Office Depot and OfficeMax, two big names in office supplies, are shutting down almost 100 more stores. This is not just a recent thing. It has been going on for a while. The company that owns them, ODP Corporation, has been struggling. This is because people are buying things online more often. The
Offshore oil platforms release a lot of water back into the sea. This water can contain chemicals that don't break down easily. These persistent chemicals can harm the environment for a long time. Scientists needed a better way to find out what's in this water and how dangerous it is. They came up
Russian President Vladimir Putin is heading to China for a busy four-day trip. This is a big deal because Putin rarely stays abroad this long. He's got a packed schedule, including talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and a military parade. First up, Putin will join the Shanghai Cooperation Orga
Off the coast of Taiwan, a jet trainer, the AT-5 Brave Eagle, took a nosedive on February 15. The plane had just taken off from Chihhang Air Base in southern Taitung when both of its engines gave up the ghost. The pilot, Major-in-Training Lin Wei, had to bail out in a hurry. Lin had over 1, 000 hour
Russian elections in 2011 and 2012 have a peculiar and surprising pattern in their numbers. These elections were not just about who won or lost. It was a surprising case of anomalies that seemed to favor the pro-government party, United Russia. This party is linked to the leader Vladimir Putin.
Officer Harmon's journey in "On Call" takes a surprising turn when Lieutenant Bishop denies her transfer request. Harmon, known for her strong moral compass, uses questionable methods to catch a killer. This leads to Bishop's decision, which blocks Harmon's progress but aims to protect the departmen
Offshore oil fields face a big problem when the weather turns bad—microwave signals become unstable and noisy. To fix this, scientists used a method called Lagrange multiplier symplectic singular value mode decomposition to clean up the signal's noise. This was done in five steps: rebuilding the sig
Offline reinforcement learning (RL) faces a big problem: errors can pile up when deep Q functions try to work outside the data they were trained on. This hurts how well the policy can perform on new stuff. Existing methods are too cautious, which isn't great for generalization. But here's an interes
Officials in Germany are scratching their heads, trying to figure out why a man decided to rent a big SUV and plow it into the bustling Christmas market near Magdeburg's city hall. Holger Munch, the boss of Germany's domestic security agency, revealed that they had been keeping an eye on the suspect
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently held his annual Q&A session with the public and media. While domestic issues took center stage, Putin used the platform to send messages to the West, especially with the upcoming change in U. S. leadership. He hinted at possible compromises in the Ukraine co
