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HomePod Mini 2 vs. HomePod Mini: How Apple’s Speaker Compares With Past Models - CNET
The HomePod Mini 2 is here and looks incredibly similar to the first Mini, so I tested how audio, AI and more differ across HomePod generations.
Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe first drive: Where tech and fun collide
Mercedes-Benz provided flights from San Francisco to Malaga, Spain, and accommodation so Ars could drive the AMG GT 4-Door Coupe. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. The night before I drove the AMG GT 4-Door Coupe, I complained to a group of journalists that automakers don't want to take chances and just build fun, weird cars anymore. About 12 hours later, Mercedes made me eat my words.
Longitudinal and Transverse Thermoelectric Properties in Topological Quantum Materials
Thermoelectric materials can be topologically trivial or non-trivial, enabling reversible interconversion of heat and electricity using a solid-state technology. Incidentally, few of the first experimentally discovered 3D topological materials, namely, Bi, Sb, Sn and Pb-based chalcogenides, were long known as good thermoelectric materials. In these compounds, the heavy atoms that give rise to strong spin-orbit coupling often become essential for band inversion and non-trivial band topology. They
Midwives' union warns over maternity unit plans in Norfolk
The RCM union says possible closures in Norfolk would also affect patients in neighbouring counties.
It wouldn't shock me if ... NFL Week 9: Chargers fire Mike McDaniel, another QB change in Arizona
Is it finally over for Mike McDaniel in Los Angeles?
Padel’s Olympic ambition
Padel is the fastest growing racket sport in the world, and is pushing to make its Olympic debut.
Sector Snapshot: Construction Robotics Funding Soars To $1.6B, Tripling Previous Peak
Companies spanning construction and robotics have raised about $1.6 billion so far this year — more than 4x the $389 million recorded in all of 2025 — according to Crunchbase data. The surge was driven by three companies that raised the majority of the funding.
ABC Affiliate Anchor Exits After 20 Years, Replacement Not Yet Announced
ABC 7 Chicago anchor Ravi Baichwal exits after 20 years as the station prepares for a temporary replacement.
Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Are you buying?
Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly-traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.
A Framework for Context Enrichment and Selective Robustness in LLM Social Agents
Researchers use large language models as agents in social simulations, where agents are prompted with observations and background information intended to shape their actions. Yet LLM agents have been shown to substantially change their behavior under meaning-preserving prompt variations, creating a validation problem for social simulation. One plausible hypothesis is that this brittleness reflects a lack of grounding and can be reduced by enriching the context provided to the agents. Whether ric
Magnetohydrodynamics During Reheating
Reheating is a crucial phase that connects inflation with the hot Big Bang Universe. During this phase, the nonlinear interactions among the inflaton, the radiation plasma, and the primordial magnetic fields can influence the subsequent evolution of cosmic structures we observe today. In this paper, we develop a multifluid framework to investigate the evolution of three dimensional nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) during the non instantaneous reheating phase driven by the perturbative decay
In China, a flood of controversial clinical trials slows to a trickle
Following patient deaths, China restricts investigator-initiated biotech trials, leaving rare disease families and US investors facing an uncertain future.
Cristiano Ronaldo retires from the Portugal national team following rift with manager
The Portuguese superstar announced his decision to retire from the national team on Thursday, ending his career with Euro 2016 glory and two UEFA Nations League crowns
Workers strike across France, hundreds of thousands expected to protest
Demonstrators are demanding an increase in the minimum wage and higher salaries for all workers, among other reforms.
South Korea Posts Record Current Account Surplus, Surpassing $60B in Sept.
In September, South Korea’s current account surplus surpassed $60 billion for the first time in history, driven by strong exports centered on semiconductors. A
The Pitt and ER are similar enough for lawsuit to proceed, judge rules
The widow of ER creator Michael Crichton argues The Pitt is effectively a reboot of the 1990s series.
Zero Trust Agent Systems that Pass Audits and Still Ship
Advait Patel shares a playbook for securing AI agent systems in production. He discusses moving defense boundaries from the prompt to the tool layer, enforcing scoped workload identities, and mitigating prompt injection via tool outputs. He explains how to structure audit-ready observability and imp
Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
Discord is moving its apps fully over to the Rust programming language.
Cristiano Ronaldo announces retirement from international football
"To the Portuguese people, the day has come for me to hand back the No. 7 shirt of our national team,” the 41-year-old Ronaldo said in a long video message on social media.
25-year-old woman died within a month after catching flu
She was rushed to hospital and placed in intensive care where her condition rapidly deteriorated
NFL playoff picture: Five games with the biggest postseason implications as Packers face pivotal test
SportsLine projections reveal how Packers-Patriots and four other pivotal matchups could alter postseason chances
3,000 tarantulas hidden inside luggage seized at Peruvian airport
In a peculiar failed smuggling attempt, 3,000 tarantulas were seized at a Peruvian airport.
Bluesky was right all along and will accept your apology any time
Bluesky is a niche Twitter-clone frequently accused of being an echo chamber for progressives. After the blue tsunami of this week’s midterms, however, its inhabitants don’t seem to be echoing themselves so much as the vast majority of American voters. The sheer scale of Democrats’ victory is staggering. They won control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress, flipping Senate seats in seven states Trump carried in 2024—including Republican stronghold Texas, which now also has a Democratic gove
La Bola Negra review: This fiercely ambitious historical drama is one of the great LGBTQ+ films of our time
This film from Spanish co-directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi explores a triptych of time-hopping tales.
Postman added itself to Claude Code and Codex without asking
An update to the Postman desktop app installed plugins into Claude Code and OpenAI Codex without asking, and users report entries in Cursor and the GitHub Copilot CLI as well. A startup hook pushed the agents toward Postman's tools for API work. Postman says it is reverting the change. Here are the
Security officer attacked and killed near Sri Lankan Embassy in Jordan's capital
CAIRO (AP) — An assailant attacked and killed a security officer near the Sri Lankan Embassy in Jordan’s capital on Thursday, authorities said. Jordan’s Public Security Directorate said that a member of its forces was assaulted by a sharp object and died, and that an investigation was launched into
Fireballs and a supermoon: SoCal stargazers should brace for a busy month of astronomical events
SoCal stargazers can brace for a November packed with astronomical events, including the Taurids meteor showers and a close encounter between Jupiter and Mars.
Dialysis may not be the default treatment for older kidney patients
Dialysis should not necessarily be regarded as the default option for older people with kidney failure, the first randomized study of its kind in the world, led by the University of Bristol, has found.
Why Ravens should trade Derrick Henry: Don't let Baltimore's QB woes drag down 'King Henry'
The running back should have a chance to win his elusive crown before it's too late
Cristiano Ronaldo announces international retirement
Cristiano Ronaldo has announced his retirement from international football.
From postpartum to menopause, ‘brain fog’ affects women at work. Here’s how leaders can help
I was four centimeters dilated and in active labor with my first child when I successfully pitched our startup’s $5 million seed round. Two years later, I closed our $10 million Series A just seven days after giving birth to my second child. These are the kinds of stories about ambitious women that we love to celebrate. The startup founder who pumps in the airport bathroom on her way to a client meeting (been there). The seasoned executive who barely misses a beat through perimenopausal brain
Why Avatar: Seven Havens Won’t Release New Episodes This Week
Curious about why Avatar: Seven Havens won’t release new episodes this week? Here’s everything you need to know.
AMD promises not to abandon Ryzen — but keeps drifting away from gamers and PCs
AMD's data-center business now generates nearly two-thirds of its revenue, while gaming sales are down 40% and the PC segment is losing ground. The company says it remains committed to Ryzen and the consumer market, but its latest results show how much its business is shifting toward AI and server c
FlowReconBench: Accuracy, calibration and cost of learned and classical flow reconstruction from sparse sensors
Reconstructing full flow fields from sparse sensors requires prior assumptions about unmeasured regions and physical variables. Yet it remains unclear when learned models outperform classical estimators and which aspects of their predictions can be trusted. FlowReconBench evaluates ten learned and five classical methods on three regimes: a laminar cylinder wake across Reynolds numbers, two-dimensional Kolmogorov turbulence and a large-scale three-dimensional (3D) isotropic turbulence. Methods sh
After 22 years in space, NASA’s 3,200-pound Swift space telescope crashes back to Earth over Indonesia after failed $30 million rescue mission; agency estimates 1-in-2,100 risk of debris harming someone
NASA’s 3,200-pound Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has plunged back to Earth after nearly 22 years in orbit, bringing an end to a mission that transformed scientists’ understanding of some of the universe’s most powerful explosions. The space telescope re-entered Earth's atmosphere over northern Suma
Cell-type-specific modularity in E/I networks shapes dynamical regimes and computational capabilities
Structural modularity is a ubiquitous feature of brain networks that shapes neural dynamics and information processing. Yet excitatory and inhibitory populations can differ in their modular organization, and it remains unclear how this asymmetry affects network dynamics and computation. Here, using dynamical mean-field theory and simulations of networks performing complex temporal tasks, we show that independently tuning excitatory and inhibitory modularity controls the dynamical regimes of bala
Week 9 NFL odds, lines, totals, spreads for every game, including Ravens-Jaguars, Jets-Chiefs, Giants-Eagles
Check the Week 9 NFL odds, spreads, moneylines, and totals for all 15 games, including Ravens-Jaguars on TNF.
What can Democrats do in Congress under President Trump?
What can the Democratic party actually change when it comes to Donald Trump’s decisions, policies and presidency?
Stop climbing the wrong career mountain
In November 2015, I booked a suite in a midtown Manhattan hotel and spent the night pacing, rehearsing my presentation in an empty room. The next morning I would host the first breakfast workshop for my new wealth advisory firm. I had left a prominent position as a director of wealth management at Morgan Stanley to build a company based on a radically different idea of wealth. My guests included a senior partner at a private equity firm managing more than $10 billion and the head of a major f
Married at First Sight UK cancelled after BBC revealed rape allegations
Channel 4 will reinvest the show's budget in "distinctive new programming" and said sorry again to the women involved.
Asus Zenbook 14 Arrives in India With Three Processor Options
All three variants of the Asus Zenbook 14 run Windows 11 Home.
From Pixels to Actions - Towards Native Vision-Language-Action Policies
Vision-language-action models are typically built on a simple premise: perception is first compressed by visual encoders, and action reasoning begins only afterwards. Yet manipulation often hinges on precisely the visual signals most vulnerable to this abstraction, e.g., local geometry, boundaries, depth, and subtle state changes. This raises a fundamental question: should action policies inherit a fixed visual endpoint, or directly access evolving visual computation? We introduce NEO-VLA, a str
Iranians hold anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rallies across the country | Africanews
Iranians held anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rallies across the country on Wednesday, marking the National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance and denouncing what they call U.S.-Israeli hegemony.
Ideas: I Was Lucky to Be Alive. But I Missed Being Pretty.
A pump-up girl faces her own mortality.
Week 9 Super Bowl stock report: Jeffery Simmons trade legitimizes Bears, QB injuries tank Ravens
We assess the NFL title race after Week 8 and identify three upcoming games that could reshape the Super Bowl picture
Police bodycam captures moments before deadly Russian strike in Ukraine
Bodycam footage released by Ukraine’s National Police shows people rushing into an underground shelter.
Apple’s Music Hall signals a bigger strategic plan
Why would Apple launch a concert venue? This is the question I’ve been asking myself since it inaugurated its Apple Music Hall, nestled underneath its U.K. headquarters at London’s Battersea Power Station, in late September. Not just any performance space, this intimate 600-person, 48-speaker hall features Apple’s Spatial Audio technology, which uses Dolby Atmos and dynamic head tracking to turn flat stereo sound into a three-dimensional, 360-degree experience. To my eye, the Music Hall i
Cheek of the Week: Which K-Pop Hottie Is Baring Her Booty?!
Can you score this week's Cheek of the Week?!
Under pressure: it's time to get realistic about ransomware and resilience
Most ransomware victims are attacked more than once, Semperis's 2026 report finds. Why realistic crisis exercises and identity recovery matter.
BGMI Air Gets December 10 Launch Date, Aims To Bring Battlegrounds Mobile India To Budget Phones
Krafton confirms BGMI Air India launch date as December 10, with the lightweight mobile game crossing 14 million Google Play Store pre-registrations.
Google HQ refused 54,000-signature petition, campaigners say
Campaigners oppose the development of a large data centre on a wildlife site at Thurrock.
PINR-ESI: Physics-Informed Self-Supervised Implicit Neural Representation Framework for EEG Extended-Source Imaging
EEG extended-source imaging aims to localize active cortical regions and characterize their spatial extent, yet supervised inverse networks typically depend on synthetic EEG-source pairs and may be sensitive to synthetic-to-real mismatch. We propose a physics-informed self-supervised implicit neural representation (INR) framework for spatial source reconstruction without paired source labels or simulation-based supervised pretraining. The lead field matrix encodes the source-to-sensor volume-con
NFL Week 9 upset alert: Texans allow Chargers their first win, Vikings overtake Josh Allen's Bills
Plus, Denver is a road favorite that could be due for a letdown
Four people, including a child, killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
Gaza officials say more than 1,600 Palestinians have been killed since the so-called 'ceasefire' took effect.
Samsung Leads Q3 DRAM Revenue Amid SK hynix Closing In
Driven by expanded investments in artificial intelligence (AI) data centers and rising memory prices, the global DRAM market size has grown nearly fivefold in
Garth Brooks announces 10 Irish concerts for 2027
US country star Garth Brooks is returning to Ireland and will play 10 dates here in 2027.
A YC startup is putting $1M behind five unsolved materials science problems for AI
Discovered Materials, a months-old YC startup that uses AI to find chip materials, is offering $200,000 for each solution to five open materials science problems.
Longer Estrogen Exposure Linked to Less Blood Vessel Damage in Women's Brains Later in Life
The brain is directly influenced by hormone changes, and scientists suspect this could explain why women are generally more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease.
AI and Robotics Archives - Interesting Engineering
Coverage here spans industrial robots, cobots, humanoids, drones, and service robots, along with the hardware and software that enable them to operate at scale.
What the midterms could mean for the future of health AI
The midterms highlighted the negative sentiment around AI across the U.S. How will those attitudes trickle down to legislating AI use in health care?
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Indonesia rushes thousands of troops to Jakarta amid wiretap scandal
Indonesia is deploying thousands of troops in Jakarta amid an alleged wiretapping scandal targeting the president.
How Norway flipped Trump’s name-calling into destination marketing
After President Donald Trump called Norway a “shithouse country,” its tourism agency turned the insult into a marketing opportunity to promote its designer bathrooms. Trump criticized Norway at a rally in Michigan on October 25 because he didn’t receive the Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Disparaging the Nordic nation with a term he’s previously used for Haiti, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen, Trump said he didn’t want immigrants
MGM’s Most Underrated 4-Part Horror Show Is Dominating on Netflix Now
MGM’s hit horror series From climbs Netflix’s Top 10 charts as viewers discover its first three seasons on the streaming platform.