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Hate setting up eSIMs? Gemini might soon do it for you (APK teardown)
We've spotted a new connector for Gemini that help you set up a new eSIM, convert a physical SIM to an eSIM, transfer profiles, and more.
How Lao Gan Ma, China’s iconic chilli brand, got caught in an AI storm
Viral claims of AI-driven job cuts at the Guizhou-based firm have brought anxieties about automation into sharp focus.
Weighing dark matter particles with gravitational waves
It is commonly assumed that the mass of dark matter particles cannot be determined from their gravitational effects when dark matter behaves as collisionless matter. Here we show that extreme-mass-ratio inspirals observable by millihertz gravitational-wave observatories such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) could measure the mass of ultralight dark matter particles in sufficiently dense dark matter spikes. The separation of scales between the two black holes allows ultralight dar
EU alcohol industry defies Heineken’s warning on weight-loss drugs
Heineken urged pubs and bars to adapt to the rise of drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy
Rays steal Game 4 from Brewers in extras to stay alive in World Series
The Rays avoided a sweep with a stunning 12th-inning rally vs. the Brewers to take Game 4 of the World Series.
Netanyahu or Eisenkot? Can you form Israel’s next coalition government?
Israel has only ever been governed by coalitions. Can you put one together that reaches 61 of the Knesset's 120 seats?
These tiny rat backpacks are designed to help find victims in an earthquake
All too often rats get a bad rap. They can be vectors of disease, and cities like New York invest heavily in fighting them. But maybe it’s just that we’re not seeing their potential. Once trained, backpack-wearing African giant pouched rats can save lives. To assist in disaster recovery like an earthquake or building collapse, the nonprofit APOPO trains rats nicknamed “RescueRATs” to get into spaces humans or robots can’t access on their own. These rats wear cust
Neil Young again sues Trump campaign for playing Rockin' in the Free World at rally
The Canadian-American musician sued Trump in 2020 over unauthorised use of song at a political event.
The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid
As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.
Honeycomb-Surfels: Compact Hexagonal Primitives for Efficient Scene Rendering and Reconstruction
Novel view synthesis and 3D reconstruction have advanced rapidly with radiance fields and splatting, yet their memory and computational demands limit their use in resource-constrained settings. We introduce Hexels: novel planar hexagonal surface elements with a first-order spatial color field for efficient 3D scene and 2D image representation. Hexels exploit locally planar regions with smoothly varying appearance using fewer, larger primitives. Their hexagonal support provides an area- and bound
Measuring the magnetization profiles of galaxy groups and clusters
Magnetic fields are vital in determining the physical conditions of baryons in massive halos. They are, however, notoriously difficult to observe. This impacts problems from our understanding of galaxy formation, to the observed deficit in the amplitude of thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) power spectrum that affects cosmological inferences. Although Faraday rotation measures (RMs) offer a direct probe of magnetic fields, it weights magnetic fields by the free-electron density. Several probes of
Rethinking longevity beyond a longer lifespan - Mass General Brigham
... health and metabolic health. “We look at those four domains and ask, 'What if we could see those diseases coming and stop them?'” he said. “And ...
2026 MLB playoff bracket: Schedule and scores as Rays stave off World Series elimination vs. Brewers
The Rays walked off the Brewers in extra innings in Game 4 to avoid the sweep
Injuries reported after two trains collide in Spain
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How Microsoft quietly reinvented itself to build better AI
Anthropic↗ Kevin Scott is a maker. Given that he’s been Microsoft’s CTO for almost a decade, that doesn’t come as a shock. But his passion for making stuff extends to two hobbies—pottery and woodworking—that he pursues in a studio he built in Los Gatos, California. Large and lavishly outfitted, it’s packed with the tools of all his trades: a gas-powered kiln and a full woodshop, but also an office bedecked in computing equipment. On any given day, he may spend 9 or 10 hours there on video cal
‘DWTS’ Week 7: Harry Shum Jr. Earns First Perfect Score of the Season With ‘Saw’-Inspired Contemporary Dance
"Dancing With the Stars" Horror Movie Night brought spooks and surprises before the season's first double elimination.
Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication
A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.
Clear out your iPhone storage with this $29.99 lifetime deal
Cleaner Kit finds duplicate photos and shrinks bulky videos on your iPhone for a one-time $29.99.
Improving cosmological distance measurements at high redshift using Lyman-Alpha forest BAO reconstruction
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) measures baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the Lyman-$α$ (Lyman-alpha) forest and provides a robust probe of the expansion history in the matter-dominated era. Yet, non-linear structure formation broadens and shifts the BAO peak. To undo these effects, we extend standard Zel'dovich reconstruction, routinely applied to galaxy surveys, to the Lyman-alpha forest. We validate our methodology on large-volume idealized Lyman-alpha forest mocks painte
Study refines our understanding of long COVID | Stanford Report
... health effects of COVID ... They may have underlying conditions, non-COVID infection, or just seek medical ...
Rays avoid World Series sweep, edge Brewers in extra-innings Game 4 - UPI.com
Ben Williamson capped a 12th-inning rally with a walk-off single, leading the Tampa Bay Rays to victory Wednesday in Game 4 of the World Series.
Israeli right makes provocative statements as election votes are counted
Netanyahu and Smotrich rail against Arab voters as rival political camps face an uncertain path to power.
The people in your workplace matter a lot more than where they work
Just before the turn of the millennium, I worked for a global company in a boring six-floor brick building with long corridors and offices behind closed doors. I worked on a team of eight, all located in a corner on the third floor. There were coffee machines everywhere, but for some reason, people came to our corner for their breaks. It wasn’t because we had better coffee; it was because of Martina. Martina was our boss. Under her wing, the team stayed motivated, engaged, and full of ener
Michael V. says content creators must adapt to MTRCB rules to join ‘Bubble Gang’
Michael V said “Bubble Gang” is still looking for content creators who possess the traits needed for the long-running gag show, noting that television comedy requires a different kind of discipline. In a round-table interview alongside his cast members EA Guzman, Analyn Barro, Matt Lozano and Diego,
VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
Jio Platforms closes India’s largest IPO at $3.2b
The IPO received more than 1.38 crore applications, while qualified institutional buyers subscribed 70.55x their allocation.
A simple daily fiber supplement reduced arthritis pain and improved strength
A new clinical trial suggests that a simple daily fiber supplement could significantly reduce knee osteoarthritis pain, improve muscle strength, and make the body less sensitive to pain. Researchers discovered that the benefits may be linked to changes in gut bacteria and the hormone GLP-1, revealin
Every route counts, but some count more: a max-plus view of the C. elegans brain
Brains do not simply add up every signal they receive: they select which routes dominate. Yet connectomes are usually analyzed with tools that sum over all paths and place neural states in Euclidean spaces, blurring the feedback circuits that may sustain internal states. Here we treat neural signaling as routing instead of diffusion and describe it with max-plus algebra, in which signals accumulate along a path and the strongest route prevails. We propose a model in which the functional connecto
The GAA Social meets Mayo All-Ireland winner and Footballer of the Year nominee Jack Carney
The GAA Social returns for an in-depth interview with Mayo All-Ireland winner and Footballer of the Year nominee Jack Carney.
Mapping the siege of Yemen’s Taiz, and the price families are paying
Three weeks into the siege of Yemen’s third-largest city, prices have doubled, and families are down to the basics.
Climate change, sea level rise, and the agricultural revolution
We test various hypotheses for the invention and spread of agriculture: higher temperatures, increased seasonality, carbon dioxide fertilization, sea level rise, and technological progress on the extensive margin. We successfully replicate Matranga (QJE 2024). His seasonality hypothesis survives alternative data, estimators, and competing hypotheses. Population density played a role in the invention of agriculture, while spatial diffusion was important for its spread. Sea level rise and climate
Canceled Food Network Show Returns for a Surprise Reunion
Jeff Mauro revealed major news about The Kitchen’s reunion episode, including its air date, after Food Network’s cancellation.
3 out of 4 responses to UK smoke-free generation consultation were AI bot-generated
Three-quarters of all the responses to the U.K.'s public consultation in 2023 on creating a smoke-free generation and restricting disposable vape sales were generated by AI bots, finds an analysis of publicly available data and freedom of information requests, published online in the journal Tobacco
An EVM-Cosmos Bridge for Atomic, Semantic-Preserving Transfer of Environmental Tokens
Transferring semantically typed tokens between heterogeneous blockchains (e.g. EVM and Cosmos ecosystems) raises two problems: semantic mixing, the loss of a token's domainspecific meaning in transit (e.g., CO2 removals issued under different methodologies), and atomicity despite divergent consensus and timing assumptions. We propose a bridge that addresses both. A deterministic indicator identity derived from cryptographic commitments, mirrored in class registries on both chains and checked at
Curiosity Blog, Sols 5043-5049: Preparing to Drill at ‘Nazca’
Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 4 min read Curiosity Blog, Sols 5043-5049: Preparing to Drill at ‘Nazca’ NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this close-up image using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), showing the abundance of ro
7 Things to Know About Deep Vein Thrombosis | Hartford HealthCare | CT
Anyone can develop a blood clot. You don't have to be older or have a serious health condition to develop DVT. Sometimes, a recent injury or surgery ...
Nick Martinez, bullpen save the Rays from World Series elimination, but Game 4 win merely a stay of execution
The Rays had to use their Game 5 starter in relief in Game 4, but they got the win and for now, that's what matters
Israel’s stock market drops as exit polls show no clear election winner
Benchmark Tel Aviv 125 index falls more than 2 percent amid uncertainty over who will lead the next government.
Willow invented the wearable breast pump. Now it wants to dominate the breastfeeding market
When my first daughter was born in 2015, there weren’t many options when it came to breast pumps. The hospital sent me home with a device made by Medela—the industry leader—involving lots of tubes, funnel-shaped breast shields, and a loud motor that was attached to an electrical outlet. Bonding with other new moms often involved complaining about how awful pumping was. By the time my second daughter was born in 2022, a newfangled device had hit the market: a wearable breast pump that yo
Ex-TLC Star Karen Derrico's Ex Claims She's Hanging with Man Who Inappropriately Touched Their Daughter
Former TLC star Deon Derrico claims his ex-wife, Karen Derrico, is hanging out with a man who crossed the line ... allegedly touching one of their daughters inappropriately, TMZ has learned.
PHP’s AI-found flaws expose a bigger gap: Who guards AI agents?
AI found PHP’s decade-old flaws in two days. But patching at that speed means letting AI act on its own, and nobody’s guarding what it can touch.
ThinkWorld: World Imagination Reinforces Chain-of-Dynamics Reasoning
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have made substantial progress in robotic manipulation, but their generalization remains constrained by the diversity and coverage of action-labeled robot demonstrations. Human videos provide much broader behavioral and environmental experience, while learning from them faces a fundamental trade-off between scalable data and explicit action grounding. We introduce ThinkWorld, a VLA learning framework that grounds action reasoning in world dynamics and strength
How long you brew tea can have a big health impact, study shows
Black tea seemed to have a more consistent link with lower vascular disease
Sufficiency Theorem and Closed-Form Posterior for a Windowed Change Point Detection Task
To function effectively in a changing world, agents must detect changes and act on them in a timely fashion. We study this in the context of a change point detection task in which clicks arrive from a Poisson process whose rate changes at an unknown time. An agent must declare the change within a detection window of fixed width or the trial ends in a miss. Here we prove a window sufficiency theorem, which states that the posterior probability of a change depends only on the clicks within the mos
Shoebridge embarrassed by presence of Russian ambassador at address
Greens leader David Shoebridge has been embarrassed by the presence of the Russian ambassador at his inaugural address to the National Press Club.
Why is the system failing France’s younger generation?
Why are French youth rioting?
Eric Schmidt says China is now just 6 months behind the U.S. in AI
The AI race between the U.S. and China is the defining competition of our age. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, adviser to the Pentagon, and current CEO of Relativity Space, gives his most unvarnished assessment yet. He reveals that the gap he once estimated at two years has narrowed to six months, and takes on the open-source question that’s keeping Silicon Valley up at night. He also shares the one thing he believes could keep this from becoming a zero-sum game—even if the current pol
Fair City on Thursday: 'It's not going to work out well'
DI Buckley has a warning for his undercover colleague Síofra in Thursday's Fair City on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player.
Trouble is brewing in AI paradise
The AI boom faces a reckoning as infrastructure stocks tumble and fears of rogue agents grow. But Anthropic has other plans.
Meta’s Muse AI agent is now available in Singapore’s shopping apps and travel platforms
Early partners that work with Muse include Shopee, Grab, Singapore Airlines, Agoda, ShopBack, Klook, Trip.com, and Lazada.
Military Archives - Interesting Engineering
Stay informed about the latest advancements in military technology, defense strategies, and global conflicts. Explore the intersection of technology and the military world.
In Japan, body dysmorphic disorder can drive repeated surgery, daily distress
A woman in her 30s who sees cosmetic surgery as casually as a trip to the hairdresser is among patients highlighting the difficulty of identifying body dysmorphic disorder…
“May even surpass him” - Wasim Jaffer makes big claim about Abhishek Sharma after NZ vs IND 2026 3rd T20I
Former cricketer Wasim Jaffer believes Abhishek Sharma is already close to matching legendary former batter Chris Gayle and could even surpass him.
China says it takes Mbappe’s apology ‘seriously’ after Mao dictator comment
France international Kylian Mbappe's remarks saw him become the latest foreign sports figure to anger Beijing.
Contemporaneous Transmission Networks and Systemic Risk in European Banking
We study how contemporaneous equity-return transmission shapes systemic exposure among 51 listed European banks. Using a recursive non-Gaussian network model on volatility-standardized returns, we construct two market-capitalization-weighted measures based on direct and indirect transmission effects: the Systemic Impact Score (SIS), capturing a bank's potential influence on other institutions, and the Systemic Vulnerability Score (SVS), capturing its exposure to disturbances originating elsewher
6 Music Festival 2027 heads to Newcastle
The station's flagship festival will return to Tyneside after 12 years.
The best ways to tell if someone is using AI glasses - Engadget
If you're concerned about being unknowingly filmed with AI glasses, check for blinking LED lights or rely on certain apps to identify them as soon as possible.
GitHub - ParamThakkar123/simulusion: A modular PyTorch library designed for learning, training, and deploying world models across various environments.
A modular PyTorch library designed for learning, training, and deploying world models across various environments. - ParamThakkar123/simulusion
I Asked ChatGPT Terra 6.1 To Do My Job For A Day. Here’s What Happened
Just hours ago, OpenAI released one of its newest models, ChatGPT’s Terra 6.1. Since I have a complimentary ChatGPT Pro subscription, I got to tinker with the latest Terra model upgrade hours before the announcement. When I first saw it appear in my model selector on ChatGPT Work, I naturally had …
A unified coarse-grained neural network potential for the dynamics of biomolecular complexes
The behavior of biomolecular complexes is governed by chemically specific interactions and often involves rare events that atomistic molecular dynamics struggle to capture within accessible timescales. Here we introduce AMARO v2.0, a coarse-grained neural network potential that retains all heavy atoms and treats solvent implicitly. Hydrogen-aware bead types and total-charge conditioning provide a shared representation for proteins, drug-like molecules, and their complexes, including ternary prot
Arsenal legend hits out at Mikel Arteta reaction to Max Dowman red card
Max Dowman was sent-off during Arsenal's shock Carabao Cup defeat to Fleetwood Town on Tuesday, but Mikel Arteta's reaction is causing as much controversy as the referee's decision.
Hormuz oil spill forces closure of UAE beaches
An oil spill from a damaged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz has reached the UAE’s beaches, forcing their closure.
Hosting is not capturing: an exposure-capability framework and Hungary's electric-vehicle battery bet
How should a dependent economy respond when a polycrisis turns economic integration from a source of efficiency into a surface of vulnerability? This paper develops the exposure-capability framework, which maps a country's strategic options along two dimensions - the concentration of its external dependence and the depth of its productive capability - and yields four ideal strategies. It applies the framework to Hungary's large-scale bet on electric-vehicle battery manufacturing, asking what the
Ramayana: Nitish Bharadwaj 'Hopes That Bharateeyas Will Accept Sai Pallavi As Sita'
He also shared a screenshot of the line “Main Bansuri, Saans Tu” from ‘Mangal Rang’ in Ramayana Part 1 and asked if someone could “read between the lines?”