Variety

Rebecca Yarros’ ‘Variation’ Film Adaptation Set at Amazon From ‘It Ends With Us’ Screenwriter; Obamas’ Higher Ground and Misty Copeland Producing

Along with “Variation” and “Fourth Wing,” other Yarros book-to-screen adaptations currently in the works include “In the Likely Event” movie at Netflix and “The Last Letter” as a film from Amazon MGM.
STAT

Wellness startup Function Health raises $300 million as consumer lab testing picks up steam

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...
IEEE

Learning of Continuous and Piecewise-Linear Functions With Hessian Total-Variation Regularization

Abstract: We develop a novel 2D functional learning framework that employs a sparsity-promoting regularization based on second-order derivatives. Motivated by the nature of the regularizer, we ...
STAT

Why direct-to-consumer sales are unlikely to significantly lower drug costs

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. Among the demands that ...
The Motley Fool

What Is a Direct Stock Purchase Plan?

DSPPs allow purchase of stocks directly from the company, avoiding broker fees. Automated DSPP investments promote dollar-cost averaging, reducing purchase timing risks. DSPPs may lack diversification ...
IEEE

Analyzing the Effects of Alpha Variation in Exponential Linear Unit Activation Function for Deep Neural Networks

Abstract: This research paper immerses into the subtle effects of varying values within the Exponential Linear Unit (ELU) activation function, altering from 1 to 0.10. Activation functions take an ...
Scientific American

Sports Celebrate Physical Variation—Until It Challenges Social Norms

The Olympics are a celebration of athletic prowess, an event that incidentally highlights the diversity of the human body. Take height for example. Simone Biles, the GOAT, hurtled herself through her ...