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DAVIS, CA: Jackson Flora of the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos pitches against the UC Davis Aggies at Phil Swimley Field at Dobbins Stadium on March 13, 2026. (Photo by Scott Marshall/Getty Images)
Waymo Releases Apples-To-Apples Incident Data, It Speaks To Regulation
Waymo announces new data with more precise breakdowns of incidents Waymo
Waymo released a new study on their incident data which attempts to factor in the reality that different types of incidents happen at different rates in different towns, on different roads and at different times of day. That lets them compare the rates of safety incidents for their vehicles and compare them with human incident rates in a more “apples to apples” comparison. In general, companies have liked to follow the vastly easier path of comparing general crash rates against nationwide data. This is not entirely invalid, but controlling for all the various factors that will affect crash rate gives more meaningful comparisons.
Jermaine Dupri Sues Sony Music for $18 Million Over Unpaid Mariah Carey, Usher Royalties
Jermaine Dupri has filed an $18 million lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment, alleging that the company failed to properly pay royalties for releases from Mariah Carey, Usher, Xscape, Kris Kross and more.
Peter Shor’s algorithm could break the internet – but he's not worried | New Scientist
Peter Shor is known for his internet-breaking algorithm Christopher Harting
“So, he’s the Beyoncé of this event?” a young woman standing behind me says to a colleague. The three of us are standing, looking at the back of a crowd, whose members are all looking at a bearded man in an orange sweater. Getting a look at him is like trying to see the Mona Lisa – only fleeting glimpses are possible. “His algorithm is the algorithm that will break everything,” the colleague says, as I briefly catch sight of people posing for selfies and getting their conference badges signed. I’m at the Quantum.Tech World conference in Boston, and Peter Shor is the star attraction. Shor is one of the most influential researchers in the history of quantum computing, and it all comes down to his creation, known as Shor’s algorithm. In the 1990s, Shor was a researcher at Bell Labs in New Jersey. Quantum computers were a somewhat obscure research topic, barely on his radar, until he attended a seminar by the quantum computing pioneer Umesh Vazirani. There, he heard about a problem that quantum computers could solve better than any conventional computer. The problem was extremely contrived, so Shor wondered whether there was something more practical that quantum computers could be good at, too.
Does time come from the entire universe running computations? | New Scientist
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Netflix's best fighting anime has the worst fights and the most interesting character
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The inclusion of Musashi Miyamoto pushed the over-the-top fighting series to new heights
Baki’s latest season delivers the show's most interesting character and its most disappointing fights
Image: Netflix via PolygonMartial arts manga and anime have been in decline for the past 40 years, ever since Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama realized that the more energy beams and other supernatural feats one added to the template, the more people seemed to like it. While there have been “traditional” martial arts series that reached moderate levels of success (such as Holyland by Kouji Mori, the artist who took over Berserk after Kentaro Miura’s passing, or All Rounder Meguru by Hiroki Endo), they’re nowhere near as popular as supernatural battle series like Jujutsu Kaisen or Naruto.
Medieval text family trees suggest 60% of works vanished over centuries
For every King Arthur or Roland, whose adventures readers can still enjoy today, another hero of ancient literature may have been lost forever. Before the printing press, texts were copied manually. This process introduced errors and innovations. Like mutations in the replication of DNA, these manuscript changes can be used to create evolutionary trees that philologists call stemmata. Since these trees are based on the extant copies, they do not reflect the full evolutionary history of texts and cannot account for those that are completely lost.
Meta enters AI image model race in bid to court advertisers and subscribers
Mark Zuckerberg looks on during UFC Freedom 250 at the White House on June 14, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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Meta on Tuesday released Muse Image, a new artificial intelligence model for creating images as the company seeks to attract creators and advertisers to its offerings.
‘Love and Other Words’ Adaptation Set With the Newly Formed Magic Hour Entertainment (Exclusive)
Magic Hour Entertainment, Max Siemers and Tanner Anderson’s newly formed production company, is set to adapt romance novel Love and Other Words, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
The feature film, based on Christina Lauren’s popular novel of the same name, centers on “childhood best friends turned first loves who reconnect after more than a decade apart and are forced to confront the mysterious heartbreak that took them away from one another,” according to the synopsis. Christina Lauren, the pen name for writers Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, has become a staple in the romance genre over the last decade for novels including popular titles like The Unhoneymooners and Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating.
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong to Front Punk Supergroup Honoring the Ramones
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Cretin Family — featuring Armstrong, Blink-182’s Travis Barker, Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, and Ramones bassist C.J. Ramone — will play L.A. on Aug. 30 to celebrate the Ramones’ 50th anniversary