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Birla AI Labs Launches Yug-1, a Time Series Foundation Model Built in India
Yug-1 is built to analyse such time-dependent data and generate forecasts across multiple variables.
Learning to Correct Geometry in Generated Videos
Generated videos often lose geometric consistency under camera motion: structures warp under viewpoint change, parallax becomes inconsistent, and smooth camera movement may collapse into shot-like transitions. We argue that this failure is largely a data problem. In web-scale video corpora, most visible motion comes from dynamic objects captured by static or weakly moving cameras, leaving only sparse supervision for viewpoint-induced appearance changes. To address this, we propose Video Geometry
Autumn Paints Poland’s Bieszczady Mountains
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Autumn Paints Poland’s… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mission: Biomes About About Us Subscribe 🛜 RSS Contact Us Search As the air grows cooler and days shorter, brown bears prowl the Carpathian Mountains of southern Poland
Companies exploiting welfare system by using residents as 'cash cows,' BBC finds
Agents try to attract people on housing benefit by using social media videos that offer free rooms and holidays.
Christian Yelich's girlfriend Paige Almendariz drops 4-word reaction to the Brewers captain's NLCS victory celebration
Christian Yelich and the Milwaukee Brewers punched their tickets to the World Series in dominant fashion, outclassing the reigning champions, the LA Dodgers, in the NLCS by sweeping the series 4-0.
What’s wrong with schools in France?
Angry French students have blocked access to their schools for four weeks. AJLabs breaks down what they want and why.
What a scary boot camp incident taught Marine veteran and Aflac president Virgil Miller about leadership
After more than 22 years at Aflac, the 11th grade feels like another lifetime. But that’s when I decided to join the United States Marines. That “first job” eventually found me in foreign land, a bit scared but ready to do my duty during Operation Desert Storm. But the most important lesson I carry from these formative years might be the one I learned before I ever left boot camp at Parris Island. The leadership philosophy I follow today centers on people, then process, then performance. I ca
You Can See Everything documentary stuns with huge box office debut
It shows fraudster Elizabeth Holmes invite a sceptical film into her home before she's sent to prison.
The Democratic Party’s New Villain
The breakup with Big Tech is evident in dozens of campaign ads.
Google's excellent Pixel Watch 4 LTE just hit its lowest-ever price
If the Pixel Watch 5 isn't a must-have, you can save big by getting the still brilliant Pixel Watch 4 at a bargain price
Greek authorities say 12 migrants die in two incidents in Aegean Sea
At least 1,209 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year, according to the International Organisation for Migration. #EuropeNews
Equatorial Guinea is expanding an ambitious malaria elimination plan
Equatorial Guinea has tackled malaria with a successful strategy on Bioko Island
‘What the war has done to me inside’: Ukraine’s Svitolina announces separation from Monfils
The World No 6 opens up about the toll of Russia’s ongoing war and the breakup of her marriage with Monfils
Australian MP Helen Haines critically injured in ‘deliberate’ car ramming
Lawmaker was struck by a car outside her office in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called a 'deliberate act'.
Chinese-Made Video Systems Deployed in Korean Army Command Centers, Raising Security Fears
One in every six video-conferencing units operated by the Republic of Korea Army is Chinese-made, raising concerns over potential leaks of military secrets. Th
Selena Gomez says vaping has affected her voice
The 34-year-old says vaping nicotine "a lot" permanently affected her singing and speaking voice.
New Sony Patent Hints At AI Frame Generation For PlayStation 6 - Lowyat.NET
Sony is exploring a new AI-powered frame generation technology that could make its way to the PlayStation 6 (PS6), according to a recently published patent.
Bad Diagnosis: Analyzing Consent and Data Collection Practices of Mobile Medical Apps
Mobile health (mHealth) apps collect personally-identifiable information while handling uniquely sensitive medical data, ranging from mental health records to real-time glucose or heart rate monitoring -- yet they remain poorly understood at scale. We present the first comprehensive analysis of consent and data collection practices across 10,000+ mHealth apps on the Google Play Store, combining static analysis and privacy policy examination. We develop a rigorous operational definition to distin
Military Archives - Interesting Engineering
Stay informed about the latest advancements in military technology, defense strategies, and global conflicts. Explore the intersection of technology and the military world.
Lost Arctic sandpiper spotted in the Negev
A North American buff-breasted sandpiper has wound up in Israel, very far away from its route crossing the Americas. While it's probably a troubling sign of global warming, it might also be evolution at work
Melita and I are sharing a beautiful chapter: 'Skeem Saam' star Hellen Motsuki pregnant with second child | The Citizen
Speaking to The Citizen, the award-winning actress opened up about motherhood, pregnancy and balancing her personal life with her career.
Rubio blames Ukraine’s refusal to withdraw troops from Donbass for conflict’s continuation
The US Secretary of State emphasized that, from Washington’s perspective, the current situation complicates the negotiation process due to the difficulty of finding a compromise among all parties
The new ‘mommy track’: Working moms are founding startups to solve problems the government and Corporate America won’t
When Stephanie Fornaro was 5 and her younger brother was 6 months old, her mother left and did not come back. When Fornaro had her own children, she vowed she would do better. She left her sales job in preparation for the birth of her second child in 2017. But after the birth, Fornaro struggled. Her husband, an entrepreneur, was on the road half the time. And she was lost in a fog of postpartum depression. Fornaro didn’t want to hire help. “It felt like I was failing as a mother because I was
BBC pauses civil service secondment scheme
The BBC said all journalism and editorial decisions are made by BBC journalists and editors.
Anthropic commits 5% of its stock to a new 'public benefit' fund
Anthropic says it is committing 5% of its shares to a new “public benefit” fund, with the amount potentially increasing as its shares grow in value
Albania's PM refuses to quit with violent protests in sixth day
The unrest follows months of anti-government protests in the Balkan nation, initially sparked by a controversial resort development in an ecologically protected area linked to US President Donald Trump's family. #EuropeNews
Revisiting the Mass and Scale Dependence of the "Lensing is Low" Effect with DECADE
Galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) is a critical probe of cosmology and galaxy formation. However, predicted GGL amplitudes tend to be $\sim 20-40\%$ higher than observations, primarily on small scales, a tension called the lensing-is-low problem. If not resolved through astrophysics or measurement systematics, this discrepancy may indicate a tension in our cosmological standard model. J. U. Lange et al. (2021), using foreground galaxies from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) and lensi
Deep LLM layers expose passage-level context in EEG during silent reading
In a previous report we showed that a decoder can recover open-vocabulary word-level information from 19-channel EEG recorded during silent reading, by aligning short EEG windows with hidden-state embeddings of the presented word taken from a large language model (LLM). That analysis contrasted two of the model's 33 layers: the context-free input embedding and one mid-depth layer. Here we ask how EEG-decodable structure is distributed over the full depth of the language model. We trained one dec
‘A bad call’: Greens rift deepens over Steele-John allegations
A dispute over whether Jordon Steele-John should take leave during an investigation has deepened a rift within the Greens over allegations about his behaviour towards women.
Mexican protesters demanding clean water storm state congress
Mexican protesters demanding clean water storm state congress
A more accurate weather forecast could start with these high-flying drones
For nearly a century, reading the upper sky has meant tying a box of sensors to a balloon, letting go, and kissing the hardware goodbye. And they only go up at fixed times. If a storm starts brewing between launches, nobody’s up there to see it. Meteomatics, a Swiss weather technology company, thinks we can get better weather data. It recently introduced Strato, a multicopter drone made to study Earth’s atmosphere. It is designed to reach higher altitudes of the troposphere—the p
‘Train to Busan’ Director Yeon Sang-ho’s ‘Paradise Lost’ Clinches 118-Country Sales Ahead of Hawai‘i Festival U.S. Bow
Yeon Sang-ho’s thriller ‘Paradise Lost’ has sold to 118 countries and will have its U.S. premiere at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival.
Happy Dussehra 2026 Wishes: AI Prompts To Design Personalized Vijayadashami Greetings
From WhatsApp stickers to AI greetings and images, here’s how to generate wishes for your loved ones this festival season.
Redmi K100 with 10,000mAh battery and 6.83-inch display is launching next week
It is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. Xiaomi teased the arrival of the Redmi K100 in China last week. The company has now announced the phone’s...
EU seeks secure Arctic link to Asia via Greenland and Canada
Brussels wants to secure digital infrastructure in the Arctic as melting ice and growing geopolitical tensions turn the polar region into a strategic corridor for trade, communications and security. #EuropeNews
Distributional signatures of computation: inferring mechanisms from computation time distributions
Computational complexity theory provides a framework for analysing abstract models of computation, whereas computational systems operate as finite physical implementations whose behaviour is shaped by their architecture and physical substrate. In such systems, computational organisation cannot be directly characterised from algorithms or internal representations. Building on the use of reaction time distributions to constrain mechanisms in cognitive science, we introduce an empirical framework f
Break and Steal an Egg Halloween Part 1 update patch notes
The first Halloween update for Break and Steal an Egg has introduced multiple limited-time events.
Rubio says there was no US pause in intelligence sharing with Ukraine
Ukraine relies on US intel through Starshield to spot fast-moving ballistic missiles that Russia fires at its cities.
In 1995, New York turned discarded milk jugs and detergent bottles into a pier deck; 2 years later, the recycled plastic had held its key engineering properties
In 1995, New York leveraged discarded milk jugs and detergent bottles to build a sustainable pier deck, proving recycled plastic can be a durable and eco-friendly alternative to timber.
The Archers airs first-ever lesbian wedding in show's 75-year history – before shocking cliffhanger
Pip Archer and Stella Pryor got married in Sunday's episode.
This smart refrigerator has a 9-inch screen with voice control and automatic doors, but that’s not even my favourite feature
Samsung’s AI Side-by-side refrigerator Family Hub offers some impressive features, especially for cocktail fans
Mother leaves children alone on Poland mountain trail for 'whining'
Conditions on the trail were poor with a thick fog over the area, prompting shocked tourists to take care of the young boys. #EuropeNews
ENFR: Evidence Networks with Flow-Matched References for Amortized Simulation-Based Model Inference
The evidence, $\mathcal{Z} = p(x | \mathcal{M})$, of a data-generating model $\mathcal{M}$ is a powerful tool in Bayesian frameworks: it enables model inference, model misspecification tests, and goodness-of-fit assessment as an alternative to standard discrepancy statistics, e.g. $χ^2$. While versatile, the evidence is notoriously difficult to compute, even when the likelihood is available. In both likelihood-based and simulation-based inference, estimating $\mathcal{Z}$ provides an immediate s
Sydney opens US$4 billion second airport with few flights
Western Sydney International launches commercial operations with a sparse schedule as major airlines remain cautious.
Transfer rumors, news: Galatasaray eye Man Utd's Fernandes
Galatasaray are ready to move for Manchester United midfielder Bruno Fernandes. Transfer Talk has the latest.
Russian forces seize large Ukrainian defensive area in battles for Omelnik
Assault teams suppressed pockets of resistance and cleared over 400 structures within the built-up area and adjacent territory, the Russian Defense Ministry reported
Idealab’s Bill Gross is building infrastructure for AI-assisted startups
For decades, the entrepreneur and investor Bill Gross has been celebrated for shaping the way tech businesses get off the ground. Idealab, which he founded in 1996, is considered the industry’s longest-running tech incubator; the directory of companies it’s backed—including CitySearch, Coinbase, Picasa, and Twilio—doubles as a museum of ever-shifting trends in logo design. Over the years, he’s also founded businesses in fields ranging from internet advertising to clean energy. “My whole
Why MKR team refuse to back down over pescatarian fallout
Lucy and Krysten delivered an outstanding cook, forcing gatecrasher Zoe to defend her controversial decision to skip the tasting.
iBase Solution targets AI data center EPC contracts with modular liquid cooling, energy storage expertise
Taiwan-based iBase Solution is expanding from industrial computers (IPCs) and energy storage into liquid-cooled prefabricated modular data centers, targeting AI infrastructure construction and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts. The company aims to leverage its energy storage
Razer Barracuda V2 Pro arrives in Malaysia with hybrid noise cancelling and 70 hour battery life
Razer has launched the Barracuda V2 Pro wireless headset in Malaysia. Priced at RM969, it packs hybrid noise cancelling and up to 70 hours of battery life.
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EEG Lempel-Ziv Complexity vis-à-vis Autocorrelation Function
Measures of signal complexity have become increasingly popular in electroencephalography (EEG), where they are often interpreted as indicators of neural information processing, dynamical richness, or conscious state. In contrast, classical measures of temporal dependence, such as the autocorrelation function (ACF), remain more directly linked to known physiological mechanisms and are easier to interpret. The present work revisits, for the EEG practicioner, the relation between normalized Lempel-
Patterson hits 16th first-class ton
Kurtis Patterson reminds Aussie selectors of his ability with a Sheffield Shield ton.
WFP cuts aid to 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza amid funding shortages
The UN agency says funding shortages threaten to reverse 'modest and fragile' progress on food security.
CySEC promotes financial literacy workshops for women
Women in Cyprus will be able to attend free financial empowerment workshops in Nicosia on November 10-11, organised by the Cyprus Committee for Financial Literacy and Education (CyFLEC) with the support of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC). "CySEC encourages women to take advanta
Riteish Deshmukh To Make Telugu Debut With Ram Pothineni’s Psychological Action Thriller
Bollywood actor Riteish Deshmukh is making his Telugu debut in director and star Ram Pothineni's upcoming psychological action thriller #RAPO23.
Lady Mayor: London can shape the global conversation on trusted AI
As the UK prepares to host the G20 presidency in 2027, it has an opportunity to shape the global conversation on trusted AI, writes Susan Langley.
Rethinking the design space of Vanilla Pixel Diffusion Transformers
Pixel-space diffusion models have recently re-emerged as a compelling alternative to latent diffusion, avoiding the lossy latent bottleneck and separately trained autoencoder. JiT shows that a vanilla diffusion transformer can generate directly in pixel space by replacing the commonly used velocity prediction ($\boldsymbol{u}$-prediction) with clean image prediction ($\boldsymbol{x_0}$-prediction). In this work, we revisit this choice and introduce MFlow, an adaptive parameterization that learns
Ionic switching between supermagnetic states
Supermagnetic states are typically set during synthesis. Changing and retaining these states requires sustained external stimulus. Without resynthesis or continued stimulus, we show, for the first time, a reversible magneto-ionic switching between superferromagnetic (SFM) and superspin-glass (SSG) states using room-temperature Li-ion transport. We utilize the incomplete lithiation of NiO into nanoscale Ni and Li2O to switch between the states. Lithiation generates a fragmented nano-Ni network th
My mother killed herself. I wish assisted suicide had been an option
“Sometimes mental illness is terminal,” Torie Bosch writes in a personal essay about medical aid in dying for psychiatric reasons.
Former UFC light heavyweight contender explains the lesson behind Dana White’s alleged Power Slap experiment
The UFC’s decision not to re-sign undefeated bantamweight Farid Basharat has sparked another debate in what the promotion values in its fighters.
Four arrested after police officer shot in foot in Nottingham
Officer in stable condition after incident in city centre in early hours of Sunday
How Lawrence Bishnoi’s rivalry with Salman Khan began: From the 1998 blackbuck case to firing at Tiger Shroff’s car
The firing at Tiger Shroffs car in Mumbai has brought renewed attention to Lawrence Bishnois long-running hostility towards Salman Khan. The feud traces back to the 1998 blackbuck poaching case, in which Khan was convicted in 2018. Threats against the actor later escalated to gunfire outside his hom
Varun Dhawan Celebrates Kanjak With Little Girls, Shares Heartwarming Navratri Picture
Varun Dhawan celebrated Kanjak during Navratri by spending time with little girls, sharing a picture of their drawing session and extending festive wishes to his fans.