Biometric Update

Notre Dame researchers release open-source iris recognition tools built for NIST testing

The work addresses a gap in biometric testing, as NIST’s IREX has focused primarily on closed-source commercial iris ...

The 5 highest-paying entry-level jobs in the UK right now — and how to get them

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eWeek

Gemma 4 12B Turns Laptops Into Tiny Supercomputers

Google DeepMind just rolled out Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter model that can parse text, images, audio, and video ...

Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’

With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons ...

Your Chrome searches could soon bypass Google Search entirely

For years now, Google Chrome has shaped our Google Search muscle memory. Whenever you're scrambling to Google Search ...
InfoQ

Why Vector Search Alone Isn't Enough: Hybrid Retrieval for RAG

In this article, author Aaditya Chauhan discusses the limitations of RAG pipelines based purely on vector search and how an ...
Opinion

America Has a Pangram Problem

Yet an AI detector that is mostly reliable might in some ways be more dangerous than a broken one. While Pangram is accumulating the power to end reputations and careers, the tool does make mistakes, ...
WLRN

Florida Python Challenge returns in July with $25,000 in prizes for Everglades hunt

Registration is open for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition that offers participants a shot at $25,000 in prizes for removing invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades. The ...
IEEE

FPGA Implementation of Reconfigurable CORDIC Algorithm and a Memristive Chaotic System With Transcendental Nonlinearities

Abstract: Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer (CORDIC) is a robust iterative algorithm that computes many transcendental mathematical functions. This paper proposes a reconfigurable CORDIC hardware ...