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Georgia football's fall from grace in a post-NIL era: debunking a longstanding narrative

FOX News

Umpire Dan Bellino's baffling foul tip call on Seiya Suzuki renews calls for robot review in MLB Dakich: sports media has created an'industry' out of complaining about white athletes like Caitlin Clark Greg Sankey insists SEC is'strongest league' despite Big Ten winning three straight national championships Phillies look to upset Dodgers behind Zack Wheeler as Philadelphia's turnaround continues in LA Joey McGuire calls Steve Sarkisian's bluff, dares Texas to play Texas Tech in Week 1 Rams troublemaker WR Puka Nacua says he's a changed man after biting incident and stint in rehab Chiefs have no plans to release Rashee Rice and see jail time as a'life lesson' opportunity Diamondbacks fans catch same player's home run on back-to-back nights after showing up on the wrong date Father Mike Schmitz: Pope Leo XIV wants this world view in line with humanity's good Pompeo warns Iran will rebuild nuclear facilities'the moment' it gets the chance Purple Heart recipient speaks out after Graham Platner's controversial remarks'Chipotle Karen' caught hurling burrito bowl at worker's face Ex-coach Derek Dooley addresses Georgia's off-field controversies Senate candidate Derek Dooley backed Georgia's Kirby Smart, saying he's confident the program's disciplinary systems. When you surround yourself with college football and make it part of your livelihood, you will no doubt hear and read every narrative under the sun with regard to the world's greatest sport. Most of them don't even deserve a second look and are baseless conspiracy theories, but a few exist in that uncanny realm between fact and fiction. One that has caught my eye comes from the perpetrators of the SEC is washed crowd, more specifically those who call out the program that has ruled the conference for the first half of this decade, the Georgia Bulldogs. I can't tell you how many times I've seen fans on social media and even college football talking heads run with the narrative that the Dawgs have lost their edge since paying players became legal .


Ballots Have Been Seized Across the US. No One Knows What Will Happen Next

WIRED

Ballots Have Been Seized Across the US. So far this year, authorities have seized or demanded ballots from elections in four states. Experts fear the trend could throw the midterms into chaos unless courts draw a line. As US voters look to the November midterms, the Trump administration is obsessed with looking back to past elections, seizing ballots cast years ago in several states in search, it claims, of fraud or other malfeasance. But experts believe the goal may be more varied. The seizures began in January when FBI agents armed with a warrant raided an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, and grabbed 600 boxes of ballots from 2020.


A Conspiracy Theory About QR Codes Has Led to Chaos Ahead of Georgia's Midterms

WIRED

A Conspiracy Theory About QR Codes Has Led to Chaos Ahead of Georgia's Midterms The state of Georgia banned the use of QR codes for elections, based in part on the assertions of a man who's boosted false claims about Israel and 9/11. Now no one knows how ballots will be counted. QR codes are at the center of the latest conspiracy theory in Georgia's elections. And it's largely thanks to Garland Favorito, a man who has spent decades trying to get people to listen to his conspiracy theories about insecure voting machines being used to rig elections in Georgia. When Georgia became the epicenter of election denial conspiracy theories in 2020, Favorito became an overnight superstar in the election denial community, and an integral part of the vast network of groups across the country that sprang up to promote the baseless claim that US elections are rigged.


Deer markings actually glow

Popular Science

The scrapes and rubs the mammals leave behind shine under UV light humans can't see. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Animals see the world around them in ways that we humans can only imagine. Arctic reindeer's eyes change color with the season to help them find food, while giant squid have eyes the size of dinner plates. Many species take advantage of seeing ultraviolet (UV) light that's invisible to humans--including deer .


Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them.

MIT Technology Review

In these politically divisive times, there's one thing we all agree on--we don't want a giant data center in our backyard. Behold, the hyperscale data center! Massive structures, with thousands of specialized computer chips running in parallel to perform the complex calculations required by advanced AI models. A single facility can cover millions of square feet, built with millions of pounds of steel, aluminum, and concrete; feature hundreds of miles of wiring, connecting some hundreds of thousands of high-end GPU chips, and chewing through hundreds of megawatt-hours of electricity. These facilities run so hot from all that computing power that their cooling systems are triumphs of engineering complexity in themselves. But the star of the show are those chips with their advanced processors.


Car giant Hyundai to use human-like robots in factories

BBC News

Hyundai Motor Group says it will roll out human-like robots in its factories from 2028, as major companies race to use the new technology. The South Korean firm showed off Atlas, a humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Monday. Hyundai says it plans to integrate Atlas across its global network, including a plant in the US state of Georgia that was involved in a massive immigration raid in 2025 . Other firms that have said they will use humanoid robots in their operations include Amazon, Tesla and Chinese car making giant BYD. The Atlas robots will gradually take on more tasks, said Hyundai.


Leaked footage shows slaughterhouse workers shooting and beating cows for amusement

Daily Mail - Science & tech

MAGA diehard who was pardoned by Trump offers scathing assessment after his speech: 'He's stuttering... we can't lie anymore' Chilling new video of Nick Reiner making disturbing comments about murder... as friend reveals dad Rob's tragic failed attempt to save him: 'I'm going to kill that f***ing dog' The tiny diet change that brought down my sky-high cholesterol WITHOUT statins or drugs. Mike was told he risked a heart attack or stroke. Reiner family bombshell as insiders reveal who is paying for Nick's celebrity lawyer... their secret motive... and who will REALLY inherit $200m fortune Corey Feldman claims he was molested by the late Corey Haim while making 1987's The Lost Boys Knives out for Susie Wiles after Vanity Fair calamity... as insiders reveal full-blown MAGA meltdown: 'She might have lost one of her nine lives' I sneakily looked at my perfect son's phone... What a terrible mistake! HGTV star David Bromstad shares devastating substance abuse journey: 'I've had really hard times' Tara Reid speaks out for the first time since THAT video emerged... and tells KATIE HIND why she is convinced she was spiked after watching CCTV Brown's $3m-a-year president faces ire for'shifting blame' after shooter unleashed havoc on campus Cruel rosacea blighted Rebecca's life and made her nose swell. Her doctor said she just'had to just put up with it'.


Real-Time Knee Angle Prediction Using EMG and Kinematic Data with an Attention-Based CNN-LSTM Network and Transfer Learning Across Multiple Datasets

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Electromyography (EMG) signals are widely used for predicting body joint angles through machine learning (ML) and deep learni ng (DL) methods. However, these approaches often face challenges such as limited real - time applicability, non - representative test c onditions, and the need for large datasets to achieve optimal performance. This paper presents a transfer - learning framework for knee joint angle prediction that requires only a few gait cycles from new subjects. Three datasets - Georgia Tech, the Universi ty of California Irvine (UCI), and the Sharif Mechatronic Lab Exoskeleton (SMLE) - containing four EMG channels relevant to knee motion were utilized. A lightweight attention - based CNN - LSTM model was developed and pre - trained on the Georgia Tech dataset, t hen transferred to the UCI and SMLE datasets. The proposed model achieved Normalized Mean Absolute Errors (NMAE) of 6.8 percent and 13.7 percent for one - step and 50 - step predictions on abnormal subjects using EMG inputs alone. Incorporating historical knee angles reduced the NMAE to 3.1 percent and 3.5 percent for normal subjects, and to 2.8 percent and 7.5 percent for abnormal subjects. When f urther adapted to the SMLE exoskeleton with EMG, kinematic, and interaction force inputs, the model achieved 1.09 p ercent and 3.1 percent NMAE for one - and 50 - step predictions, respectively. These results demonstrate robust performance and strong generalization for both short - and long - term rehabilitation scenarios . Keywords: EMG, Transfer Learning, Knee Angle Prediction, Attention Mechanism, Rehabilitation, Exoskeleton . 1 - Introduction Electromyography (EMG) measures electrical signals generated by contracting muscle fibers, reflecting neuromuscular activity. EMG is typically measured using electrodes placed on the skin's surface (surface Electromyography (sEMG)). Alternatively, electrodes may be inserted into the muscle tissue [2] . The frequency range of EMG signals is generally reported to be from 6 to 500 Hz, with most power concentrated between 20 and 250 Hz [3] . Analyzing EMG signals provides valuable information about muscle activation patterns, coordination, and fatigue levels.


Georgia arrests three Chinese nationals for trying to illegally buy uranium

BBC News

Three Chinese nationals have been arrested in Georgia on suspicion of attempting to illegally purchase 2kg of uranium. Lasha Maghradze, deputy head of the nation's State Security Service (SSG), told a news briefing the group planned to pay $400,000 (ยฃ300,570) for the nuclear material in the capital, Tblisi, before transporting it to China via Russia. The alleged plot was unearthed by intelligence agents while one member of the group was attempting to buy the radioactive substance on the black market, he said. The three pleaded not guilty at a court in Tblisi and have been placed in custody to prevent them fleeing the country, according to public broadcaster Georgia Today. They face up to five years in prison under a provision of Georgia's criminal code banning the purchasing of nuclear material.


Fears over higher rates as Georgia moves to provide more electricity for AI datacenters

The Guardian > Energy

State's Republican-led public service commission to decide on power expansion and prices, as Democrats vie for voice Georgia is facing the largest demand for electricity in its history, driven by nation-leading datacenter construction. The Georgia Power company has made an unprecedented bid to the agency that oversees the utility for about 10 additional gigawatts of energy in the coming years - enough to power 8.3m homes, at an estimated cost of nearly $16bn, according to the Southern Environmental Law Center . But those huge numbers are not primarily for homes or local businesses in Georgia . Instead about 80% of the company's ask is driven by datacenters, primarily for artificial intelligence, according to Tom Krause, spokesperson for the state's public service commission, or PSC. It is the largest increase ever considered by the commission in a multiyear plan and comes as the Atlanta metro area led the nation in datacenter construction last year - a phenomenon playing out across the US and increasingly sparking protests and pushback.