Meet Upscayl: This free AI tool turns blurry photos into high-detail images

Upscayl uses AI technology to scale images to a larger format. The open source tool adds sharpness and brings details to ...
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 ...
IEEE

Enhanced JPEG Decoding Using PIM Architectures with Parallel MCU Processing

Abstract: The JPEG format can compress digital images by reducing file sizes while maintaining visual quality. However, decoding JPEG images can become a bottleneck when large-scale image processing ...
GitHub

Locality-aware Parallel Decoding for Efficient Autoregressive Image Generation

torchrun --nproc_per_node=8 --nnodes=1 \ main_cache.py \ --img_size 256 --vqgan_path tokenizers/vq_ds16_c2i.pt \ --data_path ${IMAGENET_PATH}--cached_path ${CACHED ...
Reuters

US State Department stops processing visas for Afghan allies

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered its diplomats worldwide to stop processing visas for Afghan nationals, according to a State Department cable ...
The Washington Post

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all

Reach the reporters securely on Signal: Alex Horton at AlexHorton.85 and Ellen Nakashima at Ellen.626. The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence ...
IEEE

Parallel Optimization of Remote Sensing Image Geometric Correction on DCU

Abstract: Geometric correction is essential in the preprocessing of remote sensing images, ensuring the precision and reliability of spatial data, crucial for further analysis such as target ...