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9to5Mac Daily: January 5, 2026 – Apple in January, iOS 27 rumors
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or t...
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[Paper] BEDS: Bayesian Emergent Dissipative Structures
We present BEDS (Bayesian Emergent Dissipative Structures), a theoretical framework that unifies concepts from non-equilibrium thermodynamics, Bayesian inferenc...
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Offshore wind developers sue Trump administration for halting $25B in projects
The lawsuits seek to reverse the Department of the Interior's stop-work order which affected five offshore wind projects off the Eastern Seaboard....
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Anker Introduces Pre-Order Discounts on 2026 Nano Chargers, Alongside Big New Year's Sale
Anker announced a new series of products at CES this week, and most of them will begin rolling out to customers later in January. A few of these devices, includ...
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[Paper] Hunting for 'Oddballs' with Machine Learning: Detecting Anomalous Exoplanets Using a Deep-Learned Low-Dimensional Representation of Transit Spectra with Autoencoders
This study explores the application of autoencoder-based machine learning techniques for anomaly detection to identify exoplanet atmospheres with unconventional...
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[Paper] Environment-Adaptive Covariate Selection: Learning When to Use Spurious Correlations for Out-of-Distribution Prediction
Out-of-distribution (OOD) prediction is often approached by restricting models to causal or invariant covariates, avoiding non-causal spurious associations that...
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China’s top chip foundries move to consolidate as Beijing pushes semiconductor self-sufficiency — SMIC and Hua Hong Semiconductor deals pave the path to unified power
China’s two largest pure-play foundries, SMIC and Hua Hong Semiconductor, are in the middle of significant consolidation efforts that demonstrate how industrial...
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Android XR is Google’s advertising focus at CES 2026 [Video]
In recent years, Google TV has been the company’s focus at the Consumer Electronics Show. That remains the case at CES 2026, but Google is also using the Las Ve...
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[Paper] Estimating Text Temperature
Autoregressive language models typically use temperature parameter at inference to shape the probability distribution and control the randomness of the text gen...
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[Paper] Fusion2Print: Deep Flash-Non-Flash Fusion for Contactless Fingerprint Matching
Contactless fingerprint recognition offers a hygienic and convenient alternative to contact-based systems, enabling rapid acquisition without latent prints, pre...
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LG’s CLOiD robot can load the washer for you, slowly
LG’s chore-completing robot made multiple cameos during the company’s CES keynote. LG's CLOiD robot took the stage at CES 2026 on Monday, offering our first loo...
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[Paper] DatBench: Discriminative, Faithful, and Efficient VLM Evaluations
Empirical evaluation serves as the primary compass guiding research progress in foundation models. Despite a large body of work focused on training frontier vis...