Abstract: In the third generation of the Audio Video Coding Standard (AVS3), the size of Coding Tree Units (CTUs) has been expanded to four times larger than the previous generation, and more Coding ...
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Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...
Former golf pro on run in Mexico indicted for stealing nearly $1M from local country club A Hamilton County grand jury indicted a former golf pro turned controller of an upscale country club on ...
Saratoga Springs plans Pony Express Parkway expansion to ease growing traffic congestion Rapid growth in Saratoga Springs is beginning to outpace existing infrastructure, prompting city leaders to ...
Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...
Introduction: Accurate identification of forest tree species is essential for sustainable forest management, biodiversity assessment, and environmental monitoring. Urban forests, in particular, ...
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Rockefeller Center announced Oct. 27 that its iconic Christmas tree for this year will come from East Greenbush, New York, and is being donated by the Russ ...
Researchers at the University of Kent, UK, introduced LiteRBS (Lightweight and Rapid Bidirectional Search), a novel grid-based pathfinding algorithm designed for efficient and scalable navigation in ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...