The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

This paper asks whether universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) programs can increase parental earnings and, if so, how much these gains affect the economic returns to UPK. Using admissions lotteries for an ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - U.S. existing home sales increased modestly in November amid an easing in mortgage rates, but economic uncertainty is keeping potential buyers on the sidelines. The ...

Abstract: Medical image segmentation plays a pivotal role in ensuring accurate diagnosis. Traditional methods are predominantly monomodal, relying solely on image data. These image-only methods ...

The Trump Administration announced it is ending the IRS’s free tax filing program, Direct File, even though independent groups deemed it a success and users across the political spectrum rated their ...

Abstract: Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) are the de-facto foundation models for various downstream tasks. However, scene text recognition methods still prefer backbones pre-trained on a ...

Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don’t need visas, would have to share five years’ worth of social media. By Christine Chung Travelers visiting the United States ...

The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday that it had reached a proposed settlement agreement to end a popular, yet controversial Biden-era student loan repayment plan. The Saving on a ...