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Gear-based Metamaterials for Extraordinary Bandgap Tunability
Xin Fang, Jihong Wen, Dianlong Yu, Peter Gumbsch, Huajian Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20110

Gear-based Metamaterials for Extraordinary Bandgap Tunability
Metamaterials can be engineered with tunable bandgaps to adapt to dynamic and complex environments, particularly for controlling elastic waves and vibration. However, achieving wide-range, seamless, reversible, in-situ and robust tunability remains challenging and often impractical due to limitations in bandgap mechanisms and design principles. Here, we introduce gear-based metamaterials with unprecedented bandgap tunability. Our approach leverages Taiji planetary gear systems as variable-frequ…

Trump tariffs bring chaos, as shipments halted from Europe, Asia https://cdm.link/trump-de-minimis-chaos/

Trump tariffs bring chaos, as shipments halted from Europe, Asia - CDM Create Digital Music
The Trump administration's trade policies do more than increase costs for US consumers. Their historic scale and disorganized rollout are causing global disruptions. That hurts independent music gear makers and label owners. It's also ironically likely to cripple manufacturers trying to work in the USA. The only (sort of) good news: shippers and exporters are trying to find solutions, and at least some of the disruptions should be temporary. But those solutions won't come free.

Google unveils the $1,799 Pixel 10 Pro Fold, with a Tensor G5 chip, a new hinge with a gear-less design, 6.4" outer and 8" inner screens, available October 9 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/hands-on/762080/google-pixel-10-pro…

The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the first fully dust-resistant foldable
Google’s third folding phone is the first to come with full dust protection thanks to a new hinge.

Google hires NBA star Stephen Curry as a "performance advisor" for its Health, Pixel, and Cloud products, including testing Fitbit's new personal health coach (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/762146/google-pixel-stephen-curry…

Google signs Stephen Curry to pitch its Pixel, health, and AI gear
Google has brought NBA star Stephen Curry on board to help shape up the company’s hardware, features, and AI services.

Cowboys veteran RB named fantasy football sleeper for 2025 season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-javonte-williams-fantasy-football-sleeper-2025-nfl-season

MultiPark: Multimodal Parking Transformer with Next-Segment Prediction
Han Zheng, Zikang Zhou, Guli Zhang, Zhepei Wang, Kaixuan Wang, Peiliang Li, Shaojie Shen, Ming Yang, Tong Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11537

MultiPark: Multimodal Parking Transformer with Next-Segment Prediction
Parking accurately and safely in highly constrained spaces remains a critical challenge. Unlike structured driving environments, parking requires executing complex maneuvers such as frequent gear shifts and steering saturation. Recent attempts to employ imitation learning (IL) for parking have achieved promising results. However, existing works ignore the multimodal nature of parking behavior in lane-free open space, failing to derive multiple plausible solutions under the same situation. Notab…

Improved design of an active landing gear for a passenger aircraft using multi-objective optimization technique
Milad Zarchi, Behrooz Attaran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22870

Improved design of an active landing gear for a passenger aircraft using multi-objective optimization technique
The landing gear system is a major aircraft subsystem that must withstand extreme forces during ground maneuvers and absorb vibrations. While traditional systems perform well under normal conditions, their efficiency drops under varying landing and runway scenarios. This study addresses this issue by simultaneously optimizing controller coefficients, parameters of a nonlinear hydraulic actuator integrated into the traditional shock absorber, and a vibration absorber using a bee-inspired multi-o…

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Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
BLAKE: No, we'd end up looking for each other as well as Orac and Ensor. Come on.
[Scene: Travis and Servalan still in the tunnels.]
TRAVIS: Let's check the map.
SERVALAN: We're almost there.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/241

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One reason I cord- and gear-hoard to some degree is that my father in law lives down the street, and sometimes he calls me outta nowhere and is like 'we're moving our furniture around and broke the DSL cable, do you have one of those?' And even though I don't use DSL anymore and haven't for years, I absolutely still have several of those.

With my MastodonFedivers character I gathered for 30 minutes after consuming a pork pie( 15% yield in everything gathered!) I got these:
* 143 ore 5.0 - 35k
* 192 ore 4.0 - 16k
* 16 logs 4.2 - 9k
* 38 ore 4.1 - 7k
* 14 logs 4.1 - 1k
profit after selling it all:
* 68k
costs:
* 10k in repair costs(or 13k)
* 4k tp to ML
* 1 pork pie 5.3k
full T5 ore gear including Avalonian Pickaxe was used.

Just for terminological issues: what are the exact requirements to call a situation “civil war”?
The area around LA river in Paramount is literally burning, federal agents and sheriff's deputies in full gear with gas masks, vans running over people…
#FederalActivities

As a security community we have to make sure that people know about this vulnerability. Right now it's pretty easy to thwart, _don't keep your keys near the front door_. It's a simple countermeasure, but people have to see footage like this to understand. The threat is real and the gear to do this is pretty cheap.
https://www.

Police issue warning after Breckland keyless car theft
Footage shows one thief in a balaclava approaching the house before the car engine starts.

Yard treasures. Any idea what that might have been for? Must be some old GDR gear. #project25

Well that's a grinding gear change! #totp

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
BLAKE: [To Travis] We could agree not to fight.
TRAVIS: [Chuckles slightly] Could we?
GIROC: If you trusted one another.
SINOFAR: There is another matter: a lesson you must learn about death.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/281 B7B6

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What can we actually glean from the hype of OTAs? https://insidethestar.com/what-can-we-actually-glean-from-the-hype-of-otas

Frictional Contact Network in Dense Suspension Flow
Shweta Sharma, Abhishek Sharma, Abhinendra Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22747 https://

Frictional Contact Network in Dense Suspension Flow
Dense particulate suspensions often exhibit a dramatic increase in viscosity in response to external deformation. This shear thickening behavior has been related to a transition from lubricated, unconstrained pairwise motion to a frictional contact network (FCN) at high stresses. Here, we study the characteristics of the FCN formed during shear thickening to investigate the role of constraints, emphasizing the impact of resistance to gear-like rolling. We contrast the FCN formed by sliding fric…

As a security community we have to make sure that people know about this vulnerability. Right now it's pretty easy to thwart, _don't keep your keys near the front door_. It's a simple countermeasure, but people have to see footage like this to understand. The threat is real and the gear to do this is pretty cheap.
https://www.

Police issue warning after Breckland keyless car theft
Footage shows one thief in a balaclava approaching the house before the car engine starts.

Broadcom begins shipping its Tomahawk 6 data center switch chips, which it says can perform the work of six previous-gen chips to improve GPU utilization rates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20