Can You Tell the Temperature by Listening to Crickets? The Science Behind Dolbear’s Law

In the late 1800s, more than a hundred years before smartphones and weather apps, a physicist discovered you could step outside on a summer night, listen carefully, and estimate the temperature with ...
Greek Reporter

The Scholars Who Deciphered the Ancient Greek Script Linear B

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.
Variety

After AI Video of ‘Tom Cruise’ Fighting ‘Brad Pitt’ Goes Viral, Motion Picture Association Denounces ‘Massive’ Infringement on Seedance 2.0

The Motion Picture Association on Thursday denounced the newest AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, saying it had unleashed a flood of copyright infringement in the day since it became available. “In a ...
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After AI video of 'Tom Cruise' fighting 'Brad Pitt' goes viral, Motion Picture Association denounces 'massive' infringement on Seedance 2.0

The Motion Picture Association on Thursday denounced the newest AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, saying it had unleashed a flood of copyright infringement in the day since it became available.
IEEE

Echelon Form Criterion for the Existence of a Regular Relative Degree of Linear Systems

Abstract: For the linear time-invariant systems without a regular relative degree, this note presents a novel criterion based on the matrix echelon form for the existence of transformations making the ...
IEEE

Motion Generation for Shaping Deformable Linear Objects with Contact Avoidance Using Differentiable Simulation *

Abstract: The manipulation of deformable linear objects (DLOs) by robots is challenging because of the complexity of modeling DLO dynamics. Although previous studies generally employed physical models ...