World in a Pulse
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I tried Apple’s Siri Recaps. They’re surprisingly useful — and a little unsettling
Apple's AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there's still room for improvement.
What I learned driving the Slate electric truck prototype
If my 45-minute drive yesterday morning is anything to go by, I think Slate Auto will have quite the hit on its hands. The startup had one of its prototype trucks in town and asked if I wanted to check it out—no jumping on a plane or having to spend yet another night in an interchangeable hotel room, just a drive from southwest DC to Rockville, Maryland. Easy-peasy. The prototype truck had been well-used, with almost 6,000 miles (9,656 km) showing on the small and minimalist but very legible digital display that also shows your speed and, if you engage reverse, the backup camera.
NASA Space Grant Students Fuel Agency’s Inspiration Tour
4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman addresses a standing-room-only crowd during an Inspiration Tour stop at Iowa State University. Credit: NASA NASA’s Inspiration Tour spread the excitement of space exploration and aeronautical innovation by connecting the public, industry, and academia with the people, technologies, and organizations that drive American leadership in space.
Cyberattack hits French blood bank site but no blood products were compromised
French authorities have reported a cyberattack on several blood banks that attempted to raise temperatures to dangerous levels
Mauricio Pochettino mixes veterans, youth on USMNT roster for Nations League matches
Christian Pulisic and Weston McKennie rejoin the squad alongside Cavan Sullivan and Julian Hall as the Americans prepare for a quarterfinal clash with Haiti
Police find child sex abuse images in investigation into Meghan Markle’s father
Police were granted a warrant to examine the alleged stash of child sex abuse material last Thursday
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi: Midterms sent a ‘very clear message’
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said this morning that Democrats’ sweeping midterm victory sent a “very clear message” about the damage inflation has done to American consumers. During an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Khosrowshahi said the problem stems from how the economy has evolved since the 2008 financial crisis, as wages have not kept pace with skyrocketing prices. “When you look at capitalism, there’s capital investment and return on capital, and obviously there’s return o
Emmerdale airs explosive Joe Tate and Caleb Miligan confrontation in early ITVX release
Warning: Contains spoilers for Wednesday's episode of Emmerdale, which airs at 8pm on ITV1 or can be streamed now on ITVX.
Redditor uses AI to get Switch games running natively on Apple TV - Engadget
The TVPort project is another example of people using Claude Code to bring software to other platforms
AI Is Taking the Memory Your Phone Needs, and AMD Just Confirmed It
AMD says AI chips are competing with phones and laptops for the same memory supply. Here’s why that means phone prices will keep climbing in 2027.
Hubble Reveals Cosmic Mystery
This is an image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of NGC 4449, one of the dwarf galaxies in the Galaxies Losing Oxygen via Winds (GLOW) study. Researchers found that dwarf galaxies can hold onto only a small fraction of the oxygen made by their stars. NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage–ESA/Hubble Collaboration, Alessandra Aloisi (STScI, ESA) This photo released on Nov. 2, 2026, showcases NGC 4449, a dwarf irregular.
Love green tea? Gabriela Peacock reveals why she's a 'huge fan'
Matcha is a trendy green powder made from shade-grown tea leaves, traditionally whisked into hot water.
Way-too-early 2027 WNBA Power Rankings: Valkyries on top; Fever, Lynx, Liberty have major offseason questions
The Valkyries just took down the Dream to cap off the 2026 WNBA season, but that doesn't mean we can't look ahead to 2027
Palestinian citizens of Israel face intimidation after election success
After winning a record number of parliament seats, Palestinian-led parties face campaign against them.
Amgen Analyst Likes Diversified Business, Remains Patient Until MariTide Obesity Data - Amgen (NASDAQ:AMG
Amgen approaches 52-week highs on Q3 earnings beats and raised 2026 guidance, while Wall Street analysts lift price targets.
Pokémon Pokopia DLC Dazzling Decorations Release Date and Features Revealed
Pokémon Pokopia DLC Dazzling Decorations launches December 9. Here are the new features and requirements to access the expansion.
Google faces backlash for plan that would turn off Search for schools that restrict AI
Politicians on the left, like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of acting as an unregulated monopoly.
Satellite analysis finds little evidence that data centers cause widespread ground warming
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters has found little evidence that hyperscale data centers cause significant heating of surrounding land. While a previous study suggested data centers heat surrounding land by about 2 °C on average (up to 9 °C), reaching 10 kilometers (6.2 miles)
Man builds robotic cat feeder that senses when dish is empty
An ultrasonic sensor ensures kibble doesn’t dump on the pet’s head.
The biotech startups skipping AI for drug discovery
In this edition of AI Prognosis: These biotech startups don't think drug discovery is where AI can make the biggest difference.
Wales to rip up midfield selection policy and make big call at fly-half vs Japan
Steve Tandy is set to make some big selection calls ahead of Wales' clash with Japan
Air traffic control outage cost UK economy £33 million, new report finds
The disruption led to thousands of flights being cancelled
How AI impacts solopreneurs’ relationships with their clients (and what to do about it)
Most people I know have asked themselves some version of “Is AI replacing me?” It’s a fair question. But, running a solo business, I think the question extends beyond “Is AI replacing the work I do?” It’s also impacted the way clients interact with the people they hire. Clients expect AI to make your work cheaper Some companies are really moving their budgets away from hiring people to AI. The Ramp Economics Lab tracked how businesses split their spending b
Helicopter Crashes Into Biscayne Bay in Miami, Search and Rescue Underway
A helicopter plunged into Miami's Biscayne Bay Wednesday morning ... leaving two injured and a third person feared dead, according to local reports.
Your next phone could cost even more, and this time it’s not just RAM
A couple of reports suggest Samsung’s OLED panels could witness a significant price bump starting next year.
Fireworks provide a few minutes of joy, but the economic and environmental costs last much longer
Every Bonfire Night, people pay for a box of fireworks so their friends and family can enjoy the colorful display. Within a few minutes, it's all over. But the price on the box doesn't reflect the hidden costs: the smoke inhaled by neighbors, the animals disturbed or the public services called out w
NASA Announces Ka-Band Satellite Relay Awards for Space Communications
Credit: NASA NASA selected three companies on Wednesday to perform work to develop Ka-band space relay capability concepts that are compatible with current missions in space, ensuring service continuity for existing spacecraft without requiring modifications to their onboard systems. Through this work, NASA will aim to acquire end-to-end solutions that include space, ground, launch, operations, and integration elements, as one of many customers in the commercial marketplace. The awards, under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-3 Broad Agency Announcement Appendix
Arthritis ruled Susan's life - until this drug-free therapy
A few years ago, Susan Harrison's joints were causing her so much pain that she felt hip and knee replacement operations would soon be inevitable.
How landmark Everton compensation prevented Burnley record loss
Burnley have published promising financial results, but under the hood is a payment from Everton which makes the picture look far less positive.
Owono enduring ‘hardest days of my life’ after De Miguel death
Tenerife striker De Miguel died on Tuesday as a result of injuries from a collision with FC Andorra goalkeeper Owono.
Your company probably saw the problem coming. Here’s why it got blindsided anyway
Most strategic surprises aren’t really surprises. Somebody inside the company almost always saw the signal early. The question is why the organization didn’t do anything useful with those insights while there was still time. I think of an organization’s early warning capacity as having three parts. Sensing is whether you pick up leading indicators while the signals are still weak. Discipline is whether there’s a consistent process, with dedicated time and people to att
VisionQuest episode 7 twist sees Paul Bettany take on integral Marvel characters and fans are blown away
The history of Vision stretches further than fans might have expected...
cxagent — a terminal coding agent
A terminal AI coding agent. Give it a goal in plain language; it reads your files, works out what to change, and changes them.
Sam Altman addresses RAM comments: people should ‘put as much as they want in their computers’
‘Ram Altman’ wants you to have ‘so much ram.’
NASA, NOAA Track 2026 Antarctic Ozone Hole
4 min read NASA, NOAA Track 2026 Antarctic Ozone Hole Earth’s protective ozone layer remains on track for long-term recovery, despite atmospheric conditions that contributed to a larger Antarctic ozone hole in 2026, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported. The ozone hole ranked seventh largest by area in 48 years of monitoring, but was not as deep as other large holes on record. From Sept. 7 to Oct. 13, peak ozone depletion season, the average extent of the hole covered about 9.6 million square miles (25 million square kilometers).
iGC: Antibody Optimization via Reinforcement Learning over a Learned Somatic Hypermutation Prior
Antibody affinity maturation is a natural optimization process in which B cells acquire mutations through somatic hypermutation (SHM), undergo selection for improved antigen binding, and iteratively evolve toward higher affinity. Computationally modeling this process requires capturing both biologically plausible mutations and antigen-specific selection. However, existing mutation models do not directly optimize binding, while affinity optimization often neglects realistic mutation trajectories.
Rory McIlroy explains how LIV Golf was talking about destroying the European Tour at recent major
McIlroy echoed the sentiments of the DP World Tour CEO, who revealed plenty in a recent interview
Danish students join European protest wave against education funding cuts
Danish government proposes scrapping allowance scheme for students from wealthier families.
IREN Stock Slides as Midterm Results Raise Regulatory Fears - IREN (NASDAQ:IREN)
IREN shares are falling Wednesday as Democratic wins, including in Texas, raised fears of slower data center and AI infrastructure growth.
Men Who Do Less of This Have Better Luck Dating, According to a New Survey
A new survey reveals an unexpected preference among women when evaluating potential dates, but there's a surprising catch.
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Doors open at 9 a.m. ET in Boston
Today is the day to join TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 in Boston's SoWa Power Station. Register now to join this founder-focused conference today.
Aligning Language Models with General Preferences: An Empirical Study of Direct Nash Optimization
Direct Nash Optimization (DNO) aligns a language model to a general preference function by approximating the Nash equilibrium of a two-player preference game. Its practical variant, DNO-Prct, iterates on-policy sampling, LLM-based rating of the samples together with a teacher's gold response, large-margin preference-pair selection and a DPO-style contrastive update. We re-implement DNO-Prct independently and study it on two open-weight instruct models, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct and Mistral 7B Instru
Earlier sleep tied to weight loss in people with prediabetes
"When we fall asleep—not just how much we sleep—seems to be an important and overlooked factor for weight loss and metabolic health."
Where does MAHA go from here? Three possible futures
Republican losses leave Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s MAHA movement with three possible futures.
Scotland lock believes side can end All Blacks hoodoo
Scotland have never beaten New Zealand in 33 attempts, with two draws.
Israeli president begins process to decide which leader should try to form a government
Yitzhak Herzog criticises racist attacks on Palestinian citizens who turned out to vote at historic rates
Outback Steakhouse store closures: See a list of doomed locations as franchisee files for bankruptcy
A number of Outback Steakhouse locations closed their doors last month in the lead-up to a bankruptcy petition by one of the casual dining chain’s largest franchisees, court documents reveal. The store closures span four states. Here’s what to know: What’s happened? Cerca Trova Restaurant Group Holdings, which operates as Out West Restaurant Group, one of Outback Steakhouse’s largest franchisees, sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy Cour
Maura Higgins shares ‘reality’ of competing on Dancing With The Stars
The Love Island star is taking part on the US version of the dancing series, where she has been paired with professional dancer Mark Ballas.
Google Insists It Is Not Extorting Schools with Forced AI to Keep Search
Google responded to political backlash from Bernie Sanders and Lina Khan over its policy linking school Search to AI features.
Binance says hackers who stole billions in crypto spent months planning heist
The hackers who stole billions of dollars in cryptocurrency from the Binance exchange spent months working on the theft and used both social engineering and novel malware in the process, the company said Tuesday. The heist, which both the FBI and the TRM Security firm attributed to North Korean actors, initially targeted $6.34 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance wallets. The exchange has since frozen or intercepted $2.85 billion of that sum. Binance said it has set aside funds required to cover the loss and provided this link to a Proof of Reserves page.
Rajeev Singh, Smartsheet CEO: A Fortt Knox Update
Smartsheet, now private, unveiled vsActual, its first standalone agentic product — software that runs a corporation's annual operating planning start to finish, built on a context graph assembled over 20 years. Speaking with Jon Fortt, CEO Rajeev Singh also detailed a shift to "AI as UI" access and
Empirical Bayes Flow Matching for Continuous Cryo-EM Heterogeneity
We address the problem of learning generative priors over high-dimensional latent variables from indirect, noisy observations, with a focus on continuous heterogeneity in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). In this setting, 3D atomic structures $x \in \mathbb{R}^{3N_a}$ are never directly observed and must be inferred from 2D projection images $y$ generated by a complex, non-linear forward operator. We propose Empirical Bayes Flow Matching (EB-FM), a method that learns a flow matching prior $p_θ
NBA Panic Meter: Why Nuggets, Heat, Suns should be worried after just two weeks
There's no reason to panic quite yet for the defending champion Knicks, however
The new Congress may struggle to push a progressive agenda
Major change on key issues, such as Israel-Palestine, will be limited by the president and the Democratic establishment.
What's Going on With Microsoft Stock on Wednesday? - Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
Microsoft stock jumps over 6% on Wednesday as Azure cloud acceleration drove a Big Tech rally, while Wall Street analysts defended targets up to $722.
Crimson Desert Patch Notes for Update 2.04.06 – DLC Fixes and Performance Improvements
Crimson Desert update 2.04.06 fixes DLC issues, crashes, and framerate drops. Here are the full patch notes and platform availability details.
Safari finally gets 3 popular browser features - and I can't wait to try them - ZDNET
New developer beta release notes point to deeper Siri AI integration and more Safari customization.
The DEA banned a drug some opioid users called a miracle
In 2012, as the driver of deaths in the opioid crisis began moving from prescription pills to heroin, Laura Bohn was tasked with finding safer drugs to manage pain. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in 2017 she and other scientists revealed in the science journal Cell that several compounds—including a particularly promising one called SR-17018—could relieve pain in mice without causing respiratory depression.
NASA Navigation Experiment Shows Promise for Planetary Landings
3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An Alta-X drone flies an advanced guidance and navigation system known as the Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) experiment near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Wednesday, July 15, 2026. Researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston developed SPLICE, which successfully communicated with the remotely piloted aircraft during hover maneuvers in flight.
Cocaine overtakes heroin as leading cause of drug deaths in England and Wales
The number of deaths linked to cocaine use in England and Wales has nearly quadrupled in a decade.
Footy Fix: Champions League wraps up with Real Madrid, Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City in action
Elsewhere on the Golazo Starting XI newsletter, Milan return to Europa League action
Netanyahu bet on Trump – but both lost
Israel's political establishment grapples with US voter rejection of White House ally and own contribution towards it.
CVS is splitting into two companies: Healthcare giant’s ‘Pharmacy’ breakup explained
CVS is breaking up. On Wednesday, the healthcare giant announced plans to split into two separate, independent companies, and both will be publicly traded. The two companies will form a “leading healthcare solutions company” called CVS Health, and will encompass Aetna, CVS Caremark, CVS Specialty, Oak Street Health, and Signify Health. The second company, dubbed CVS Pharmacy, will be made up of roughly 9,000 CVS pharmacies, mail pharmacy, MinuteClinic, and the Health100 tech servi
Tributes paid to drummer with dozens of number ones
Amarillo singer Tony Christie says Clem Cattini was a "world class" musician and gentleman.