Month: August 2025

Amazon’s Fallout season two heads to New Vegas

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Prime Video has released new photos from season two of Fallout. Lucy (Ella Purnell), the Ghoul (Walton Goggins), and Maximus (Aaron Moten) return as a trio of Wasteland Wanderers whose adventures will bring them to the post-apocalyptic playground of New Vegas. Take a look. Kyle MacLachlan, who plays Lucy’s father Hank, also returns to the … Read more

Improving OCR Accuracy in Historical Archives with Deep Learning

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Printing Press in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan 1.2 Challenges in Historical Documents 1.3 Kurdish Language Related work and 2.1 Arabic/Persian 2.2 Chinese/Japanese and 2.3 Coptic 2.4 Greek 2.5 Latin 2.6 Tamizhi Method and 3.1 Data Collection 3.2 Data Preparation and 3.3 Preprocessing 3.4 Environment Setup, 3.5 Dataset … Read more

Advances in OCR for Historical Chinese, Japanese, Coptic, and Greek Texts

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Printing Press in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan 1.2 Challenges in Historical Documents 1.3 Kurdish Language Related work and 2.1 Arabic/Persian 2.2 Chinese/Japanese and 2.3 Coptic 2.4 Greek 2.5 Latin 2.6 Tamizhi Method and 3.1 Data Collection 3.2 Data Preparation and 3.3 Preprocessing 3.4 Environment Setup, 3.5 Dataset … Read more

Can AI Finally Crack Ottoman Text Recognition?

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Printing Press in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan 1.2 Challenges in Historical Documents 1.3 Kurdish Language Related work and 2.1 Arabic/Persian 2.2 Chinese/Japanese and 2.3 Coptic 2.4 Greek 2.5 Latin 2.6 Tamizhi Method and 3.1 Data Collection 3.2 Data Preparation and 3.3 Preprocessing 3.4 Environment Setup, 3.5 Dataset … Read more

Why Historical Documents Are Hard to Digitize

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Printing Press in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan 1.2 Challenges in Historical Documents 1.3 Kurdish Language Related work and 2.1 Arabic/Persian 2.2 Chinese/Japanese and 2.3 Coptic 2.4 Greek 2.5 Latin 2.6 Tamizhi Method and 3.1 Data Collection 3.2 Data Preparation and 3.3 Preprocessing 3.4 Environment Setup, 3.5 Dataset … Read more

Did You Know the First Kurdish Press Was Carried by Mule?

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Printing Press in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan 1.2 Challenges in Historical Documents 1.3 Kurdish Language Related work and 2.1 Arabic/Persian 2.2 Chinese/Japanese and 2.3 Coptic 2.4 Greek 2.5 Latin 2.6 Tamizhi Method and 3.1 Data Collection 3.2 Data Preparation and 3.3 Preprocessing 3.4 Environment Setup, 3.5 Dataset … Read more

Can AI Save Centuries of Kurdish History?

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:::info Authors: (1) Blnd Yaseen, University of Kurdistan Howler, Kurdistan Region – Iraq (blnd.yaseen@ukh.edu.krd); (2) Hossein Hassani University of Kurdistan Howler Kurdistan Region – Iraq (hosseinh@ukh.edu.krd). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Printing Press in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan 1.2 Challenges in Historical Documents 1.3 Kurdish Language Related work and 2.1 Arabic/Persian … Read more

Fujifilm is raising the prices of its cameras again

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Just two weeks after raising the prices of its cameras by up to $800, Fujifilm is warning customers about another increase for US customers. In a statement provided to DPReview, the Japanese company says it will “further adjust prices” as it contends with “volatile market conditions.” The change will go into effect on August 30th, … Read more

HBAR Suffers 7% Decline Amid Substantial Liquidation Cascade

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HBAR faced strong downward pressure in the last 24 hours, slipping 6.68% from $0.26 to $0.24, while trading activity surged past 109 million tokens—nearly double the daily average. The steepest drop occurred during overnight sessions, when sellers accelerated outflows and forced prices down at a pace far sharper than normal. Analysts attribute the volatility to … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Code Smell 308 – The Key to Safer, Cleaner, More Polymorphic Code (8/18/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 18, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Hewlett-Packard Was Incorporated in 1947, Martian Moon Phobos was Discovered in 1877, Microsoft released first version of QuickBASIC. in 1985, and we present you with these top quality … Read more