World's smallest QR code, read via electron microscope, earns Guinness recognition

• Just how small can a QR code be? • Small enough that it can only be recognized with an electron microscope. • A research team at TU Wien, working together with the data storage t

Science · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 145 words
Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans

• The New York Times reported that Meta is considering adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses. • According to an internal Meta document, the company may launch the

Paza: Introducing automatic speech recognition benchmarks and models for low resource languages

Paza: Introducing automatic speech recognition benchmarks and models for low resource languages

• At a glance - Microsoft Research releases PazaBench and Paza automatic speech recognition models, advancing speech technology for low resource languages. • - Human-centered pipel