More Than a Bombshell, Brigitte Bardot Became the Face of a Nation

The French have no problem reconciling sexual allure and noble, patriotic sentiments. That’s why, back in 1969, they selected ...

From Sex Appeal to the Far Right, Brigitte Bardot Symbolized a Changing France

In the decades after becoming a megastar, the French actress became as known for her politics as she once had been for her ...

As MTV is axed after 44 years of pioneering music television... a look back at its best ever viral moments

MTV - with a little help from NASA- helped turn music in all its forms into a visual medium after launching as an innovative ...

2025 was one of the best years ever for JRPGs

JRPGs. It was a year where the genre stretched in every direction at once without losing sight of where it came from. Sure, ...
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HD-Net: Hierarchical Distillation Network for High-Efficiency Single Image Deraining

Abstract: Rain streaks usually result in severe image visual degradation and foreground occlusion, affecting the quality of computer tasks in outdoor scenes. Currently, the mainstream methods in ...