At a demonstration of devices designed to replace turnstiles, one rider got hit in the neck, and another sneaked through without paying.

The singer gives insight into her Eras Tour wardrobe update in the latest episode of 'The End of an Era'

arXiv:2512.15956v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper presents a novel, cost-effective, and scalable approach to track numerous assets distributed in forested environments using commodity Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) targeting wildfire response applications. Commodity RFID systems suf…

The head of fast-fashion retailer Groupe Dynamite Inc. sharply criticized Quebec Premier Francois Legault, threatening again to move the company’s headquarters if the provincial government doesn’t relax its restrictive immigration policies.

Drugmakers promise to stockpile certain drugs as part of new drug pricing deals

You get quite a lot of EV for the Equinox's sub-$35,000 starting price.

Cheers to standing on business this year!

President Trump said Friday he plans to hold a meeting with major insurance companies in the coming days in a bid to pressure them to lower prices for consumers who are set to see premium costs soar when ObamaCare’s enhanced subsidies expire at the end of the year.  “I'm going to call in the insuran…

Prof. An Tao from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel "precessing magnetic jet engine" model to explain the peculiar gamma-ray burst (GRB) 250702B, a rare cosmic explosion discovered on July 2, 2025.

So far 14 of the 17 of largest pharmaceutical companies have agreed to lower drug prices in the US.

Wisconsin Republicans on Friday urged embattled judge Hannah Dugan to immediately resign or face impeachment proceedings after she was convicted of obstruction for helping an immigrant dodge federal authorities who planned to arrest him. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Assembly Majority Leader Tyler …

James Steven, Warner Music Group‘s longtime chief communications officer and executive vice president is stepping down from his post. While his next destination has not been announced, multiple sources say he will be taking on a similar role at Universal Music Group, where he will rejoin Will Tanous…

Chicago’s city council on Friday approved a revenue ordinance for 2026 that’s a key component of a roughly $16 billion budget for the third-largest US city.

Visitors who don't live in Rome will have to pay to view the Baroque monument up close from February.

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Forced by an act of Congress, the Justice Department has released “hundreds of thousands” of pages of documents related to Epstein—but not everything, as is required by law.

The U.S. military-backed project is now on the way to integrated system testing, the company said.

Modern holiday chestnuts by veterans of the long-running TV talent competition.

Jewish voices say an attack of this kind was entirely predictable given the surge in antisemitic attacks in Australia since 2023The sun rises early at this time of year, hitting the south of the beach first before chasing the shadows north, the gradual retreat of the darkness to the light.Hanukah, t…

Candid conversations with CEOs, investors, and government leaders focused on how to navigate and prosper in this age of economic uncertainty. Hosted by Erik Schatzker in Singapore. (Source: Bloomberg)

As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission, four crew members from three space agencies will launch no earlier than Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway will serve as spacecraft commander and pi…

Sooner or later we will have to interface with the global market leaders, including for ID systems and the UK will be a more prosperous and secure place to live, work and do business if we do so ...

arXiv:2512.16294v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Semantic overlap among land-cover categories, highly imbalanced label distributions, and complex inter-class co-occurrence patterns constitute significant challenges for multi-label remote-sensing image retrieval. In this article, Multi-Label Adaptive…

Odin Space and Arkisys are teaming up to provide customers with pioneering insurance for spacecraft specifically to cover space debris collision events.

It looks like the holidays aren't a bad time to shop for a VPN subscription. ExpressVPN, Engadget's pick for the best premium provider, currently has a less premium price. This deal gives you two years of the Advanced plan (with a bonus of four free months) for only $101. When it isn't on sale, the …

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arXiv:2512.16038v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper introduces LOG.io, a comprehensive solution designed for correct rollback recovery and fine-grain data lineage capture in distributed data pipelines. It is tailored for serverless scalable architectures and uses a log-based rollback recover…

Grassi SA, one of Argentina’s top grain brokerages, cleared what could be the last hurdle to take over distressed exporter Vicentin SAIC, whose assets include a significant stake in the world’s biggest soybean crushing plant.

arXiv:2512.16069v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Modular manipulators composed of pre-manufactured and interchangeable modules offer high adaptability across diverse tasks. However, their deployment requires generating feasible motions while jointly optimizing morphology and mounted pose under kinem…

Proposed changes weaken climate rules and waste years of investments by car makers in EVs.

Netflix is acquiring Estonian startup Ready Player Me, a company creating "cross-game avatar tech" that allows players to bring their digital personas with them to different games, the company's CEO Timmu Tõke shared in a LinkedIn post. The acquisition is part of Netflix's new games strategy, which …

TheCUBE spent 2025 talking directly with top tech executives as they worked through how computing is being rebuilt inside their organizations, driven by real-world constraints rather than abstract roadmaps. Across those conversations, a consistent shift emerged away from theory and toward execution.…

Starting on Feb. 1, Rome will charge tourists a fee to go down into the basin of the famed 18th-century fountain. Not every one is happy (except Romans, who won’t have to pay).

Energy-efficient AI, battery storage systems, and renewed interest in nuclear have reshaped how data centers generate, consume, and manage energy.

The companies say the deal will allow them to boost data handling in hybrid cloud environments.

Golden Gate Capital is raising about $1.8 billion from investors including Ardian, Neuberger Berman and Apollo Global Management’s S3 in a deal that will let some investors cash out of its evergreen fund.

arXiv:2507.21503v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recently Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved considerable advancements in vision-language tasks, yet produce potentially harmful or untrustworthy content. Despite substantial work investigating the trustworthiness of language mo…

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and House Democrats on Friday accused the Trump Justice Department of violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act if it does not make all the documents and records related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein available to the public by Friday’s dea…

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It took 27 years, but Cytokinetics secured its first U.S. drug approval.

New Yorkers will save an estimated $600 million per year
The post Governor Hochul Signs Legislation Ending 100 Foot Rule appeared first on Food & Water Watch.

A federal judge has acquitted one of the two alleged killers

arXiv:2509.24320v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Orthogonal momentum gradient updates have emerged to overcome the limitations of vector-based optimizers like Adam. The vector-based optimizer Adam suffers from high memory costs and ill-conditioned momentum gradient updates. However, traditional …

For the first time, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a pair of catastrophic collisions in another solar system. They were observing Fomalhaut, a bright star about 25 light-years away, and detected a pair of planetesimal collisions and their light-reflecting dust clouds. The …

Roborock chief says innovations such as robotic arms and dog excrement recognition are key to survival

Two years after jurors found Karl Jordan, Jr. guilty in the rap icon's 2002 slaying, a judge took the rare step of acquitting him due to a lack of evidence.

We’re in a moment of cultural backlash, and some of us are wearing it on our faces.

I had watched the coming-of-age weepie over and over growing up so it was an overwhelming experience to sit down with its creator and see it again. It was a magical day and he was just as warm-hearted as his movieRob Reiner beams as he greets me. “You’ve seen Stand By Me 100 times?” he asks. I nod s…

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Cathy Grossu, the mother-in-law of retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, said she had seen the family a day before the fatal crash.

Gabon will kick off an audit of mining contracts as it seeks to strengthen governance amid talks with the International Monetary Fund for a new lending program.

NASA engineers are laying the foundation for the moonwalks the first woman and next man will conduct when they land on the lunar South Pole in 2024 as part of the Artemis program. At the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, teams are testing the tools and developing training approaches for luna…

Trove of documents related to late sex offender published after bipartisan pressure forced Trump to give his consent

arXiv:2512.08854v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: It has been hypothesized that human-level visual perception requires a generative approach in which internal representations result from inverting a decoder. Yet today's most successful vision models are non-generative, relying on an encoder that …

President Trump’s name was put on The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

arXiv:2512.15764v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can perform many NLP tasks well, but fully fine-tuning them is expensive and requires a lot of memory. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods such as LoRA reduce this cost by adding small low-rank updates to frozen…

arXiv:2507.03631v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Discovering governing equations that describe complex chaotic systems remains a fundamental challenge in physics and neuroscience. Here, we introduce the PEM-UDE method, which combines the prediction-error method with universal differential equati…

As an addiction medicine doctor, I see patients like Nick every day.

arXiv:2410.19931v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Despite their empirical success, the internal mechanism by which transformer models align tokens during language processing remains poorly understood. This paper provides a mechanistic and theoretical explanation of token alignment in LLMs. We fir…

arXiv:2412.09587v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We present OpenNER 1.0, a standardized collection of openly-available named entity recognition (NER) datasets. OpenNER contains 36 NER corpora that span 52 languages, human-annotated in varying named entity ontologies. We correct annotation format…

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arXiv:2512.16428v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Since Generative AI came out it has quickly embedded itself in our social fabric, triggering lots of discussions, predictions, and efforts from research, industry, government and capital market to experiment and embrace the technology. The question fo…

The companies agreed to sell most of their drugs to Medicaid at the prices they charge in European countries and to sell drugs directly to consumers through a planned TrumpRx website.

This week, parents across the country are frightened—and furious.

arXiv:2512.16570v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Online Resource Allocation addresses the problem of efficiently allocating limited resources to buyers with incomplete knowledge of future requests. In our setting, buyers arrive sequentially demanding a set of items, each with a value drawn from a kn…

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December 17, 2025; Originally published by Bridge Michigan In a long-awaited decision released Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that federal pipeline safety law leaves Michigan no room to shut down the Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac. US District Judge Robert Jonker issued the ruling in r…

arXiv:2512.16381v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Agentic systems, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), assist network engineers with network configuration synthesis and network troubleshooting tasks. For network troubleshooting, progress is hindered by the absence of standardized and accessible …

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The actor became a featured player in season 45.

Data: Google Trends; Chart: Axios VisualsBernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sparked more Google searches than any other senator this year, according to data from Google Trends.Why it matters: The progressive powerhouse has spent the year loudly protesting President Trump, and stepping into the vacuum of Democra…

European stocks closed at a fresh record high on Friday, wrapping up the final full trading week of the year with optimism around further policy easing and resilient growth in the US.

arXiv:2512.16841v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automatic radiology report generation is a promising application of multimodal deep learning, aiming to reduce reporting workload and improve consistency. However, current state-of-the-art (SOTA) systems - such as Multimodal AI for Radiology Applicati…

George Parker puts our panel to the test

The parents of Claudio Neves Valente had not seen or heard from him since he left Portugal for the United States to enroll at a graduate program at Brown more than two decades ago.

David Parker responds to the news that some New Zealanders are taking an extremely long summer breakI’m curious about these New Zealand workers checking out of any serious work from Christmas until March (See you in March? Debate in New Zealand over extremely long summer break, 12 December). Who are…

The White House announced Friday that nine additional pharmaceutical companies have agreed to follow President Trump's Most Favored Nation (MFN) drug pricing policy, with several of the companies throwing in several months worth of emergency drug supplies. According to a senior administration offici…

Video captured by a bystander shows a man in Taipei launching a deadly knife attack as other people stand around, unaware of what is happening. Three people were reportedly killed before the attacker fell from a building and also died.

Release of documents from DoJ investigation comes after Trump reverses and signs bill into lawUS politics live – latest updatesThe Department of Justice has released a long-awaited and huge tranche of documents related to its investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Epstein’s ca…

arXiv:2512.16334v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Early prediction of battery cycle life is essential for accelerating battery research, manufacturing, and deployment. Although machine learning methods have shown encouraging results, progress is hindered by data scarcity and heterogeneity arising fro…

Millions of people with an Affordable Care Act health plan face a massive jump in premiums next year — this chart shows just how much.

arXiv:2512.15791v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In Artificial Intelligence (AI), language models have gained significant importance due to the widespread adoption of systems capable of simulating realistic conversations with humans through text generation. Because of their impact on society, develo…

This year has already seen eight of the busiest air travel days in TSA history. Could a December date join them?

Pebblebee's Clip 5 finder tag attaches to a key ring, works with both iOS and Android devices, and makes a loud sound.

From celebrity endorsements to digital fatigue, the once-obsolete white wire has become a fashion statement and a quiet act of opting outWith white-wired headphones endorsed by celebrities including Lily-Rose Depp, Paul Mescal, Bella Hadid and Apple Martin, a growing number of people are breaking aw…

Six British hunger strikers linked to Palestine Action are at risk of death in prison, doctors and relatives warn.

Amazon is launching one more sale to close out the year. On Dec. 20, shop Amazon's Super Saturday sale, delivering savings up to 50% on speakers, cameras, headphones, and gift cards.

Graphite is an AI code review assistant that was last valued at $290 million.

James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” is now playing in theaters, bringing with it a third eye-popping trip to Pandora and dozens of impressive motion capture performances. You may not recognize the likes of Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Kate Winslet when they’re rendered as blue Na’vi aliens on…

Two men say they experienced the kind of abuse highlighted in recent reports on Israel's treatment of prisoners, which Israel denies.

Exclusive: Blair-era minister echoes concerns about young people being priced out of jobs, in intervention likely to dismay Labour MPsThe future of the youth minimum wage will come under review as part of a major inquiry into rising inactivity among Britain’s young people by the former health secret…

The rocket-launch company just completed a government contract months ahead of schedule — and won a new one.

Justices find revocation of remuneration was inappropriate and left electric car chief uncompensated for his work

A long-standing explanation for magnetoresistance may be incomplete. New evidence suggests a universal interfacial mechanism is at play. A major advance in spintronics came with the discovery of unusual magnetoresistance (UMR). In this effect, the electrical resistance of a heavy metal changes when …

arXiv:2512.04677v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Existing diffusion-based video generation methods are fundamentally constrained by sequential computation and long-horizon inconsistency, limiting their practical adoption in real-time, streaming audio-driven avatar synthesis. We present Live Avat…

The Justice Department on Friday publicly released a portion of the Epstein files in response to a law that garnered near unanimous support from both parties in Congress. The highly anticipated release of the files comes after months of building pressure on the White House and amid scrutiny of Presi…

Deal by former China unit of Sequoia Capital marks turnaround for luxury shoe company after it pulled IPO

Farmers in the EU have protested on many occasions over unfair foreign competition and the viability of their businesses. They gathered again in Brussels on December 18, while an EU summit was going on, this time focusing their ire on the Mercosur free trade agreement between the EU and Latin Americ…

The basketball league will require teams to submit injury reports closer to tipoff, an attempt to close one source of inside information.