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(THE CONVERSATION) For years, philosophers and psychologists have debated whether empathy helps or hinders the ways people decide how to help others. Critics of empathy argue that it makes people care ...

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Turning a boring 2D photo into a more dynamic, 3D-like viewing experience might sound impossible. But you can do it right from your phone running iOS 26, thanks to Apple's new Spatial Scenes. Apple's ...

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When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...

The St. Mary's County Department of Aging and Human Services hosted a Veterans Resource Day on Friday, Nov. 7, at the University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland campus. They collaborated with ...

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in vision–language tasks, but they continue to struggle with spatial understanding. Existing spatial MLLMs often rely on ...