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Wally Funk, last of Mercury 13 and oldest woman in space, dies at 87
Wally Funk, the oldest woman to travel into space and the last remaining member of the Mercury 13, has passed away at 87.
Is an air-conditioning revolution coming to Europe?
Advances in environmentally friendly technology may lead to a revolution in air-conditioning adoption across Europe.
Rocket Report: "Panic" over Transporter availability; Isar to launch from Canada
Recent reports indicate panic over Transporter launch availability and news that Isar will launch from Canada.
Like a cheat code for your car: We investigate ECU tuning
An investigation into ECU tuning explores the ongoing conflict between car manufacturers locking chips and tuners attempting to crack them.
RhyMix: A Lightweight Adaptive Multi-Rhythm Network for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting
RhyMix is a lightweight neural architecture for long-term time series forecasting that uses a parallel dual-path modeling paradigm.
Best-of-$N$ TTS Evaluation is Confounded by ASR Family Alignment
Research reveals that Best-of-N TTS evaluation is confounded by ASR family alignment and proposes cross-family rank ensembles for better accuracy.
The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia
An exploration of the mathematical principles and geometric secrets used in the architecture of the Sagrada Familia.
Laylo (YC S20) Is Hiring a Head of Finance
Laylo, a Y Combinator startup, is searching for a Head of Finance.
Good Tools Are Invisible
A discussion on the philosophy of tool design, arguing that the best tools are those that become invisible to the user.
Java 27: What's New?
An overview of the new features and changes coming in Java 27.
Doom’s new expansion shows just what makes id Software special
The launch of a new expansion for Doom: The Dark Ages is marred by reports of mass layoffs at Xbox.
Out of Sight: Compression-Aware Content Protection against Agentic Crawlers
CAPE is a new framework that protects online content from AI agents by injecting invisible perturbations that cause information loss during agentic compression.
LEEVLA: Seeing What Matters in Latent Environment Evolution for Vision-Language-Action
LEEVLA is a new VLA architecture that uses drift-guided dynamic prioritization to help robots focus on task-critical visual evidence.
Leveraging Color Naming for Image Enhancement
NamedCurves+ is an image enhancement approach that integrates color naming and tone curves for interpretable and interactive image retouching.
Open-ended Multi-agent Autocurricula via Visual Inspection of Policies with Multi-modal LLMs
VIP (Visual Inspection of Policies) leverages Video Language Models to generate effective autocurricula for reinforcement learning agents by analyzing episode videos.
TMI: Text-to-Image Meets Image-to-Image for Complementary Data Synthesis to Boost Long-Tailed Instance Segmentation
TMI is a hybrid pipeline combining text-to-image and image-to-image editing to synthesize data for boosting long-tailed instance segmentation.
EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
The EU Commission has found Instagram and Facebook to be in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) due to addictive design features.
80-year-old woman with Alzheimer's took mushrooms and started speaking again
A report describes an 80-year-old woman with Alzheimer's who regained the ability to speak after taking mushrooms.
Polestar owners left ‘holding the bag’ after EV brand pulls out of the US
Polestar is exiting the US market starting with the 2027 model year after the US government denied authorization due to Chinese-made connected vehicle software.
LDFE: Laplacian Decoupled Feature Enhancement Block for Dual-Stream CNN-based RGB-IR Object Detection
Researchers introduce LDFE, a Laplacian Decoupled Feature Enhancement block designed to improve RGB-IR object detection using dual-stream CNNs.