Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has enabled robots to develop complex skills, but its success in image-based tasks often depends on effective representation learning. Prior works have primarily ...

Opium poppies aren’t native to Canada. It takes special soil and fertilizer to grow them in the Canadian climate. That’s why an early summer discovery of a farmer’s field in northeast Edmonton, filled ...

Israel says that there are still about 20 living hostages in Gaza, along with the bodies of around 25 others. Details of their release remain unclear. By Pranav Baskar President Trump has made the ...

U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., called for the prosecution of anyone involved in the surveillance of his private phone calls and messages. Hagerty and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., were among eight ...

A previous version of this Need to Know column and a MarketWatch news alert inaccurately characterized Ken Griffin’s view on gold, as compared with that of Goldman Sachs. Barbara Kollmeyer is based in ...

The president said he would consider using the Insurrection Act to bypass attempts to block National Guard deployments in Chicago and Portland, Ore. The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, called the ...

“I have seen an attorney use it in a lease negotiation and know her time was cut from seven hours to one," said Noga Rosenthal, general counsel and chief privacy officer at Ampersand. AI may be ...

After near-record warm temperatures, autumn weather is finally moving into Iowa. October started with temperatures in the high 80s, with Oct. 3 reaching 87 degrees in Des Moines. While this wasn't a ...

The practice of changing clocks is intended to maximize natural daylight during the summer months. The time change has become controversial due to potential negative health impacts and disruptions to ...

Get ready to change your clocks back again, as daylight saving time ends early next month. In November, clocks will "fall back" to standard time, where they will remain until next spring. For some ...

Although the government shutdown has entered its sixth day, speculation remains about a possible stimulus check following comments from President Donald Trump. Previously, rumors and unsupported ...

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