An envelope from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rarely brings good news, but opening that envelope to find a tax bill that exceeds what you can immediately pay can trigger a unique kind of fear.

Abstract: The Picture-Wise Just Noticeable Difference (PW-JND) represents the visibility threshold of human vision when viewing distorted images. The PW-JND plays an important role in perceptual image ...

IT IS a relief that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has signed the P6.793- trillion budget for 2026 on the first working day of the year. For a while there, we were worried that disagreements would ...

This letter presents a low-complexity attention module for fast change detection. The proposed module computes the absolute difference between bitemporal features extracted by a Siamese backbone ...

The urgency with which the minimum wage (SMI) has been increased in Spain (a 46% rise just between 2018 and 2023, triple the increase of the preceding decade) clashes with companies’ real capacity to ...

We’ve taken the Realme Note 60 for a full spin to find out where it falls short—and there are more than a few surprises. While it promises budget-friendly specs, it leaves a lot on the table: sluggish ...

Similar to Medicare, commercial insurers are seeing substantially higher prices when care is delivered in a hospital outpatient department as opposed to an ambulatory surgical center, according to a ...

Thomas Piketty said a proposal for a 2% wealth tax at the center of France’s budget uproar is necessary but insufficient to address the country’s fiscal challenges. “This is the absolute minimum,” the ...