Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

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…

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…

It comes after ministers made fresh offer amid warning the walkout is risky as NHS battles wave of flu.

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As part of the violence against women and girls (VAWG) strategy councils will receive a further £19m Good morning. The news will be dominated by two foreign stories today: the ongoing response to the Hanukah killings at Bondi beach, which we are covering on a live blog here, and the latest talks in …

Former Doctor Who star Paul McGann has addressed the recent spread of AI-generated images showing his apparent return alongside Billie Piper in the franchise's upcoming 2026 Christmas special.

The payment giant is seeking to guide fintechs and banks in navigating the crypto landscape

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Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Many patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) suffer from abdominal pain even between acute inflammatory flare-ups. Altered processing of pain in response to...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Bank of America Corp. are headlining a group of investors putting about $20 million into the parent company of the Texas Stock Exchange, adding to the list of Wall Street mainstays backing the upstart marketplace.

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…

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, …

Explore how Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) technology is transforming devices with secure and precise location capabilities.
The post Ultra-Wide Band: A transformational technology for the Internet of Things appeared first on EE Times.

Universitat Tubingen For the first time, an international analysis has shown that when people with prediabetes bring their blood glucose back into the normal range through lifestyle changes,...

Advanced packaging could revolutionize AI chip manufacturing, but critical bottlenecks remain.
The post Addressing the Biggest Bottleneck in the AI Semiconductor Ecosystem appeared first on EE Times.

Jossimar Cabrera, suspected of killing his wife and dumping her body in a Southern California forest has been extradited back to the U.S. from Peru to face a murder charge, L.A. officials say.

Drugmaker installs former boss Said Darwazah after Riad Mishlawi’s surprise exit

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Falling in love with her inspired the director Rob Reiner to give “When Harry Met Sally…” a new ending. The Reiners went on to work together on movies and political causes.

"It felt like there was a ghost," Manns said of returning to his dorm room Sunday.

A pilgrim who visited the Second Temple in Jerusalem may have carved their memories into a limestone block for another synagogue.

Latest strictures add to pressure as fintech seeks to resolve a dispute between its founders and investors

Gang leaders have found a new way to carry out attacks on rivals - using children they consider 'disposable'.

Disney made a deal with OpenAI, which both speaks to the durability of Disney's assets and to OpenAI's competition with Google.

arXiv:2512.11183v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Current benchmarks that test LLMs on static, already-solved problems (e.g., math word problems) effectively demonstrated basic capability acquisition. The natural progression has been toward larger, more comprehensive and challenging collections of st…

Veteran trader Peter Brandt warns that bitcoin's growth parabola has fractured, potentially leading to a price drop to $25,000.

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…

Let us emphasize first and foremost the economic case for chiplet architecture in the automotive systems. The automotive industry faces an unprecedented challenge: integrating increasingly sophisticated electronic systems while maintaining cost competitiveness in mass production. Traditional monolit…

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 …

Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were found dead Sunday at their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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Stats show continued progress away from landfill in Northern Ireland, but little movement in recycling rates
The post Northern Ireland recycling rate stagnates as Energy from Waste expands, Daera figures show appeared first on Circular Online.

arXiv:2512.11792v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reality is a dance between rigid constraints and deformable structures. For video models, that means generating motion that preserves fidelity as well as structure. Despite progress in diffusion models, producing realistic structure-preserving motion …

arXiv:2512.11367v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing causes global economic losses of \$10-25 billion annually and undermines marine sustainability and governance. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides reliable maritime surveillance under all weathe…

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…

Sir Chris Hoy and wife Lady Sarra talk about how they have helped their children understand his terminal cancer diagnosis.

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…

Paul Sutter, Universe Today Let's say you are transported back in time to some ancient culture. And along the way you somehow forget everything you knew about modern cosmology (don't worry...

Home Office expected to encourage companies to introduce controls

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When the generative AI boom took off in 2022, Rudi Miller and her law school classmates were suddenly gripped with anxiety. “Before graduating, there was discussion about what the job market would look like for us if AI became adopted,” she recalls.  So when it came time to choose a speciality, Mill…

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…

"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.

It's unnerving how much of the global economy is dependent on $400 million lithography machines.

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…

Israel accuses Hezbollah of refusing to disarm. Lebanese officials hope their efforts to rein in the militant group will head off Israeli military escalation.

If your Fire TV or Fire TV Stick feels slow, don't replace it just yet. These quick tips can give it a serious speed boost.

I went from selling flats in Paris to being alone in a cabin in Guinea looking after primates. It changed my life, but one relationship marked me like no otherIn 2022, I had a job at an estate agents in Paris selling ridiculously expensive flats, and decided I needed to do something more meaningful …

Tariffs, an AI boom, geopolitical divisions and a new administration ushered in a unique, unsettling year for consumers.

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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arXiv:2512.11492v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Networked Predictive Control is widely used to mitigate the effect of delays and dropouts in Networked Control Systems, particularly when these exceed the sampling time. A key design choice of these methods is the delay bound, which determines the pre…

arXiv:2512.11799v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large-scale video generation models have shown remarkable potential in modeling photorealistic appearance and lighting interactions in real-world scenes. However, a closed-loop framework that jointly understands intrinsic scene properties (e.g., albed…

Former England captain Michael Vaughan has described hearing gunshots during Sunday's terror attack at Bondi Beach as "terrifying".

Michael Irving, Science Alert Dementia is often associated with older people,...

Greg Ip, Wall St. Journal Whatever happened to the climate crisis?
In 2021 Bill Gates was...

Global Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 12, December 2025.

Quote from: hektor on 12/14/2025 10:48 pmAnd this was perfectly fine, since until the very final months of the Obama administration, it was not permitted to consider a landing on the Moon — as President Obama himself...

The physical media platform has revealed what its users prized most throughout the year, both globally and in nine distinct regions.

After the first protons and neutrons formed, after the first light elements formed, the universe…wasn’t really all that great.

Donna Lu, The Guardian Little Foot, one of the world's most complete hominin fossils, may be a new species of human ancestor, according to research that raises questions about our...

A few taps and swipes can make your old phone feel new again.

Mark "Cassidy" Jenner had a five year relationship with an activist while married with children.

UBS Group AG’s need for the highest-quality form of capital would drop to around $400 million if a compromise proposal on controversial regulatory reforms put forward by Swiss lawmakers last week was adopted, according to estimates from JPMorgan Chase & Co analysts.

India’s trade deficit narrowed in November after exports rebounded from the previous month, including a surprise jump in shipments to the US despite high tariffs.

A Muslim man is being hailed as a hero after tackling a gunman at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney.

Quote from: Hadley Delta on Today at 12:47 amQuote from: hektor on 12/14/2025 10:48 pmAnd this was perfectly fine, since until the very final months of the Obama administration, ...

The latest death cross in November has so far marked a bottom of around $80,000, aligning with prior examples this cycle.

Hong Kong’s High Court has convicted media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai.

Jailed former president accused of a plot to provoke military aggression from North to help consolidate his rule.

Thousands of people protested against a bill that would reduce the prison sentence of former President, Jair Bolsonaro.

From winter wildfires in Los Angeles to the unchecked growth of data centers, here are the big climate stories we covered in 2025.

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…

arXiv:2512.11395v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: With the surge of pre-trained text-to-image flow matching models, text-based image editing performance has gained remarkable improvement, especially for \underline{simple editing} that only contains a single editing target. To satisfy the exploding ed…

The $4 trillion U.S. bank is the latest financial giant in rolling out tokenized MMF onchain, joining BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Fidelity.

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 …

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called the shooting that killed at least 15 people an 'act of evil'.

Thirty years on, Bosnia still lives with the legacy of ethnic cleansing, mass displacement and the Srebrenica genocide.

Eywa as his witness, James Cameron has pledged to make movies for theaters so that side of the business stays alive.

The Welsh author vividly captures the solitude, hard labour, dramas and dangers of rural lifeIn these six stories of human frailty and responsibility, Welsh writer Cynan Jones explores the imperatives of love and the labour of making and sustaining lives. Each is told with a compelling immediacy and…

arXiv:2512.11057v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, particularly in resource-limited countries. Chest X-ray (CXR) imaging serves as an accessible and cost-effective diagnostic tool but requires expert interpretation, which is o…

Key scheduling, groups, venues and start times before AFCON, Africa's premier football tournament, starts in Morocco.

Apple TV announced that "Pluribus" is its most watched series, reportedly surpassing popular shows like "Severance" and "Ted Lasso."

Heavy combat between Thailand and Cambodia has entered a second week, with Cambodia claiming Thai bombing is hitting deeper into its territory

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…

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

City watchdog the FCA announces plans to help first-time buyers and self-employed get on the property ladderBusiness live – latest updatesHouse prices in the UK could grow by as much as 4% next year but getting on the property ladder may become slightly less difficult, according to forecasts from th…

The American Dream of ever-rising prospects for the next generation is in grave danger.

The son of Texas A&M University's campus rabbi is among those critically wounded in a mass shooting Sunday at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia.

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…

A fantastic budget fitness tracker with a slender design, outstanding battery life and an interface you can navigate within minutes.

“We're going to remain in the context of ongoing war.”

Children are being recruited by gangs in Sweden to carry out murders, move weapons, and set off grenades.

The Israeli government does not want to help Palestinians in need evacuate; it wants to expel us.

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…

A program for deafblind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate. The Trump administration cut the program’s funding over diversity goals.

Plus, the hunt for the gunman in a shooting at Brown University.

arXiv:2507.04678v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Spatiotemporal image generation is a highly meaningful task, which can generate future scenes conditioned on given observations. However, existing change generation methods can only handle event-driven changes (e.g., new buildings) and fail to mod…

arXiv:2507.20560v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Privacy preservation in machine learning, particularly through Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), is critical for sensitive data analysis. However, existing statistical inference methods for SGD predominantly focus …