Blockonomi

XDC Ventures Buys Contour, Targets Real-World Stablecoin Settlements

XDC Ventures acquires Contour Network to launch a Stablecoin Lab for regulated cross-border trade settlements.
WGAL

False active shooter reports received at Millersville, Shippensburg and West Chester universities

Multiple universities in and around the Susquehanna Valley are reporting false calls of active shooters on their campuses. We have gathered their responses below. Millersville UniversityMillersville ...
Miami Dolphins

Dolphins sign offensive lineman Cole Strange to active roster

The Miami Dolphins announced today they have signed offensive lineman Cole Strange to the active roster off Cleveland's practice squad and placed offensive lineman James Daniels on the injured reserve ...
New York Post

Three people in Maine have active tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest disease

Three people in Maine have been infected with active tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest disease, according to health officials who raised alarms Friday. There was no connection between the three ...
Travel Weekly

Contour Airlines to launch its first Caribbean routes

Contour Airlines will begin flying in the Caribbean, launching thrice-weekly service connecting Dominica with St. Thomas on Sept. 24, then following on Sept. 25 with service between Dominica and San ...
The Conversation

Active Clubs are white supremacy’s new, dangerous frontier

Art Jipson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
naturalsciencenews

Image Segmentation With Active Contours For Better Brick Design

Researchers in Bucharest studied using wastewater sludge in fired clay bricks to reduce waste and improve thermal insulation Adding up to 15% sewage sludge to bricks maintained acceptable strength ...
CNN

Active shooter report at University of South Carolina was a hoax, spokesperson says

A report of an active shooter at the University of South Carolina’s campus library Sunday was part of a swatting hoax, a school spokesperson said. “USCPD dispatch received two separate calls Sunday ...
Jalopnik

At $3,200, Does This 1998 Ford Contour SVT Prove So Very Tempting?

Today's Nice Price or No Dice Contour is an SVT, and that makes it a Special Vehicle indeed. The question is whether the price of this seemingly well-kept Ford makes it all the more special. As we ...
NBC 10 Philadelphia

‘Cruel hoax' prompts active shooter alert at Villanova University

An active shooter alert at Villanova University on Thursday, Aug. 21, turned out to be a "cruel hoax," according to school officials. Around 4:30 p.m., the campus community received an alert that read ...
IEEE

A Two-stage Method With Lightweight Network and Active Contour Model for Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

Abstract: Active contour models (ACMs) have shown effectiveness on remote sensing (RS) image segmentation tasks. However, this type of method still faces two important problems when segmenting RS ...