The uninsured rate, supplemental poverty rate, and food insecurity for children have all increased since the expiration of pandemic-era fiscal relief, and high household costs, including health care costs, are putting pressure on family budgets. After increasing during the pandemic, overall federal spending on children as a share of the economy (or GDP) has declined…
Published October 15, 2025 In lieu of grand celebrations, the Hyères International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessories has chosen a fresh start for its 40th anniversary. Following the departure of Jean-Pierre Blanc, the emblematic founder and director of the famous fashion competition for young designers, whose management was criticised by the French Ministry of Culture last April,…
We gave our new C2S-Scale 27B model a task: Find a drug that acts as a conditional amplifier, one that would boost the immune signal only in a specific “immune-context-positive” environment where low levels of interferon (a key immune-signaling protein) were already present, but inadequate to induce antigen presentation on their own. This required a…
Published October 15, 2025 Accessories and jewellery chain Claire’s continues to scale back its international network. After filing for bankruptcy in the US this summer, Claire’s has now added Spain to the list of markets affected by the group’s global crisis. Spain thus joins the UK, Ireland, and other European subsidiaries that have initiated insolvency…
Scala stands out as a versatile programming language that combines object-oriented and functional programming approaches. By running on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), it maintains seamless compatibility with Java libraries while offering a concise and scalable development experience. The language has distinguished itself in the realm of distributed computing and big data processing, with the…
A tropical flat-faced longhorn beetle in Malaysia Kim Hui Yu “It had a strange look, like an alien, but it wasn’t angry. It sat still on the branch all the time,” said Kim Hui Yu, who photographed the flat-faced longhorn beetle in the image above on a family trip to Gunung Jerai on Malaysia’s west coast. A lightbulb in a…
Five months ago, we introduced Flow, our AI filmmaking tool powered by Veo, and have been inspired by the creativity it has sparked with over 275 million videos generated in Flow . We’re always listening to your feedback, and we’ve heard that you want more artistic control within Flow, with increased support for audio across…
Illustration of the Triassic dinosaur Huayracursor jaguensis Jorge Blanco. High in the Argentinian Andes, a team of palaeontologists has found a small dinosaur fossil with the first hints of the extended neck that distinguishes sauropod dinosaurs like Diplodocus. Named Huayracursor jaguensis, the fossil is a partial skeleton from a dinosaur that lived in the Triassic…
Published October 15, 2025 Accessories specialist Strathberry has launched its new bag The Barra, inspired by the Scottish island of the same name. It’s a “craft-meets-function” moment for the brand that picks up on Barra’s “rich weaving heritage and artisanal knotting”. Hence, the new design brings these “timeless traditions to life through sculptural, knotted details…
Training state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) demands massive, distributed compute infrastructure. Meta’s Llama 3, for instance, ran on 16,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs for over 30.84 million GPU hours. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of Kubernetes clusters that can scale up to the ranges…
