Harvard-Westlake blocks TikTok and Clash Royale on student phones. How’s that going down?

Students at the Studio City high school can still bring phones to school, but must use an app blocking distracting games and ...
IEEE

Feature-Guided Zero-Shot Learning for Handwriting Verification Using Inertial Sensors

Abstract: In an increasingly digital world, there is an unprecedented demand in intelligent society for biometric recognition systems that balance security with convenience. Traditional methods, such ...
IEEE

Zero-Shot Audio Captioning Using Soft and Hard Prompts

Abstract: In traditional audio captioning methods, a model is usually trained in a fully supervised manner using a human-annotated dataset containing audio-text pairs and then evaluated on the test ...
Hoodline

Wake County Libraries Partner with Haven House Services to Establish Safe Havens for Youth in Crisis

Wake County public libraries have partnered with Haven House Services to establish a network of safe locations for young people experiencing crises. As of November, each of the 23 library locations ...
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Finger Lakes libraries land major state grants

Libraries across the Finger Lakes and Southern Tier will see upgrades after a new round of state funding awards. Assemblyman Jeff Gallahan announced six library construction grant recipients in ...
USA Today

Atlanta homeowner shoots teens stealing packages from porch, police say

Two teens are recovering after they were shot while trying to steal packages from a home's porch, Atlanta Police say. At around 3:40 p.m. on Dec. 11, officers responded to shot fired calls in the ...
Alaska Public Media

Judge restores federal funding for museums and libraries, including in Alaska

Federal funding for libraries and museums has been reinstated nine months after the Trump administration first sought to eliminate the agency that provides that money. The initial move sparked concern ...
Game Rant

All 4 Characters That Can Use Gear 5 In One Piece

Rei is an Editor for GameRant's Evergreen and Features teams from Kashmir, situated in Beirut. He's an avid fan of anime, manga, and gaming. He is the author of some of the articles here that you ...
New York Post

National Guardsman shot in DC making ‘miraculous’ progress: ‘Our boy is going to recover’

The West Virginia National Guardsman left seriously hurt after he was ambushed in Washington DC by a deranged gunman has made “miraculous” progress — acknowledging people around him and even sharing a ...
1011 Now

This Day in History - December 12: Cornerstone laid for Love Library

December 12, 1941 - The cornerstone for Love Library was laid five days after America’s entry into World War II. It’s named after Don Love, Lincoln mayor and banker who left his estate to establish ...
The New York Times

Review of Medical Cannabis Use Finds Little Evidence of Benefit

Researchers found a chasm between the health reasons for which the public seeks out cannabis and what gold-standard science actually shows about its effectiveness. By Jan Hoffman To treat their pain, ...
Newsweek

Krispy Kreme Offers 12 Donuts for $1—One Day Only

Krispy Kreme fans can get a dozen Original Glazed donuts for just $1, for one day only—Friday, December 12—as its annual “Day of the Dozens” returns. Krispy Kreme announced it will revive its ...