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Beware the AI throuple: Is technology manipulating you or your relationship?
Imagine you're involved with someone who knows exactly what captures your attention. They know what makes you laugh, what makes you angry and which topics you like to talk about. They've been paying attention. They've learned what keeps you engaged.
You Can Still Save $1,200 on the iPhone Duo. Here's When to Expect It If You Preorder Today
The iPhone Duo will officially launch this Friday. Preorder deals are still open, but due to high demand, you may not receive your foldable until next year.
Science on the Space Station with NASA Astronaut Jessica Watkins
NASA/Anil Menon NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Jessica Watkins works inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox on Oct. 9, 2026, safely mixing living cell samples with a bioink and then filling a special cartridge with the cell‑ink mixture. The advanced research operations were part of the InSPA‑Auxilium Bioprinter‑Cell Printing investigation, which explores 3D bioprinting cartilage tissue in microgravity of higher quality than that produced on Earth.
Why Elon Musk Wants to Merge SpaceX and Tesla
The CEO and largest shareholder of both companies said a merger would be a “good idea” and that they had formed committees to discuss the possibility.
How the Brewers and Rays have fared in the World Series before as both vie for first title
A first-time champion will be crowned in this year's Fall Classic, but this isn't the first rodeo for either team
US envoy Witkoff calls Russia’s Putin a ‘humanitarian’
US envoy Steve Witkoff praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a ‘humanitarian’.
BBC layoffs: More jobs slashed, channels cut as British broadcaster faces ‘immediate cost pressures’
Media companies continue to struggle as consumers pivot away from traditional forms of content. The latest example comes from the BBC, which has announced it will cut over 100 jobs. The U.K.-based broadcaster is attempting to save £500 million ($670 million) over the next two years. BBC is primarily funded by a licensing fee, a £180 annual payment that provides viewers with all TV channels, streaming services, and more. It’s designed to keep the BBC “free of advertisements and
COD: Modern Warfare 4 DMZ players are spawning in the middle of a road and being flattened before they can do anything
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's DMZ mode doesn't appear to have spawn protection, meaning if you spawn in front of a car, you're done for.
Zoom plans AI controls, compliance tools for enterprises
In 2024, a Hong Kong finance worker paid US$25m after a video call with deepfaked executives.
Telehealth Giant Hims Wants to Test Every Dude for Low Testosterone
The company plans to offer testosterone replacement therapy, marking its first foray into prescribing controlled substances.
Particle colliders recreate matter that existed microseconds after the Big Bang
Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory generated quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by smashing oxygen nuclei at nearly the speed of light.
Covid-19: 'Lessons need to be learnt' as care home report published
An inquiry found that Government failings in care settings allowed the spread of Covid.
What will new-look Wolves look like? By trading for LaMelo Ball, Minnesota swapped 'moodiness for giddiness'
LaMelo is set for his Timberwolves debut on Wednesday night alongside superstar Anthony Edwards
How Qatar, Turkiye, Pakistan and Indonesia are deepening defence ties
Experts say conflicts and uncertainty are accelerating efforts to strengthen regional military capacity.
Westgold reaches stable two-million tonnes a year mine rate at Beta Hunt
ASX- and TSX-listed Westgold Resources has removed legacy mine infrastructure constraints to establish a platform that supports a sustained two-million-tonne-a-year mining rate at the Beta Hunt underground mine at Kambalda. Beta Hunt achieved a record annualised mining rate of two-million tonnes a y
Next-gen Xbox release window may have been revealed – alongside a potentially hefty price tag
It’s all about the money, money, money.
Illinois’ electric grid is under a lot of stress. What does that mean for consumers?
Major blackouts are unlikely despite high energy demands from data centers. To understand why, Curious City explains how the power grid works.
Xbox Project Helix May Be Waiting On Big Launch Exclusive, As Its Reported Holiday 2028 Date Isn't Tied To Hardware
Xbox Project Helix report suggests a Holiday 2028 launch and high price; leaker Kepler L2 claims no hardware delay
Scientists Say AI Can Plant False Memories—and It’s Slowly Decaying Your Mind
Study after study shows that humans reliant on AI will misremember past events or even fabricate details completely.
What I Disbelieve: Quantifying Belief With Negative Ranking Functions
A challenge in exploring the psychology of human uncertainty is its measurement and quantification. Prior work has focused almost exclusively on probability, while the formal theories developed in philosophy are rarely tested. We tested Wolfgang Spohn's ranking theory, a normative account in which belief is graded by ordinal ranks of disbelief that combine by minimization rather than addition, as a descriptive model of human belief. Across six experiments, participants assigned ranks of disbelie
Brewers address $1,000 'Timeless Ticket' debacle as fans try to cash in for World Series
In a 2015 promotion, the team offered a four-figure ticket that could be exchanged for any future game
From one house to whole villages: Settlers have Palestinians surrounded
A family in the South Hebron Hills has spent more than two weeks cut off by settlers camped outside.
Why the NFL is painting a giant mural on the end zones of this football field
Jammie Holmes’s Untitled (2024) is a painting that explores the fleeting nature of beauty and success through the depiction of a child emerging from morning glory flowers. As I write this, a giant version of the work, which has been painstakingly hand-painted onto strips of football field turf, is on a plane flying from New York City to Paris. Jammie Holmes, Untitled, 2024 [Image: Courtesy NFL] The turf version of Holmes’s Untitled was commissioned by the NFL for a new initiative called C
what we learned: spectator and spectacle
from underground nightclubs to cinematic illusions, we explore how spectacle can transform the way we see, move and experience the world.
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Loupe Loupe is an iOS and iPadOS app that gives you a hands-on tour of the device fingerprinting surface. It reads real values from public iOS APIs, the same ones any third-party app can call, and shows them to you raw. The point is simple: see what your iPhone quietly exposes, and why each reading
Foldable phones could be hot – in more ways than one
How foldable phones highlight AI’s growing thermal management challenge
The world's first spinal cord transplant has been performed in Russia | New Scientist
A surgeon has told New Scientist they have performed a transplant on someone with a complete spinal cord injury using a piece of spinal cord from a brain-dead donor, but researchers have raised concerns
Ebola has spread from Congo to 4 other countries. A look at where things stand
Ebola disease from the fast-moving outbreak in Congo has now spread to four other countries, including two where it’s active
Week 7 NFL odds, picks, predictions: Computer model backs Jets and Broncos
SportsLine's advanced model has simulated every game in the Week 7 NFL schedule 10,000 times and locked in its NFL best bets today
US congressional candidate Brad Lander freed after West Bank detention
Lander says dozens remain in Israeli custody after being detained while helping Palestinian farmers harvest olives.
This critical household budget item could shape how Americans vote in the upcoming midterms
Like so many Americans, Jenny Escolastico has watched wearily as the cost of living has risen, straining her household budget. But as a mother of two children under 5, she faces added pressure that could shape how she votes in November: childcare costs.Escolastico’s household outside Allentown, Pennsylvania, is relying solely on her husband’s income. She’s staying home with her children, at least in part because she simply can’t afford to work.“What I would be spend
Pieces of Halley's Comet Will Light Up the Night Sky Tonight. Here's How to See Them.
The Orionid meteor shower peaks overnight, giving skywatchers a chance to see debris from Halley's Comet burning through Earth's atmosphere.
CVE-2026-110982 AI Engine Plugin authorization
A security flaw has been discovered in AI Engine Plugin up to 3.8.5 on WordPress. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-110982. You should upgrade the affected component.
Steve McQueen brings together David Bowie and Nina Simone in Bilbao
Steve McQueen’s exhibition “66–76–26” at Guggenheim Bilbao Museum is a sound sculpture with no image. It is a link between the decades, the emotion of love and understanding, and it also stars David Bowie and Nina Simone. #Art
One in four people with depression may suffer from this new type
‘Circadian depression’ is linked to disruption of a person body’s internal clock
An Open Reliability Atlas of Sensitivity and Failure Modes in the Pulse Physiology Engine
Pulse is an actively maintained open-source adult-physiology simulator, yet its maintainers report no formal sensitivity analysis of its operational inputs. We present the first open reliability atlas across its critical-care envelope: Morris elementary-effects sampling of seven inputs, four severity scenarios, male and female bodies (1,280 simulations). Sensitivity is skewed: three inputs carry a median 93% of each output's total. A four-flag classifier reveals failure modes: two operator-actio
2026 NBA betting promos: Get over $3,000 in bonuses from top online betting apps, sportsbooks on Oct. 21
Top Opening Night NBA betting apps include DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, bet365, Caesars, Fanatics Sportsbook and Hard Rock Bet
Russia releases American Stephen Hubbard after four years in prison
Hubbard was jailed after being accused of fighting alongside Ukrainian forces against Russia.
ArcBest: The Margin Fix Is Working, But Pricing Has To Carry The Next Leg (NASDAQ:ARCB)
ArcBest (ARCB) is rated hold, leaning buy, after significant margin improvements and cost reductions, but needs to demonstrate sustainable pricing power.
Belfast comedian criticised for rape 'joke' about assault victim
Vittorio Angelone referred to content creator Rebecca Goodwin in a remark about rape.
AI promises productivity, but for managers, it’s mostly a headache for now
More than 50% of managers say they're finding it harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.
Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in libxml2 (CVE-2026-86140, CVE-2026-86141, CVE-2026-86143, CVE-2026-86144) affect AIX.
Summary Vulnerabilities in libxml2 could cause stack-based buffer overflow CVE-2026-86140, A NULL pointer dereference CVE-2026-86141, An integer overflow CVE-2026-86143, denial-of-service CVE-2026-86144. AIX uses libxml2 as part of its XML parsing functions. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2026-8614
A 1,200-Year-Old Hairless Dog Mummy Was So Well Preserved That Archaeologists Thought It Was Recent
A startling date reveals the strange, complicated lives of dogs in an empire before the Incas.
Nigeria identifies travel-related Ebola case
Nigeria has confirmed an imported Ebola case tied to the ongoing outbreak centered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, becoming the fifth country to identify a related infection, health officials said.
Fantasy football Week 7 Start 'Em & Sit 'Em quarterbacks: Michael Penix and Geno Smith are sleepers to start
Michael Penix Jr. and Geno Smith are viable sleeper options to target as low-end QB1 replacements with Josh Allen and Jayden Daniels among the stars on bye
How Israel’s war on Lebanon has cost young people with autism and ADHD
Experts warn that war takes a heavy toll on neurodivergent people, who often rely on routine.
Netflix’s stock just collapsed to a 2-year low: Is the streaming giant’s ad business in trouble?
Shares in Netflix Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) have fallen to a more than a two-year low after the streaming giant posted its Q3 2026 results yesterday. Despite hitting Wall Street’s projected revenue target of nearly $12.9 billion for the quarter, an update on the company’s increasingly critical ad business dampened investor optimism, sinking the stock with it. Here’s what you need to know. What’s happened? Yesterday, Netflix announced its results for its third quarter of fiscal 2026. Un
Don't Stop Believin' - High school musical Glee set for reboot
Ryan Murphy's popular musical comedy-drama is set to return on Hulu and Disney+ after a decade away.
AI reveals how a warming climate will intensify NZ's most extreme downpours
The most damaging weather events are the record-breaking "one-in-100-year" disasters communities have usually only seen once.
AEON: Unifying Video and 3D World Models
Current world models for explicit world simulation typically follow two distinct pathways: (1) video generative models (e.g., Sora), which simulate realistic appearances but fail to preserve 3D consistency; and (2) 3D generative models (e.g., Marble), which generate geometrically consistent scenes but often yield static, less realistic observations. We present AEON, a unified framework that bridges video-based and 3D-based world models and combines the benefits of both. The key insight of AEON l
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Christina Applegate says she was wrongly diagnosed with MS
Christina Applegate thought she was living with multiple sclerosis (MS) for five years, until recently discovering she had been given a wrong diagnosis.
Jacob Misiorowski gets World Series Game 1 start for Brewers as he looks to reclaim his ace stuff
Misiorowski has pitched twice during the 2026 playoffs and failed to complete five innings in either start
Are the UK, France being pulled into the Saudi-Houthi conflict?
The European states say their support for Riyadh is 'defensive', but analysts warn Houthi reaction may complicate that.
Greater improvements required to strengthen infrastructure management, delivery – IMF finds
Ahead of the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) delivered by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana on October 21, the National Treasury has solemnly reflected on multinational organisation the International Monetary Fund's (IMF’s) assessment of South Africa’s public investment management with i
Young Audiences Want to Redefine Modern Storytelling, New Study Shows
A new study found that young viewers are often not consulted about what they want to see on screen — even in projects about and for them.
Google SynthID Detector Simplifies Watermark Detection and Expands Support to Other AI Providers
Google DeepMind announced the global availability of SynthID Detector, a tool designed to help identify AI-generated content, including media created using AI tools from SynthID partners such as OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Kakao, with Apple support expected soon.
SolarRenderer: Few-Step Generative Reference Rendering
Game engines and coding agents can specify the layout, motion, and camera of a scene, yet turning such coarse structure into realistic video requires a renderer that follows the structure and completes the appearance it leaves open. Existing renderers are tied to the representation of one engine, need tens of denoising steps or a costly distillation of their own, and learn from conditions that are not aligned with their target videos. We present SolarRenderer, a structure-conditioned video rende
NASA’s CASALS Instrument Bridges Gaps in 3D Maps of Earth’s Surface
Explore This Section Overview Technology Programs Technology Highlights Workshops and Events Publications From orbit, today’s space-based laser instruments measure Earth’s forests and terrain one narrow line at a time. Between those lines are enormous gaps that include millions of acres of land scientists never directly measure. NASA’s CASALS instrument will blend machine learning with an ultra-compact lidar instrument to adaptively ‘sweep’ large swaths of Earth’s surface.
Africa CDC calls Ebola crisis summit as Nigeria records first case
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has invited health ministers to an “extraordinary virtual meeting” as Ebola spreads across the continent
UFC 333: Aaron Pico and Lone'er Kavanagh in must-see undercard fights in Abu Dhabi this weekend
Alexander Volkanovski vs. Movsar Evloev and Petr Yan vs. Merab Dvalishvili are far from the only competitive fights at UFC 333
Musk pledges $10bn in SpaceX shares for US children: Who really gains?
The pledge, which Trump says will go through tax-friendly 'Trump accounts', comes two weeks before the US midterms.
Fiscal-anchor legislation released for comment to protect ‘hard-won gains’
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana used the occasion of the 2026 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) to release draft legislation for public comment aimed at integrating a principles-based fiscal anchor as a requirement for future administrations, but without introducing a rigid numerical rul
Woman told Russell Brand he 'treated her like an animal', court hears
The comedian and actor is on trial for charges including rape and sexual assault, which he denies.