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  • Starting Five: Badgers head east for first Big Ten road trip

    Starting Five: Badgers head east for first Big Ten road trip

    MADISON, Wis.– The Wisconsin women’s basketball team will open Big Ten road play at No. 7 Maryland on Dec. 29 at 3 p.m. CT and at Rutgers on Jan. 1 at 1 p.m. CT. Both games will stream on B1G+.

    Here are five things to know before the Badgers…

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  • This Repeater Turns Your Camera Into a Remote Wildlife Camera Trap

    This Repeater Turns Your Camera Into a Remote Wildlife Camera Trap

    For wildlife photographers, distance has always been both a necessity and a limitation. Get too close, and the subject disappears. Stay too far away, and the image loses intimacy. SmallRig is attempting to rethink that balance with the…

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  • AI is getting better and better at generating faces — but you can train to spot the fakes

    AI is getting better and better at generating faces — but you can train to spot the fakes

    Images of faces generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are so realistic that even “super recognizers” — an elite group with exceptionally strong facial processing abilities — are no better than chance at detecting fake faces.

    People with…

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  • AT&T bringing faster Wi-Fi to residents near Texas Motor Speedway

    AT&T bringing faster Wi-Fi to residents near Texas Motor Speedway

    by Scott Nishimura, Fort Worth Report
    December 27, 2025

    AT&T plans to install a communications tower in an industrial complex between Texas Motor Speedway and Blue Mound Road in Denton County, to provide improved high-speed wireless broadband access to the nearby communities.

    AT&T is entering into partnership with Public Safety Towers Co., or PSTC, on the project at 12799 Private Road 4716. PSTC builds and manages wireless communications towers in partnership with commercial carriers to close coverage gaps and improve public safety communications.

    The Denton County tower was designed to be 105 feet tall, which would have required a zoning variance to be issued by the Fort Worth Board of Adjustment due to regulations that limit tower height to 75 feet in that area.

    AT&T and PSTC formally applied for the zoning variance, which was to be reviewed at a Nov. 19 board of adjustment meeting, but was postponed at the applicant’s request.

    The variance was scheduled to be reviewed at the board of adjustment‘s Dec. 17 meeting, but was withdrawn by the applicants, who informed city staff at that time of their intention to redesign the tower to comply with the 75-foot height restriction.

    Fort Worth Board of Adjustment Meeting

    Documenter name: Doug Wilhelm

    Date: Dec. 17

    See more about this meeting at documenters.org.

    In other business at their Dec. 17 meeting, the board of adjustment approved a 50-foot high freeway sign with electronic changeable copy for a RaceTrac gas station under construction at 9600 South Freeway in Fort Worth; approved three 30-foot monument signs on the Northwest Campus of Tarrant County College; and rejected a request by HomeGoods/HomeSense to add a fourth sign cluster to their Distribution Center at 8201 Oak Grove Road.

    Doug Wilhelm is a member of the Fort Worth Report’s Documenters Crew. 

    If you believe anything in these notes is inaccurate, please email us at with news@fortworthreport.org “Correction Request” in the subject line.

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  • AI is getting better and better at generating faces — but you can train to spot the fakes

    AI is getting better and better at generating faces — but you can train to spot the fakes

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    AI can now generate hyperrealistic images of faces (top row), making them difficult to distinguish from photos of real faces (bottom row). |…

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  • Saturday Pre-orders – Suit up for spectacular sieges in the Age of Darkness

    Saturday Pre-orders – Suit up for spectacular sieges in the Age of Darkness

    Did everyone have a great Christmas? We certainly hope so, and if you’ve come out the other side raring to get back into the Warhammer groove, we’ve got some great pre-orders going up today. Namely, brand new Cataphractii Terminators and…

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  • South East rail users hit by change to peak time ticketing

    South East rail users hit by change to peak time ticketing

    A GTR spokesman said: “Peak and off-peak timing has to match with the TfL system…

    “We understand how, for some people, this means fares will rise, but for many others they will fall.”

    It pointed to a number of savings, such as Reigate passengers making a single journey at weekday off-peak times now paying £7.60 compared with £14.60 previously.

    Commuters travelling before 06:30 and returning either before 16:00 or after 19:00 now save £11.60, it added.

    The Department for Transport said: “Contactless ticketing means passengers are benefiting from simpler, more flexible travel and the majority of single tickets will be the same price or even lower.”

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  • UVic researchers use sound to identify fish species

    UVic researchers use sound to identify fish species

    University of Victoria biologists have discovered that fish can be identified by sound alone, finding that even closely related species produce distinct vocalizations — a breakthrough that could transform how scientists monitor and…

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  • South East rail users hit by change to peak time ticketing

    South East rail users hit by change to peak time ticketing

    Getty Images A person scans their smartwatch on a train gate. Getty Images

    Contactless changes were expanded to 30 more train stations in December

    The expansion of contactless payments on trains has caused the price of travelling on some services to soar as they now require more expensive peak time tickets.

    The change allows people to pay by tapping a bank card or contactless-enabled device on readers at stations, avoiding the need to manually purchase a ticket.

    But Rebecca Paul, Conservative MP for Reigate, said the new rules – introduced to 30 more stations in the South East on 14 December – risked “pricing passengers out of rail altogether”.

    Train operator Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) said the changes meant many passengers would save money and insisted the process was not designed to increase revenue.

    The introduction of contactless payments to 30 more stations in south-east England forms part of the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Project Oval.

    However, changes to paper ticketing time restrictions to align with Transport for London’s contactless structure have meant some services that could previously be used with an off-peak ticket now require a more expensive peak ticket.

    ‘Ridiculous’

    The first weekday London-bound Southern service from Reigate, Surrey, that can be boarded with an off-peak day travelcard ticket now departs at 09:28, compared with 08:58 previously.

    But when the 08:58 train calls at Redhill just five minutes later, passengers are still able to board it with an off-peak ticket.

    A day travelcard that can be used at any time from the stations costs £37.10 whereas an off-peak is £20.60.

    There are also new restrictions on travel between 16:00 and 19:00.

    One member of the Reigate, Redhill and District Rail Users’ Association described the situation as “ridiculous” and said he would cycle to Redhill to save money.

    Getty Images A train on some tracks. Getty Images

    The Department for Transport has defended the changes

    Meanwhile, Paul said a number of residents were “understandably frustrated” by the contactless expansion.

    The MP added: “This change should make rail travel easier, not more expensive or confusing.”

    The contactless rollout has also led to the cheapest super off-peak tickets being removed from some stations.

    Analysis by lobby group Railfuture said passengers paying by contactless would be charged up to twice as much as those using paper tickets for some journeys.

    This is because discounts for railcards or children cannot be registered with contactless.

    ‘More flexible travel’

    A GTR spokesman said: “Peak and off-peak timing has to match with the TfL system…

    “We understand how, for some people, this means fares will rise, but for many others they will fall.”

    It pointed to a number of savings, such as Reigate passengers making a single journey at weekday off-peak times now paying £7.60 compared with £14.60 previously.

    Commuters travelling before 06:30 and returning either before 16:00 or after 19:00 now save £11.60, it added.

    The Department for Transport said: “Contactless ticketing means passengers are benefiting from simpler, more flexible travel and the majority of single tickets will be the same price or even lower.”

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