Some sci-fi movies get even better with time, offering mind-blowing spectacle or new storytelling layers with each rewatch.

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

Erich von Daeniken, renowned for popularizing ancient-alien theories, has passed away at 90, leaving a controversial legacy.

Abstract: Neighborhood environments include physical and environmental conditions such as housing quality, roads, and sidewalks, which significantly influence human health and well-being. Traditional ...

We propose FreeDave (Free Draft-and-Verification), a fast sampling algorithm for diffusion language models, which achieves lossless parallel decoding via a pipeline of parallel-decoded candidate ...

Abstract: Speculative decoding has proven to be a powerful method for speeding up autoregressive inference by allowing tokens to be generated in parallel using a draft-then-verify approach. However, ...

This is the official repo for Visual Contrastive Decoding, a simple, training-free method for mitigating hallucinations in LVLMs during decoding without utilizing ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

Brain–computer interfaces are beginning to truly "understand" Chinese. The INSIDE Institute for NeuroAI, in collaboration with Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University, the National Center ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

Claims that the Nazca mummies represent a new alien species originate from a self-published paper by a retired paleontologist. A detailed peer review challenges these conclusions, identifying the ...

No one really knows what Disclosure Day is about — and that seems to be exactly what Steven Spielberg wants. The acclaimed director's mysterious new UFO movie was first announced in April 2024, per ...