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Aina’s smart ring has a screen, a joystick and a mic so you can talk to AI agents
Aina's ring can also take calls and help you dictate notes on your Mac.
2026 iPad mini review: Maximizing the mini
The iPad mini has long felt like a niche product. It has earned a reputation as a quality tablet for people who want something small, comfortable, and portable, but its small screen and comparatively limited processing power have restricted its appeal, making it best suited to watching media or playing games. With the 2026 version, the iPad mini is more competitive than ever. Its chip is current, its speakers are better, and, most impressively, it trades its 8.3-inch IPS screen for an 8.5-inch OLED that can hold its own against other premium tablets.
Fireballs and a supermoon: SoCal stargazers should brace for a busy month of astronomical events
SoCal stargazers can brace for a November packed with astronomical events, including the Taurids meteor showers and a close encounter between Jupiter and Mars.
Parents' concerns to trigger urgent checks in A&E
Concerns from staff, parents, carers or the child themselves will trigger an immediate escalation of care.
UTSA vs. Florida Atlantic picks, predictions: Upset loss would end Roadrunners' College Football Playoff hopes
UTSA is in the College Football Playoff hunt but wouldn't be with a loss tonight at FAU in American Conference action
Gaza holds final of tournament honouring more than 1,000 slain athletes
The final of Gaza’s ‘Thousand Martyrs’ Cup marks the return of organised football after nearly three years of war.
7 ways the midterms may affect the AI boom
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company‘s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. Sign up to receive this newsletter every week via email here. And if you have comments on this issue and/or ideas for future ones, drop me a line at sullivan@fastcompany.com, and follow me on X @thesullivan. There were 41 ballot initiatives limiting data centers; all
La Bola Negra review: This fiercely ambitious historical drama is one of the great LGBTQ+ films of our time
This film from Spanish co-directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi explores a triptych of time-hopping tales.
Dropbox acquires Tigris Data for $350M to bolster its AI infrastructure
The deal is expected to support the development of DBX Agent Cloud, a new storage platform aimed at developers building AI models and agents.
Security officer attacked and killed near Sri Lankan Embassy in Jordan's capital
CAIRO (AP) — An assailant attacked and killed a security officer near the Sri Lankan Embassy in Jordan’s capital on Thursday, authorities said. Jordan’s Public Security Directorate said that a member of its forces was assaulted by a sharp object and died, and that an investigation was launched into
Cristiano Ronaldo announces retirement from international football
"To the Portuguese people, the day has come for me to hand back the No. 7 shirt of our national team,” the 41-year-old Ronaldo said in a long video message on social media.
Mammograms can do more than detect breast cancer – they also offer important clues on heart health
Calcium deposits on arteries, observed on a mammogram, can provide a useful nudge to check up on cardiovascular health.
College Football Playoff resume rankings: Why Kentucky should be ahead of Utah, Indiana
The committee's first batch of rankings did not reflect the true strength of each team's resume
Top Japan FA official to stand against Infantino for FIFA presidency
Kozo Tashima second person to declare he will challenge Infantino, after former Spurs defender Ramon Vega.
Nintendo reports profit is up 11%, but sales slipped for the first half of the fiscal year
Japanese video-game maker Nintendo reported Thursday an 11% improvement in its net profit in the first half of the fiscal year, although its sales declined during that period.Kyoto-based Nintendo Co.’s April-September profit rose to 220.9 billion yen ($1.4 billion) from nearly 199 billion yen in the same period a year earlier. Sales during the six months slipped 12% to 966 billion yen.Nintendo, which makes Pokemon, Super Mario and Legend of Zelda games, sold 1.27 million Switch game consol
Hope in the City: Why This Detective Uses a Sketchbook Instead of a Badge
A sketchbook instead of a badge? ✏️ Discover how Hope in the City reinvents investigation. Pre-order or pre-install now on XBOX. Launching November 11, day one with XBOX Game Pass.
Box taps Nvidia’s Nemotron for new agent-first content retrieval system
The system can supposedly answer queries four times faster, with 20% fewer errors and 90% fewer tokens used.
Grants For Small Businesses in November 2026
Applying for a small business grant this November gives your business a strategic boost in many different ways.
Midwestern City Lights
City lights from the Midwestern United States to the East Coast sparkle across the landscape a couple of hours before sunrise on Oct. 18, 2026. Major urban areas visible in the photograph include Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and the New York metropolitan region. The International Space Station was orbiting 259 miles above Earth when this […]
What the midterms could mean for the future of health AI
The midterms highlighted the negative sentiment around AI across the U.S. How will those attitudes trickle down to legislating AI use in health care?
Josh Jacobs addresses latest allegations after being accused of abuse by three more women
Jacobs and his attorneys dismissed the allegations as false
Vance eyes 2028 reset, as Republicans mull pivot after US midterms drubbing
A Democratic 'blue tsunami' in the US midterms shines a light on emerging distaste for Trump's brand among Republicans.
Thor delivers stronger Q3
TSXV- and AIM-listed mineral exploration company Thor Explorations delivered strong profits during the third quarter of 2026, CEO and president Segun Lawson said in the company’s financial and operating results on Thursday. During the quarter ended September 30, the company’s earnings before interes
Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault
Brand is told to expect a prison sentence "of some length" and faces more rape allegations, it can now be reported.
A YC startup is putting $1M behind five unsolved materials science problems for AI
Discovered Materials, a months-old YC startup that uses AI to find chip materials, is offering $200,000 for each solution to five open materials science problems.
Young children like sharks, but fear grows with age
Most young children like sharks, with almost seven in 10 describing them in a positive light, but a new study has found that associations between sharks and fear become more common as children get older.
NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Florida Students
From left, SpaceX Crew-13 pilot Luke Delaney and commander Jessica Watkins, both NASA astronauts, are pictured in their pressure suits during a training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.Credit: SpaceX Students in Florida will hear from NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 10:40 a.m. EST Tuesday, Nov.
Beyond statins, one drug lowered heart attack risk by 20%
A new study could help doctors figure out what medicine to prescribe for cholesterol when statins don't cut it: It's “answering a really challenging clinical question."
Jaguars vs. Ravens odds, first touchdown scorer picks, predictions for NFL Week 9 Thursday Night Football
We highlight some first touchdown scorer prediction markets at Kalshi for Jaguars vs. Ravens on Thursday Night Football
Photos: Thousands rally in France over rising costs and economic struggles
Trade unions led more than 260 planned protests nationwide, urging government to address economic woes and wage demands.
UEC signs unhedged long-term sales contracts with two prominent US utilities
NYSE American-listed Uranium Energy Corporation (UEC)’s US Uranium subsidiary has entered into definitive long-term sales agreements with two prominent US nuclear utilities. UEC explains that the supply contracts cover a total of 1.1-million pounds of uranium octoxide (U3O8) to be delivered over six
After raising the price of the Switch 2 earlier this year, Nintendo says it isn't planning more price hikes
Nintendo is reportedly not currently considering raising the price of its Switch 2 console.
An Amateur Radio Operator Told a Satellite to Play 'Doom.' And It Listened
The experiment marks the first known time a satellite has received and acted on a voice command from the ground.
Motorola's new Signature 27 has it all if you can stomach the $1,600 price tag
Motorola is patching a hole in its US lineup with a non-folding flagship phone, but the pricing puts this device dangerously close to the company's expensive tablet-style foldable. The long-rumored Motorola Signature 27 is real, featuring top-of-the-line specs, a super-bright OLED screen, and a ton of cameras. But all this high-end hardware won't come cheap in the age of AI.
Scientists Think They Know Why Some Memories Stick in Your Brain Forever
It sounds counterintuitive, but cortisol produced by stressful situations can strengthen memory.
Ideas: I Was Lucky to Be Alive. But I Missed Being Pretty.
A pump-up girl faces her own mortality.
James Madison vs. Southern Miss prediction, odds, time: Week 10 college football Thursday picks from top model
SportsLine's model revealed its best bets for Thursday's Sun Belt matchup of the James Madison Dukes vs. Southern Miss Golden Eagles
Jordanian officer killed in stabbing attack in Amman
A Jordanian security officer has been killed and another one wounded near the Sri Lankan embassy in Amman.
Chase Sapphire Reserve is making a major change to its luxury travel perks in 2027
Chase is giving its premium credit cardholders a new way to use their travel benefits for stays: vacation homes. Starting January, Chase Travel will expand The Edit, its curated collection of luxury hotels and resorts, to include more than 10,000 vacation home properties. The homes will join the more than 1,500 hotels and resorts already in the collection, giving eligible cardholders more options for using their annual travel credits. Thursday’s announcement comes alongside new surve
Esquire First Look: How ‘Bad Monkey’ Season 2 Brews Up Even More Trouble in Paradise
Creator and showrunner Bill Lawrence reveals how John Malkovich’s love of the Apple TV crime series starring Vince Vaughn landed him a role as the “comedic and dangerous” new villain.
AMD promises not to abandon Ryzen — but keeps drifting away from gamers and PCs
AMD's data-center business now generates nearly two-thirds of its revenue, while gaming sales are down 40% and the PC segment is losing ground. The company says it remains committed to Ryzen and the consumer market, but its latest results show how much its business is shifting toward AI and server c
Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
Discord is moving its apps fully over to the Rust programming language.
How a Quiet Lake in Africa Became One of the Deadliest Natural Disasters Nobody Saw Coming
Most lakes have fish, waves and the occasional tourist, but Lake Nyos had a deadly secret that nobody wanted to discover.
Delayed international support has hampered efforts to contain and treat Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo
An epidemiologist who was on the ground during the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak examines the lessons that experience offers for the DRC.
Magic vs. Suns prediction, odds, time: 2026 NBA picks for Thursday, Nov. 5 from proven model
SportsLine's model reveals its Orlando Magic vs. Phoenix Suns best bets on Thursday
Bishara: US election deals a blow to warmongers
Al Jazeera's senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says the US election is a setback for warmongers.
Paladin’s Namibia mine impacted by planned maintenance
Uranium producer Paladin’s 75%-owned Langer Heinrich mine (LHM), in Namibia, produced one-million pounds of triuranium octoxide (U3O8) in the quarter ended September 30, with production reflecting the planned maintenance shutdown and processing plant recovery. Sales volumes of 1.16-million pounds of
MGM’s Most Underrated 4-Part Horror Show Is Dominating on Netflix Now
MGM’s hit horror series From climbs Netflix’s Top 10 charts as viewers discover its first three seasons on the streaming platform.
Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Are you buying?
Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly-traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.
Agility Robotics' Nasdaq debut invites scrutiny of humanoid robot market
Humanoid robots remain unproven at scale and have not yet achieved widespread commercialization, compared with industrial robots that have decades of proven track records in warehouses and factories. That frank acknowledgment is among the risks outlined in a securities filing by Agility Robotics—the first dedicated developer of humanoid robots to become a publicly traded company in the United States. The robotics company, headquartered in Salem, Oregon, previously became the first to achieve full-time commercial deployment of humanoid robots at a customer warehouse in 2024.
Scientists discover that a clogged filter could revolutionize oil refining
Scientists have developed a remarkable new membrane that separates crude oil at room temperature, using the oil itself to create microscopic filtration channels. The breakthrough could cut refining energy consumption by nearly 32%, carbon emissions by almost 38%, and operating costs by 36%, potentia
In China, a flood of controversial clinical trials slows to a trickle
Following patient deaths, China restricts investigator-initiated biotech trials, leaving rare disease families and US investors facing an uncertain future.
LSU working to add former Baylor coach Dave Aranda in analyst role after firing
The architect of the Tigers' 2019 national championship defense would bring elite schematic expertise to a unit that already ranks fourth nationally under defensive coordinator Blake Baker
Photos: Spain mourns Jesus de Miguel, who died after on-pitch collision
Mourners gather in Navahermosa to honour Tenerife player, whose death has united Spain’s football community in grief.
100,000 polled voters delivered a midterm verdict on Trump’s economy. Here are 4 takeaways
President Donald Trump was publicly humbled by inflation in the midterm elections, as rising prices provoked a blistering set of losses for Republicans in House, Senate and gubernatorial races.Most voters said that Trump’s own policies had smothered growth and driven costs even higher, according to The AP Voter Poll, a survey of roughly 100,000 midterm voters. The president’s message that the fault lay with his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden, didn’t land. Americans saw prices
The Russell Brand I saw in court was not the flamboyant character most people will know
Brand stood upright in the dock as the verdicts were read out in court - ending this sometimes surreal trial.
Axiom Math wants to keep AI slop out of mathematics
As AI floods math with unchecked proofs, Axiom Math is betting on verification. The startup’s AI agents just formally verified the Stacks Project, one of the field’s biggest libraries.
From open beta to global GA: What Docusign learned by bringing contract AI workflows to agents
Docusign CTO Sagnik Nandy explains why getting its MCP Server ready for production meant solving problems that didn't show up in early demos.
Hubble Learns Galactic History From Stars
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British man infected with Ebola in DR Congo arrives in UK for treatment
The UK government says there are "well-established procedures for dealing with cases like this" and the risk to the public remains low.
Great player, bad pick? Ashton Jeanty, Jeremiyah Love and the high price of drafting a RB in the top 10
The Raiders and Cardinals spent premium picks on RBs. Their slow starts raise a bigger question about draft value and missed opportunities.
Paraguay President Pena resigns in wake of bank collapse
President Pena, a Trump ally, had faced an impeachment motion and protests after the collapse of digital lender ueno.
The blue heart is the unofficial emoji of libbing out
The blue heart emoji is having a moment among those celebrating Democrats’ midterm election results, and while you can clock this in many a comments section, it’s also backed up by stats. Tinashe, the pop star, used the emoji 12 times in a post on X on Election Day encouraging her fans to vote, writing, “VOTE OR DIE ! LETS GO AMERICA 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙,” and others have spammed the emoji too in posts “libbing out” in excitement over the midterm results. Scroll
'You've had a wonderful life Tommy, but it's over' - Sir Tom feared he was dying
The singer from Pontypridd told the audience just how serious his "bad case of the flu" was.