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Wondershare Filmora V15: Where professional power finally feels effortless
When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. For today's professionals, video editing is no longer a specialist craft reserved for post-production teams. It's a daily tool--used by marketers shaping campaigns, educators building courses, founders pitching ideas, and creators publishing across platforms at speed. It's finding software that delivers that power without slowing everything down. Wondershare Filmora V15 is built for professionals who want the best of both worlds: serious capability and frictionless usability. It doesn't ask users to compromise.
Ditch the antibacterial soap this cold and flu season
You still need to wash your hands with soap and warm water though. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The most dreaded time of year rolls around every winter like clockwork: cold and flu season. The time when hand washing increases, sanitizing surfaces intensifies, and old and young schedule regular seasonal vaccines in an attempt to prevent sickness from descending on their households. But there's one piece of ammunition you should absolutely skip this season--and all year-round--because it does more harm than good: antibacterial hand soap.
Three killed after Russia launches 'massive' attack across Ukraine
Three killed after Russia launches'massive' attack across Ukraine Russia carried out a massive overnight attack on several Ukrainian cities, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, a day after he warned of strikes over the Christmas period. At least three people were killed, according to Ukrainian officials, including a four-year-old child, while energy infrastructure was also targeted, leaving several regions without power. Russia launched 635 drones and 38 missiles, Ukraine's air force said, adding that 621 of them were downed. Zelensky said people simply want to be with their families, at home, and safe in the run-up to Christmas, and said the strikes sent an extremely clear signal about Russia's priorities despite ongoing peace talks. He added that Russian President Vladimir Putin still cannot accept that he must stop killing.
RL without TD learning
In this post, I'll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an "alternative" paradigm: divide and conquer We can do Reinforcement Learning (RL) based on divide and conquer, instead of temporal difference (TD) learning. There are two classes of algorithms in RL: on-policy RL and off-policy RL. On-policy RL means we can use fresh data collected by the current policy. In other words, we have to throw away old data each time we update the policy. Algorithms like PPO and GRPO (and policy gradient methods in general) belong to this category.
How Christian Leaders Are Challenging the AI Boom
Pope Leo XIV made his first address to the College of Cardinals on May 10, 2025 in Vatican City, and touched upon the rise of artificial intelligence. Pope Leo XIV made his first address to the College of Cardinals on May 10, 2025 in Vatican City, and touched upon the rise of artificial intelligence. As technologists race to accelerate AI's progress with minimal guardrails, they are being met with increasing resistance from a powerful global contingent: Christian leaders and their congregations. Christians are not a monolith by any means. But this year, Christian leaders across sects--including Catholics, Evangelicals, and Baptists--sounded the alarm on AI's potential impact on family, human relationships, labor, and the church itself.
CES 2026: Everything we're expecting from tech's biggest conference in January
Switch 2 games are on sale through Jan. 5 Expect big announcements out of the annual show taking place in Las Vegas, with news from Samsung, Sony, NVIDIA and many more. Tech's biggest annual conference is starting in just under two weeks, and we already know some of the products and announcements that could be in store. The CES 2026 show floor is officially open from January 6 through 9, but the fun kicks off with events on Sunday January 4 and a host of press conferences on Monday. As always, product demos, announcements and networking will be happening at the Las Vegas Convention Center and other hotels all over the city. As usual, Engadget will be covering the event in-person and remotely, bringing you news and hands-ons straight from the show floor.
Watch: AI app apologises over false crime alerts across US
A company behind an AI-powered app called CrimeRadar has apologised for the distress caused by false crime alerts issued to local US communities after a BBC Verify investigation. CrimeRadar uses artificial intelligence to monitor openly available police radio communications, automatically generating a transcript and then producing crime alerts for users across the US. BBC Verify has found multiple instances from Florida to Oregon of CrimeRadar sending misleading and inaccurate alerts about serious crime to local residents - as Thomas Copeland explains. The barge that wrecked in 1918, famous for a dramatic rescue, is now shifting closer to the falls as recent movements carry it further from its original resting spot. House Speaker Mike Johnson, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer participated in the annual ceremony that commemorates the eight days of Hanukkah.
Google's and OpenAI's Chatbots Can Strip Women in Photos Down to Bikinis
Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes. Some users of popular chatbots are generating bikini deepfakes using photos of fully clothed women as their source material. Most of these fake images appear to be generated without the consent of the women in the photos. Some of these same users are also offering advice to others on how to use the generative AI tools to strip the clothes off of women in photos and make them appear to be wearing bikinis. Under a now-deleted Reddit post titled "gemini nsfw image generation is so easy," users traded tips for how to get Gemini, Google's generative AI model, to make pictures of women in revealing clothes.