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Beatbot Pool-Cleaning Robots Are on Sale for a Limited Time

WIRED

Get ready for summer with discounts on robot pool cleaners from Beatbot. National Pool Opening Day is tomorrow, April 25, and summer is almost here, which means pool owners everywhere are getting ready to unveil the horrors of whatever happened during the off-season. Most of the Beatbot lineup is on sale at Amazon and Beatbot's own storefront, with prices starting at $499. Beatbot makes many of the best pool-cleaning robots we've tested, and we've highlighted our top picks below. Note that the discounts are scheduled to end on April 26, though items may sell out sooner.


Accelerate Vector Diffusion Maps by Landmarks

Yeh, Sing-Yuan, Wu, Yi-An, Wu, Hau-Tieng, Tsui, Mao-Pei

arXiv.org Machine Learning

We propose a landmark-constrained algorithm, LA-VDM (Landmark Accelerated Vector Diffusion Maps), to accelerate the Vector Diffusion Maps (VDM) framework built upon the Graph Connection Laplacian (GCL), which captures pairwise connection relationships within complex datasets. LA-VDM introduces a novel two-stage normalization that effectively address nonuniform sampling densities in both the data and the landmark sets. Under a manifold model with the frame bundle structure, we show that we can accurately recover the parallel transport with landmark-constrained diffusion from a point cloud, and hence asymptotically LA-VDM converges to the connection Laplacian. The performance and accuracy of LA-VDM are demonstrated through experiments on simulated datasets and an application to nonlocal image denoising.









Apple Creator Studio is now available: What's included, how much it costs and what it means for creators

Engadget

Apple could unveil Gemini-powered Siri in Feb. Apple Creator Studio is now available: What's included, how much it costs and what it means for creators The new subscription bundle is now available for $13 per month or $129 per year. Apple has been leaning harder on services for several years now. That part of the business brought in tens of billions of dollars in revenue last year alone, and the company says 2025 was a record year . With Apple Creator Studio, Apple is extending that strategy further into professional creative software. Apple Creator Studio is a new subscription bundle that packages several of the company's pro apps under a single monthly or yearly fee.