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vivo V80 Lite unboxing and hands-on
Power bank in your phone. Today, we're unboxing the vivo V80 Lite. This vivo V80 Lite, specifically, not this vivo V80 Lite (which is for the Indian...
Crete severe weather: Floods, landslides, power cuts, closed schools
Heavy rain and thunderstorms have turned roads into torrents, causing landslides and power cuts, while authorities and civil protection are on high alert. #EuropeNews
Health chief warns overstated claims of job shortages could lead to fewer new nurses
Hong Kong’s health minister has warned that the city will need to “bear the consequences” of exaggerating concerns over the employment prospects of nurses, as such remarks could deter new blood from joining the profession. “I do not want recent comments, such as claims that ‘[nursing] graduation equ
"Gonna message Rohit and tell him" - Former MI batter's brutal take on Rohit Sharma's viral celebration in IND vs WI 2026 2nd ODI
Former Mumbai Indians (MI) and South Africa batter Herschelle Gibbs shared a blunt take on Rohit Sharma’s high-jump celebration after he scored a century in the second ODI against West Indies.
India to face Pakistan in Asian Games men’s cricket final
India defeated Sri Lanka by 124 runs in the semifinal to book their spot in a first-ever games clash with Pakistan.
Du/er is redesigning the winter jean from the yarn up
If you live in a place with a cold winter, dressing for work in the middle of January is more complicated than it seems. You want to wear your jeans to the office, but ordinary denim doesn’t provide enough warmth on freezing day. The available solutions aren’t great. You could wear thermal leggings under your jeans, but you’ll start sweating the minute you leave the sidewalk to enter your heated building. Fleece-lined jeans are often stiff and bulky. [Photo: Courtesy Du/
Capricorn, October 2026: Your Monthly Horoscope
Saturn retrograde keeps asking what still deserves your effort and what you’re carrying simply because you’re good at it.
Google Rolls Out Gemini 4 Argon to Trusted Cyber Defenders, Plans Guardrail-Free Version
Google on Wednesday announced its latest frontier artificial intelligence AI model, Gemini 4 Argon , that it said is being rolled out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program. "It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enter
Semifactual Credit-Augmented Policy Optimization
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has improved the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), yet their predictions remain sensitive to task-irrelevant prompt features. We investigate this sensitivity through semifactual prompt interventions that preserve the underlying problem and its answer. Our analysis reveals substantial variation in token-level sensitivity and shows that suppressing high-drift token candidates during decoding improves reasoning accuracy wit
EarthCARE’s view of volcanic plume boosts air safety
When Anak Krakatau erupted a few weeks ago, the European Space Agency’s EarthCARE satellite, orbiting above, captured vertical profiles of different constituents within the volcanic plume. Designed primarily to advance our understanding of how clouds and aerosols influence Earth’s climate, here Eart
What happens inside your body the moment you stop drinking: We reveal the impact of quitting booze from the first 10 minutes up until a month and beyond
If you're feeling more than a bit pickled, join the club. That's why every New Year, many of us - as many as 17.5 million Brits last year - end up doing Dry January, a month of no booze.
No handshakes likely as India sets up Asian Games cricket final against Pakistan
Cricket heavyweights India and Pakistan will meet in the Asian Games gold medal match after winning their semifinals on Thursday
How will investigation into Flydubai flight attack unfold?
Investigators are examining what happened inside the cockpit of Flydubai flight FZ1073 to Israel.
Heated Rivalry was an overnight hit. Its creators and network worked overtime to make that happen
Once it became an instant hit, Heated Rivalry’s success may have seemed preordained. Based on a popular series of romance novels by Rachel Reid about romances between interconnected male hockey players, the show debuted in November 2025 and has become Canadian streamer Crave’s best-performing original show, driving more sign-ups than anything else in 2025 to the streamer (owned by Canadian media conglomerate Bell Media). It was also a hit for international partners that include HBO Max in the U.
Fact Check: Did Trump announce travel fee for press members flying on Air Force One?
The claim surfaced after the White House reportedly barred CNN from traveling aboard Air Force One
One platform gives you access to GPT, Gemini, Claude, and more for life for just $100
1min.AI gives you lifetime access to dozens of major AI models for a one-time fee.
PalmPay upgrades security center as digital fraud risks evolve
PalmPay has upgraded its Security Center as part of its “PalmPay Dey For You” campaign, bringing several account and transaction read more PalmPay upgrades security center as digital fraud risks evolve
Best AI Tools for Designers That Assist Rather Than Replace Them
I tested the best AI tools for designers that support creative work without trying to replace the person behind it.
Attraction to hierarchical feature memory explains orientation bias
When recalling the orientation of recent stimuli, observers are systematically biased away from the cardinal axes. The prevailing explanation is that this ''anti-cardinal bias'' arises because cardinal orientations are encoded with greater neural resources and therefore less noise, consistent with efficient coding of environmentally common features. Under this account, the bias should occur independently for each stimulus; any serial attraction towards previously seen orientations should be inde
Cristiano Ronaldo decides to quit Portugal team after betrayal from Jorge Jesus who lied in press conference as details revealed: Reports
As per Spanish sports journalist Edu Aguirre, Cristiano Ronaldo decided to leave the Portugal camp after feeling betrayed by head coach Jorge Jesus over promises that weren't kept.
Turkish fans show support for Palestine at friendly fixture
Turkish football fans displayed pro-Palestinian tifos and banners.
This Swedish travel agency caters specifically to introverts
People seeking travel experiences better suited to their introverted personality are in luck. Announced on September 29, Sweden’s new Introvert Travel Agency caters its services specifically to introverts, people who typically prefer quiet introspection and solitude or small-group interaction over noise and crowds. An initiative by Visit Sweden, the idea is to tap into the Nordic country’s cultural norms that, according to the agency’s website, favor personal space, freedom to roam, and struc
US film-maker loses 'Downton Shabby' High Court case
Hopwood DePree took the council to court in his bid to take over the Grade II-listed mansion for £1.
BMW restructuring plan bets on AI and new models
BMW's restructuring plan centres on AI, management cuts and two new models as it tries to restore investor confidence after profit warnings.
All-new Apple device coming 13 October, along with the long-awaited new Apple TV 4K – claims an expert in the know
Apple's next launch event will reportedly happen in a fortnight, and it'll be big for smart home enthusiasts
Can mathematicians still refuse to use AI at this point?
There’s no question AI has transformed the field of mathematics in the past few months. Columnist Jacob Aron wonders if it will soon be impossible to be an AI refusenik and continue working in the field
Disentangling Computation in Multi-Task Neural Networks with the Green's Operator
How is computation organized and reused across tasks and time in a trained recurrent network? Most analyses emphasize the geometry of neural activity, dynamical motifs, or local perturbation growth. We instead study the network's global first-order perturbation response. The finite-horizon Green's operator maps perturbations at each source along a trajectory to their downstream state-space responses and therefore directly represents perturbation routing. Simple reductions of this operator provid
2026 MLB playoff bracket: Scores, schedule, where to watch as Yankees, Padres and White Sox advance
The baseball playoffs have arrived and all four Wild Card Series are underway
Portugal coach responds after Ronaldo leaves camp
Portugal coach Jorge Jesus said he stands by his decision not to play Cristiano Ronaldo after he left the team camp.
The engagement survey is dying. Here’s what’s replacing it
Everyone knows how this goes. First, an email with the survey data cut a dozen ways. A column with green and red scoring against last year, and with your team’s scores versus other parts of the company. It culminates with a flurry of activity, from a slide deck to a town hall and action-planning committees. A month later, nobody mentions it again. And the company doesn’t send the survey again for a year. Jennifer felt this deeply as a division leader inside Big Tech companies like Google and
Your October 2026 Horoscope Is Here: Every Star Sign’s Forecast For Romance, Career And Life
Virgo season is upon us, this is everything in store for all zodiac signs for the month of September.
Samsung quietly launches the Galaxy Buds On, its first clip-on Galaxy Buds
Samsung has quietly launched the Galaxy Buds On with TwinBoost speakers, Audio Leakage Reduction, and up to 9.5 hours of playback.
QR Codes Explained
QR codes were built to track car parts, written off as a gimmick, then rescued by phone cameras. Now they're everywhere. Here's how they work, what's changed,...
Probing the Reionization History and Bubble Sizes with JWST Lyman-$α$ Fraction Measurements
Recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) measurements quantify the fraction of ultraviolet-selected galaxies showing detectable Lyman-alpha (Ly-$α$) lines at $z \sim 6-14$. These Ly-$α$ fractions are partly shaped by Ly-$α$ scattering from neutral hydrogen in the surrounding intergalactic medium (IGM), and so the observed Ly-$α$ fraction evolution can inform our understanding of the reionization history and the size distribution of ionized bubbles during reionization. We compare the JWST measure
'I felt a chill while sightseeing. Within hours I was being rushed to hospital'
Erika Badenhorst dismissed her symptoms but then spent three weeks in hospital battling a range of conditions
10 NBA Players Who Are Good at Other Sports
Professional athletes have the talent and physical tools required to succeed in multiple sports. Many athletes played multiple sports growing up before settling on one and turning professional.
Christa Pike execution fails: What next when a lethal injection is botched?
Only woman on Tennessee 'death row' is in hospital after two injections failed to kill her.
What therapists say about this new antidote for doomscrolling—and no, it’s not bricking your phone
With seemingly endless studies showing doomscrolling is bad for mental health, more people are rethinking their relationship with social media and digital content. Enter “bloomscrolling,” the latest trend on social media, which encourages people to intentionally and actively seek out uplifting and inspiring content online. According to experts, it reflects a broader shift away from passively consuming negative news content. Sreela Roy-Greene, a licensed therapist at online ther
Celebrity Traitors is back - here's what you need to know ahead of the first show
Maya Jama, Michael Sheen and Bella Ramsey are among this year's celebrities taking part in the show.
Inside Google’s AI Push Into Schools: ‘It Slowed My Thinking Down’
Faced with quadratic equations, Richard Scott couldn’t resist the temptation. The Pennsylvania eighth-grader knew that the Google search box on his school laptop was essentially an AI chatbot that would helpfully spit out answers. He started popping algebra questions into the search bar to quickly …
Multimodal Flow: Unified Flow Modeling of Language and Vision in Embedding Spaces
We present Multimodal Flow, a fully continuous generative model of language and vision. Most unified multimodal models either model both language and quantized images as discrete tokens or combine discrete language prediction with continuous image generation. The former introduces a visual quantization bottleneck. The latter requires modality-dependent objectives and sampling procedures. Fully continuous modeling avoids these trade-offs and enables a shared generative process, but remains undere
Phase-Field Modeling of Liquid Phases with Ordering
A strong negative enthalpy of mixing can lead to ordering in liquid solutions. To describe ordering in liquids, different thermodynamic descriptions of liquid phases have been developed in the CALPHAD approach, including the associate model and the modified quasichemical model. In this study, we show that the key to directly incorporate these liquid phase models and their corresponding CALPHAD-type free energy formulations in phase-field simulations, is to identify the internal processes and to
20 Years of Wildfire Smoke in the U.S. | Climate Central
Climate change is intensifying wildfire conditions and contributing to worse wildfire smoke and related health effects across the U.S.. Wildfire ...
Why Perth’s record housing slump won’t bring relief for everyday buyers
A sharp price drop is usually good news for buyers, but experts say high mortgage rates mean monthly costs haven’t budged.
Iraq’s Kurdish forces look to a new era after US withdrawal
Peshmerga unification seeks stability, overcoming party disputes to build a national force in Iraq's Kurdish landscape.
We may be the last generation of mathematical heroes
A generation from now, the mathematician may no longer be anyone’s idea of a hero. In our era, physicists and mathematicians have had a certain hero charm. AI is taking it away, and fast. I should know. I’m one of those heroes. For most of history, math was for nerds. Basic calculations may have been essential to commerce, but the advanced, esoteric stuff, like number theory, algebraic topology, and blackboards covered with the chalk squiggles you see in movies, was never sexy. Th
BBC should not overspend on shows such as Suits and Schitt's Creek, MPs say
An parliamentary committee has published a new report as debate about the BBC's future continues.
FTC reportedly investigating OpenAI, Anthropic over potential consumer risks - SiliconANGLE
FTC reportedly investigating OpenAI, Anthropic over potential consumer risks - SiliconANGLE
Meta’s Dhruv Vohra to lead Philippines, SEA business
Meta, the parent company of Facebook announced today that executive Dhruv Vohra will be leading the South East Asia business, which includes The Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. The release writes: Today we’re announcing that Dhruv Vohra is stepping into the role o
Ben Affleck Praises Smart Use Of AI In Hollywood
Oscar winner Ben Affleck is way more worried about AI's effects on education than he is the entertainment industry, & he's got a pretty good argument
Sanofi, Regeneron expand partnership after Dupixent success
Sanofi and Regeneron have re-upped their collaboration pact, aiming to build on the blockbuster success of the drug Dupixent.
Why the Cowboys traded for CB Joey Porter Jr. from the Steelers and where his contract stands
Dallas scooped up the Steelers' disgruntled top cornerback late Wednesday night before Week 4
Why did Ronaldo leave Portugal’s training camp, and will he play again?
Cristiano Ronaldo left after Portugal head coach Jorge Jesus held a news conference. Al Jazeera explains what happened.
Matternet wants to rain hot chicken from the sky
Matternet wants to make fried chicken rain from the sky. To do that, the drone delivery company has developed a new version of its last-mile logistics system, which features a drone that carries up to 11 pounds and simpler, lower-cost dock stations. The company is looking to roll out this delivery system in the second half of 2027. Called the M3, this autonomous architecture puts new, more powerful drones, new drone docks, and drop boxes on the premises of restaurants, retailers, or hospitals
Tributes paid to 'inspirational' presenter and charity founder Esther Rantzen
Dame Esther Rantzen was "an inspirational individual", the director of her Childline helpline says.
AI agents tried to hack a Canadian government website, researchers say
The finding follows OpenAI’s confirmation that its misbehaving AI agents probed U.S. government websites and hacked an Australian government site.
Ranking-Aware Prompt Optimization for Multimodal Clinical Diagnosis
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are rapidly advancing clinical diagnosis, yet their adaptation pipelines remain anchored to accuracy-based objectives. Clinical data are heavily class-imbalanced: a constant-majority predictor can score above 90% accuracy while being clinically useless. We therefore evaluate and optimize for AUROC, a threshold-free score that ranks positives above negatives and is invariant to class balance. We focus on prompt optimization in MLLMs. Reflective methods suc
An Agricultural “Island” in the Saskatchewan River Delta
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Removing Timing Shortcuts Improves Non-Invasive Brain-to-Text
We find that major reported improvements in decoding words from non-invasive brain recordings are largely reproducible without any brain data. In the influential work of d'Ascoli et al. (2025), time series of brain activity from subjects perceiving continuous speech are segmented into fixed-length windows starting at each word. A neural network then generates predictions for all of the words in a sentence together. Neighbouring windows partially overlap, implicitly revealing the interval between
Nishikori bows out for final time in Tokyo as crowd salutes Japanese trailblazer
Oct 1 - Kei Nishikori's final match before retirement ended in a 6-4 6-4 loss to American Frances Tiafoe in the Japan Open first round on Thursday, as an adoring crowd in Tokyo rose to salute the former world number four and Japanese trailblazer. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Can Europe still compete with the US and China?
Europe faces growing pressure from the US and China as it struggles to stay competitive.
It’s time to retire the ‘stochastic parrot’ definition of AI
Early generative AI models, circa 2017-2022, were “stochastic parrots.” That is, they generated language by choosing the statistically most likely next word based on patterns in their training data, rather than truly understanding what they were saying. Beginning in 2023, artificial intelligence labs began releasing large language models (LLMs) that had evolved beyond autoregressive next-token prediction, as researchers call it. For many people, the stochastic parrot definition stuck. And
K-pop star convicted of violating military service law
The member of K-pop band Winner was given a suspended prison sentence for repeated absences from his national service work.