off site. Yet the approach has long carried an uncomfortable question:…...

32+ min ago   (618+ words) Every day, computational biologists release new methods for analyzing genomes, single cells, microbiomes and molecular signatures, and every day researchers struggle with the same question: which method actually works best for their data? The answer usually depends on benchmarks—structured…...

36+ min ago   (55+ words) Artificial intelligence systems that watch video have become remarkably good at recognizing what they see, but they remain surprisingly poor at understanding why things happen. A research team now reports a new self-supervised framework, called TRACE, that pushes video understanding…...

1+ hour, 36+ min ago   (84+ words) Chronic kidney disease is one of the world’s most burdensome chronic conditions, a slow and often silent deterioration of renal function that affects hundreds of millions of people and frequently goes undetected until the damage is advanced. Staging the disease…...

1+ hour, 57+ 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…...

1+ hour, 57+ 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…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago   (714+ words) A false claim can circle the globe before the truth has finished typing its rebuttal, and one of the most urgent questions in modern network science is deceptively simple to state: who started it? A new in-depth survey published in…...