Drone footage has emerged showing a blaze destroying the historic Bernaga Monastery in Italy. Founded in La Valletta Brianza in 1628, it is located about 30km (19 miles) east of Milan. More than 20 cloistered nuns were evacuated from the scene, according to Italian media reports. Could a Corrie cameo be on the cards for Daniel O'Donnell? Daniel O'Donnell said making a cameo on Coronation Street is on his bucket list.

When training data are fragmented across batches or federated-learned across different geographic locations, trained models manifest performance degradation. That degradation partly owes to covariate shift induced by data having been fragmented across time and space and producing dissimilar empirical training distributions. Each fragment's distribution is slightly different to a hypothetical unfragmented training distribution of covariates, and to the single validation distribution. To address this problem, we propose Fisher Information for Robust fEderated validation (\textbf{FIRE}). This method accumulates fragmentation-induced covariate shift divergences from the global training distribution via an approximate Fisher information. That term, which we prove to be a more computationally-tractable estimate, is then used as a per-fragment loss penalty, enabling scalable distribution alignment. FIRE outperforms importance weighting benchmarks by $5.1\%$ at maximum and federated learning (FL) benchmarks by up to $5.3\%$ on shifted validation sets.

This week, Dana, Julia, and Stephen start by discussing the film, Women Talking. Then they chat about the new U.K. import Traitors with Slate's own Carl Wilson. Finally, they finish by talking ChatGPT and the coming of AI chatbots. Dana: Werner Herzog is in his somber, elegiac mode with The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft. Not to be confused with Fire of Love, about the same people, but made by Sara Dosa.

The electric 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV offers GM's hands-free Super Cruise highway driving assistang. Fox News Autos Editor Gary Gastelu lets it take him for a spin. Tesla has let some of its unofficial test drivers go. Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter that several Tesla owners that had opted into a Beta release of the automaker's latest Full Self-Driving semi-automated system have had their privileges revoked because they weren't paying enough attention to the road while using it. The feature, which Tesla drivers have pre-paid up to $10,000 for while it is in development, can "make lane changes off-highway, select forks to follow your navigation route, navigate around other vehicles and objects, and make left and right turns."

During the touchdown, which will last just a few seconds, the unmanned probe will use a projector device to shoot the "bullet" into the asteroid, blowing up material from beneath the surface. If all goes successfully, the craft will then collect samples that would eventually be sent back to Earth. Thursday's attempt is the first of three such touchdowns planned. The spacecraft is expected to touch down on the space rock around 6 p.m. ET. The brief landing will be challenging, given the uneven and boulder-covered surface.

Japan's robot hotel, the Hen-na ("Strange") Hotel, was supposed to represent the future of lodging with automatons taking care of things that previously required'inefficient' humans. That strategy is coming apart at the seams, however. Hen-na has'fired' over half of its 243 robots after the machines frequently created more problems than they solved. The cute Chu-ri robot you see above, for instance, frequently can't answer questions or may activate in the middle of the night due to snoring. And Chu-ri-chan is just the tip of the iceberg.

This figure shows a small fraction (about 7 km by 8 km) of the entire 75-km-square map. The northern tip of Yellowstone Lake is at the bottom of the screen. Thin black lines represent elevation contours, slightly wider lines represent roads, and the widest lines represent the fireline cut by bulldozers. Blue lines represent rivers and streams. The blue B in the bottom left corner marks the location of the fireboss, the agent that directs all the others.

The day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday, has been recognized as the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States since the 1950s. Black Friday 2017 was predicted to not be as hectic as other years, with more people shopping online than ever before. Below is a compiled running list of the best deals to take advantage of on Nov. 24. Certain Costco deals are listed from Nov. 17-27. The store will be closed on Thanksgiving and open at 9 a.m.

That's not because it's impossible to ban weapons technologies. Some 192 nations have signed the Chemical Weapons Convention that bans chemical weapons, for example. But it hasn't suggested it would be open to international agreement banning autonomous weapons. In 2015, the UK government responded to calls for a ban on autonomous weapons by saying there was no need for one, and that existing international law was sufficient.

Not the most discussed cable drama, perhaps, but one I watch out of interest and not out of duty, "Halt and Catch Fire" is back for a third season this week. It's a welcome reminder that you don't need to pour on the sex, violence or sexual violence to make a story compelling. A 1980s tale of the wildcatting days of personal computing and network connectivity, the series set its first two seasons in Texas, surprisingly but not ahistorically. The new year finds the five industrious principals -- computer-savvy couple Gordon and Donna Clark (Scoot McNairy and Kerry Bishé), hotshot coder Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis), hucksterish visionary Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) and Toby Huss (Artie the World's Strongest Man on "The Adventures of Pete and Pete," I will always mention) as John Broadman, the business end -- relocated to California to muck in alongside the Silicon Valley colonists and venture capitalists. They have had a hand in hardware and in software, video games and chat rooms, and this year, someone might be about to invent online shopping. After two seasons of near-constant professional and personal crises, the characters have moved on beyond the original suggestion of Gordon and Joe as vague stand-ins for Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs.