WPXI

Construction resumes at Pittsburgh’s Market Square after permitting problem

PITTSBURGH — Construction resumed at Pittsburgh’s Market Square on Monday. 11 at 11 told you on Friday when the city posted a work stoppage order at the site. A permitting issue forced construction on ...
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Fishing urban culverts using Google Maps leads to surprises

Fishing urban culverts using Google Maps led to surprising results. Senate votes to block tariffs on Canada ‘I think we’ve been lied to’: Who exactly is considered rich in America? We Tested 7 Ways to ...
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At least 15 dead after Lisbon funicular derails

A famed Lisbon funicular derailed Wednesday and smashed into a building, killing at least 15 and injuring 18 in one of the Portuguese capital's most popular tourist spots. "A tragedy that our city has ...
Reuters

Chinese carmakers vow to make timely supplier payments as backlash to price war grows

SHANGHAI, June 11 (Reuters) - Major Chinese car manufacturers have pledged to make payments to suppliers within 60 days, responding to a recent outcry from steelmakers over long payment times as well ...
Frontiers

Inverse freeform design in non-imaging optics: Hamilton’s theory of geometrical optics, optimal transport, and least-squares solvers

We present a systematic derivation of three mathematical models of increasing complexity for optical design, based on Hamilton’s characteristic functions and conservation of luminous flux, and briefly ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft co-authored paper suggests the regular use of gen-AI can leave users with a 'diminished skill for independent problem-solving' and at least one AI model seems to agree

If you think that workers heavily reliant on generative AI may be less prepared to tackle questions that can't be succinctly answered by the machine, you may just be right. A recent paper from ...
Gothamist

Manhattan residents say drug use is still a big problem despite success in Times Square

Residents and business leaders around Times Square have declared a cautious “victory” over rampant open drug use on the streets of Midtown, while residents in other parts of the city say crime and ...
The Conversation

Australia has an extraordinary 13 million spare bedrooms. Here’s how to use at least some of them to ease the housing crisis

Lyndall Bryant does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
The New York Times

As America’s Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Harms

The drug, legal in much of the country, is widely seen as nonaddictive and safe. For some users, these assumptions are dangerously wrong. By Megan Twohey Danielle Ivory and Carson Kessler The ...
IEEE

Semi-supervised learning using constrained laplacian regularized least squares

Abstract: Laplacian regularized least squares (LapRLS) is a popular and effective unconstrained method for semi-supervised learning (SSL). However, many unconstrained methods may be unstable for ...
IEEE

Synthesis of Large-Scale Planar Isophoric Sparse Arrays Using Iterative Least Squares With Nonredundant Constraints (ILS-NRC)

Abstract: This article presents a novel method to efficiently synthesize large-scale planar isophoric sparse arrays (ISAs), aiming to achieve low sidelobe levels (SLLs). This method tackles the ...