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Father of alien archaeology says the pyramids were not built by human hands... and claims he has proof

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Sundance screening sparks online row: 'Sussex Squad' brand claims event failed to sell out as'lies' despite photos showing'rows of empty seats' Mick Jagger's family launch desperate hunt for missing relative: His granddaughter's partner vanishes in Cornwall after wandering streets Forensic video analysis of Alex Pretti's final 30 seconds exposes'John Wayne gun' question that can't be ignored Sinister truth about Celine Dion's song All By Myself: Singer's producer reveals bombshell secrets of her 26-year age gap marriage... that he swore not to tell until her husband René died The nastiest clique in Hollywood have had their dirty secret outed... there's no coming back from this: MAUREEN CALLAHAN Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo'creeped a lot of people out' says anonymous Oscar voter amid Wicked snubs John Fetterman's own WIFE turns on him over ICE as Senator comes under fire for his silence on shooting of Alex Pretti Lauren Sanchez turns heads in a red skirt suit as she holds hands with billionaire husband Jeff Bezos at Schiaparelli's Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week show Olivia Wilde blasts'inauthentic and unrealistic' sex in modern film and claims it has'been that way for a long time' - despite featuring racy scenes in Don't Worry Darling Sandra Bullock's Blind Side costar Quinton Aaron is'fighting for his life' in hospital after falling at home Seedy underbelly of America's exclusive golf clubs... as cart girls expose ultra-rich world of sex scandals and drunken debauchery Real estate mogul is sensationally found GUILTY of murdering football coach's son outside mall Kelly Clarkson on verge of QUITTING: Staff are all starting to say same thing backstage... as friends let slip the only way she could be convinced to stay Panicking realtors are drowning in unsold homes in America's'most extreme' market. They blame'the Joe Rogan effect' Father of alien archaeology says the pyramids were not built by human hands... and claims he has proof READ MORE: Egypt's Great Pyramid construction rewritten as new evidence exposes how it was actually built The belief that the pyramids were not built by human hands has fascinated conspiracy theorists for decades. No one promoted that idea more persistently than Swiss author Erich von Däniken, often described as the father of ancient alien archaeology. Von Däniken, who died this month aged 90, argued that extraterrestrial visitors played a direct role in helping ancient Egyptians construct monuments that would otherwise have been impossible. In his 1968 bestseller'Chariots of the Gods,' he claimed alien'astronauts' visited early civilizations, including the ancient Egyptians and Mayans, and shared advanced technology.


America's new dietary guidelines ignore decades of scientific research

MIT Technology Review

America's new dietary guidelines ignore decades of scientific research An emphasis on fruit, vegetables, and whole foods is welcome--but it's wrong to suggest steak and beef tallow should be prominent. The new year has barely begun, but the first days of 2026 have brought big news for health. On Monday, the US's federal health agency upended its recommendations for routine childhood vaccinations--a move that health associations worry puts children at unnecessary risk of preventable disease. There was more news from the federal government on Wednesday, when health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his colleagues at the Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture unveiled new dietary guidelines for Americans . And they are causing a bit of a stir. RFK Jr's plan to improve America's diet is missing the point That's partly because they recommend products like red meat, butter, and beef tallow--foods that have been linked to cardiovascular disease, and that nutrition experts have been recommending people in their diets.


The five unsolved mysteries of 2025 that captivated the world... from a UFO surviving a hellfire missile to a 'vast city' under Egypt's pyramids

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Woman wags her finger at journalist who asks her if she's running a daycare out of stunning Seattle home Marla Maples' chilling Epstein warning as she feared his growing sway over Trump She wore the ultimate revenge dress after their brutal break up. But Nashville's hottest couple is'trying again'... and her friends are terrified MARK HALPERIN blows apart the Minnesota scandal... and reveals who will pay the ultimate price Kellyanne Conway brands lesbian comic Rosie O'Donnell a'slob' and says Trump-hating star needs to get a HUSBAND Daily Mail graphic reveals the bottled waters with the most cancer-causing'forever chemicals' 'Super' virus spreading uncontrollably... as New York sees the most cases ever and experts warn'we don't know when it will stop' Brave little girl jumped out apartment window and begged strangers to save her from abuse... only to be tortured to death after disbelieving cops sent her home Megyn Kelly names'meanest' celebrities... and hints NBC's twinkly-eyed TV grandpa is not as nice as he seems Hollywood's nastiest star: How Chevy Chase's outrageous behavior turned him into a pariah on and off set Children in headscarves seen being brought into notorious Minneapolis daycare hit by fraud allegations as local claims misspelt sign was just a'printing error' I tried the $12 'miracle' hangover cure... but I made a critical mistake that left me full of regret Snitch reveals all the gossip from inside the New England Patriots after Stefon Diggs allegedly'strangled' his female chef Heartbreak after body found in search for teenager as brother's missing weapon link emerges and devastated mom is left repeating four tragic words My husband set me a kinky New Year's resolution... DEAR JANE, I'm disgusted. But I'm afraid I can't say no'Work maintained my sense of self': How one woman's cancer journey inspired her company to give back As 2025 comes to a close, several mysteries that left the world in stunned disbelief still have yet to be fully explained. The past 12 months have read like a science-fiction novel, with thousands of UFOs swarming over the US East Coast, an interstellar visitor invading our solar system, and the potential discovery of giant columns under the Egyptian pyramids. Moreover, scientists and government officials have been unable to disprove all of the wild theories surrounding many of these jaw-dropping events, including one respected scientist's claim that the giant space rock 3I/ATLAS may be an alien craft.


Parameter-Inverted Image Pyramid Networks

Neural Information Processing Systems

Image pyramids are commonly used in modern computer vision tasks to obtain multi-scale features for precise understanding of images. However, image pyramids process multiple resolutions of images using the same large-scale model, which requires significant computational cost. To overcome this issue, we propose a novel network architecture known as the Parameter-Inverted Image Pyramid Networks (PIIP). Our core idea is to use models with different parameter sizes to process different resolution levels of the image pyramid, thereby balancing computational efficiency and performance. Specifically, the input to PIIP is a set of multi-scale images, where higher resolution images are processed by smaller networks. We further propose a feature interaction mechanism to allow features of different resolutions to complement each other and effectively integrate information from different spatial scales. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the PIIP achieves superior performance in tasks such as object detection, segmentation, and image classification, compared to traditional image pyramid methods and single-branch networks, while reducing computational cost. Notably, when applying our method on a large-scale vision foundation model InternViT-6B, we improve its performance by 1\%-2\% on detection and segmentation with only 40\%-60\% of the original computation. These results validate the effectiveness of the PIIP approach and provide a new technical direction for future vision computing tasks.


Locally Hierarchical Auto-Regressive Modeling for Image Generation

Neural Information Processing Systems

We propose a locally hierarchical auto-regressive model with multiple resolutions of discrete codes. In the first stage of our algorithm, we represent an image with a pyramid of codes using Hierarchically Quantized Variational AutoEncoder (HQ-VAE), which disentangles the information contained in the multi-level codes. For an example of two-level codes, we create two separate pathways to carry high-level coarse structures of input images using top codes while compensating for missing fine details by constructing a residual connection for bottom codes. An appropriate selection of resizing operations for code embedding maps enables top codes to capture maximal information within images and the first stage algorithm achieves better performance on both vector quantization and image generation. The second stage adopts Hierarchically Quantized Transformer (HQ-Transformer) to process a sequence of local pyramids, which consist of a single top code and its corresponding bottom codes.