Twist to Reshape, Shift to Transform: Bilayer Structure Enables Multifunctional Imaging

All-optical image processing has been viewed as a promising technique for its high computation speed and low power ...

Chemistry is stuck in the dark ages: 'Chemputation' can bring it into the digital world

Chemistry deals with that most fundamental subject: matter. New drugs, materials and batteries all depend on our ability to ...
The New York Times

South Africa Arrests Workers Processing U.S. Refugee Applications

Seven Kenyans were detained for working in the country illegally, officials said. The arrests came amid rising tensions after the United States prioritized white Afrikaners seeking asylum. By Lynsey ...
Computer Weekly

AI and digital twins: a powerful partnership for urban management

Artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) effect on digital twins will be substantial, transforming many industrial operations for good in the process. AI is a powerful enabler for digital twins to improve and ...
IEEE

Image Segmentation Techniques: Applications, Opportunities and Challenges

Abstract: Digital image processing is the class of methods that is used in all research domain. With the help of a computer algorithm, the manipulation of an image is done that provides the required ...
Frontiers

Time in social media applications: a definition and a tool to analyse technological affordances of time

1 Department of Audiovisual Communication, Documentation and Art History, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain 2 Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Centre, Polytechnic ...
The New York Times

U.S. Pauses Immigration Applications From Nations on Travel Ban List

The pause, which will halt green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people, deepens a remarkable crackdown on legal immigration pathways in recent days. By Hamed Aleaziz and ...
Government Executive

Mailbag Week: Retirement applications and processing

This week’s column will answer a variety of questions related to the ever-popular “black hole” of retirement processing. As this has been a recurring topic, you will see references to other articles ...
consilium.europa

Council adopts negotiating position on new law that introduces EU digital travel application

Today, the member states’ representatives (Coreper) approved the Council’s negotiating mandate for an EU law that will allow for the launch of an EU digital travel application. The regulation ...
Newsweek

H-1B Visa Update: Applications To Resume Under Department of Labor

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has resumed processing key employment visa applications after a halt caused by the ongoing federal government shutdown. Following the Department of Labor's update, U ...
Ars Technica

Affinity’s image-editing apps go “freemium” in first major post-Canva update

When graphic design platform-provider Canva bought the Affinity image-editing and publishing apps early last year, we had some major questions about how the companies’ priorities and products would ...