Lovato has joined the Jonas Brothers as an executive producer on the reboot of the beloved franchise, but has so far not confirmed if she'll share the screen with them again.

As of Dec. 16, get $50 off the Anker Soundcore Boom 2 portable speaker at Amazon.

arXiv:2507.07524v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The class PLS (Polynomial Local Search) captures the complexity of finding a solution that is locally optimal and has proven to be an important concept in the theory of local search. It has been shown that local search versions of various combinat…

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Alberta Investment Management Corp. appointed Ray Gilmour as permanent chief executive officer, more than a year after he took the role on an interim basis when the government of the Canadian province fired his predecessor and the board.

In a recent study, Dr. Yuchen Tan and colleagues examined the response of the North China Plain settlement of Jiahu to the abrupt climatic 8.2 ka event. They found that Jiahu not only survived but also demonstrated remarkable resilience to the climate event, indicating that describing the event as s…

Researchers recommend providers lead with empathy when patients bring in AI-generated medical advice and then move into shared decision-making.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is leading the push for the Trump administration to follow through with releasing documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The pressure campaign comes after President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law l…

Artists Rights Enforcement Corporation claims Warwick owes them “hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars” in royalties

arXiv:2512.13405v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This PhD thesis discusses how European law could improve privacy protection in the area of behavioural targeting. Behavioural targeting, also referred to as online profiling, involves monitoring people's online behaviour, and using the collected infor…

arXiv:2512.13478v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Premature semantic collapse -- the forced early commitment to a single meaning -- remains a core architectural limitation of current language models. Softmax-driven competition and greedy decoding cause models to discard valid interpretations before s…

Need a last-minute stocking stuffer? We found 15+ discounted gift cards with digital delivery: Uber, Ulta, and a ton of restaurants.

President Trump reaffirmed this week that his administration may reclassify marijuana.

"Everybody I've talked to are still adamant," even after previous rumors didn't pan out.

The family of Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says she was taken to a hospital emergency room twice after her arrest last week by Iranian security forces

President Trump’s job approval rating has rebounded after a second-term low, according to new polling averages from Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). The president’s approval rating in the DDHQ average of polls stands at 44.8 percent, marking a 3.5 point increase from last month. As of Tuesday, his disapprov…

Hedge fund billionaire is latest Wall Street figure to express concerns Donald Trump will pick ally to chair central bank

The US accuses Rwanda of backing the rebel advance in breach of a deal brokered by President Trump.

The BBC has vowed to defend itself against the $10bn lawsuit that the US president, Donald Trump, filed against it. Trump alleges the broadcaster “intentionally, maliciously and deceptively” edited the 6 January speech he gave before the attack on the US Capitol. On Tuesday, a BBC spokesperson said:…

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Boy was arrested on Monday evening after officers were called to property in Weston-super-MareA teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a nine-year-old girl in Weston-super-Mare, police have said.Officers were called by paramedics to a property in the North Somerset t…

Randy Fine and Tommy Tuberville, US legislators, face backlash for Islamophobic calls to deport MuslimsDemocrats are condemning two Republican members of Congress who said, in the wake of the mass shooting in Australia, that the US should ban Muslims from the country and kick out those who already l…

I was hoping we'd figure it out eventually.

Solar power accounts for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to the state’s power grid.

James Talarico, a Texas state representative and devout Christian, has gained attention for using his faith to advance liberal policies and has now announced his candidacy for the 2026 U.S. Senate race.

arXiv:2512.11875v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This article examines how authoritarian regimes construct state narratives about politically consequential events. Building on the narrative policy framework and existing research on authoritarian propaganda, we propose two dimensions that shape narra…

Backed by U.S. Treasuries, USDM1 marks a new model for digital public finance and universal basic income in underserved regions.

Justice secretary criticised for refusing to meet lawyers who say their clients’ health is ‘rapidly deteriorating’Palestine Action-affiliated hunger strikers are likely to die without David Lammy’s intervention, lawyers representing the prisoners have said as they criticised the justice secretary fo…

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Tuesday labeled President Trump’s comments about the death of Rob Reiner “inexplicable.” A day after Reiner and his wife were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home, Trump posted on social media that the actor and director died “due to the anger he caused ot…

arXiv:2505.04050v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: 3D terrain models are essential in fields such as video game development and film production. Since surface color often correlates with terrain geometry, capturing this relationship is crucial to achieving realism. However, most existing methods g…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the Pentagon would not publicly release the much-discussed video showing a deadly second strike on an alleged drug boat off Venezuela on Sept. 2. Why it matters: Some Democrats and legal experts have described the strike on two survivors who were clin…

Duo delivers folk magic with the help of Trey Anastasio and Jack Antonoff at the latter's benefit concert

President Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles contradicted his claims about former President Clinton's ties to Jeffrey Epstein in a new interview. The big picture: The president has repeatedly tried to deflect attention from his own ties to Epstein by spotlighting Clinton's relationship with the conv…

arXiv:2511.13102v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent research in Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation (CAPE) has adopted fixed textual keypoint description as semantic prior for two-stage pose matching frameworks. While this paradigm enhances robustness and flexibility by disentangling the depen…

"Hatred is about scapegoating.

“I marveled at what a good story the truth could make in the right hands,” the author wrote in a new tribute to the late filmmaker, who adapted two of his books

arXiv:2512.12435v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Identifying the graphical structure underlying the observed multivariate data is essential in numerous applications. Current methodologies are predominantly confined to deducing a singular graph under the presumption that the observed data are unifo…

Kennedy has previously argued that Lyme is "highly likely to have been a military weapon."

Susie Wiles, the president’s trusted and respected chief of staff, revealed her true feelings in a series of candid chats with Vanity Fair magazine, describing her boss as having “an alcoholic’s personality”.

arXiv:2512.12794v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Many cyber-physical systems (CPS) rely on high-dimensional numeric telemetry and explicit operating rules to maintain safe and efficient operation. Recent large language models (LLMs) are increasingly considered as decision-support components in such …

arXiv:2512.13680v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent feed-forward reconstruction models like VGGT and $\pi^3$ achieve impressive reconstruction quality but cannot process streaming videos due to quadratic memory complexity, limiting their practical deployment. While existing streaming methods add…

The agency is looking to deploy its new Oracle Health EHR near simultaneously at four Michigan medical facilities in April 2026.

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s organization said Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “must go,” accusing the secretary of refusing to review the abortion pill mifepristone. In a statement posted on the social platform X, Pence’s nonprofit, Advancing American Freedom, …

Users can view and share photos and comments about restaurants they’ve visited, discover content from others, and follow people just like on any social network.

The president assembles a fleet of warships off the shores of an oil rich country run by a brutal dictator. He orders hundreds of air strikes against the dictator’s assets, which forces him from power. The president proudly proclaims, “Without putting a single U.S. service member on the ground, we a…

The Liverpool parade attacker swore and shouted 'move' as he ploughed into crowds on 26 May.

Hunting for the best holiday flight deals? Google's years of airfare data reveal the smartest times to book, and why.

Soho theatre, London Lauren Lyle and Alexander Arnold make a compelling pair in a surprising drama about a one night standIt is set on a summer morning in Edinburgh during the festival but David Ireland’s two-hander, first staged as a reading at the fringe in 2012, has an odd sort of Christmas spiri…

Soho theatre, LondonThe comedian’s compelling show explores gender politics in modern India, singledom and self-improvementModesty: “I don’t speak for all women …” Swagger: “… but I do speak for many.” Prashasti Singh’s Divine Feminine shuttles between these poles, now deprecating her own foibles as…

arXiv:2512.12365v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Mosquito-borne diseases pose a serious global health threat, causing over 700,000 deaths annually. This work introduces a proof-of-concept Synthetic Swarm Mosquito Dataset for Acoustic Classification, created to simulate realistic multi-species and no…

Quote from: jebbo on 12/10/2025 06:35 amIt might also be worth preparing for future space stations and renaming the "International Space Station" supersection to "Space Stations", and possibly moving the Tiangong stu...

Congressman Byron Donalds letter [Dec 16]QuoteSpaceX Starship will operate from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) within the Kennedy Space Center in 2026. Following that, SpaceX...

A brain-scan study reveals key components of the brain's navigation system, which may help us better understand early symptoms of dementia.

Google's new email based assistant will be available to 18+ AI Pro and Ultra plan users in North America

The Los Angeles District Attorney's office says Nick Reiner will be a "medical miss out" and will not appear in court Tuesday. Nick Reiner has been booked on murder charges in the killings of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. CBS News' Adam Yamaguchi has more.

In this week's Legal Beat newsletter, Lady Gaga wins a trademark battle, Dionne Warwick faces a lawsuit, Lizzo speaks out the sexual harassment case, and more.

Most types of debt pass to your estate after you die, but there are a few exceptions to that rule.

Paris St-Germain and France forward Ousmane Dembele has been named the men's player of the year at the Fifa Best awards.

Chloé Zhao, Nia DaCosta and Geeta Gandbhir have been added to the list of honorees for the 2026 Sundance Film Festival’s annual fundraiser. Dubbed “Celebrating Sundance Institute: A Tribute to Founder Robert Redford,” this year’s fundraiser will pay homage to the actor and filmmaker who founded the …

arXiv:2512.13207v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deep learning and federated learning (FL) are becoming powerful partners for next-generation weather forecasting. Deep learning enables high-resolution spatiotemporal forecasts that can surpass traditional numerical models, while FL allows institution…

arXiv:2512.12770v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Continued pretraining extends a language model's capabilities by further exposing it to additional data, often tailored to a specific linguistic or domain context. This strategy has emerged as an efficient alternative to full retraining when adapting …

The United States and Trinidad say U.S. Marines installed a radar in Tobago to combat drugs — but this war materiel isn’t designed for operations based at sea or on land.

Paul Feig directs this tortured adaptation of Freida McFadden's trashy novel.

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GenAI adoption varies across U.S. hospitals, with factors such as predictive AI use, EHR vendor and type of hospital impacting adoption rates, per a new survey.

The introduction of artificial intelligence promises much, but the industry must prevent it from becoming a hacker’s paradise

Another day, another Reform UK press conference: this time the deputy leader’s turn to apologise for his Send remarksCall it a Christmas miracle. For this was the day when Richard Tice sent in his application to become a fully paid-up member of Woke. The day the Reform deputy leader tried to break f…

The next-gen Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is slated to explore vast cosmic voids to uncover the hidden forces shaping the universe.

After its latest purchase, the company now holds 5,098 bitcoin worth nearly $450 million

Physicists have found a clever way to detect the elusive Unruh effect without extreme accelerations. By using atoms that emit light cooperatively between mirrors, acceleration subtly shifts when a powerful light burst appears. That early flash acts like a timestamped signature of the effect. The met…

David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay are reuniting for the new film, “Heist of Benin,” more than a decade after their Academy Award-winning film “Selma.” Oyelowo will star in the film, which is set in modern-day London and described as “a thriller that intertwines art, love and restitution.” DuVernay will…

The song enters at No. 99, sparked by a viral TikTok trend.

The group and late legend’s “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” tops Adult Contemporary.

Quote from: Galacic01 on Today at 09:45 amI think NS5 and Karman Line will fly which hasn't flown since June (NS-33)I am not sure what you are trying to say here. RSS Karman Line and Tail 5 were separated...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual reconstruction of the face of early Homo erectus.

Stephanie Valentine glamzilla opens up about inspiration, beauty, and why community, not virality, is at the heart of her content.

arXiv:2512.13000v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Feminist HCI has been rapidly developing in East Asian contexts in recent years. The region's unique cultural and political backgrounds have contributed valuable, situated knowledge, revealing topics such as localized digital feminism practices, or wo…

Okey Dokey! Prime Video's post-apocalyptic adventure heads for New Vegas starting tonight!

A yearly checkup on the region documents a warmer, rainier Arctic and 200 Alaskan rivers “rusting” as melting tundra leaches minerals from the soil to waterways.

A “green glacier” of trees is steadily taking over native grasslands. Landowners are banding together to treat the problem with fire.

The food waste startup founded by Nest alumnus Matt Rogers also received an investment from Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund.

arXiv:2512.12880v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Parameter sharing in recursive transformers reduces model size but collapses layer-wise expressivity. We propose Mixture of LoRAs (MoL), a lightweight conditional-computation mechanism that inserts Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) experts inside a shared fe…

arXiv:2412.03439v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Internal features from large-scale pre-trained diffusion models have recently been established as powerful semantic descriptors for a wide range of downstream tasks. Works that use these features generally need to add noise to images before passin…

The long-awaited Rainbow Six Mobile comes out on February 23 for iOS and Android devices. This is a global release and follows years of testing and some significant delays.
This is basically a smartphone version of the popular tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege. It was "developed exclusively" for mo…

Advocacy group urges sanctions on Israel after Canadian delegation, including six lawmakers, turned back to Jordan.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released last month's jobs report on Tuesday, which showed that 64,000 jobs were added in November after losing 105,000 in October. CBS News MoneyWatch correspondent breaks down how unemployment data could impact the Fed's next interest rate decision

Younger households will need Social Security more than ever

Get a look at what's coming in this week's 'Mighty Nein' episode 'Belonging,' and the animated debut of a beloved character.

A Japanese H3 rocket will launch the Michibiki 5 navigation satellite to orbit tonight (Dec. 16), and you can watch the action live.

The zombie-decapitating sim Dead Island 3 is still being developed, according to financial documents from Dambuster Studios that were published on X and reported on by Video Games Chronicle. These documents suggest a 2028 release date, so that's something to look forward to.
Dambuster Studios' finan…

Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, a neuroscientist and director at LME Global, joins "CBS News 24/7 Mornings" to discuss his new book "The Digital Delusion," where he examines the impact of increased reliance on computers in classrooms. Horvath also talks about his recent article in The Free Press, a Paramo…

Audiences will be treated to everything from special guests to K-pop performances all in the comfort of their own homes.

Picture yourself strolling through Christmas markets, sipping mulled wine. Would you want to spend more time exploring the city or waiting for a taxi in the cold?

arXiv:2506.06837v3 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The challenge of finding compromises between agent proposals is fundamental to AI subfields such as argumentation, mediation, and negotiation. Building on this tradition, Elkind et al. (2021) introduced a process for coalition formation that seeks m…

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said there will not be an amendment vote on extending expiring ObamaCare enhanced subsidies as part of a House Republican health care bill this week, in a move that is infuriating moderate Republicans who had been pushing to go on the record about the subsidies. Johnson …

arXiv:2512.12432v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The paper demonstrates that invariant foliations are accurate, data-efficient and practical tools for data-driven modelling of physical systems. Invariant foliations can be fitted to data that either fill the phase space or cluster about an invarian…

A DoorDash delivery person in Kentucky was accused of pepper spraying a customer's food, causing the customer to get sick.

While “Wicked: For Good” has understandably taken up the lion’s share of attention in the Oscar race, there’s another movie musical adapted from a Broadway show that has been largely overlooked. Bill Condon, screenwriter of “Chicago” and director of “Dreamgirls” and “Beauty and the Beast” returns to…

The banking regulator began its formal rulemaking process to set up the procedures by which depository institutions can start stablecoin subsidiaries.

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