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Montag: Telekom mit multimedialem Polizeifunk, IAA mit leichtem Besucherzuwachs
Vodafone & O2 mit Gegenvorschlägen Halbe Million IAA-Besucher Biometrische Grenzkontrolle ab Oktober Hin und Her zum Verbrenner-Aus Krise der VR-Branche

Today, if there is a known vaccine treatment for a disease, the medical establishment considers it unethical to withhold that drug from trial participants, as would happen in a placebo group.
“It remains unclear under which circumstances, if any, a placebo-controlled clinical trial design is ethically justifiable when an efficacious or partially efficacious vaccine already exists,”
experts wrote in a 2013 World Health Organization report.
That means that even if a previou…

RFK Jr. wants all new vaccines tested against a placebo. Doctors say that isn’t good science
Today, if there is a known vaccine treatment for a disease, the medical establishment considers it unethical to withhold that drug from trial participants, as would happen in a placebo group.

Today, if there is a known vaccine treatment for a disease, the medical establishment considers it unethical to withhold that drug from trial participants, as would happen in a placebo group.
“It remains unclear under which circumstances, if any, a placebo-controlled clinical trial design is ethically justifiable when an efficacious or partially efficacious vaccine already exists,”
experts wrote in a 2013 World Health Organization report.
That means that even if a previou…

RFK Jr. wants all new vaccines tested against a placebo. Doctors say that isn’t good science
Today, if there is a known vaccine treatment for a disease, the medical establishment considers it unethical to withhold that drug from trial participants, as would happen in a placebo group.

"Margaret Boden, a British philosopher and cognitive scientist who used the language of computers to explore the nature of thought and creativity, leading her to prescient insights about the possibilities and limitations of artificial intelligence, died on July 18."
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insights about A.I.

Call for Papers: Wisdom from the Middle Ages: Philosophical Contributions from the Abrahamic Traditions https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20128429/call-papers-wisdom-middle-ages-philosophical-contributions-ab…

PhySIC: Physically Plausible 3D Human-Scene Interaction and Contact from a Single Image
Pradyumna Yalandur Muralidhar, Yuxuan Xue, Xianghui Xie, Margaret Kostyrko, Gerard Pons-Moll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11649

PhySIC: Physically Plausible 3D Human-Scene Interaction and Contact from a Single Image
Reconstructing metrically accurate humans and their surrounding scenes from a single image is crucial for virtual reality, robotics, and comprehensive 3D scene understanding. However, existing methods struggle with depth ambiguity, occlusions, and physically inconsistent contacts. To address these challenges, we introduce PhySIC, a framework for physically plausible Human-Scene Interaction and Contact reconstruction. PhySIC recovers metrically consistent SMPL-X human meshes, dense scene surface…

Spotted this book on a trip to #PowellsBooks this afternoon, and as a self-proclaimed #JavaScript hater I’m genuinely curious to read it.
Will I suddenly turn into a fan? Perhaps not. But even a hater has a thing or two to learn.

10 septembre : ingénieur, doctorante en philosophie… Au tribunal, le profil « intello » de neuf prévenus - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/bloqu…

10 septembre : ingénieur, doctorante en philosophie… Au tribunal, le profil « intello » de neuf prévenus
Aucun bandit dans la salle. Ces neuf personnes ont obtenu le renvoi de leur affaire dans les prochains mois, avant de retrouver leur liberté sous contrôle judiciaire.

Hierarchical Fine-grained Preference Optimization for Physically Plausible Video Generation
Harold Haodong Chen, Haojian Huang, Qifeng Chen, Harry Yang, Ser-Nam Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10858

Hierarchical Fine-grained Preference Optimization for Physically Plausible Video Generation
Recent advancements in video generation have enabled the creation of high-quality, visually compelling videos. However, generating videos that adhere to the laws of physics remains a critical challenge for applications requiring realism and accuracy. In this work, we propose PhysHPO, a novel framework for Hierarchical Cross-Modal Direct Preference Optimization, to tackle this challenge by enabling fine-grained preference alignment for physically plausible video generation. PhysHPO optimizes vid…

How does the #brain transfer #MotorSkills between hands?
This study reveals that transfer relies on re-expressing the neural patterns established during initial learning in distributed higher-order brain areas,
offering new insights into learning

Transfer of motor learning is associated with patterns of activity in the default mode network
How does the brain transfer motor skills between hands? This study reveals that transfer relies on re-expressing the neural patterns established during initial learning in distributed higher-order brain areas, offering new insights into learning generalization.