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T. Rowe Fund Targets Chinese Winners of Booming AI Supply Chain
A top-performing T. Rowe Price fund is ramping up bets on Greater China companies lower down the AI supply chain, betting the region’s investment cycle still has room to catch up with global trends.
4 things Android folding phones must learn from the iPhone Duo - and 3 things they still do better | Stuff
Apple's mix of hardware and software look promising - but Android isn't immediately in second place
Shoppers know fast fashion harms the environment but keep buying
New RMIT University research suggests environmental awareness alone may not stop people from buying ultra-fast fashion, with price and convenience trumping sustainability concerns for shoppers.
Eye health diet 'needs colour and more than 5 a day'
For National Eye Health Week, optometrist Francesca Marchetti recommends a varied diet
2027 NFL Draft: It's early, but Arch Manning hasn't looked like a first-rounder, let alone a No. 1 pick
The underlying numbers explain why there's reason for concern -- but not reason to panic
Mourinho holds up images of ‘two clear red cards’ after Atletico defeat
Jose Mourinho held up images of ‘two clear red card’ challenges he says cost his team the match against Atletico.
‘Nothing’s going to feel good now’ for workers uncomfortable with change, says Cisco CEO
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday morning. Chuck Robbins has a unique perch from which to observe American businesses and
Brandi Glanville Says Health Issues Have Wiped Out Her Social Life
Brandi Glanville says her ongoing health battle has left her pretty much living like a recluse ... telling TMZ she barely sees anyone besides her kids.
AI shopping scams are getting terrifyingly good – here's how to spot and avoid them | Stuff
Remember when you could spot a dodgy website from a mile away? Unfortunately, that’s no longer the case. Gone are the days of telltale signs like blurry
Apple could steal Pixel's homework for its Nest Hub rival and the iPhone Duo
According to a new Bloomberg report, the upcoming Apple smart display could use Pixel-like facial recognition tech.
Earth is on track for the hottest year on record, experts say
Earth is on track for its hottest year on record after a brutal summer of extreme temperatures, experts say.
Dad loses 28st without resorting to surgery or weight loss jabs
Mark Bailey used to wear 72-inch waist trousers after consuming 7,500 calories a day. He has even dropped two shoe sizes after his dramatic weight loss
Betting line, first look at South Carolina vs. Alabama: Tough SEC road test up next
The Gamecocks are looking to respond after their first loss. They’ll get Tuscaloosa at night.
Can the US win the AI cold war with China?
US attempts to slow down Chinese progress on AI through economic restrictions could backfire.
Toys ‘R’ Us expands again with new store openings: List of standalone locations to grow in 2026
Toys “R” Us has announced plans to expand its retail footprint nationwide. In partnership with Go! Retail Group, the toy retailer has plans to open 120 standalone U.S. stores just in time for the holiday season. The new stores will feature toys and collectibles from popular brands like Lego, Hot Wheels, Barbie, Pokémon, and others. Where adults can be a kid Some of the new stores will feature “Creator Studios,” which are described as dedicated spaces where toy brands, cont
Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac buy historic Wrexham football pub
The Turf is a regular feature on the Welcome to Wrexham Disney documentary series.
AI+ Nova 2 Power 5G Launched in India With These Features
The handset is available in Golden Blue Fusion, Blue Fusion, Ocean Green, Deep Purple, and Midnight Black colour options.
The Dreame X60 Pro Ultra Complete is a ridiculously clever and exceedingly competent premium hybrid robot vac for the well-heeled
The Dreame X60 Pro Ultra Complete is one of the very best robotic floor cleaners money can buy
World's first FDA-cleared self-balancing personal exoskeleton launched
The exoskeleton uses self-balancing technology powered by physical AI, allowing users to stand and move upright while keeping their hands free to reach, carry objects, prepare food, and open doors.
British woman falls in love with teh c, asks Singaporeans for tips to prevent stains on teeth
What if your favourite drink came at the cost of your dental health? For one teh c lover in Singapore, her habit of drinking it daily may be doing just that. In an Instagram reel posted on Sept 15, British dietitian Ellie Cheale shared that her dentist had started noticing grey stains on her teeth d
MLB Power Rankings: Dodgers World Series wouldn't prove need for a salary cap, but facts never stopped anyone
With one week to go in the regular season, the question will soon shift to whether anyone can unseat the reigning champions in October
Why do Sudan’s humanitarian truces keep failing and who is to blame?
Efforts to bring about humanitarian truces in Sudan hit a dead end as warring factions prioritise battlefield victories.
How one branding agency redesigned its website to reduce carbon emissions
After one Australian branding agency discovered its website produced more carbon than the average webpage, it redesigned it to be more efficient. In the process, the agency learned something about striking the right balance between sustainability and style. MEK is a Melbourne studio that’s worked with clients like the conservation groups WWF Australia and Sea Shepherd. During a trivia night in 2022, its team learned that sending 100 emails has a bigger carbon footprint than driving one
Presley Gerber, Cindy Crawford's son, dies aged 27
His family asked for privacy during a "very difficult and painful time" following the model's death.
India’s Surprise Growth Market Is China But Trade Deficits Swell
India is selling more manufactured goods to China, with electronics emerging as a bright spot in a trade relationship that remains overwhelmingly tilted in Beijing’s favor.
MintAct: A Unified Visual Agent for Digital Environments
We present MintAct, a family of vision-language models that unifies UI grounding, multi-step navigation across mobile, desktop, and web, and visual tool use, trained at 2B, 4B, and 8B scales. Through careful design of our environments, data, and training recipes, MintAct models match the performance of per-domain specialists across all of these capabilities. To enable this, we develop a scalable environment and reinforcement learning (RL) infrastructure. On the environment side, we host hundreds
Resurrecting Electroweak Dark Matter via Type-II Seesaw in light of recent LZ Event
The recent observation of the high-energy nuclear recoil event LZ230616 with a recoil energy around 248 keV provides an interesting possibility to probe inelastic doublet dark matter (iDM). However, the electroweak doublet DM scenarios face strong constraints from solar DM capture for DM masses around the TeV scale which give rise to correct thermal relic density. In this work, we revive the inelastic doublet DM (iDM) scenario via type-II seesaw. In particular, we consider an inert lepton double
'Other generations just buried it' - Youths share their mental health concerns
The BBC's Catherine Burns spoke to some young mental health ambassadors who called for an increase in mental health support.
Giants vs. Rams predictions, odds, time: Week 2 'Monday Night Football' picks, NFL best bets by proven model
The SportsLine projection model has revealed its New York Giants vs. Los Angeles Rams picks for NFL Week 2 on 'Monday Night Football' at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.
NFL’s Azeez Al-Shaair pays tribute to slain Palestinian girl Wafaa Akila
Al-Shaair wears eye black with Akila's name despite being fined for displaying messages about Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Did you buy an iPhone recently? Apple might owe you up to $95, but you have to act fast to claim it
The prices of the latest iPhones are higher than ever, but there’s some good news for people who bought some models that are a few years older: Apple may owe you up to $95. That’s because in May, the company agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging it misled customers about the AI capabilities of select iPhones sold in 2024 and 2025. Now people who say they were impacted can finally make a claim. Here’s what you need to know. What is the settlement about? The settlement centers on a class ac
Controversial 44% RT Series Becomes Netflix's No. 1 Streaming Show
A controversial new Netflix series with a 44% Rotten Tomatoes score has topped the platform's streaming charts in the United States.
I tried the new Apple Health app, and it's everything I wanted from Google Health
Apple is gearing up to launch a new Health app later this year, and it's the AI-infused wellness app I wanted from Google Health.
Cross-sector generalization of accident-process role classification in occupational accident narratives
Occupational accident narratives contain valuable information about work situations, unfavourable conditions, accident events, and their consequences. Automatically structuring these narratives can facilitate large-scale accident analysis and support occupational risk prevention. However, the terminology and writing styles used to describe accidents vary considerably across sectors and organisations, raising questions about the ability of automated coding systems to generalize beyond their train
Johnson Space Center Sparks Curiosity at Houston’s 33rd Annual Japan Festival
2 Min Read Johnson Space Center Sparks Curiosity at Houston’s 33rd Annual Japan Festival On Sept. 12-13, NASA’s Johnson Space Center employees brought the excitement and wonder of space exploration to Houston’s Japan Festival at Hermann Park. Attendees at the Japan Festival in Houston’s Hermann Park try on real astronaut gloves and a helmet while learning about NASA missions on Sept.
High Reconstruction Quality and Restart Repeatability Do Not Guarantee Recovery of Ground-Truth Muscle Synergies
High reconstruction quality and agreement across repeated fits do not necessarily establish recovery of muscle synergies. We tested whether a variance-accounted-for (VAF)/elbow rule recovers the generating synergy count and spatial vectors, whether high restart repeatability indicates recovery, and how five design factors affect recovery. Non-negative matrix factorisation was applied to 4,320 synthetic 16-muscle datasets varying generating rank, noise, trial count, spatial similarity and activat
2026 NFL Week 3 early odds: Eagles road favorites vs. Bears after Caleb Williams injury; Broncos home dogs
Here's a look at the lines for Week 3 in the NFL as we continue the start of the 2026 season
Why is the US trying ‘regime change’ again?
The US invasions after 9/11 were disasters -- but the US is trying again in Iran anyway
Why Alan Cumming and Campari want you to ‘stay bitter’ for Negroni Week
The Negroni and The Traitors share delicious bitterness. For the classic cocktail, that bite comes from the Italian liqueur Campari, while on the hit reality competition show, the sting comes from contestants who are banished from a Scottish castle and eliminated from the game. This week, Campari is mixing the two in a timely social and digital marketing campaign called “Stay Bitter” that will feature The Traitors host Alan Cumming. The content will run across Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, an
Gavin and Stacey co-stars support Strictly debut, says Melanie Walters
Walters, best known for playing Gwen West in the BBC comedy, is partnered with professional Aljaz Skorjanec.
Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown - Slashdot
Tom's Hardware reports: Four plaintiffs subscribed to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the developers of these AI models violated antitrust laws when they agreed to slow AI development. According to the Associated Press, the lawsuit argues that ...
Designer-RSI: Evolving Procedural Memory from User Traffic for Agentic Graphic Design
Professional graphic design is a long-horizon agentic task in which structured, editable artifacts emerge from many interdependent actions, yet outcomes admit no reliable programmatic oracle. We introduce a continual adaptation framework in which a frozen frontier model operates professional design software through more than 230 tools, while an external procedural memory of natural-language skills accumulates and refines reusable design procedures from experience. The memory widens by acquiring
Human remains in museum depots force Swiss to confront colonial legacy
Canton Basel City is returning the remains of three Indigenous people to Chile. For the Kawésqar community, it is an act of dignity and healing. For Switzerland, it is just the beginning: its museums hold at least 4,000 human remains from the colonial era. “Today, we want to apologise to you,” said
Alkermes’ orexin agonist shows potential to treat ADHD in early-stage trial
The drugmaker Alkermes said a therapy called an orexin agonist for the first time showed potential to treat people with ADHD in an early-stage study.
Swiss captain Xhaka admits obtaining Covid vaccination certificates without jab
BERLIN, Sept 21 — Switzerland captain Granit Xhaka admitted that he obtained coronavirus vaccination certificates without actually being vaccinated, reported German Press Agency...
How oil, gas losses have shrunk Iran’s GDP by 10 percent during war
The oil and gas sector shrank 26 percent, new official data shows, pointing to the costs of the US-Israel war on Iran.
Arclin Expands Firepoint® Distribution Through New Partnership with Capital Lumber
/PRNewswire/ -- Arclin, a leading materials science company, today announced a new distribution partnership with Capital Lumber for Arclin Firepoint®, its...
Calvin Harris recognised for 1.6m world record DJ set crowd
An estimated 1.6m people attended the Dumfries DJ's set in Sao Paulo in Brazil earlier this year.
Bessent Hails ‘Successful’ China Talks on AI, Trade
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described talks with his Chinese counterparts that spanned artificial intelligence, trade and investment as “very successful” ahead of this week’s summit between presidents of the world’s two biggest economies. Bloomberg's Stephen Engle shares what we know. (Sourc
Your cloud survived everything except the real world
War damage, air traffic chaos, and a storage shortage expose the cost of treating resilience as someone else's problem
How can Europe boost kids’ safety online? Ask the Euronews AI chatbot
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed the EU KIDS ACT on 17 September. It limits children’s access to social media and makes online games, video-sharing sites, and AI chatbots minor-proof. But what does it include? Ask the Euronews AI chatbot. #EuXl
A new start after 60: I’m 92 and cycling is my life – despite the crash that left me unconscious
Arthur Plummer got a bike when he retired at 65 and joined a cycling club as one of its youngest members. Now he is its oldest but still racking up 5,000km every year
'Monday Night Football' prediction, odds, time: Giants vs. Rams picks from expert on 28-10 roll
Larry Hartstein reveals his picks for New York Giants vs. Los Angeles Rams in the 2026 Week 2 'Monday Night Football' matchup
Quote of the day by George Washington Carver, 'Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise' offers timeless advice on nature, mindfulness, quiet moments, everyday inspiration
Quote of the day by George Washington Carver encourages us to notice a moment that many people never see because they are asleep, busy or distracted. Before sunrise, a forest becomes a meeting place between darkness and light, silence and sound, stillness and movement. Its beauty does not demand an
CNN Removed From White House TV Press Pool After Trump Ban
The network had been scheduled to be the primary TV representative for a rotating pool covering the president Monday.
Love Is Blind Star Marries Hinge Match in Romantic Hometown Wedding
Mallory Zapata of Love Is Blind tied the knot with her Hinge match in a romantic hometown celebration. Get the scoop here!
Iran and China create first-of-their-kind autonomous AI influence campaigns
The campaigns caught the attention of U.S. intelligence, major tech companies and security experts.
Video. Lowriders take over San Francisco streets in colourful parade
Thousands lined Mission Street in San Francisco for the King of the Street parade, where more than 300 custom lowriders celebrated Chicano …
Non-linear halo bias for accurate modelling of cosmic infrared background anisotropies
Halo models provide the standard framework for interpreting cosmic infrared background (CIB) anisotropies and inferring the connection between dusty star-forming galaxies and their host dark matter halos. Recent studies have shown that inaccuracies in the modelling of halo clustering may bias the inferred parameters governing star formation in dark matter halos. In this work, we investigate whether a more detailed description of halo clustering can alleviate these shortcomings. We incorporate a
Warning over anxiety pills after 300 hospitalisations and 12 deaths
UK health chiefs are reviewing the safety of a common heart drug used off-label to reduce anxiety symptoms, following a string of fatal overdoses.
NFL DFS, Giants vs. Rams: Top daily Fantasy picks, lineup advice for 'Monday Night Football'
DFS millionaire Mike McClure shares his top daily Fantasy picks and lineups for Rams vs. Giants on 'Monday Night Football'
After Aleema, 2 more sisters of jailed Imran Khan detained for 30 days in Lahore
Police detained two more sisters of Imran Khan under public-order laws before PTI's planned September 27 protest. The move has sharpened the stand-off over Khan's jail treatment, health concerns and the party's march plans.
Korean Defense Firms Target Peru As Latin America Hub
Peru has emerged as a bridgehead for the expansion of K-defense into the Latin American market. HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, Korea Aerospace Industries, and Hy
BBC removes Mitchell and Webb comedy sketches from iPlayer
The corporation said it had included "the ones that still work today and not the ones that don't."