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Adobe Lightroom mobile can now open closed eyes in photos with a simple tap
Everyone has that one friend who’s always blinking in photos.
Can It Actually Work? Synthesizing Functional CAD Mechanisms
While LLM agents can generate visually plausible CAD assemblies, these designs often fail to fulfill their intended physical functions. We study functional CAD design, a setting where agents interpret underspecified requests to construct and iteratively revise mechanisms that satisfy functional requirements in physical simulation. Verifying these requirements is nontrivial: different candidate mechanisms may realize the same function through entirely different components, controls, and operating
Webb Captures Stellar Jets
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed many protostars and stars within the glowing gases of NGC 7129. Hot, atomic hydrogen gas is shown here in the golden region, while cooler, molecular hydrogen gas, shocked by embedded protostars, is represented in red.NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) An image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released on Oct. 6, 2026, reveals a cauldron of cosmic creation.
Covid failings in care homes: What the inquiry says
From the shocking lack of PPE to restrictions on visitors - the key points from the sixth Covid inquiry report.
UFC 333 fight card -- Alexander Volkanovski vs. Movsar Evloev: Five biggest storylines to follow in Abu Dhabi
A pair of title fights headlines a loaded card this weekend with incredibly even matchups
Satirical AI video of Paris protests mirrors real-life tourist experiences
An AI-generated video by Dutch filmmaker Wytse Koetse portrays tourists sightseeing amid protests in Paris.
‘You Can See Everything’ perfectly captures what a decade of post-truth has done to us
A tech-world documentary may seem an unlikely candidate for one of those movies people claim simply must be experienced in a theater. You Can See Everything makes a strong case all the same. There are moments in Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s beguiling profile of the disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes that inspire gasps, convulsive laughter, and involuntary hand gestures. One such moment was especially resonant in my theater, though. (And be warned: There are very mild spoilers ahead.
Meet Kate DePetro, Fox News’ Social-Media Ambassador to Younger Viewers
Meet Kate DePetro, Fox News' Social-Media Ambassador to Younger Viewers
CVE-2026-113459 | TYPO3 AI Integration Extension up to 14.0.1 Editor Plugin information disclosure
A vulnerability was found in TYPO3 AI Integration Extension up to 14.0.1. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Editor Plugin. Executing a manipulation can lead to information disclosure. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-113459. The a
YouTuber makes refrigerator that uses fire and salt for cooling
Greenhill Forge built a DIY refrigerator that uses fire, water, and calcium chloride to produce cooling without a conventional compressor.
NASA Provides Progress Update on Moon Base Rovers
6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artist’s rendering of astronauts working next to a lunar terrain vehicle on the lunar surface.NASA As NASA works to build the Moon Base, crewed and robotic lunar rovers will play a crucial role during early development through technology demonstrations, astronaut transport, terrain mapping, scientific investigations, and resource prospecting.
Bombadil: A Foundation Model for Plant Electrophysiology
Living plants, like animals, use electrical signals to carry information about their physiological state across their body, from roots to branches. These signals can be recorded, as they are in animals, from a pair of differential extracellular electrodes inserted into signal-conducting tissue. While machine-learning models have been trained to predict specific plant stress states from these signals, each of these models has been trained for only a single task and none have been designed to tran
Mike Evans injury update: WR avoids long-term injury, but how will 49ers fare if he misses time?
The 49ers' offense struggled mightily in Evans' second-half absence against the Commanders
Alberta rejects separation referendum: What’s next for Canadian province?
Calls for independence intensified last year, with some 300,000 petitioning officials for a referendum.
AGNC Investment Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript - AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC)
AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) reported third-quarter financial results on Tuesday. The transcript from the company’s third-quarter earnings call has been provided below.This transcript is brought to you by Benzinga
Clayface star says uncomfortable prosthetics helped his performance
Tom Rhys Harries says he spent half his time on set with the make-up team.
Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving
Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking a wide range of objects up, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.
Meta Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations
Muse, the new general-purpose AI agent from Meta, can expose sensitive information when users share conversations through Web links, researchers reported Monday. Like many online services, Muse allows users to share searches, conversations, images, and similar content with other people. Such share features usually involve clicking an option to create a unique URL that anyone can use to load a page hosting the content.
NASA Welcomes Uzbekistan as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
Credit: NASA The Republic of Uzbekistan became the 77th signatory of the Artemis Accords during a ceremony in Samarkand on Monday, committing to the practical principles that guide safe, transparent, and responsible civil space exploration. “Uzbekistan joins the Artemis Accords at a pivotal moment,” said NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson. “President Trump has directed NASA to build a Moon Base and establish an enduring presence on the lunar surface.
ProteinGeoBench: Frontier Structural-Biology Agents Are Fluent at Lookup but Lost in Geometry
Frontier agents retrieve structural metadata well and compute geometry from coordinates less reliably. We ask how much of a benchmark score reflects that gap and how much reflects the evaluation configuration around the model. We study ProteinGeoBench, a suite of 131 protein-structure tasks, using 4,249 rollouts from four frontier models and 4,486 further trials across 26 models. Three of the four frontier models fall within 0.031 of one another (0.785 to 0.816) with no difference between them r
2026 UFC event schedule: Alexander Volkanovski vs. Movsar Evloev, Ciryl Gane vs. Josh Hokit on tap
Check out a complete list of UFC pay-per-view and Fight Night events scheduled for 2026
Celebrating Fela Kuti’s legacy and the global rise of Afrobeats
Fela Kuti was a Nigerian musician known as the King of Afrobeat. His legacy is celebrated every October at Felabration.
Trump still plans on sending $5,000 checks after midterms, but even his fans are skeptical
President Donald Trump is hoping that $5,000 checks can juice Republican turnout in November’s midterm elections — but even some of his devoted fans are doubting that government payouts would arrive.“I mean, I guess it’s good for some people. I really don’t care,” said Jamie Alvarez, who attended Trump’s recent Alaska rally in a red, white and blue outfit. “I don’t feel like your vote should be bought. I feel like you should vote for who you feel i
Woman describes alleged assault by Russell Brand as 'frenzied' and 'violent'
The entertainer denies three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault and one of indecent assault.
US orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systems
The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.
OpenVLHarness: Real World Visual Agentic Tool-Use with Multimodal Memory
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made rapid progress on visual reasoning, yet many tasks require evidence that is difficult to obtain through internal reasoning alone: our controlled study on 22 benchmarks shows that simply increasing the inference budget of the base model yields only modest gains. Such tasks demand grounded perception, external knowledge, and numerical measurements obtained through heterogeneous tools, whose outputs must be made interpretable to the model and retai
Physics-Constrained Modeling and Inference of the Equation of State for Dissociative Materials
Equations of state (EOSs) describe how a material's internal energy and pressure change with temperature and density. They are inputs to hydrodynamic simulations in materials science and planetary science. We model the ion-thermal free-energy term for dissociative materials, where molecular bonds break apart to form new species under extreme conditions. This term is governed by two latent physical processes, a molar-mass surface and a Debye-temperature curve, neither of which is observed directl
I’m a Philly forensic psychologist who has conducted dozens of psychopathic evaluations – here’s why an evaluation of R.C. Horsch in the ‘80s didn’t identify him as a possible psychopath
Philadelphia police and FBI are conducting a massive investigation into the home where the late R.C. Horsch and his son lived, along with several women who’ve gone missing.
2026 CFP bracket projection: How Julian Sayin's uncertain status could reshape Ohio State's playoff path
The Buckeyes face a complicated path in the wake of Sayin's injury, while Miami takes over the No. 1 seed in our latest projection
Yemen’s Taiz faces deadly siege, as Shabwah death toll rises
Government forces launch major offensives across multiple Yemeni front lines as a tightening blockade threatens Taiz.
Salesforce is planning to buy AI marketing company Braze, sending BRZE shares surging 50%
A move announced by the software-as-a-service giant Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) is sending the stock price of a relatively unknown AI marketing firm surging this morning. Here’s what you need to know. What’s happened? On Tuesday morning, Salesforce announced plans to acquire digital marketing firm Braze (Nasdaq: BRZE) for about $5.66 billion. According to the terms of the deal, Salesforce will pay Braze Class A common stockholders $47.50 in cash per share. Braze’s AI-powered multichann
Palestinian Filmmaker Rakan Mayasi on His Search for Unconventional Stories and Portraying ‘Communities That Have Not Been on Film Before’
Rakan Mayasi’s 'Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep' made a splash in Cannes with its poetic treatment of a Bedouin community in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool
Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups without diluting equity and gets returns on the results of marketing spend. Otter.ai said that it will use these funds for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion, and product innovation. […]
How to watch The Traitors Canada season 4 — free streams from anywhere in the world
The Traitors Canada returns for its fourth season
A boundary integral method for computing electron repulsion integrals in heterogeneous dielectric environments
We present a boundary integral method for evaluating electron repulsion integrals (ERIs) in dielectric environments of piecewise constant permittivity. This generalizes conventional bare-Coulomb ERIs by incorporating screening from structured dielectric surroundings, such as the substrates and/or encapsulating layers present in modern two-dimensional-material devices. We formulate the problem as a second-kind boundary integral equation for the induced surface charge on the dielectric interfaces,
Is adding cottage cheese to everything from brownies to flatbreads really the best way to 'proteinmaxx’ – and do you even need to?
In the first episode of the new season of Strange Health, we examine the health benefits of cottage cheese.
Boxing schedule for 2026: Canelo Alvarez vs. Christian Mbili, Anthony Joshua vs. Tyson Fury on tap
The 2026 boxing calendar is hitting the fall with some great fights on the books
Eastern Libya parliament approves 2019 maritime deal with Turkiye
The vote recognises Ankara's maritime deal with Tripoli, ending Haftar's 2020 boycott.
Everyone’s taking PTO and sick days to play ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’
Folks are lining up for their annual seasonal vaccines. But there’s one contagion that a CVS appointment can’t immunize against. “GTA flu” is sweeping the nation—and many workers anticipate “catching” it to call out sick once Grand Theft Auto VI releases on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles on November 19. Others put in paid time off (PTO) requests weeks, even months ahead of the release of the game that critics say is the most anticipated of the decade. That’s according to a new
BBC closures make business sense, but far more savings are needed, says Katie Razzall
The BBC announced it will close its BBC Three, BBC Scotland and Radio 4 Extra broadcast channels.
Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol
Figma said it plans to support as many standards as possible without exposing all of its data
Is a leaked AMD chip the engine of Valve's next handheld? 'Gainsborough' APU might be a clue that the Steam Deck 2 is now inbound
AMD chip in benchmark leak might just be the CPU for the Steam Deck 2.
Cosmological implications of two mock TianQin standard siren catalogs generated under different background cosmological models
Space-borne gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as TianQin are expected to detect GW standard sirens for cosmological parameter estimation. All previous studies of TianQin adopted the $Λ$CDM model to generate mock standard siren data. In this work, we quantitatively investigate how the choice of background cosmological model affects mock TianQin standard siren (TQSS) catalogs and the corresponding cosmological implications. Adopting the $Λ$CDM model and a redshift-binned dark energy (DE) reco
Government failings allowed Covid 'to spread like wildfire' in care homes, inquiry finds
The sixth report from Covid inquiry criticises the lack of PPE and the way patients were discharged from hospital.
Giants release Najee Harris days after criticizing New York's running back rotation
The move comes right after the veteran voiced frustration over his limited role and a crowded backfield rotation in Week 6
Indonesians protest over land-clearing fires
Students and activists protested across Indonesia over forest fires linked to land clearing for palm oil plantations.
Switch tracks: Rewiring rolling stock for a new era
Fast-growing markets in Asia are difficult for global rail OEMs to access. Value could shift from new builds toward servicing and renewals—while OEMs prepare for future opportunities.
McCartney and Starr back new Beatles attraction
The surviving Beatles have welcomed plans for an immersive visitor experience in Liverpool.
Amazon wants you to wear an AI that remembers your conversations — but do you really want it knowing that much about you?
Your conversations could become Amazon's next shopping opportunity, and that's unsettling
Visiting Slate’s first showroom as its $25,000 electric truck nears production
As I sat in the cab of the pickup truck and manually rolled down the windows, I closed my eyes and, for the briefest moment, flashed back to opening the windows on a cold, winter day in my dad’s 1975 Ford Ranger to let more cigarette smoke escape. I opened my eyes and looked through the windshield at a wall in the Slate Customer Experience Center studded with bright color chips. Last week, in a former Tesla store staffed by some former Tesla employees, Slate opened its first showroom.
US Air Force seeks engine using continuous blasts to power missiles
The U.S. Air Force seeks to develop and flight-test a rotating detonation engine for future high-speed weapons.
What Language Adds, and at What Cost: Four Controlled Probes of Pathology Vision-Language Models
Vision--language models (VLMs) promise to make computational pathology queryable and able to draft reports, but how much language adds beyond the vision backbone is unclear, because almost every system is evaluated by its developers on test sets of their own choosing. We grade published evidence by how it was produced and test four claims with controlled probes that reuse released checkpoints and public data, varying one input at a time. Report text adds prognostic signal: adding a frozen embedd
2026 CBS Sports Midseason All-America team: Big Ten edges out SEC, ACC for most selections at halfway point
Conference balance shifted through the season's first half, as several SEC preseason favorites gave way to new national standouts
Three months of PM Andy Burnham: Can he sustain the ‘hope vibe’?
The UK's new prime minister has made big promises and is a popular leader, but there is still talk of an early election.
New details emerge on former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a conference room
A former OpenAI engineer charged with secretly installing a recording device in a conference room to glean company details had been “mere days” away from absconding to Saudi Arabia before his arrest last week, federal prosecutors revealed in new court filings.Abdulrahman Alfozan’s wife and young son also left the country the day after the 35-year-old Saudi national’s arrest, traveling on a one-way ticket booked and paid for by a Saudi military official, prosecutors said i
Guillermo del Toro: ‘It Pains Me Deeply to See Past Generations Fail the Next, We’re Handing Down a World in Ruins’
Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro descended on the Morelia Film Festival where he presented 'Pan's Labyrinth' in 3D.
Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant
Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to create personalized recommendations that remember your preferences.
Text-to-Image Generative Modeling Without Language Pretraining
Modern text-to-image (T2I) systems use internet-scale language pretraining for text-conditioned image generation. We ask whether language pretraining is necessary for strong T2I generation. We introduce Halcyon, a family of early-fusion multimodal autoregressive models pretrained entirely from scratch on GPIC, a dataset of 100M image-text pairs. Halcyon-0.52B outperforms LlamaGen-XL/8 (48.0 vs. 63.3 gFD) with 18.2$\times$ less pretraining compute. Further, Halcyon-1.6B outperforms JiT-T2I-XXL/8+
Six US missile defense systems protecting cities, troops, and warships
Explore six U.S. air and missile defense systems, how they intercept threats, and the different roles they play on land and at sea.
Dana-Farber, Beth Israel to begin construction of new $1.68 billion cancer hospital
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Lahey Health are starting work on a $1.68 billion cancer hospital in Boston, marking a new phase in their competition with Mass General Brigham.
ACC midseason grades: Miami posts 'A,' while Florida State and Clemson turn in 'Ds'
Individual grades on the midseason report card for all 17 ACC teams
Pakistan army chief in Tehran: Can diplomacy prevent new US-Iran fighting?
With new talk of escalation, Islamabad is trying to revive negotiations without alienating Tehran, Riyadh or Washington.
U.S. bans AI startup Deepseek because of ‘threat vectors’ and China responds
China hit back Tuesday at a U.S. ban on Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek’s products for federal civilian agencies, highlighting friction in the two AI powers’ heated technology race.The agencies should remove DeepSeek and its affiliated products, as well as third party products and services developed using DeepSeek, from their IT systems, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice made public on Monday.The department’s order, dating back to late July,
BBC Three, BBC Scotland and Radio 4 Extra channels to close
The closurse are announced as the corporation continues to try to save £500m over two years.