Being-VL-0.5 is an MLLM that combines text and image understanding using a novel approach called Visual Byte-Pair Encoding (vBPE). Instead of treating images and text as completely separate modalities ...

The Plain Dealer, Cleveland’s largest newspaper, has begun to feature a new byline. On recent articles about an ice carving festival, a medical research discovery and a roaming pack of chicken-slaying ...

Comorbidity—the co-occurrence of multiple diseases in a patient—complicates diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. Understanding how diseases connect at a molecular level is crucial, especially in aging ...

There was no ABS during Friday’s live batting practice at-bat between Juan Soto and Nolan McLean. When there was a questionable call, Soto suggested a game of Rock Paper Scissors. Juan Soto reacts ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...

For nearly 40 years, the identity of the person who sexually assaulted and killed a 30-year-old woman found along a quiet stretch of rural highway south of Denver eluded investigators. Now, small ...

MORNING HEADLINES | When two storm systems are relatively close in the Atlantic Ocean about the same time, their dance can pose particular problems for forecasters. The storms may lead to something ...

The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

T he April 1926 issue of “Science and Invention” had a fascinating graphic. It explained, for the curious, how a photo of a rescue at sea could be in the New York papers almost immediately. It was the ...