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The 10 most popular US National Parks in 2025

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Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon all make the list, but aren't number one. Yosemite National Park came in at number five on the National Parks Service list. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In 2025, the parks received 323 million recreation visits, according to new data release by the National Parks Service. The data includes visitors to National Parks, National Historic Sites, National Memorials, National Seashores, National Parkways, and other designated public lands.


Yosemite's glowing, golden waterfall is flowing again

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Environment Yosemite's glowing, golden waterfall is flowing again The annual natural phenomenon event is expected to last until February 26. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. As if California's Yosemite National Park wasn't magical enough, its famous El Capitan rock formation is graced with an exhilarating phenomenon every February. The Horsetail Fall--a waterfall that falls across the formation's eastern side--can take on an otherworldly gleam during the latter part of the month. During those gorgeous moments, the water flow looks like a stream of gold hurtling down the rock face, and it's hard to believe that it's just nature doing its thing.


SAMScore: A Semantic Structural Similarity Metric for Image Translation Evaluation

Li, Yunxiang, Chen, Meixu, Yang, Wenxuan, Wang, Kai, Ma, Jun, Bovik, Alan C., Zhang, You

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Image translation has wide applications, such as style transfer and modality conversion, usually aiming to generate images having both high degrees of realism and faithfulness. These problems remain difficult, especially when it is important to preserve semantic structures. Traditional image-level similarity metrics are of limited use, since the semantics of an image are high-level, and not strongly governed by pixel-wise faithfulness to an original image. Towards filling this gap, we introduce SAMScore, a generic semantic structural similarity metric for evaluating the faithfulness of image translation models. SAMScore is based on the recent high-performance Segment Anything Model (SAM), which can perform semantic similarity comparisons with standout accuracy. We applied SAMScore on 19 image translation tasks, and found that it is able to outperform all other competitive metrics on all of the tasks. We envision that SAMScore will prove to be a valuable tool that will help to drive the vibrant field of image translation, by allowing for more precise evaluations of new and evolving translation models. The code is available at https://github.com/Kent0n-Li/SAMScore.


Google's exact match close variants expand again: Now include same meaning variations - Search Engine Land

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Google's exact match keyword targeting used to mean one thing: the keyword had to match exactly whatever query the searcher used. Then close variants came into the mix, and that definition has steadily morphed over the past few years. First, the inclusion of plurals, misspellings and other similar variants came in 2014, and then, in 2017, different word order and function words took hold. Now phase three is here. On Thursday, Google announced another change to what are considered close variants of an exact match keyword to include variations that share the same meaning as the keyword, including implied words and paraphrases.


It's official: now you can talk to your Mac and not look (too) odd, with Siri

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When will Siri come out on the Mac? Will Siri be on macOS Sierra? What features will Siri for Mac have? Apple announced a slew of new things at WWDC 2016 including the much anticipated introduction of Siri, its voice activated assistant, to its Mac computers. If you're after the full lowdown on the announcement of macOS Sierra, here is our roundup.