To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On a rainy Wednesday afternoon, a novelty toy and games store in the quiet Brooklyn neighbourhood of Cobble Hill was seeing much busier foot traffic than usual. Inside, the shop was packed with cameramen and customers, while passersby looked inside, asking: Where's the bird? Art of Play has found itself at the centre of a social media storm since the weekend when Grammy-winning musician Kelly Clarkson complained online that the boutique store would not let her buy a singing and dancing mechanical bird that was perched on the wall. The Since U Been Gone singer claimed she was looked at as if I couldn't afford the bird - which she said had a price tag of $15,000 (£11,000).

Trending Now Say More Look Up In My Bag Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable @Home Mashable Selects Top creators, ranked Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Creator Playbook AI at School Safety Net All Series Security footage from Kelly Clarkson's viral shopping trip has been released The internet has been fiercely arguing whether the singer or the shopkeeper were in the wrong. Amanda Yeo is an Assistant Editor at Mashable, covering entertainment, culture, tech, science, and social good. Based in Australia, she writes about everything from video games and K-pop to movies and gadgets. On Saturday, singer Kelly Clarkson published a scathing X post about her experience at Brooklyn store Art of Play, claiming that she was treated like Julia Roberts' character in when she tried to buy a mechanical bird. The internet quickly took sides, with Clarkson and Art of Play both issuing multiple statements arguing about what actually happened.

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It's been a terrible year for farming, Jeremy Clarkson tells Tory conference To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Figure caption, Jeremy Clarkson: Farming this year was'an absolute disaster' Jeremy Clarkson has said it had been a terrible year for farming due to the hot weather, at a surprise appearance at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham. The former Top Gear presenter and star of Clarkson's Farm also said farmers were being attacked from every angle by rising costs, but he was optimistic about the future. He was greeted by loud applause from the Tory faithful, but joked that a lot of people have come dressed as seats, I notice, around the edges there. In a question and answer session alongside land agent Charlie Ireland, he also criticised the economic conditions faced by business owners, asking: Why would anybody set up a business in this country right now? Clarkson - who also hosts ITV's Who Wants to be a Millionaire - was introduced to the stage by the Conservative shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins. Asked what kind of year he had had on the farm, Clarkson said: We worked really hard all year and we ended up with, I think I'm right in saying, three ounces of hen food.

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The objective assessment of image quality (IQ) has been advocated for the analysis and optimization of medical imaging systems. One method of obtaining such IQ metrics is through a mathematical observer. The Bayesian ideal observer is optimal by definition for signal detection tasks, but is frequently both intractable and non-linear. As an alternative, linear observers are sometimes used for task-based image quality assessment. The optimal linear observer is the Hotelling observer (HO). The computational cost of calculating the HO increases with image size, making a reduction in the dimensionality of the data desirable. Channelized methods have become popular for this purpose, and many competing methods are available for computing efficient channels. In this work, a novel method for learning channels using an autoencoder (AE) is presented. AEs are a type of artificial neural network (ANN) that are frequently employed to learn concise representations of data to reduce dimensionality. Modifying the traditional AE loss function to focus on task-relevant information permits the development of efficient AE-channels. These AE-channels were trained and tested on a variety of signal shapes and backgrounds to evaluate their performance. In the experiments, the AE-learned channels were competitive with and frequently outperformed other state-of-the-art methods for approximating the HO. The performance gains were greatest for the datasets with a small number of training images and noisy estimates of the signal image. Overall, AEs are demonstrated to be competitive with state-of-the-art methods for generating efficient channels for the HO and can have superior performance on small datasets.

This paper presents a sensorized vision-enabled prosthetic hand aimed at replicating a natural hand's performance, functionality, appearance, and comfort. The design goal was to create an accessible substitution with a user-friendly interface requiring little to no training. Our mechanical hand uses a camera and embedded processors to perform most of these tasks. The interfaced pressure sensor is used to get pressure feedback and ensure a safe grasp of the object; an accelerometer is used to detect gestures and release the object. Unlike current EMG-based designs, the prototyped hand does not require personalized training. The details of the design, trade-offs, results, and informing the next iteration are presented in this paper.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a swipe at voters "upset" by the forthcoming rematch between President Biden and former President Trump during her appearance on "The Tonight Show." Hillary Clinton reacted to a recent ruling in Arizona, which bans abortion in nearly all circumstances, calling it "cruelty" during an interview with Kelly Clarkson and encouraging Americans to vote in a way that would "make life better" for the largest number of people. "I feared it would happen but I hoped it wouldn't happen. Now here we are in the middle of this very difficult period for women in about half the states in our country, who cannot get the care that they need. And the old law in Arizona is without exceptions and the danger to women's lives as well as to our right to make our own decisions about our bodies and ourselves is so profound," Clinton said during the interview with Clarkson on "The Kelly Clarkson Show."

In this work, we reconstruct the Hubble diagram using various data sets, including correlated ones, in Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Using ReFANN, that was built for data sets with independent uncertainties, we expand it to include non-Guassian data points, as well as data sets with covariance matrices among others. Furthermore, we compare our results with the existing ones derived from Gaussian processes and we also perform null tests in order to test the validity of the concordance model of cosmology.