Abstract: JPEG is daily used for compressing natural images, while the compressed images often contain visually annoying artifacts especially at low rates. To reduce the compression artifacts, it has ...

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is facing backlash after using an image of an emaciated Israeli hostage in an Instagram post allegedly showing Palestinians suffering. The post read, "The suffering of ...

President Donald Trump called Portland a war zone last week, and now state Republicans are trying to deliver one—by sharing fake photos of a fake riot. The official social media accounts of the Oregon ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

On Wednesday, Meta announced that it would use conversations with its AI chatbot to tailor ads. Advertising is a core business for Meta, comprising over 97% of its revenue in 2023 and 2024. Meta AI ...

The consortium running the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid mission has published the most extensive simulation of the cosmos to date. The modeling was based on algorithms developed by UZH ...

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...

Have you ever imagined turning a simple text description into a stunning visual masterpiece? With the advent of Google Nano Banana AI, this once far-fetched idea is now a reality. Integrated into ...

Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, raised concerns Wednesday about the ongoing reliance of a potential TikTok spinoff on an algorithm ...

Google launched the Nano Banana image generator in late August, and it's been building momentum through word of mouth ever since. The new model, officially dubbed Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, actually shot ...

Both US and Chinese officials are stating that an agreement has been reached for an American TikTok spin-off to be sold to American investors. It’s not the first time the Trump administration has ...