Being-VL-0.5 is an MLLM that combines text and image understanding using a novel approach called Visual Byte-Pair Encoding (vBPE). Instead of treating images and text as completely separate modalities ...

Comorbidity—the co-occurrence of multiple diseases in a patient—complicates diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. Understanding how diseases connect at a molecular level is crucial, especially in aging ...

Monday's competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics produced elation, heartbreak and an unexpected decision to cancel the final stage of an event. A 41-year-old U.S. bobsledder secured her first gold ...

After a thrilling start to the pairs figure skating competition that saw the judges stunned Sunday, the medal performances will bring what could be another surprising finish to Olympic ice. The event ...

MILAN, ITALY - FEBRUARY 16: Riku Miura and partner Ryuichi Kihara of Team Japan compete during Pair Skating - Free Skating on day ten of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Milano Ice ...

What a difference a year makes. The figure skaters who were crowned world champions in Boston last season came to Milan as favorites to have their supremacy affirmed at Olympus. So far all of them ...

Italian pairs skaters Sara Conti and Niccolò Macii split off the ice and then immediately went right back to competing together. Here’s how they made it work. Photo: Getty Images Of all of the extreme ...

As we await the hotly anticipated pairs figure skating results today, Kam and O'Shea are 7th place in the standings, with Chan and Howe in 9th. Georgia, Canada, Hungary, Japan and China round out the ...

Editor's note: Follow Olympics figure skating live results and updates from the 2026 Winter Games. MILAN — Representing Team USA at the 2026 Winter Olympics carries a little more weight for Spencer ...

Juliana Peres Magalhães, 25, had cooperated with prosecutors, who sought a lenient sentence. But the judge said the woman, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, merited the state maximum. By Billy Witz ...