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Khadija Shaw becomes first women to score 100 goals for City while United come from behind against SpursLeah Williamson returned to competitive action for the first time in 139 days on Saturday as she made a return from a knee injury late in Arsenal’s 3-1 victory against Everton. The England captain…
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Tau Rodriguez-Fairplay, five, taken in February by mother’s former spouse, is believed to be in town hit by hurricaneA UK-based mother whose five-year old daughter was abducted and taken to Jamaica is appealing for help to locate the missing child. Tau Rodriguez-Fairplay is believed to have been hid…
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arXiv:2512.11332v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Batteries are critical components in modern energy systems such as electric vehicles and power grid energy storage. Effective battery health management is essential for battery system safety, cost-efficiency, and sustainability. In this paper, we prop…
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Researchers at the University of Bonn aim to improve the cleanliness of wastewater. Water released from washing machines is widely recognized as a major source of microplastics, which are tiny plastic particles suspected of posing risks to both human and animal health. Scientists at the University o…
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Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both conditions were linked to significantly fewer NK cells—especially the circulating types responsible …
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the AI Hype Correction package AI is going to reproduce human intelligence. AI will eliminate disease. AI is the single biggest, most important inven…
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England midfielder yet to start a Premier League game this seasonUnited hierarchy do not want to lose 20-year-old academy graduateManchester United intend to reject any bids to buy Kobbie Mainoo in January because the hierarchy believe the midfielder could have a bright future at the club.Ruben Amor…
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arXiv:2510.08442v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Visual Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents must learn to act based on high-dimensional image data where only a small fraction of the pixels is task-relevant. This forces agents to waste exploration and computational resources on irrelevant features…
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Scientists at Southwest Research Institute have opened a new laboratory dedicated to answering one of astronomy's most fundamental questions, where do planets come from? The Nebular Origins of the Universe Research (NOUR) Laboratory will recreate the extreme conditions found in interstellar clouds, …
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Zelenskyy said that while Ukraine was prepared to drop its Nato aspirations, it would still require security guarantees from US and Europe Separately, the commission’s deputy chief spokesperson Olof Gill has just confirmed that commission president Ursula von der Leyen will attend the Berlin talks t…
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The service was cut off and then there were threats of losing the number of 60 yearsMy 84-year-old parents, who have significant disabilities, had their TalkTalk landline cut off without notice in August.We eventually had to sign a new contract to get the service restored and were assured that they …
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arXiv:2512.11690v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While end-to-end encryption protects the content of messages, it does not secure metadata, which exposes sender and receiver information through traffic analysis. A plausible approach to protecting this metadata is to have senders post encrypted messa…
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SAN FRANCISCO – University of California spinoff MetaSeismic wasn’t focused on space applications when it began using an artificial intelligence platform to create materials to mitigate vibration and shock. But […]
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President Trump's advisers are furious with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) for starting an anti-abortion group to spur new action on the issue, which the White House views as a loser for Republicans in next year's midterms."Clearly, Senator Hawley and his political team learned nothing from the 2022 elect…
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arXiv:2512.11161v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning has recently been used to enhance index structures, giving rise to reinforcement learning-enhanced spatial indices (RLESIs) that aim to improve query efficiency during index construction. However, their practical benefits remain…
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Independent review into Dr Halima Begum’s conduct was prompted by at least 100 staff writing to trusteesOxfam GB’s chief executive has been forced out by the charity’s trustees after an investigation into her leadership found “serious issues”, according to reports.The independent review was reported…
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Scientists have discovered a crucial clue to understanding one of nature's most spectacular light shows, the aurora. Research from the University of Southampton reveals that just before these magnetospheric substorms erupt, a distinct pattern of low frequency radio waves appears above the aurora, ra…
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On April 28, 2022, at a highly anticipated concert in Spokane, Washington, the musician Paul McCartney astonished his audience with a groundbreaking application of AI: He began to perform with a lifelike depiction of his long-deceased musical partner, John Lennon.  Using recent advances in audio and…
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Somali-born Minnesota representative says her son was let go once he produced his IDIn the interview with WCCO, Rep. Ilhan Omar said her office has received a flood of calls in the weeks since Trump began targeting her by name and calling her, and other Somalis, “garbage”.Most of those calls, she sa…
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Variety of agencies now deliberately provocative on social media, further inflaming discourse on serious issuesWhen Donald Trump posted during his first term on what was then called Twitter, his attacks and rants differed significantly from US federal agency staff’s more cautious and traditional app…
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arXiv:2509.19972v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Manipulation of large systems of active particles is a serious challenge across diverse domains, including crowd management, control of robotic swarms, and coordinated material transport. The development of advanced control strategies for complex …
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A “House of Cards” is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama. However, its original meaning is of a system that is fundamentally unstable. It’s also the term Sarah Thiele, originally a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, and…
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I understand the temptation to run away – I have felt it too. Try to stay in the room, and in the moment. You’ll be glad you didThis is my last column for you. I am shocked and delighted that I’ve been allowed to carry on for almost two years, saying such controversial and true things as: the oedipa…
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Arsenal and City march on, Sunderland enjoy bragging rights, and Ekitiké gives Liverpool fans a much-needed liftMikel Arteta had the option to frame things differently. The Arsenal manager was even teed up to do so with a generous question in the press conference that followed his side’s 2-1 win aga…
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An early flu season, a new variant and poor takeup of vaccines leave the already vulnerable health service in a dangerous positionProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of EdinburghYou might be feeling stressed out seeing the headlines about “super flu” and comparing th…
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arXiv:2502.05790v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Low-rank optimization has emerged as a promising approach to enabling memory-efficient training of large language models (LLMs). Existing low-rank optimization methods typically project gradients onto a low-rank subspace, reducing the memory cost …
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Data: Atlas Van Lines; Map: Axios VisualsArkansas, Idaho and North Carolina drew the most new arrivals this year, according to an analysis of interstate moves by Atlas Van Lines.Why it matters: High housing costs are keeping many people in place. But some are still moving, often for lower prices, jo…
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arXiv:2512.11784v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Softmax attention is a central component of transformer architectures, yet its nonlinear structure poses significant challenges for theoretical analysis. We develop a unified, measure-based framework for studying single-layer softmax attention under b…
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European Film Promotion has revealed the 10 emerging acting talents selected for the 29th edition of the European Shooting Stars, who will be presented to the film industry, the media and the public during the 76th Berlin Film Festival, running from Feb. 12-22. The program is designed to boost the i…