Winners and losers of NFL playoffs' divisional round: C.J. Stroud, Texans implode

The top seeds are moving on in the NFL playoffs, but things hardly went as expected Sunday, with Texans QB C.J. Stroud imploding.

Sports card world’s “Candy Kings” foreclosing on Chicago Loop co-working space

Jill Bennett and his Chicago-based firm face a lawsuit brought by prominent sports card collectors for the office and retail ...

2 million Illinois residents could have convictions for nonviolent crimes automatically sealed under new law

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new initiative into law enabling Illinois residents who’ve served sentences for nonviolent offenses ...

Phoenix drivers should heed these freeway closures this weekend

Some of the roadblocks are due to widening projects as the Arizona Department of Transportation advises caution while driving ...
IEEE

Multi-Mapcher: Loop Closure Detection-Free Heterogeneous LiDAR Multi-Session SLAM Leveraging Outlier-Robust Registration for Autonomous Vehicles

Abstract: As various 3D light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors have been introduced to the market, research on multisession simultaneous localization and mapping (MSS) using heterogeneous LiDAR ...
IEEE

Wheeled Robot SLAM in Degenerate Environments under IoT and SDN: Multi-Sensor Fusion Based on Multi-Feature Loop Closure Optimization

Abstract: This paper proposes a visual–LiDAR–inertial fusion system for wheeled robot navigation in IoT and SDN environments, particularly under GPS-denied conditions. Leveraging real-time data ...
InfoQ

Java Concurrency from the Trenches: Lessons Learned in the Wild

Hugo Marques explains how to navigate Java concurrency at scale, moving beyond simple frameworks to solve high-throughput IO ...