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Best Google Pixel 11 Deals: Save Hundreds on Google's Latest Flagship Phones - CNET
Trade-in offers, carrier promos and retailer discounts can help lower the cost of the Pixel 11 lineup.
NATO may redeploy anti-drone defenses as attacks sink more Black Sea shipping
Suspected Russian drone attacks sank a cargo ship and forced the evacuation of another vessel within two dozen miles of the coast of Bulgaria in the Black Sea on October 13. The latest attacks mean that five ships have been attacked in the exclusive economic zones of NATO member countries—spurring requests for NATO to redeploy counter-drone systems to provide more protection. Although there is no hard proof that the drone attacks originated from Russia, one of the ships that came under attack was the Ukrainian-operated coastal freighter Chelsea 3, registered under the flag of Malta.
Meet D-Rex, a Newly Discovered 5-Pound Fungus With a 65-Million-Year-Old Lineage
Learn why researchers suspect this fungus lives quietly inside healthy trees before feeding on their remains after they die.
Neighborhood conditions linked to childhood cancer survivors' long-term health
Survivors of childhood cancer can make lifestyle changes to reduce later-in-life chronic health conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease.
Will Zalatoris to miss entire 2027 PGA Tour season: Once-budding star set to undergo another back surgery
Zalatoris played in only four 2026 tournaments as injuries hampered his ability to compete at a high level
Tunisia: What has Kais Saied achieved economically in seven years?
Rising prices, unemployment and public debt test Saied’s economic promises.
Samsung Leads CXMT by Up to Seven Years in DRAM Technology
An analysis suggests that Samsung Electronics holds a lead of up to seven years over China’s Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) in DRAM process technology, ba
Machine Gun Kelly Calls Tweet About Him ‘Fumbling’ Ex-Fiancée Megan Fox ‘Faker Than a Pair of Tits’
A social media post began circulating, purporting to be Machine Gun Kelly lamenting his breakup with Meagan Fox, but he says it's fake.
Gudea leverages AI to help organizations prevent social media crises before they erupt
Every day, conversations unfold across social media and websites around the world. A seemingly insignificant post—whether it involves AI-generated misinformation, hate speech, or a damaging rumor—can quickly snowball into a much larger public controversy. Gudea, a company that tracks how stories and rumors spread online that describes itself as the “storm tracker for the internet,” […]
Modeling and Understanding Neural Weights of Humanoid Policies with Diffusion
Recent advances in robot learning have driven rapid progress in humanoid control, enabling increasingly agile behaviors in the real world. However, humanoid control networks are typically obtained through conventional training procedures, while comparatively little attention has been given to directly modeling the distribution of their learned weights and generating functional networks in weight space. In this work, we investigate whether high-performing humanoid control networks can be generati
New chip gyroscope measures rotation as slow as 37 degrees per hour
US researchers develop an optical gyroscope that detects rotation as slow as 37 degrees per hour.
Predicting Unseen Scientific Interactions: Conditional Flow Models Hallucinate Non-Additive Effects
Conditional generative models are increasingly used for scientific prediction beyond the direct training support. Yet scientific questions often concern whether one intervention changes the effect of another. Such interactions can be of primary interest while explaining little of the total variation, allowing models to appear accurate overall without recovering the relevant scientific effect. It remains unclear how these models learn interactions and when these successfully extrapolate to unseen
NFL Week 6 injury report: Broncos' Patrick Surtain, Talanoa Hufanga ruled out
Lamar Jackson, Caleb Williams and Michael Penix Jr. could be back under center this week, while the Eagles hope to regain Saquon Barkley
Kenya’s Ebola cases test preparedness beyond Nairobi
The scare exposed gaps in how far outbreak readiness reaches Kenya’s remote communities.
$100m Powerball hotspots revealed
One Aussie state has been particularly lucky when it comes to its numbers of recent multimillion-dollar jackpot winners.
Beerfest 2: Jay Chandrasekhar Explains What Needs to Happen for Potfest Movie to Be Made
Jay Chandrasekhar recently explained what needs to happen for Beerfest 2, aka Potfest movie, to be finally made.
Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis
The founders detailed how their startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from each iteration, and improve subsequent designs, all with the goal of automating and accelerating the chip design process.
AUKUS' nuclear-powered attack submarines' designs to be shaped by US firm
The latest contract is intended to help transfer specialized nuclear-submarine design knowledge, improve technical coordination and strengthen the industrial capabilities required to build and sustain advanced submarines.
Landau quantization of $C_3$ high-fold fermions in honeycomb lattices
We present the theory of the Landau levels of $C_3$ high-fold fermions in honeycomb lattices. These fermions arise as a generalization of the tight-binding model in a honeycomb lattice with one orbital per site, known to describe graphene, to a family of models with several orbitals per site transforming according to representations of $C_3$, relevant for triangulene two-dimensional crystals. The models are defined by the number of orbitals $n_a$ and $n_b$ at the $a$ and $b$ sites of the unit ce
Feasibility of a Patient-Specific Digital Twin for Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Trajectory Planning
Catheter obstruction is the commonest cause of shunt failure; freehand insertion at Keen's point leaves the tip free in cerebrospinal fluid in only one case in ten. We built a digital twin that reconstructs skull, scalp, ear and ventricles from preoperative CT by deterministic geometry, searches every entry around Keen's point for the perpendicular trajectory with the longest intraventricular length under safety constraints, and returns the plan as two ruler measurements from the ear and two dep
Fantasy football Week 6 Start 'Em & Sit 'Em: Jordan Love builds on breakout Week 5
With four teams on a bye and stars like Justin Jefferson and Jahmyr Gibbs unavailable, here are the start, sit and sleeper calls to navigate the toughest lineup decisions of the season
Trump suggests those who leak government information should ‘be shot’
The US president has long been unhappy with inside information about his administration being leaked to the media.
‘Like having an analyst in your pocket’: This macroeconomic data platform helps you follow the global money
Trillions of dollars flow from governments and organizations across the globe every single year, and the money can be nearly impossible to accurately track. A new data platform, however, is trying to make it easier. The Development Finance Observatory, which launches on Wednesday, gives users the ability to access tons of disparate data sources and make analyses using plain language. For instance, you might want to compare the debt paid by one country to another over the past 15 years,
Alien: Ridley Scott Sci-Fi Movie Sequel Gets Bad Update as Popular Rumor Is Debunked
Alien sequel gets a bad update as a popular rumor about Ridley Scott’s next sci-fi movie is debunked, raising questions about its future.
YouTube Music launches new labels as AI-generated music floods streaming platforms
The label will appear on the player page and include songs entirely generated by AI or partially, such as AI involved in composition and vocals.
Flock CEO defends surveillance technology amid national backlash: 'We shouldn't pause progress' | TechCrunch
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Flock CEO Garrett Langley defended his company's surveillance technology despite growing privacy concerns, arguing that its crime-fighting benefits outweigh the risks of abuse.
Over 6,800 detained as French school protests show no sign of ending
With high schools still blocked in several French cities, student unions are urging protests to merge in a fresh nationwide day of action on Saturday 17 October. #EuropeNews
I Ate Cottage Cheese Every Day for 2 Weeks—This Was the Most Surprising Change
The high-protein staple kept me energized and seemingly offered a welcome beauty benefit.
Wallaroos trio return for bumper quadruple header
The Wallaroos will welcome back a seasoned trio against Scotland to kick-off to a rugby quadruple header in Sydney.
Ship catches fire in Romania’s waters amid rising attacks in the Black Sea
Authorities are investigating whether drones may have been involved in the latest incident.
Countdn AI Launches Conversational AI Agent for MeeAww
Countdn AI, a global generative AI startup led by CEO Sanghee Kim, announced on Oct. 15 the launch of a conversational AI agent for MeeAww, its all-in-one AI v
Mark Ruffalo Calls Newsom Out for Putting Billionaires Above the Working Class 'Once Again'
"Just like the Paramount merger, Gavin Newsom does what he always does," the "Being Heumann" actor says of the California governor
Meet the five companies competing in the Startup Battlefield finals at Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
It’s time to unveil the five companies that will be competing in the Startup Battlefield finals.
Representation Conditioning for Generation
Representation-alignment methods effectively accelerate the diffusion transformer training. REPA, for example, uses a pretrained vision encoder to supervise an intermediate layer through an MLP projection head which is discarded after training. It aims to import semantics from the vision encoder to the diffusion backbone. While this objective is achieved at early layers by back-propagating the alignment loss, there is no guarantee that later layers, supervised by the velocity prediction loss alo
Exchange Interactions and Magnon Spectra in bcc Fe(001) Thin Films: A Computational Study
We combined density functional theory with atomistic spin dynamics to understand how surfaces influence magnon dispersion. For this purpose, we investigate thin layers of body-centered cubic iron and compare them with the bulk material. We present how the broken symmetry affects exchange interactions and magnon behavior. Our results reveal enhanced magnetic moments and exchange interactions for surface atoms compared to bulk Fe. The increase in exchange interaction integrals is mostly visible fo
Warning to women amid shortages of some HRT products
Two brands of HRT patches, including Estradot transdermal and FemSeven Conti patches, have been affected, the Department of Health has said.
UCL talking points, MD2: Who's to blame for Man United mess? Chaos bad for Madrid?
Which players and clubs shined in the Champions League? Gab Marcotti, Tom Hamilton and Sam Marsden weigh in on all the moments that mattered from Matchday 2.
Queensland parliament updates: Labor warns of ‘Newman-era attack on workers’
The final sitting day of the parliament week is here, with two bills due to be passed and reaction to a major proposed LNP overhaul of industrial relations laws.
Which Text Matters: Handling Model Uncertainty in Text-as-Data Regressions, with an Application to Central Bank Communication
Social scientists routinely convert text into covariates like topic shares, ideal points or sentiment scores, and insert them into statistical models of interest. This two-step design is convenient, but it is rarely guided by theory: little tells the analyst which text-based covariates to construct or include. Each approach embodies contestable measurement choices, and competing operationalizations of the same construct can support different conclusions, so a single research question gives rise
Florida Drug Dealer Gets 33 Years After Customer’s Fatal Overdose: 'Hope Ur OK Bro'
The Florida dealer also sold $7,000 in cocaine to an undercover cop while bragging about his history of supplying the victim.
The Gadget Show podcast – The Smart Home war
T3 and The Gadget Show bring you a weekly dose of tech chat
Can Learning to Answer Spatial Questions Improve Novel-View Generation?
Generating novel views from limited observations requires preserving both the appearance and spatial structure of a scene. Although recent approaches exploit fine-grained geometric cues, they do not explicitly model high-level semantic and spatial properties such as object identity, attributes, and inter-object relationships. In this work, we investigate whether 3D language understanding can provide complementary supervision for novel-view generation. We introduce Ask4NV, built on a pretrained u
Photos capture 'space jellyfish'... can you guess what it really is?
The images were taken on Tuesday morning - with the glowing cloud witnessed by masses of sky watchers across multiple states in North America.
Contraceptive coil 'helped uncover my ovarian cancer'
Caroline Bailey was diagnosed after suffering with "a stabbing pain in the middle of my abdomen".
Oregon rules Dante Moore 'out' against Nebraska as QB competition looms
Dylan Raiola, who transferred in from Nebraska, and Brock Thomas will compete for the right to start against Nebraska in a must-win game for the Ducks
White House spokesperson Katie Zacharia’s law career faces scrutiny
Katie Zacharia has repeatedly claimed to be a lawyer, but critics question whether she was ever licensed.
Chey Taps Michael Dell’s Family Fund in 944 Billion Won Divorce Funding Plan
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won has brought in Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Technologies, as an investor to raise the funds needed to pay the court-ordered
NASA Wants to Explore a Giant Moon Hole That Could Shelter Astronauts
The GIMLI mission will investigate whether a giant lunar pit leads to caves that could shield astronauts from radiation and heat.
Android Launches Advanced AI Scam Defenses to Stop Fake Bank Calls
Google rolls out enhanced AI scam protections for Android, using Gemini models to detect complex text scams and block fake bank calls.
Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam
Nearly eight years after Epic took on Steam with its own Game Store and launcher, the Fortnite maker is deploying a new tool to give it an edge over Valve: vibe coding. In announcing the new publicly available "Preview" build of its Epic Games Launcher, Epic writes that "programming is hard.
Binary-lens amplification of starlight: from magnification flares to quasi-periodic tracking of orbital evolution
Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHB) are expected at the center of galaxies as a result of galaxy mergers. The dynamics and evolution of SMBHBs shed light on the evolution and formation of galaxies, the gravitational wave background and the nature of gravity. Many methods have been proposed to identify sub-parsec SMBHBs via the detection of gravitational waves or the modulation of the emission from the surrounding gaseous environment. In a previous study, we proposed a new method of identify
Fewer than 800 Scots have received weight loss jabs on NHS, BBC finds
Only five of Scotland's 14 health boards currently offer the treatment specifically for weight loss, it has emerged.
SHOCKING UPSET: Big Setback For Jon Moxley Just Days Before AEW WrestleDream
Jon Moxley suffered a major setback just days before a huge match at AEW WrestleDream 2026 PPV.
Akol’s siblings gave up football so he could chase his dream. Now he’s worth millions
Akol Akon plays like Nestory Irankunda but thinks and acts like Lucas Herrington, whose exact footsteps he is about to retrace. Catch him in the A-League while you still can.
Auction-based allocation of routes in capacity-constrained networks
We study the route-set allocation problem between end nodes in capacity-constrained flow networks with transfer costs. We introduce an origin--destination (OD) bidding language, in which a participant bids for bounded conic combinations of inlet--outlet--quantity licences and the mechanism performs the routing through a network-flow optimising winner-determination problem. We then study payment rules for the OD mechanism. Under a restricted model with openly and uniformly priced sources and bidd
Critics Vindicate ‘Artificial’ After Messy Amazon MGM Breakup (and the Studios vs. Talent Wars Around AI Are Just Beginning)
Luca Guadagnino's "Artificial" was supposed to stink. It doesn't. Amazon MGM's AI problem just got bigger.
Flock CEO says its microphones detect ‘just gunshots.’ Its website says different
Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology.
Can AI feel safer than human advice for consumers who face discrimination?
What should you cook for dinner on a budget of 20 euros when you have a guest with a gluten intolerance? A shopper might ask a shop assistant for advice or consult, for example, Hopla, the AI-powered shopping assistant launched by French supermarket chain Carrefour. Behind this everyday choice lies
37-unit robotic material synchronizes itself without external timing
Scientists create a robotic material that synchronizes 37 moving units without an external timing signal.
EEG Correlates of Verbal and Perceptual Reasoning
Identifying the neural underpinnings of intelligence is one of the major goals of modern intelligence research. However, few imaging studies explore the high extremes of intelligence, and most use only a single composite IQ score. This study used quantitative EEG recordings to investigate correlations between the EEG variables of individual alpha peak frequency, relative power, and coherence, and scores on verbal and perceptual reasoning tests in participants with IQs from the low-average to exc
Best horse racing betting sites: Where to bet on 2026 horse racing
Discover the best horse racing betting sites for 2026, plus how to bet on horse racing online, bet types, and expert tips.
Istanbul in chaos, shut down by heaviest rainfall since 1985
Torrential rain has triggered flash floods across Istanbul.
Randomization Inference for Dynamic Causal Effects in Short Panels with Autoregressive Instruments
I study randomization inference for dynamic causal effects in panels with many units and few periods when treatment is endogenous and an instrument is as good as randomly assigned only through the innovations of a first-order autoregressive assignment mechanism with unknown persistence. The persistence is a nuisance parameter in two senses: it determines which weighted average of heterogeneous causal effects the instrumented local projection estimand measures, and it governs the randomization di
Zach Bryan Announces 2027 Stadium Tour Dates, John Fogerty, Ryan Bingham, More to Support
Zach Bryan has announced his 2027 stadium tour dates for North America and Australia — John Fogerty, Ryan Bingham and others support.