The Economist

Is “radical-left” violence really on the rise in America?

ON SEPTEMBER 10th Charlie Kirk, a right-wing activist, was shot dead while speaking at a university in Utah. Although a suspect is in custody, the motive of the killer is still unknown. President ...
IEEE

Noise-Robust Local Ternary Pattern Center for Noisy Texture Classification

Abstract: Local Binary Pattern (LBP) has been widely used for texture analysis in machine vision and image processing. However, most of these descriptors provide a high number of features that are ...
Newsweek

The Scholar Who Predicted America’s Breakdown Says It’s Just Beginning

Fifteen years ago, smack in the middle of Barack Obama's first term, amid the rapid rise of social media and a slow recovery from the Great Recession, a professor at the University of Connecticut ...
Woodworking Network

Woodprint texture with circular and linear grain patterns

The Riviera Oak finish is the newest texture created by Uniboard's Woodprint Duo Technology. Pushing the boundaries of the likeness of a real wood texture, the company says the texture brings together ...
marktechpost

AutoSculpt: A Pattern-based Automated Pruning Framework Designed to Enhance Efficiency and Accuracy by Leveraging Graph Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning

Deploying Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on edge devices, such as smartphones and autonomous vehicles, remains a significant challenge due to their computationally intensive nature. Most existing pruning ...
GitHub

Shadergraph package for stochastic texture manipulation for Unity HDRP

This shadergraph was created using Unity 6 HDRP, thus a caveat is I am unsure of it's compatibility with previous versions of Unity/Shadergraph and other non-HDRP pipelines. Diffuse, Normal & Mask map ...
Hackaday

Are CRT TVs Important For Retro Gaming?

We always thought the older console games looked way better back in the day on old CRTs than now on a modern digital display. [Stephen Walters] thinks so too, and goes into extensive detail in a ...