The funeral of Pope Francis will be simpler than those of previous popes, following instructions he set out himself. But as a head of state and leader of more than a billion Catholics worldwide ...

The group discusses writing strategies, inspirations and challenges all while showcasing what diverse representation in literature can look like, especially for young readers, when different writers ...

Those publishers are in the preview stage in v9.2. Also new is the .NET Aspire Resource Graph, which provides a visual representation of the resources in a .NET Aspire application. This helps ...

In recent years, contrastive language-image models such as CLIP have established themselves as a default choice for learning vision representations, particularly in multimodal applications like Visual ...

Russia said on Wednesday that it raised Afghanistan’s diplomatic representation in the country to the ambassadorial level, as Moscow suspended its ban on the activities of the Taliban in a ...

However, the absence of a voting representative in the next conclave underscores the challenges Eastern Churches face in securing proportional representation within the global Catholic hierarchy.

After Pope Francis’ funeral, 135 cardinals will gather for a conclave to elect a new pope. The traditions include oaths of secrecy, paper ballots and white smoke from a chimney of the Sistine ...

V-JEPA extends the Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) principle from images to video, training a visual encoder by predicting masked spatio-temporal regions of a video within a learned ...

This fMRI study shows that two regions of the visual cortex (BA18 and BA19) of blind and sighted individuals carry information about the physical similarity of objects denoted by words. This effect ...

We propose an autonomous deformable tissue retraction framework that incorporates visual representation and learning models, along with a 7-degree-of-freedom robotic system. For extracting deformation ...