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NVIDIA’s 9-Year-Old Tesla V100 Still Packs Some Inference Muscle; 4 GPUs On An NVLink Board Can Outperform M5 Ultra, DGX Spark In Various AI Benchmarks By Up To 230%
Four 9-year-old NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs on an NVLink board can outpace the M5 Ultra and DGX Spark in AI inference benchmarks by up to 230%
Why small businesses can’t afford to treat cybersecurity as an afterthought
Bitdefender Ultimate Small Business Security could be the cybersecurity co-worker to help you succeed
‘We still love you’: Washington reassures Europe over defence division
US Ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, has enthused that there is no “love” lost between Washington and Brussels amid a more Europeanised NATO. #EuropeNews
Pope Leo XIV will have surgery in coming days to remove nodule on his lung
VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo XIV announced Sunday (Oct 11) he will undergo surgery "in the coming days" to remove a nodule on his lung, in the first major health event of his 17-month pontificate.The 71-year-old Leo said the nodule was found at an early stage and was "circumscribed" or small and well-loc
Rays vs. Guardians predictions: ALCS expert picks as title-starved franchises square off for pennant
The 2026 ALCS gets started Monday night, and our experts are all leaning the same direction
Zizou Bergs stuns Alcaraz in Shanghai as Zverev claims year-end top ranking
After defending his Japan Open title after returning from injury, Alcaraz never found his rhythm in a scrappy contest.
Linear Demand Systems are Consistent with Discrete Choice
Aggregate linear demand systems can be micro-founded by a population of heterogeneous consumers making discrete choices. They can also be extended to incorporate income effects. I prove these results and show how to structurally estimate this class of models using only market-level data. The distribution of consumer preferences is recovered by disciplining the corner solutions with aggregate terms only. This approach allows for the same richness of Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995) [BLP] while
Hepworth piece could fetch up to £8m at auction
A post-war sculpture inspired by the Cornish landscape is set to go under the hammer.
Loops seed round: $3.5M from a16z speedrun to unify AI shopping tools
‘A retailer does not need five different AI products’: Loops raises a $3.5M seed round to build one AI layer for commerce.
Towards Physically Grounded Articulated 3D Assets: A Multi-Agent Pipeline and Benchmark
In this paper, we study physically grounded articulated 3D asset generation---moving the goal from reproducing how objects look to capturing how they move and function. Inspired by the literature on procedural and agentic generation, we present Artisan, a system that extends the latest method Articraft by introducing a multi-agent pipeline with physical simulation feedback, enabling comprehensive attributes beyond geometry, appearance, and physically plausible articulation, such as collision-fre
A Core Demographic of People Who Love AI: Pedophiles
AI models that are partially or fully open-source have led to a major surge in child sex abuse material online.
DyssomniaNN: Multi-Scale Spiking Neural Modeling of Human Sleep Disorders and Perceived Restedness
Clinical sleep medicine repeatedly documents profound divergences between objective sleep duration and subjective daytime impairment, notably exemplified by sleep state misperception in paradoxical insomnia and boundary instability in narcolepsy type 1. Here, we present DyssomniaNN: a multi-scale biophysical computational framework coupling Borbély's two-process regulation of sleep homeostasis and circadian drive with Saper's hypothalamic reciprocal flip-flop circuit and a recurrent corticothala
Has the David Bailey breakout arrived? Jets' No. 2 overall pick shines in three-sack day vs. Browns
Bailey quieted the critics with the best game of his young career
Why are the Houthis striking Saudi airports?
The attacks mark the deadliest assault on Saudi soil in more than a decade.
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Tom Cruise film Digger could lose $245m at box office
The film dropped by around 60% in its second weekend, and could become one of Hollywood's biggest flops.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts tomorrow: Your final chance to secure up to $100 ticket savings
Tomorrow at 8 a.m. PT, it all begins. 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech operators will gather at San Francisco’s Moscone West for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 for three days of ideas, connections, and startups shaping what comes next. This is your last 24 hours to secure ticket savings of up to $100, and get 50% off a second.
OnePlus 16 With a 9,000mAh Battery Debuts at This Price
OnePlus 16 will go on sale in China in Tomorrow's Star, Martian Masterpiece, and Dark Forest (translated from Chinese) colour options.
Biotech Startup Proposes Genetically Modified Microbes for Mars Settlement
A new genetically engineered microbe may one day help humanity settle Mars, a nonprofit biotechnology research startup suggests. Our species has launched nearly 50 missions to Mars since 1960, all of them robotic. If everything goes according to plan, they've all been building toward crewed Red Plan
Designing Protein Structures from Natural Language
A central challenge in de novo protein design is generating proteins with desired structural and functional properties. Existing design models typically require a dedicated input representation for each property, limiting the design objectives they support. We develop Prompteina, the first all-atom structure generation model that supports new and broader design objectives specified in natural language, analogous to text-to-image generation. To train Prompteina, we construct Prompteina-Data, a pa
CBS Sports 138: Georgia takes top spot over Miami, Notre Dame in college football rankings
The Bulldogs moved up to No. 1 after a win at Alabama and Texas' upset loss to Oklahoma in this week's comprehensive FBS rankings
Iran-Saudi talks on Yemen’s Houthis: What’s in it for Tehran?
Tehran seeks dialogue in Yemen conflict, warning a military solution risks complicating the volatile regional situation.
Hub Group upgraded by Baird on possible gains amid accounting turmoil
Hub Group upgraded by Baird on possible gains amid accounting turmoil
‘He could have just shaken hands with her’: Amitabh Bachchan’s 84th birthday video outside Jalsa sparks debate after he declines young fan’s request
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AI for washing dishes? This Hisense dishwasher takes the guesswork out of cleaning
The Hisense Hi9 WiFi-connected dishwasher is smarter where it matters, giving you better control of your cleaning, wherever you are
Inside Amazon’s robotic arms race and what it means for the future of human work
No organization in the world operates more robots than Amazon. The company already has more than 1 million robots working in warehouses around the clock to make tens of millions of same-day and one-day package deliveries happen on a daily basis—and Amazon is poised to significantly grow that robotic fleet in the coming years as it establishes new factories to churn out increasingly more capable robot workers. Despite deploying so many robots, Amazon is also the second-largest corporate employer in the world, with more than 1.5 million full-time and part-time human workers, according to its 202
Why the worst El Niño killed millions – and how we can avoid a repeat | New Scientist
The world hasn't experienced an El Niño this strong since the 1870s, when it sparked a terrible global famine. Are we better prepared this time?
Voter Registration Campaign Engages People Impacted by Chronic Diseases - BioSpace
Americans with Kidney, Cardiac, and Metabolic Disorders Target Barriers to Care Choice. Newly Registered Voters Motivated by Medical Innovation ...
Rams vs. Bills SGP: 'Monday Night Football' same-game parlay picks, bets, props from SportsLine AI
SportsLine's Machine Learning Model AI reveals its 'Monday Night Football' SGP for Buffalo vs. Los Angeles
What are the key matches to watch as the UEFA Champions League returns?
Atletico vs Man United and Man City vs PSG headline the league's match day two action as the competition returns.
How AI can prevent knowledge from walking out the door
Knowledge is what separates a good operation from a great one. It is also the hardest thing to scale, because the knowledge that matters most does not live in systems. It lives in people. The team member who knows that this client needs a call before a decision, not after. The leader who has seen this pattern before and knows where it breaks. The analyst who understands why the model is wrong this time even when the numbers say otherwise. That knowledge compounds when it stays and disappears whe
5 Chinese Fantasy Dramas To Watch On Netflix, Prime Video: Veil Of Shadows, Moonlit Reunion And More
All of these Chinese shows are currently available to stream in India.
Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background
Ambi is releasing apps for iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch that enables ambient capture
Splat2Act: From Captured Scenes to Personalized VLA Manipulation
A user who brings a generalist manipulation policy into their home or office wants it to pick up their objects from their shelves, counters, and tables. Yet even a strong generalist like $π_{0.5}$ achieves 0% pickup success in our captured deployment scenes without adaptation, and collecting real demonstrations in every user's environment is prohibitively expensive. We present Splat2Act, an automated real-to-sim-to-real pipeline that personalizes a pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policy
Unifying spherical convolutions through lifting
We develop a unified description of convolution on the sphere by lifting to the rotation group. A number of definitions of spherical convolution have been proposed, differing in whether the kernel is axisymmetric or directional, whether the output is on the sphere or the rotation group, whether the signals carry spin, and in their computational cost. No unified treatment exists. Regarding the sphere as the homogeneous space $S^2 \cong \text{SO(3)}/\text{SO(2)}$, we lift a spin $s$ field to the r
Six-item 'American Covid' kit pharmacist urges people to keep at home
Keeping the six items ready at home can help if you suddenly fall ill with the virus
DP World Tour won't allow LIV Golf players to join in 2027, preventing Ryder Cup eligibility, per report
After a season in which the DP World Tour granted conditional releases to LIV Golf players, the circuit has decided not to allow those still playing in the new version of the league to participate in its tournaments
At least 20 injured in northern Israel explosion
The blast has been caused by unexploded ordnance in northern Israel near the Lebanese border.
Intentionally Overidentifying Local Projections
Local projections (LPs) have become a standard tool for estimating dynamic effects in macroeconomics and are typically implemented using ordinary least squares (OLS) for a given lag order. We propose an alternative approach that exploits additional lags as excluded instrumental variables (IVs). Under a finite-order model with martingale-difference shocks, the resulting (optimally weighted) IV estimator is never asymptotically less efficient than OLS and, as we show, can deliver substantial effic
Dungeons and Dragons: World of Warcraft - Every Alliance Subfaction
Dungeons and Dragons players can check out the long list of Alliance subfactions that may become allies or enemies in their WoW adventures.
Google Fitbit Edge launching today as Charge 6 successor
Google has officially teased the Pixel Watch-style fitness tracker, seemingly showing us the Champagne Gold and Cayon colourway to match the Pixel 11 Pro
Can Language Models Play the Wikipedia Game?
Language models increasingly support or automate information retrieval from document collections too large to index. This task is difficult when it requires specialist linguistic or scientific knowledge. We used the Wikipedia Game to test language models on an analogous information retrieval task. In the game, players must reach a target article using only article links. We compared sentence embedding models and LLMs across five Wikipedia languages and five academic-literature datasets. We const
Scientists Shielded Fruit Flies From Earth’s Magnetic Field. Some Lived 20% Longer
Removing Earth’s magnetic field changed mitochondria, movement and lifespan in fruit flies.
People think I'm in my 20s and are stunned when I say I'm almost 50
On her birthday last month, she posted a video holding a cupcake with candles that changed from 29 to 39 and finally 49 - sparking a fierce debate about her real age.
Use BetMGM bonus code CBSSPORTS to get $1,500 bonus bets for Bills vs. Rams on Monday Night Football
Use the latest MGM promo code CBSSPORTS to get $1,500 in bonus bets if your first bet loses for Rams vs. Bills betting on Monday Night Football
Israeli settlers abuse and reportedly poison goats in Palestinian village
An Israeli settler was filmed abusing and reportedly poisoning livestock in the village of Al-Mughayyir.
Duo the owl’s next big act is an animated series
Duo the owl has twerked on main, flash mobbed a Charli XCX concert, died, sent his ashes to Dua Lipa, and come back to life. His next big act? Starring in his own animated show. Duo TV is a new animated series that was created entirely by Duolingo’s in-house design studio. The six-episode series stars in-app characters including Duo himself, the deadpan goth teen Lily, her best friend Zari, and a grumpy bear named Falstaff as they navigate working at a mysterious grocery store called DuoMart. Th
Madhuri Dixit's Husband Didn't Recognise Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan At Reception: 'Only Knew Amitabh Bachchan'
Dr Shriram Nene said that he didn't watch a lot of Hindi films.
From Selfies to Creators: Oppo Executive on F Series at 10
In an exclusive interview with Gadgets 360, Goldee Patnaik, Head of Communications at Oppo India, discusses the F Series' 10-year journey, its 30 million users, the growing creator economy, and what the F35 Series brings to the table.
This new Android weather app solves my biggest complaint about Pixel Weather
MeteoCompare shows that forecast uncertainty is just as important as the forecast itself.
Necessary conditions for benchmarking next-generation AI in materials discovery
Current AI predicts materials by speeding up energy minimisation and training on large databases. However, scaling data generation prevents manual analysis by domain experts. If novelty is evaluated by chemical compositions or traditional representations in Crystallographic Information Files, or standard structure matchers based on manually chosen thresholds, one can easily generate millions of ``new'' compositions or files without discovering truly novel materials. This paper uses a hierarchy o
US turns to low-cost Blackbeard hypersonic missile to overwhelm Chinese defences
At US$385,000 per unit, the carrier-launched weapons are being developed with an emphasis on affordability and mass production.
NFC East makes dubious NFL history with winless Week 5 as Giants hold unlikely division lead
The NFC East's Week 5 is something that has happened just four times since 2002 divisional realignment
Israeli academic and Al Jazeera contributor Ori Goldberg dies at 50
Goldberg was a regular Al Jazeera contributor and died after a long battle with colon cancer, his family said.
Realized Tail-Risk Conditional Autoregressive Expectile Models: Accurate and Stable Forecasting Performance
A realized tail-risk conditional autoregressive expectile (RTCARE) model is proposed for joint forecasting of value-at-risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES). Realized tail measures such as the realized quantile and the realized ES, constructed from intraday high-frequency returns, are incorporated into the dynamics and measurement equations of the conditional expectile, allowing information about lower-tail risk to enter the forecasts. The parameters are estimated by Markov chain Monte Carlo, a
Cannes Festival Winning Producer Quijote Films Launches In-House Scripted Series Division (EXCLUSIVE)
Chile’s Quijote Films, behind Cannes Un Certain Regard prizewinner ‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,’ is venturing into high-end scripted series.
Celebrating the brilliant pragmatism of TCP/IP, the wiring of the world
Nothing this old should scale this well. Yet here these words are
How to watch Clown Panic online from anywhere – guide to stream the doc now
The brand new Killer clown documentary is the perfect start for the countdown to Halloween
The Crews Harnessing A.I. to Fight Wildfires
Our reporter, John Branch, joined a team installing cameras in the Sierra Nevada for detecting wildfires. Artificial intelligence is used to sift through images from the network, helping firefighters identify and respond to early to signs of wildfires.
PhySeqNet: physics-informed fluorescent foci detection for BARseq spatial transcriptomics
BARseq enables spatially resolved gene-expression profiling across intact tissue, but its sensitivity depends on accurate detection and decoding of dense fluorescent rolonies. Existing spot-calling approaches can be conservative where signals overlap, while supervised deep learning is limited by the lack of reliable manual ground truth in real tissue images. Here we present PhySeqNet, a physics-informed deep learning framework for annotation-free fluorescent foci detection in BARseq. PhySeqNet t
Guardians vs. Rays ALCS Game 1 picks Monday: Tampa Bay appears to have nearly every opening advantage
The well-rested Rays and ace Drew Rasmussen host the Guardians in Game 1 of the ALCS on Monday night
Iran sets crosshairs on ‘US-UAE’ oil shuttle out of Strait of Hormuz
The IRGC is hitting more ships allegedly part of a shuttle operation to move crude oil beyond the Strait of Hormuz.
As midterms approach, Trump is sticking with tariffs even though voters disapprove
Maybe President Donald Trump really does believe that “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the dictionary.Despite higher prices, criticism from trade experts and displeasure among voters, Trump holds fast to his belief that imposing the highest import duties on U.S. trading partners since the Great Depression is a winner.A recent poll suggests that is a big gamble with less than a month before the Nov. 3 midterms. Most U.S. adults disapprove of his trade policies, with more than 64
Mastery Monday Fortnite (October 12): Start Times and Sprite Bonuses
Fortnite Mastery Monday returns October 12 with double Sprite XP. Here are the start times to master new Trick or Treat Sprites.