Auk Mini's stylish herb garden makes a great gift, and its discount is still live. I test a lot of indoor gardening systems throughout the year, and the midcentury-chic Auk has remained my all-time favorite for herbs . Not only can you plant whatever seeds you want in its coco coir substrate (though it does come with parsley and basil), it takes very little maintenance, requiring only periodic refills of water and nutrients. There's also no app to worry about, or pumps, or pH testing needed. This makes it a perfect no-muss, no-fuss gift for cooks, gardeners, or anyone at all interested in growing their own herbs.

The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access "harmful" content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe. To prove you're an adult, you may have to upload your ID or submit to an age-verifying face scan. Members of Congress considered 19 online safety bills Tuesday that may soon have a major impact on the future of the internet as age-verification laws have spread to half of the US and around the world .

Diabetes patients could monitor glucose with lightwaves. Future versions of the noninvasive prototype may be as small as a watch. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A new, noninvasive blood-glucose monitoring system may allow people with diabetes to finally ditch their painful finger pricks and under the skin sensors. Although the current iteration is comparatively bulky, MIT scientists writing in the journal say they are well on their way to scaling down their invention.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. The Wikimedia Foundation revealed the most popular Wikipedia pages of 2025. American politics topped the list. Yesterday, the Wikimedia Foundation revealed the most read Wikipedia articles of 2025 . American politics dominated the top of the list, with the late political activist Charlie Kirk taking the top (#1) spot.

Xpeng's Next Gen Iron humanoid robot fooled viewers who thought it was a human actor, prompting CEO He Xiaopeng to cut into the robot's leg to prove its authenticity.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth highlighted the nation's "Drone Dominance" push for mass U.S. military drone adoption, noting plans to deliver tens of thousands in 2026.

South Korea has one of the lowest debt burdens among developed nations, but its debt-to-GDP ratio has been climbing. South Korea's parliament approved a 727.9 trillion won ($495.8 billion) budget for next year on Tuesday, endorsing President Lee Jae Myung's sweeping plan to revive the economy through aggressive investment in artificial intelligence and other strategic sectors. The outlay represents an 8.1% increase from this year's initial budget plan and will increase at a rate more than triple the pace of expansion of the 2025 budget. The acceleration comes as the country confronts U.S. tariff pressure and growing welfare costs associated with one of the world's fastest-aging populations. Lee has vowed to transform Korea's industrial base, defense capabilities and public services by more than tripling AI-related investment to 10.1 trillion won next year.

What is in the 28-point US plan for Ukraine? 'Ukraine is running out of men, money and time' Can the US get all sides to end the war? Why is Europe opposing Trump's peace plan? Here's where things stand on Wednesday, December 3: Russian forces attacked Ukraine's Kherson region, using "rocket launchers, mortars and drones", killing a 76-year-old woman and injuring at least two other people, the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office said in a post on Telegram. A Russian drone attack killed one person and injured five people in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the head of the city's military administration, Oleksandr Honcharenko, wrote on Facebook.

Indie video games developed on modest budgets by individuals and small teams are gaining traction in Japan for their innovative ideas and variety often absent from major studio titles. Advances in development tools have helped lower barriers to entry, spurring a surge in creators and driving rapid market growth. Competition has intensified, however, and only a handful of titles achieve commercial success. The Tokyo Game Show 2025 took place in September at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba. A short walk from the towering booths of major publishers such as Square Enix and Sega was the Indie Game Area, a cluster of compact stands outfitted with little more than personal computers and monitors.

This paper is concerned with the problem of how to speed up computation for Gaussian process models trained on autocorrelated data. The Gaussian process model is a powerful tool commonly used in nonlinear regression applications. Standard regression modeling assumes random samples and an independently, identically distributed noise. Various fast approximations that speed up Gaussian process regression work under this standard setting. But for autocorrelated data, failing to account for autocorrelation leads to a phenomenon known as temporal overfitting that deteriorates model performance on new test instances. To handle autocorrelated data, existing fast Gaussian process approximations have to be modified; one such approach is to segment the originally correlated data points into blocks in which the blocked data are de-correlated. This work explains how to make some of the existing Gaussian process approximations work with blocked data. Numerical experiments across diverse application datasets demonstrate that the proposed approaches can remarkably accelerate computation for Gaussian process regression on autocorrelated data without compromising model prediction performance.