Abstract: Shape control of deformable linear objects (DLOs) is a major challenge in robotics due to their high-dimensional, nonlinear dynamics and sensitivity to boundary conditions. Existing ...

Some of America's largest home insurers are pricing wildfire risk at dramatically different levels of precision - and the gap ...

Abstract: State-space models (SSMs) are a powerful statistical tool for modelling time-varying systems via a latent state. In these models, the latent state is never directly observed. Instead, a ...

During the WWDC26 keynote, Apple announced its third generation of Apple Foundation Models (AFM), comprising five models, some of which are local, some of which are cloud-based, and one of which lives ...

Another day, another AI model from Google. This time, Google DeepMind has released a new member of the Gemma 4 open model family, but it’s fundamentally different from the rest of the lineup.

The Athletic launched our World Cup Tracker this week, a page we highly encourage you to check out. There, you can find a forecast projecting the likelihood that each team will progress through each ...

On AMC’s The Vampire Lestat, the Brat Prince’s backstory is told out of sequence, but we present to you Lestat’s history chronologically to help you make sense of this season of the show. The mortal ...

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had just been released from jail in 2009 when a friend suggested a possible “coming out gift”: a 5-foot-11-inch model with an “amazing” body. “I was blown away ...