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"#Wildfire grows into one of largest in #Texas history as flames menace multiple small towns
A cluster of wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, as flames moved with alarming speed and blackened the landsca…

Texas wildfires: Fire grows to second-largest in state history
A cluster of wildfires is scorching the Texas Panhandle, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history. The flames blackened the landscape across a vast stretch of small towns and cattle ranches. Authorities warned that the damage to communities on the high plains could be extensive. The largest fire expanded to nearly 800 square miles (2,072 square kilometers). It jumped into parts of neighboring Oklahoma and was completely uncontained as dawn broke. No deaths or injurie…

"We discovered sharp increases in effective population size, substitution rates, and relative brain size following the K–Pg extinction event, supporting the hypothesis that emerging ecological opportunities catalyzed the diversification of modern birds." https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-073

Taiwan extends conscription following Ukraine-Russia War: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/28/taiwan-extends-conscription.html

I switched to Freedom Mobile in December after being with Rogers for eons and I’m feeling like I’ve used it long enough to render a verdict. While the network isn’t as extensive as Rogers, I find it more than serviceable. And the data anxiety is gone. I was sharing 17GB monthly with my wife, and now have 50GB for myself. Now here’s why I mention this. I’ve gone pretty all out using data and barely dented my plan. Last month I used about 10GB. This month I’m probably on pace for about 15GB. 1/3

Lower numbers in Flensburg🇩🇪 are always desirable - whether it's points for German drivers (traffic fines) - or district heating temperatures. By reducing the need for 95°C heat from 10 > 1%, it's much easier to let heat pumps take over most of the heat supply. That's what the local utility will do.

Transformation in Flensburg: low temperatures for efficient heat pumps
As an innovative public utility company, Stadtwerke Flensburg is committed to decarbonisation and CO2 neutrality. To achieve this goal, the municipal utility company is working with Gradyent to reduce temperatures in the district heating system. As part of the partnership, the two companies have found a way to reduce the necessary annual heat share with a temperature above 95°C from around 10% to 1%. This means that heat pumps can be used to a higher extent and operated efficiently.

Configurations in the Euclidean space related to the 3D genome reconstruction problem from partially phased data
Annachiara Korchmaros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00407

Configurations in the Euclidean space related to the 3D genome reconstruction problem from partially phased data
A motivation for studying the following problems comes from applications to Biology; see \cite{cifuentes20233d}. In the $3$-dimensional Euclidean space ${\bf{E}}^3$, fix six pairwise distinct points \begin{equation*} \label{eqA} \begin{array}{ccc} A=(a_1,a_2,a_3), & B=(b_1,b_2,b_3), & C=(c_1,c_2,c_3), \\ D=(d_1,d_2,d_3), & E=(e_1,e_2,e_3), & F=(f_1,f_2,f_3) \end{array} \end{equation*} together with two further points $X^*=(x_1^*,x_2^*,x_3^*)$ and $Y^*=(y_1^*,y_2^*,y_3^*)$ in $\mathbf{E}^3$. We …

Texas wildfire may become the state’s largest ever
A fast-moving wildfire burning through the Texas Panhandle has now become the largest blaze in state history after churning through a total of 1,075,000 acres across Texas and Oklahoma, forcing evacuations and power outages.
The #smokehousecreekfire ignited in the Panhandle on Monday in rough terrain and unfavorable weather condi…

Panhandle wildfire burns an more than 1 million acres, now the largest in Texas history
A fast-moving wildfire burning through the Texas Panhandle is threatening to become the largest blaze in state history after churning through an estimated 850,000 acres in two days, forcing evacuations and triggering power outages as firefighters struggled to contain the widening swath of flames growing with alarming speed.

Evaluation and Optimization of Adaptive Cruise Control in Autonomous Vehicles using the CARLA Simulator: A Study on Performance under Wet and Dry Weather Conditions
Roza Al-Hindaw, Taqwa I. Alhadidi, Mohammad Adas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01504

Evaluation and Optimization of Adaptive Cruise Control in Autonomous Vehicles using the CARLA Simulator: A Study on Performance under Wet and Dry Weather Conditions
Adaptive Cruise Control ACC can change the speed of the ego vehicle to maintain a safe distance from the following vehicle automatically. The primary purpose of this research is to use cutting-edge computing approaches to locate and track vehicles in real time under various conditions to achieve a safe ACC. The paper examines the extension of ACC employing depth cameras and radar sensors within Autonomous Vehicles AVs to respond in real time by changing weather conditions using the Car Learning…

Judge Juan #Merchan has finally had enough of #Trump siccing his rabid disciples on the judge's daughter.
The gag order in Trump's New York election coverup case has been extended to include staff and family members of the Court and DA Alvin Bragg's office. Trump can (and surely will…

Judge expands gag order after Trump's attacks on his daughter in hush money case
The judge presiding over Donald Trump's impending New York criminal trial expanded a partial gag order Monday night following the former president's online attacks against his daughter.

Long-time fractalisation of liquid films undergoing thermocapillary instability
Steven A Kedda, Michael C Dallaston, Scott W McCue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00301

Long-time fractalisation of liquid films undergoing thermocapillary instability
The study of viscous thin film flow has led to the development of highly nonlinear partial differential equations that model how the evolution of the film height is affected by different forces. We investigate a model of interaction between surface tension and the thermocapillary Marangoni effect, with a particular focus on the long-time limit. In this limit, the model predicts patterns that repeat on successively smaller spatial scales near points where the film thickness vanishes. By solving …