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China's vision for its autonomous vehicle industry, backed by state support and infrastructure investment, is driving its lead in ADAS and robotaxi deployment (Yi-Ling Liu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/china-ai-powered-self-driving-cars/

China’s vision for a driverless future is miles ahead of everyone else’s
Strong government backing and strict regulatory oversight of the Chinese autonomous vehicle industry contrasts sharply with the piecemeal laws and slower adoption in the U.S.

Interesting, PhantomCard, NFC-based fraude/malware.
https://www.threatfabric.com/blogs/phantomcard-new-nfc-driven-android-malware-emerging-in-brazil

PhantomCard: New NFC-driven Android malware emerging in Brazil 🇧🇷
PhantomCard is a sophisticated Android malware leveraging NFC relaying techniques.

Guess they shut down the Fast and Furious in the west end.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/12/police-seize-supercars-worth-more-than-6m-in-crackdown-on-antisocial-driving-in-london

No playing Spanish-language music: Many immigrants say they have new rules for driving : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/12/nx-s1-5437957/no-playing-spanish-language-music-many-immigrants-say-they-have-new-rules-for-driving

Ex-WNBA star Sophie Brunner's mom killed in head-on crash with illegal immigrant with history of driving drunk (Emily Crane/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/13/us-news/ex-wnba-star-sophie-brunners-mom-killed-in-head-on-crash-with-illegal-immigrant-with-history-of-driving-drunk/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p61#a250813p61

PERSONA: Personalized Whole-Body 3D Avatar with Pose-Driven Deformations from a Single Image
Geonhee Sim, Gyeongsik Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09973 https://

PERSONA: Personalized Whole-Body 3D Avatar with Pose-Driven Deformations from a Single Image
Two major approaches exist for creating animatable human avatars. The first, a 3D-based approach, optimizes a NeRF- or 3DGS-based avatar from videos of a single person, achieving personalization through a disentangled identity representation. However, modeling pose-driven deformations, such as non-rigid cloth deformations, requires numerous pose-rich videos, which are costly and impractical to capture in daily life. The second, a diffusion-based approach, learns pose-driven deformations from la…

Quantum stochastic analysis of non-linear driven light emission
Philipp Stammer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09049 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09049

Quantum stochastic analysis of non-linear driven light emission
This work extends quantum optical models of high harmonic generation by considering a quantum stochastic analysis of the field modes coupled to an environment. In particular, we study the open system dynamics by solving the quantum Langevin equation for a non-linear driven cavity coupled to the environment. For an unstructured environment without memory, we show that the emission characteristics of the intense driven cavity is isomorphic to the process of high harmonic generation and a non-line…

Taste is used here as a research instrument, not a metaphor.
Each work translates a regional ecological transformation into a reproducible, time-based edible score
paired with a data-driven abstract drawing that represents perceived taste.
Together, an instructional certificate (containing the edible score),
a data-driven abstract drawing,
and a Bioregional Context Dossier form a single artwork
that can be performed, conserved, and collected.

Taste Cartographies Documenting Anthropocene Terroir Through Systematic Flavor Analysis — Beth Ames Altringer Eagle Portfolio
Taste Cartographies Documenting Anthropocene Terroir Through Systematic Flavor Analysis Project focus: Systematic translation of regional ecological systems...

🔥 Climate-driven wildfires reversing pollution progress in N. America: study
#usa

Climate-driven wildfires reversing pollution progress in N. America: study
Global air pollution is worsening, with the United States and Canada experiencing the sharpest increases due to record-breaking, climate-supercharged wildfires that are undoing decades of progress, a study said Thursday.

A US judge rules Infowars will go up for sale yet again, paving the way for The Onion to revive its bid for the conspiracy-driven outlet and its assets (Hadas Gold/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/media/infowars-alex-jones-onion-sale-texas-judge

Alex Jones’ Infowars will go up for sale yet again, judge rules
The order paves the way for The Onion to revive its bid for the conspiracy-driven outlet and its assets.