Reuters

UK's Reeves should use budget to reform tax system, IFS says

LONDON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - British finance minister Rachel Reeves should use her budget in November to carry out a long overdue reform of the taxation system which could help her to raise more revenue ...
Harvard Business Review

Use Design Thinking to Navigate Ambiguity

We’re living through an era of accelerated change, and leaders feel it every day. In five years, we’ve experienced the impacts of Covid and how it rebooted the norms we took for granted in how we work ...
The Robot Report

Reframe Systems wants to use robotic microfactories to change how we build homes

The U.S. is currently facing a deficit of 4.7 million homes, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. On top of that, many existing homes are not resilient enough to rapidly changing weather ...
C&EN

Visual Assessment of Methane Hydrate Dissociation Using a Multi-Rocking Cell: Roles of Surfactants, KHIs, and AAs in Water-Rich Systems

Graduate School of Engineering Science, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan Energy Process Research Institute (EPRI), National Institute of Advanced ...
Jalopnik

The Universe Gave You Cruise Control, Now Use It

We love to drive here at Jalopnik; cars are cool but driving them is what really brings the experience to life. I'm not an advocate of total automation, but I am an advocate for logic, and in many ...
IEEE

Fault-Tolerant Control Against Actuator Faults for Hydrofoil Attitude Control Systems via a Cascaded Extended State Observer

Abstract: Due to challenging underwater conditions, hydrofoils serving as actuators within the hydrofoil attitude control system (HACS) are prone to failures that can lead to system instability and ...
marktechpost

Agentic Design Methodology: How to Build Reliable and Human-Like AI Agents using Parlant

Building robust AI agents differs fundamentally from traditional software development, as it centers on probabilistic model behavior rather than deterministic code execution. This guide provides a ...
IEEE

Practical Finite-Time Contraction of Impulsive Systems With Application to Design of Impulsive Control for PFTC

Abstract: This paper investigates practical finite-time contraction (PFTC) for impulsive systems with application to design of impulsive control for PFTC. The PFTC notions including practical ...
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI Reverses Stance on Use of Copyright Works in Sora

OpenAI is changing its handling of copyright works in Sora, its AI video-generation app, to give copyright holders more control over how their characters are used, Chief Executive Sam Altman said in a ...
PBS

Shutdown puts further strain on already understaffed air traffic control system

Roughly 750,000 federal employees were furloughed when the government closed its doors. Not included in that number are the air traffic controllers who will continue to work, without pay, as long as ...
Phys.org

Physicists maneuver DNA molecules using electrical fields, offering real-time control

Researchers in McGill's Department of Physics have developed a new device that can trap and study DNA molecules without touching or damaging them. The device, which uses carefully tuned electric ...