Abstract: This paper presents Bottom-up Residual vector quantization for learned Image Compression (BRIC). This novel deep learning-based image compression method quantizes latent representations ...

This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...

Researchers across the globe put on their sleuthing hats this year to provide answers to questions that have lingered from decades to centuries. The thought-provoking findings offer new ways of ...

When police questioned Marvin Margolis following the murder of Elizabeth Short — who became known as the Black Dahlia — he lied about how well he had known her. The 22-year-old Short had been found ...

A user on the social media site, who had an altercation with the suspect before the shooting, “blew this case wide open,” Rhode Island’s attorney general said. Reporter Lead Global Correspondent A ...

Abstract: This letter presents a conditional entropy-constrained multi-stage vector quantization (CEC-MSVQ) framework for semantic communication (SC). The proposed method integrates multi-stage VQ ...

A long-standing physics mystery has been solved with the discovery of emergent photon-like behavior inside a strange quantum material. The finding confirms a true 3D quantum spin liquid and unlocks a ...

A resurgence of violence along the Thai-Cambodia border, including Thai airstrikes on targets in Cambodia on Monday, comes less than two months after the signing of a peace agreement between the ...

The killer was identified as Ernest Theodore Gable, who himself was murdered in 1987 at 36 years old. "The convergence of irrefutable DNA evidence, fingerprint analysis, compelling witness testimony, ...

A group of math teachers in Tucson, Arizona, came under fire for their Halloween costumes this weekend. The teachers’ bloodied white t-shirts with the phrase “Problem solved” written across the chest ...

Last month, two journalists decoded part of the famous Kryptos sculpture in front of the CIA building. It’s the latest news in the cryptography world, as ciphers continue to attract code crackers in ...