DualCodec is a low-frame-rate (12.5Hz or 25Hz), semantically-enhanced (with SSL feature) Neural Audio Codec designed to extract discrete tokens for efficient speech ...

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

TOKYO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan will proceed with a 25-basis-point interest rate hike to 0.75% at its December meeting and raise borrowing costs to at least 1% by the end of September next ...

The August 2025 (KB5063878) Windows update caused an issue that prevented non-admin users from carrying out several vital operations due to misbehaving UAC prompts. Microsoft has since released its ...

Would-be home-buyers have been stymied by the higher level of mortgage rates, but this headwind may abate, depending upon who ends up running the Fed and how the bond markets react to that change.

Abstract: Sound-based uroflowmetry (SU) is a non-invasive technique emerging as an alternative to traditional uroflowmetry (UF) to calculate the voiding flow rate based on the sound generated by the ...

Introduction: Conventional air-assisted sprayers used in orchards often suffer from excessive pesticide waste, high residue levels, and uneven droplet distribution on fruit tree canopies. Precision ...

Why didn't the Federal Reserve move mortgage rates far on Wednesday afternoon? Because it said almost exactly what markets thought it would say. Markets bet on outcomes ahead of actual events. So, ...

On a global level, religious groups expand and shrink due to a mix of factors. Demographic factors, such as age structure, fertility and mortality (or life expectancy), tell us whether people in ...

March 19 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, as expected, but U.S. central bank policymakers indicated they still anticipate reducing borrowing costs by half a ...