This study reports important findings about the nature of feedback to primary visual cortex (V1) during object recognition. The state-of-the-art functional MRI evidence for the main claims is solid, ...

When Apple releases major updates to its operating systems, we here at Macworld usually advise people to hold off for a few days before installing, just in case. Though this time, following the ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a task-oriented semantic communication system dedicated to image data, designed to extract and transmit the information required by the receiver. The goal of the system ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior editor and ...

Visual Studio Code includes built-in integration with GitHub Copilot and the ability to choose which AI model to use for code completions. But the latest Visual Studio Code version adds a new ...

Goal-directed attention relies on forming internal templates of key information relevant for guiding behavior, particularly when preparing for upcoming sensory inputs. However, evidence on how these ...

Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a cyber attack in which unknown threat actors deployed an open-source endpoint monitoring and digital forensic tool called Velociraptor, illustrating ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

GitHub has expanded its Copilot coding agent with a new agents panel, giving Visual Studio and VS Code users a centralized way to launch and track AI-driven coding tasks directly alongside their ...

Abstract: The objective of blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is to develop a model capable of automatically evaluating image quality without requiring any reference knowledge. While multi-task ...