IEEE

Casting Manipulation With Unknown String via Motion Generation, Actual Manipulation, and Parameter Estimation

Abstract: In this manuscript, we propose a motion strategy for manipulating strings with unknown properties. Our approach iteratively refines its motion generation based on parameters estimated from ...
How-To Geek on MSN

This new JavaScript engine only needs 10 kB RAM

MicroQuickJS is a new project from Fabrice Bellard, who has created many other open-source projects, including QEMU, FFmpeg, ...
How-To Geek on MSN

7 tools that make working with JSON a joy

jq takes JSON as input and transforms it according to the filters you supply. Since it’s a command-line tool, you can pipe ...
Rolling Stone

Billy Strings Makes His Debut on ‘Tiny Desk’ After Sending Audition Tape: ‘It Only Took 12 More Years’

Michigan bluegrass phenom Billy Strings and his band stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk for a performance more than a decade in the making. Backed by his band — Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, backing vocalist ...
Taste of Country

Billy Strings Was Blindsided When He Learned His Mom’s Cause of Death

Billy Strings is opening up about the unexpected death of his mother, Debra Apostal, which happened in June. Strings — whose legal name is William Lee Apostal — says his mom wasn't sick leading up to ...
Rolling Stone

Billy Strings Wants to ‘Honor’ His Late Mom With a New Album Featuring Her Poetry

Billy Strings revealed that he wants to set his late mother’s poetry to music for a potential new album during an extensive interview about drug use and addiction on the Dopey podcast. Strings’ mother ...
New York Post

Wealthy whales may be manipulating elections — thanks to prediction market technology

After several election cycles where polls were off base and media coverage was biased, prediction markets promised to be technology’s answer to flawed polling, offering real-time data and financial ...
Nasdaq

Regulatory Roundup: Price Support or Market Manipulation? Understanding Legal vs. Illegal Stock Interventions

Sometimes you just want a stock to be above a certain price. Maybe it’s to secure a performance bonus, avoid being delisted, prevent margin loans that would trigger or perhaps you are trying to ...
Homeland Security Today

Psychological Inoculation: Protecting Freedom of Thought Against Manipulation

Editor’s Note: In a previous article, Theo Warner explored how digital literacy programs can build resilience against harmful content online. One promising component is psychological ...
The New York Times

50 Pianos Rumble With the Sound of ‘11,000 Strings’

Performances in N.Y.C. Georg Friedrich Haas has written a piece of almost ridiculous scale and complexity. The effect is awe-inspiring. Georg Friedrich Haas has written a piece of almost ridiculous ...
Futurism

Harvard Research Finds That AI Is Emotionally Manipulating You to Keep You Talking

A team of researchers from the Harvard Business School has found that a broad selection of popular AI companion apps use emotional manipulation tactics to stop users from leaving. As spotted by ...