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A two-front war should be no problem for Israel, analysts say

Black smoke billows from an Israeli air strike on an alleged pro-Iranian Hezbollah target in southern Beirut, a stronghold of the party, as Israel continues its attacks on Lebanon, expanding the ...
Wired

Drip Coffee Was My First Taste of Adulthood. The Ratio Four Brewer Offers It Pure

I test a lot of coffee machines. Like, a lot of them. The Ratio Four is the small-batch brewer I use to try new kinds of coffee. Coffee is the original office biohack and the nation’s most popular ...
IEEE

Two-Dimensional Off-Grid Beamforming Acoustic Source Identification for Planar Microphone Arrays via Unfolding Delay-and-Sum

Abstract: The classical sparsity-based source identification method encounters the basis mismatch problem due to discretizing the focus region and assuming that acoustic sources are on-grid. This ...
IEEE

Synthesis of Thinned Planar Array Using Two-Stage Iterative Fourier Transform

Abstract: A two-stage approach based on the iterative Fourier transform (TSIFT) is proposed for the synthesis of thinned planar array. The TSIFT involves an optimization stage utilizing an iterative ...