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Writer Ariel Courage on never feeling finished https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-ariel-courage-on-ne…

Writer Ariel Courage on never feeling finished – The Creative Independent
Author Ariel Courage discusses hyper-individualism, MFAs, and writing as a social act.

Dublin-based cross-border payment startup NomuPay raised a $40M Series C at a $290M valuation, following a $37M Series B at a $200M valuation in January 2025 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025…

Irish fintech NomuPay lands $40M at a $290M valuation from SoftBank | TechCrunch
As global trade evolves, there's an increasing demand for diverse cross-border payment options. That's why an Irish-based fintech startup called NomuPay

MaXIFE: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Instruction Following Evaluation
Yile Liu, Ziwei Ma, Xiu Jiang, Jinglu Hu, Jing Chang, Liang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01776

MaXIFE: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Instruction Following Evaluation
With the rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing, the ability to follow instructions has emerged as a key metric for evaluating their practical utility. However, existing evaluation methods often focus on single-language scenarios, overlooking the challenges and differences present in multilingual and cross-lingual contexts. To address this gap, we introduce MaXIFE: a comprehensive evaluation benchmark designed to assess instruction-following capabilities a…

Cowboys breakout star cracks top-25 defensive tackle rankings https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-breakout-star-cracks-top-25-defensive-tackle-rankings

Flying Co-Stereo: Enabling Long-Range Aerial Dense Mapping via Collaborative Stereo Vision of Dynamic-Baseline
Zhaoying Wang, Xingxing Zuo, Wei Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00546

Flying Co-Stereo: Enabling Long-Range Aerial Dense Mapping via Collaborative Stereo Vision of Dynamic-Baseline
Lightweight long-range mapping is critical for safe navigation of UAV swarms in large-scale unknown environments. Traditional stereo vision systems with fixed short baselines face limited perception ranges. To address this, we propose Flying Co-Stereo, a cross-agent collaborative stereo vision system that leverages the wide-baseline spatial configuration of two UAVs for long-range dense mapping. Key innovations include: (1) a dual-spectrum visual-inertial-ranging estimator for robust baseline e…

Monday 7:56AM, on our way to celebrate a major anniversary — wish we could have stayed at this peaceful place all day...
#WaterfallWednesday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

Like fusion and flying cars, quantitative #DnD encounter balance is always 40 years in the future. #ttrpg https://mstdn.social/@peterdra…

The F1 movie gives Apple its first box office hit, opening to $144M worldwide and $55.6M in the US; it was pushed on Apple Music, Podcasts, Fitness , and Wallet (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/box-office-f1-megan-2-0-1236444277/

‘F1’ Zooms To $10M Previews, An Apple Original Films Record; ‘M3GAN 2.0’ $1.5M – Friday AM Box Office
F1' the Brad Pitt Apple Original Films is expected to deliver an opening north of $40M-$50M while Universal/Blumhouse's 'M3GAN 2.0' is expected to crash. Previews of $10M were a record for Apple Original Films.

High-charge relativistic electrons by vacuum laser acceleration from plasma mirrors using flying focus pulses
Jiaxin Liu, Zeyue Pang, Hehanlin Wang, Zi-Yu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24614

High-charge relativistic electrons by vacuum laser acceleration from plasma mirrors using flying focus pulses
Relativistic electron beams produced by intense lasers over short distances have important applications in high energy density physics and medical technologies. Vacuum laser acceleration with plasma mirrors injectors has garnered substantial research interest recently. However, a persistent challenge remains unresolved that electrons inevitably detach from the laser acceleration phase due to velocity mismatch. Here, we employ flying focus lasers to address this limitation. Through three-dimensi…

iRonCub 3: The Jet-Powered Flying Humanoid Robot
Davide Gorbani, Hosameldin Awadalla Omer Mohamed, Giuseppe L'Erario, Gabriele Nava, Punith Reddy Vanteddu, Shabarish Purushothaman Pillai, Antonello Paolino, Fabio Bergonti, Saverio Taliani, Alessandro Croci, Nicholas James Tremaroli, Silvio Traversaro, Bruno Vittorio Trombetta, Daniele Pucci
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iRonCub 3: The Jet-Powered Flying Humanoid Robot
This article presents iRonCub 3, a jet-powered humanoid robot, and its first flight experiments. Unlike traditional aerial vehicles, iRonCub 3 aims to achieve flight using a full-body humanoid form, which poses unique challenges in control, estimation, and system integration. We highlight the robot's current mechanical and software architecture, including its propulsion system, control framework, and experimental infrastructure. The control and estimation framework is first validated in simulat…