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Online Set Cover and Load Balancing are central problems in online optimization, and there is a long line of work on developing algorithms for these problems with convex objectives. Although we know ...

Srinagar (J&K), November 27, 2025: (ANI): Dense fog covered Dal Lake in Srinagar as fog covers the city. As per the IMD, the maximum temperature is 13.6°C and the minimum is -4.4°C. Haryana: ...

Don't bother sitting down because you'll just stand up when you hear this: a ton of games were released on Steam this year. Valve's store has seen nearly 13,000 game launches since January 1, 2025, ...

The news hasn’t been promising on the jobs front this month. The unemployment rate climbed to 4.3%, which is nearly a four-year high. For the week ending Sept. 6, initial jobless claims rose to ...

Companies across sectors have invested in AI at some of their new manufacturing sites. AI can help to increase production, predict machine breakdowns, and forecast demand. This article is part of "How ...

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For more than a century, scientists have known that Earth is constantly bombarded by cosmic rays, charged particles with staggering energies, far beyond what our accelerators can produce. Yet their ...

It certainly was a busy day for Circa Sports on Friday. Circa announced that it's raising its minimum bet to $10 in Illinois to combat the recent tax hike that was signed into law by Gov. JB Pritzker ...

ESPN BET raised its minimum wager in Illinois to $1 (from 10 cents) starting Aug. 8, aligning with other operators adjusting to the state's new per-bet tax. The tax, effective since July, charges ...

This package provides a Python implementation of the Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) algorithm described by Carlson & Ripley (1997). It converts NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) data to ...