IEEE

Inhomogeneous sparse ball grid arrays in electronic packaging under random shear stress and temperature coupling

Abstract: The geometrical optimization of BGAs and the design of solder ball distributions are critical for ensuring mechanical reliability and cost efficiency in electronic packaging, yet further ...
Investopedia

AI in Business: Applications, Future Trends, and Ongoing Concerns

Elysse Bell is a finance and business writer for Investopedia. She writes about small business, personal finance, technology, and more. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified ...
Caixin Global

CX Daily: China Orders Random Class Placement to Break School Hierarchies

China is attempting to dismantle one of the most entrenched hierarchies in its schools: sorting students into academically ranked classes. Under new policies rolled out in 2026, education authorities ...
The New York Times

Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg

The class-action lawsuit accuses the tech giant and its founder and chief executive of infringing on authors’ copyrights. By Alexandra Alter Five major publishers — Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, ...
KTLA

Remember California’s Middle Class Tax Refund? Your deadline to use the money is Thursday

Thursday is the final day for Californians to use any remaining funds on their Middle Class Tax Refund debit cards, a one‑time “inflation relief” payment approved by state lawmakers in 2022. Between ...
IEEE

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Continual Learning based Fault Diagnosis of Photovoltaic Arrays using Prompt-Guided Knowledge Distillation and I-V Curves

Abstract: Photovoltaic (PV) arrays usually operate in harsh outdoor environments for decades, exposing them to complex and evolving faults and thus necessitating continuous fault diagnosis over their ...