The increasing vulnerability of electrical distribution systems to extreme weather events and cyber threats necessitates the development of economically viable frameworks for resilience enhancement. While existing approaches focus primarily on technical resilience metrics and enhancement strategies, there remains a significant gap in establishing market-driven mechanisms that can effectively commercialize resilience features while optimizing their deployment through intelligent decision-making. Moreover, traditional optimization approaches for distribution network reconfiguration often fail to dynamically adapt to both normal and emergency conditions. This paper introduces a novel framework integrating dual-agent Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) with market-based mechanisms, achieving an average resilience score of 0.85 0.08 over 10 test episodes. The proposed architecture leverages a dual-agent PPO scheme, where a strategic agent selects optimal DER-driven switching configurations, while a tactical agent fine-tunes individual switch states and grid preferences under budget and weather constraints. These agents interact within a custom-built dynamic simulation environment that models stochastic calamity events, budget limits, and resilience-cost trade-offs. A comprehensive reward function is designed that balances resilience enhancement objectives with market profitability (with up to 200x reward incentives, resulting in 85% of actions during calamity steps selecting configurations with 4 DERs), incorporating factors such as load recovery speed, system robustness, and customer satisfaction. Over 10 test episodes, the framework achieved a benefit-cost ratio of 0.12 0.01, demonstrating sustainable market incentives for resilience investment. This framework creates sustainable market incentives

It's 4 p.m. in Joshua Tree National Park and the air temperature is hovering around 99 degrees -- relatively mild for an August afternoon. But at ground level, the sand along the popular Hidden Valley Nature Trail has reached a scorching 136. "I don't want my bare feet on that," says ranger Anna Marini as she shows her thermometer gun reading to a couple visiting from Switzerland, who are appropriately awed. Marini uses the tool as a prop to engage hikers traversing this surreal desert wilderness that's roughly the size of Rhode Island. As the coordinator of the park's Preventative Search and Rescue Program, her mission is to protect visitors from hazards that include extreme heat, razor-sharp cacti and thirsty bees.

When Japan won the competition to host the 2020 Olympics in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said it would be a "tremendous opportunity for Tokyo and for Japan to shine at the very center of the world stage." Lauding his country as among the safest in the world, Abe vowed in 2013 that problems surrounding the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant would be resolved and hordes of overseas visitors would see that Japan is "marvelous." Plans raced ahead for new casinos, driverless taxis and a futuristic stadium to dazzle tourists. Yet many of those projects fell into disarray long before the pandemic forced Abe to postpone the games last year. And now just weeks before the rescheduled opening ceremony on July 23, a resurgent outbreak coupled with one of the slowest vaccine rollouts in Asia has prompted even top business leaders to call for them to be delayed again or scrapped altogether -- shining a spotlight on how Japan's Olympic ambitions have deteriorated.

Ken Burns has spent the last 40 years chronicling the most poignant and influential events in American history. The 66-year-old Oscar-nominated filmmaker has crafted definitive and multifaceted histories of the Civil War, baseball, the Roosevelts, cancer, country music and jazz. In an age of short Tweets and shorter attention spans, Burns's films are sprawling, deep-dive studies on topics that simultaneously reveal the best and worst of America. We are living through one of those moments right now as the coronavirus shakes every aspect of American life. With most of the country stuck at home and weathering a torrent of fear and breaking news, Burns is offering an alternative.

Grid analytics solutions are providing the utility industry with the right set of opportunities for revitalizing operations and embracing advanced capabilities. FREMONT, CA: Utilities is on the brink of transforming into a more efficient and service-oriented industry. The growing inclusion of smart meters, intelligent devices and IoT endpoints, is enabling utility companies to have greater access to electricity transmission, distribution and consumption data. With 5G-induced low latency connectivity on the cards, utility companies are expecting a significant improvement in real-time access to operational data. The acquired data can be used optimally when utility companies leverage analytics solutions to generate useful and actionable insights from it.

After months of anticipation, Epic Games released an Android version of'Fortnite.' They're also partnering with Samsung to make the game available on its devices before other Android handsets. The latest update to wildly popular online game'Fortnite' had one blatantly obvious feature: new female character Calamity had a prominent bounce in her upper body. The issue, shown when the cowgirl avatar does the Jubilation dance, was "unintended, embarrassing, and it was careless for us to let it ship," developer Epic Games said in a statement to video game newssite Kotaku.com. "We are working now to fix this as soon as possible."

Localization (also referred to as "l10n") is the process of adapting a product or content to a specific geographic locale or market with the aim of giving it the look and feel of having been created specifically for a target market, no matter their language, culture, or location. Language translation and cultural adaptation are obviously a big part of localization, and globally visible companies heavily rely on sophisticated technology and localization engineering to get the job done. Localization is a complex process--some of it is automated by tools, but much of it is still a human-driven, manual undertaking. So it's no wonder that recent AI advances in Machine Translation (MT), as well as the allure of automated one-click translation platforms have caused a stir in the translation and localization industry and some fear that this development might spell doom for language professionals and perhaps even be the end of language service providers (LSPs) altogether. So, is complete push-button localization imminent or hyped?

On Friday, June 24, 2016, the world watched in horror as Britain voted to commit economic suicide as a nation. On November 8, 2016, America will vote. Will it also commit economic and political suicide? Increasing inequality is building up great stress in the world economic system. The disenfranchised masses are expressing their anger, including in irrational ways such as the Brexit vote.

On Friday, June 24, 2016, the world watched in horror as Britain voted to commit economic suicide as a nation. On November 8, 2016, America will vote. Will it also commit economic and political suicide? Increasing inequality is building up great stress in the world economic system. The disenfranchised masses are expressing their anger, including in irrational ways such as the Brexit vote.