Biometric Update

Notre Dame researchers release open-source iris recognition tools built for NIST testing

The work addresses a gap in biometric testing, as NIST’s IREX has focused primarily on closed-source commercial iris ...
eWeek

Gemma 4 12B Turns Laptops Into Tiny Supercomputers

Google DeepMind just rolled out Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter model that can parse text, images, audio, and video ...

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InfoQ

Why Vector Search Alone Isn't Enough: Hybrid Retrieval for RAG

In this article, author Aaditya Chauhan discusses the limitations of RAG pipelines based purely on vector search and how an ...