World in a Pulse
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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.
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
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
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
Adam Liaw’s lamb sausage tagine
I’ve switched lamb pieces for lamb sausages for a quicker tagine that is both affordable and easy.
Russia’s Battlegroup West destroys HIMARS rocket, 117 Ukrainian UAVs in past day
The battlegroup’s spokesman added that 56 UAV control centers as well as three satellite communication stations were destroyed
The "Rough" HAR Model
This paper proposes discrete-time approximations to rough continuous-time models of realized variance (RV). The leading rough models can be viewed as autoregressive processes driven by fractional Gaussian noise. We show that the Wold representation of this noise concentrates its dependence at the first lag when the Hurst parameter is below one half. Augmenting the autoregressive (AR) and heterogeneous autoregressive (HAR) models with a first-order moving-average (MA(1)) component therefore appro
When Jaya Prada Recalled Dharmendra's Flirting On Set; Said Rajesh Khanna Would 'Come Very Late' To Shoot
The veteran actress also spoke about doing 5 shifts in a day.
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.
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
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.
Commission’s industrial AI push has yet to accelerate
Von der Leyen's SOTEU speech teased 'game-changing' AI projects for areas targeted in 2025 strategy
Milan and Juventus end blips with home wins
FLORENCE (Italy), Sept 21 — AC Milan and Juventus ended short Serie A slides yesterday, as Fiorentina held Napoli and high-flying Como suffered a shock defeat to Frosinone.Milan...
Three South Korean officers wounded in border explosion
South Korean officers injured in DMZ explosion, possibly caused by a landmine, according to local media reports.
Think SpaceX stock looks silly? Here are 3 shares to consider buying instead
Ben McPoland highlights a trio of stocks not named SpaceX that offer different ways to tap into a projected $1.8trn global industry.
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!
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.
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.
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
Learning Cardiac Features: ECG Biometrics Across Time and~Exercise
Electrocardiograms (ECGs) carry subject-specific patterns enabling reliable individual discrimination, forming the basis of ECG biometrics. Beyond authentication, this paradigm holds significant potential to secure sensitive cardiac data and to serve as a pretext task in self-supervised learning. Yet, most studies remain confined to singlesession, resting data, leaving robustness to temporal and physiological variations largely untested. We address this gap by evaluating ECG biometrics under rea
Genshin Impact 7.1 preload guide and size for PC, Android, and iOS
The Genshin Impact 7.1 preload is available on multiple platforms, letting you download the necessary files before the update.
Aliko Dangote: Refining Nigeria’s oil, helping Africa, and creating wealth
The world’s richest Black man says he aims to make Africa more self-sufficient and less reliant on imports.
Testing Conditional Stochastic Dominance via Copula Derivatives
Comparing two populations at the same physical covariate value requires more than conditional means or isolated target-point decisions: researchers may need evidence about an entire conditional-distribution ordering over a continuum, even when covariate margins differ. This paper makes that common-value comparison estimable under an explicit structure--flexibility tradeoff and turns the resulting surface into simultaneous evidence for first-order stochastic dominance. Population-specific margins
BBC removes That Mitchell and Webb show scenes that 'no longer works'
The broadcaster has been accused of ‘classic overkill’ after it removed 11 sketches from the comedy duo's BAFTA-winning television show amid concerns of racism and racial stereotyping
First Came Space Force. Now Prepare For AI Force
Trump is forming a new "AI Force" and appointing an AI Czar to lead it.
Indiana man wants new trial in killing of teens where pagan ritual evidence can be introduced
A man serving 130 years in prison for killing two teen girls in Indiana is asking an appeals court to overturn his convictions, saying that he confessed while he was having a psychological crisis and was unfairly barred from arguing at trial that the girls were killed by unknown participants in a pa
APOD: 2026 September 21 – Cocoon Nebula Wide Field
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 21 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Cocoon Nebula Wide Field Explanation: When does a nebula look like a comet?
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
Sydney boy fighting for life after shooting in apartment
The 11-year-old is in a critical condition.
Michael Carrick demands Manchester United response after ‘pathetic’ jibes
With only one win so far this season, United have equalled their lowest points total in season after five matches.
The United States of Innovation: How American industry can thrive for another 250 years
Two and a half centuries ago, the United States was founded as an innovative experiment in self-government. The spirit of risk-taking that accompanied signing the Declaration of Independence has informed much of American industry over the ensuing years. It helped give rise to everything from the airplane and moon landers to the microchip and personal computer. The challenge is keeping this culture of creativity and ingenuity alive as we head into the next quarter millennium, while ensuring it
The Odyssey Takes Down Yet Another Disney King With New Milestone
The Odyssey crosses $1.72 billion worldwide, dethroning a Disney giant at the global box office as it continues its record-breaking run.
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.
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
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
Young people are not snowflakes, head of mental health review says
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Prof Fonagy says being young is much harder now than it was.
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Arsenal injury update: White, Mosquera and Saliba latest return dates
Arsenal have just over a fortnight to stew over a defeat to Brighton, with the only positive being some encouraging signs on the injury front.
Australia’s deaths to outnumber births by 2060s, report says
Number of Australians aged 85 or older projected to triple by 2065–66, according to government forecast.
Want a promotion? Your performance counts but your behavior counts more
The young computer engineer stood before the whiteboard confidently solving complex coding problems one after another. Thinking he had the Microsoft job well in hand, Satya Nadella turned back to his final interviewer, Richard Tait, who asked him a most unexpected question: Imagine you see a baby lying in the street crying. What do you do? Nadella thought for a few seconds and then said he’d call 911. As Tait (then a Microsoft manager, later an entrepreneur and venture capitalist) ended the i
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.
Trump and sons invest heavily in AI economy as he resists calls for slowdown
His family’s tech ventures grow as US President pushes faster AI development.
Oppo Pad 5 review: Genuine contender, or just another iPad clone?
Oppo's mid-level tablet is a pretty safe bet
Y chromosome loss could be the first sign of cancer
As far as our genetic library goes, the Y chromosome seems like a mere pamphlet. Just ask any cell with a pair of X chromosomes if it feels overly bothered by that trivial loss of DNA.
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
Lisa Leslie statue unveiled on Star Plaza outside Crypto.com Arena
WNBA trailblazer Lisa Leslie became the 16th person -- and first Sparks player -- honored with a statue in what's become known as Star Plaza outside Crypto.com Arena.
UAC plans to increase aircraft production by 25-30% in 2026
CEO Vadim Badekha noted that while growth in 2025-2026 was driven mainly by military aircraft
This Ivy League college is thinking more like Google to help students and alumni find work they love in the AI economy
AI’s role in the hiring process has become a major one—for better and worse. This has not been lost on universities. Most college career centers have been employing artificial intelligence created by outside vendors to help students accomplish such tasks as polishing résumés and prepping for interviews. As of April, 86% of U.S. schools of higher education reported using AI when working with individual students on their job searches, according to a survey by the National Associ
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.
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 ...
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
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
BrainWideBench: Benchmarking large-scale pretraining and across-animal transfer in multi-region neural recordings
Advances in large-scale neural recording have made it possible to collect data across many animals and distributed brain regions, raising the question of whether this scale can be exploited to learn general-purpose neural representations transferable across diverse downstream tasks. Yet, progress toward this goal has been limited by fragmented evaluation protocols and a narrow focus on individual task domains. Here, we present BrainWideBench, a benchmark for evaluating across-animal transfer on
Brownlow Medal 2026 red carpet LIVE updates: What to expect from AFL’s most fashionable event
Before the count begins, all eyes will be on the red carpet. Follow our live coverage.
Russia election results show Putin’s party winning: What we know
With more than 90 percent votes counted, Putin's United Russia appears poised for a landslide win.
VZMORE Introduces V-Cooling™ Vapor Chamber Thermal Architecture for Mini PCs
/PRNewswire/ -- Combining vapor chamber cooling, vertical airflow and intelligent thermal management, V-Cooling™ improves thermal efficiency, sustained...
Guy Gardner Is Back! Nathan Fillion Breaks Down His ‘Lanterns’ Debut and Why He’s the DC Universe’s Main Throughline
DC Universe star Nation Fillion on his 'Lanterns' Episode 6 debut.
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
Rare earth exposure during pregnancy linked to higher risk of low birthweight
A study of nearly 4,900 pregnant women in China has found an association between prenatal exposure to rare earth elements and an increased risk of low birthweight.
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
The Hunt: Roblox 20 - 2024 guide
The Hunt: Roblox 20 is an ongoing platform-wide event that celebrates the gaming platform's history.
Rising Up at Night review – community spirit shines bright in Kinshasa’s shadows
Religion and collective resilience are beacons of hope in an electricity-deprived DRC in this otherworldly documentary debut
£5,000 invested in Filtronic at 11p a share is now worth…
Filtronic's shares have come a long way since trading for just 11p each back in 2021. Let's see how much an investor could have made.
Who Killed Hal Jordan? Lanterns Fans Think They’ve Found His Killer
Lanterns fans debate who killed Hal Jordan after Episode 6 revealed his tragic fate, with suspects ranging from Sinestro to Noah.