Google's Gemini Embedding 2 arrives with native multimodal support to cut costs and speed up your enterprise data stack

While previous embedding models were largely restricted to text, this new model natively integrates text, images, video, audio, and documents into a single numerical space — reducing latency by as muc ...
IEEE

Simulation and Performance Analysis of Two Dimensional DOA Estimation with L-Shaped Array Under Underwater Acoustic Conditions

Abstract: Aiming at the typical environment of underwater target passive positioning, the performance of a two-dimensional DOA estimation method based on L-shaped array is simulated. Firstly, the ...
IEEE

Two-Dimensional Off-Grid Beamforming Acoustic Source Identification for Planar Microphone Arrays via Unfolding Delay-and-Sum

Abstract: The classical sparsity-based source identification method encounters the basis mismatch problem due to discretizing the focus region and assuming that acoustic sources are on-grid. This ...
MLB

'We're deep': Crew cuts magic number to 2

MILWAUKEE -- The champagne is on ice for the Brewers. A 6-2 win over the Phillies at American Family Field on Monday night reduced Milwaukee’s magic number for clinching the NL Central title to two.
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Chinese scientists hit breakthrough on 2D semiconductor wafers

Chinese researchers have announced a new technique to mass produce 2D material wafers, paving the way for high-performance electronics using a successor to silicon. As semiconductor chips evolve, ...
The Guardian

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform

She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever There is a long ...