World in a Pulse
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India’s Surprise Growth Market Is China But Trade Deficits Swell
India is selling more manufactured goods to China, with electronics emerging as a bright spot in a trade relationship that remains overwhelmingly tilted in Beijing’s favor.
The Dreame X60 Pro Ultra Complete is a ridiculously clever and exceedingly competent premium hybrid robot vac for the well-heeled
The Dreame X60 Pro Ultra Complete is one of the very best robotic floor cleaners money can buy
Human remains in museum depots force Swiss to confront colonial legacy
Canton Basel City is returning the remains of three Indigenous people to Chile. For the Kawésqar community, it is an act of dignity and healing. For Switzerland, it is just the beginning: its museums hold at least 4,000 human remains from the colonial era. “Today, we want to apologise to you,” said
Dad loses 28st without resorting to surgery or weight loss jabs
Mark Bailey used to wear 72-inch waist trousers after consuming 7,500 calories a day. He has even dropped two shoe sizes after his dramatic weight loss
Adam Liaw’s lamb sausage tagine
I’ve switched lamb pieces for lamb sausages for a quicker tagine that is both affordable and easy.
Australia’s deaths to outnumber births by 2060s, report says
Number of Australians aged 85 or older projected to triple by 2065–66, according to government forecast.
Why ‘Grit starts at the copy machine,’ is still great advice, according to Evite CEO David Yeom
The first three days of my career were spent in front of a copy machine. I was fresh out of college, newly hired at Arthur Andersen in downtown Los Angeles, convinced I was about to dive headfirst into the high-stakes world of auditing and consulting. On my first day, I arrived prepared to use every tool I’d just learned at school to impress my peers and superiors. Instead, I stood there for three days, copying stack after stack of audit and tax documents. Thousands of pages. One aft
When Jaya Prada Recalled Dharmendra's Flirting On Set; Said Rajesh Khanna Would 'Come Very Late' To Shoot
The veteran actress also spoke about doing 5 shifts in a day.
Iran and China create first-of-their-kind autonomous AI influence campaigns
The campaigns caught the attention of U.S. intelligence, major tech companies and security experts.
MintAct: A Unified Visual Agent for Digital Environments
We present MintAct, a family of vision-language models that unifies UI grounding, multi-step navigation across mobile, desktop, and web, and visual tool use, trained at 2B, 4B, and 8B scales. Through careful design of our environments, data, and training recipes, MintAct models match the performance of per-domain specialists across all of these capabilities. To enable this, we develop a scalable environment and reinforcement learning (RL) infrastructure. On the environment side, we host hundreds
World's first FDA-cleared self-balancing personal exoskeleton launched
The exoskeleton uses self-balancing technology powered by physical AI, allowing users to stand and move upright while keeping their hands free to reach, carry objects, prepare food, and open doors.
Commission’s industrial AI push has yet to accelerate
Von der Leyen's SOTEU speech teased 'game-changing' AI projects for areas targeted in 2025 strategy
Milan and Juventus end blips with home wins
FLORENCE (Italy), Sept 21 — AC Milan and Juventus ended short Serie A slides yesterday, as Fiorentina held Napoli and high-flying Como suffered a shock defeat to Frosinone.Milan...
Aliko Dangote: Refining Nigeria’s oil, helping Africa, and creating wealth
The world’s richest Black man says he aims to make Africa more self-sufficient and less reliant on imports.
Swedish candy darling BonBon is entering its big-box era
BonBon, a New York City-based Swedish candy brand, is about to hit Target’s shelves. It’s the exact kind of mass retail move that usually flattens a cult brand’s specificity into something generic and uninteresting. But at BonBon, the founding creative team is betting on the opposite: that the brand’s design discipline, run almost entirely through one artist’s hand, is what allows the company to scale without diluting the brand’s authentic tether to Swedish candy culture. [Photo:
Love Is Blind Star Marries Hinge Match in Romantic Hometown Wedding
Mallory Zapata of Love Is Blind tied the knot with her Hinge match in a romantic hometown celebration. Get the scoop here!
T. Rowe Fund Targets Chinese Winners of Booming AI Supply Chain
A top-performing T. Rowe Price fund is ramping up bets on Greater China companies lower down the AI supply chain, betting the region’s investment cycle still has room to catch up with global trends.
Apple could steal Pixel's homework for its Nest Hub rival and the iPhone Duo
According to a new Bloomberg report, the upcoming Apple smart display could use Pixel-like facial recognition tech.
Resurrecting Electroweak Dark Matter via Type-II Seesaw in light of recent LZ Event
The recent observation of the high-energy nuclear recoil event LZ230616 with a recoil energy around 248 keV provides an interesting possibility to probe inelastic doublet dark matter (iDM). However, the electroweak doublet DM scenarios face strong constraints from solar DM capture for DM masses around the TeV scale which give rise to correct thermal relic density. In this work, we revive the inelastic doublet DM (iDM) scenario via type-II seesaw. In particular, we consider an inert lepton double
Learning Cardiac Features: ECG Biometrics Across Time and~Exercise
Electrocardiograms (ECGs) carry subject-specific patterns enabling reliable individual discrimination, forming the basis of ECG biometrics. Beyond authentication, this paradigm holds significant potential to secure sensitive cardiac data and to serve as a pretext task in self-supervised learning. Yet, most studies remain confined to singlesession, resting data, leaving robustness to temporal and physiological variations largely untested. We address this gap by evaluating ECG biometrics under rea
Genshin Impact 7.1 preload guide and size for PC, Android, and iOS
The Genshin Impact 7.1 preload is available on multiple platforms, letting you download the necessary files before the update.
Do Israelis feel any safer now than they did on October 6, 2023?
Despite having rarely been more secure, public concerns about security continue to dominate the election.
Want a promotion? Your performance counts but your behavior counts more
The young computer engineer stood before the whiteboard confidently solving complex coding problems one after another. Thinking he had the Microsoft job well in hand, Satya Nadella turned back to his final interviewer, Richard Tait, who asked him a most unexpected question: Imagine you see a baby lying in the street crying. What do you do? Nadella thought for a few seconds and then said he’d call 911. As Tait (then a Microsoft manager, later an entrepreneur and venture capitalist) ended the i
BBC removes That Mitchell and Webb show scenes that 'no longer works'
The broadcaster has been accused of ‘classic overkill’ after it removed 11 sketches from the comedy duo's BAFTA-winning television show amid concerns of racism and racial stereotyping
First Came Space Force. Now Prepare For AI Force
Trump is forming a new "AI Force" and appointing an AI Czar to lead it.
Indiana man wants new trial in killing of teens where pagan ritual evidence can be introduced
A man serving 130 years in prison for killing two teen girls in Indiana is asking an appeals court to overturn his convictions, saying that he confessed while he was having a psychological crisis and was unfairly barred from arguing at trial that the girls were killed by unknown participants in a pa
APOD: 2026 September 21 – Cocoon Nebula Wide Field
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 21 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Cocoon Nebula Wide Field Explanation: When does a nebula look like a comet?
British woman falls in love with teh c, asks Singaporeans for tips to prevent stains on teeth
What if your favourite drink came at the cost of your dental health? For one teh c lover in Singapore, her habit of drinking it daily may be doing just that. In an Instagram reel posted on Sept 15, British dietitian Ellie Cheale shared that her dentist had started noticing grey stains on her teeth d
Sydney boy fighting for life after shooting in apartment
The 11-year-old is in a critical condition.
Mourinho holds up images of ‘two clear red cards’ after Atletico defeat
Jose Mourinho held up images of ‘two clear red card’ challenges he says cost his team the match against Atletico.
12 top AI tips from high performers
A clear performance gap is emerging in workplaces between those who actively use artificial intelligence to boost their output and those who avoid these tools entirely. Drawing on insights from industry experts, this article examines practical strategies that high performers use to integrate AI into their daily work without compromising quality or judgment. These approaches span everything from workflow automation and tool selection to quality control and team knowledge sharing. Test Tools to
The Odyssey Takes Down Yet Another Disney King With New Milestone
The Odyssey crosses $1.72 billion worldwide, dethroning a Disney giant at the global box office as it continues its record-breaking run.
AI+ Nova 2 Power 5G Launched in India With These Features
The handset is available in Golden Blue Fusion, Blue Fusion, Ocean Green, Deep Purple, and Midnight Black colour options.
Designer-RSI: Evolving Procedural Memory from User Traffic for Agentic Graphic Design
Professional graphic design is a long-horizon agentic task in which structured, editable artifacts emerge from many interdependent actions, yet outcomes admit no reliable programmatic oracle. We introduce a continual adaptation framework in which a frozen frontier model operates professional design software through more than 230 tools, while an external procedural memory of natural-language skills accumulates and refines reusable design procedures from experience. The memory widens by acquiring
How can Europe boost kids’ safety online? Ask the Euronews AI chatbot
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed the EU KIDS ACT on 17 September. It limits children’s access to social media and makes online games, video-sharing sites, and AI chatbots minor-proof. But what does it include? Ask the Euronews AI chatbot. #EuXl
Young people are not snowflakes, head of mental health review says
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Prof Fonagy says being young is much harder now than it was.
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Arsenal injury update: White, Mosquera and Saliba latest return dates
Arsenal have just over a fortnight to stew over a defeat to Brighton, with the only positive being some encouraging signs on the injury front.
Can the US win the AI cold war with China?
US attempts to slow down Chinese progress on AI through economic restrictions could backfire.
How one branding agency redesigned its website to reduce carbon emissions
After one Australian branding agency discovered its website produced more carbon than the average webpage, it redesigned it to be more efficient. In the process, the agency learned something about striking the right balance between sustainability and style. MEK is a Melbourne studio that’s worked with clients like the conservation groups WWF Australia and Sea Shepherd. During a trivia night in 2022, its team learned that sending 100 emails has a bigger carbon footprint than driving one
Presley Gerber, Cindy Crawford's son, dies aged 27
His family asked for privacy during a "very difficult and painful time" following the model's death.
Trump and sons invest heavily in AI economy as he resists calls for slowdown
His family’s tech ventures grow as US President pushes faster AI development.
Oppo Pad 5 review: Genuine contender, or just another iPad clone?
Oppo's mid-level tablet is a pretty safe bet
Y chromosome loss could be the first sign of cancer
As far as our genetic library goes, the Y chromosome seems like a mere pamphlet. Just ask any cell with a pair of X chromosomes if it feels overly bothered by that trivial loss of DNA.
High Reconstruction Quality and Restart Repeatability Do Not Guarantee Recovery of Ground-Truth Muscle Synergies
High reconstruction quality and agreement across repeated fits do not necessarily establish recovery of muscle synergies. We tested whether a variance-accounted-for (VAF)/elbow rule recovers the generating synergy count and spatial vectors, whether high restart repeatability indicates recovery, and how five design factors affect recovery. Non-negative matrix factorisation was applied to 4,320 synthetic 16-muscle datasets varying generating rank, noise, trial count, spatial similarity and activat
Lisa Leslie statue unveiled on Star Plaza outside Crypto.com Arena
WNBA trailblazer Lisa Leslie became the 16th person -- and first Sparks player -- honored with a statue in what's become known as Star Plaza outside Crypto.com Arena.
Michael Carrick demands Manchester United response after ‘pathetic’ jibes
With only one win so far this season, United have equalled their lowest points total in season after five matches.
This tote bag turns into a life jacket just in case the subway floods
A new tote bag has a hidden feature: In a flood, it doubles as a life jacket. Most of the time, it’s an ordinary bag. But in an emergency, you can unfold it into a vest, slip it over your head, and tug a cord to inflate it.The conceptual product, designed by a collective of artists, points to the absurdity of adjusting to life with climate change. “The whole premise of this thing is, why the hell should this even exist?” says Phil le Brun, one of the creators behind the project.[Image: Lif
Brandi Glanville Says Health Issues Have Wiped Out Her Social Life
Brandi Glanville says her ongoing health battle has left her pretty much living like a recluse ... telling TMZ she barely sees anyone besides her kids.
Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown - Slashdot
Tom's Hardware reports: Four plaintiffs subscribed to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the developers of these AI models violated antitrust laws when they agreed to slow AI development. According to the Associated Press, the lawsuit argues that ...
Cross-sector generalization of accident-process role classification in occupational accident narratives
Occupational accident narratives contain valuable information about work situations, unfavourable conditions, accident events, and their consequences. Automatically structuring these narratives can facilitate large-scale accident analysis and support occupational risk prevention. However, the terminology and writing styles used to describe accidents vary considerably across sectors and organisations, raising questions about the ability of automated coding systems to generalize beyond their train
Non-linear halo bias for accurate modelling of cosmic infrared background anisotropies
Halo models provide the standard framework for interpreting cosmic infrared background (CIB) anisotropies and inferring the connection between dusty star-forming galaxies and their host dark matter halos. Recent studies have shown that inaccuracies in the modelling of halo clustering may bias the inferred parameters governing star formation in dark matter halos. In this work, we investigate whether a more detailed description of halo clustering can alleviate these shortcomings. We incorporate a
BrainWideBench: Benchmarking large-scale pretraining and across-animal transfer in multi-region neural recordings
Advances in large-scale neural recording have made it possible to collect data across many animals and distributed brain regions, raising the question of whether this scale can be exploited to learn general-purpose neural representations transferable across diverse downstream tasks. Yet, progress toward this goal has been limited by fragmented evaluation protocols and a narrow focus on individual task domains. Here, we present BrainWideBench, a benchmark for evaluating across-animal transfer on
Brownlow Medal 2026 red carpet LIVE updates: What to expect from AFL’s most fashionable event
Before the count begins, all eyes will be on the red carpet. Follow our live coverage.
A simple guide to the Yemen conflict
Here’s a brief history of Yemen’s war - from the Houthi takeover in 2014 to the latest escalation.
Tesla’s Cybercab exposes a robotaxi emergency-response problem
For the self-driving car industry, first responder guidance is a collective action problem. Tesla’s Cybercab, a gold-tinted self-driving sedan outfitted with doors that eject sideways and upward, officially hit the road earlier this month. In some cities, the vehicles have mysteriously appeared out of nowhere, while in others, like Austin, they’ve begun accepting rides and offering autonomous service. Like myriad other Elon Musk projects, the cars have polarized the public. But they’ve als
Guy Gardner Is Back! Nathan Fillion Breaks Down His ‘Lanterns’ Debut and Why He’s the DC Universe’s Main Throughline
DC Universe star Nation Fillion on his 'Lanterns' Episode 6 debut.
Bessent Hails ‘Successful’ China Talks on AI, Trade
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described talks with his Chinese counterparts that spanned artificial intelligence, trade and investment as “very successful” ahead of this week’s summit between presidents of the world’s two biggest economies. Bloomberg's Stephen Engle shares what we know. (Sourc
Your cloud survived everything except the real world
War damage, air traffic chaos, and a storage shortage expose the cost of treating resilience as someone else's problem
Rare earth exposure during pregnancy linked to higher risk of low birthweight
A study of nearly 4,900 pregnant women in China has found an association between prenatal exposure to rare earth elements and an increased risk of low birthweight.
A new start after 60: I’m 92 and cycling is my life – despite the crash that left me unconscious
Arthur Plummer got a bike when he retired at 65 and joined a cycling club as one of its youngest members. Now he is its oldest but still racking up 5,000km every year
The Hunt: Roblox 20 - 2024 guide
The Hunt: Roblox 20 is an ongoing platform-wide event that celebrates the gaming platform's history.
Mystery object spotted hovering over Tehran
A mysterious object filmed hovering over Tehran has sparked online speculation.
Having ‘good taste’ won’t save designers
“Taste will be the key differentiator.” “Taste is what AI can’t replace.” “Taste is our competitive advantage.” Have you heard these as many times as I have over the last year? It feels like every time technology is mentioned, especially AI, the go-to argument is that as execution gets easier, we have to move upstream and be hired for our thinking. Then that standard conversation around “taste” arises as the key to unlocking our future greatness. I am not here to disregard the fac
Who Killed Hal Jordan? Lanterns Fans Think They’ve Found His Killer
Lanterns fans debate who killed Hal Jordan after Episode 6 revealed his tragic fate, with suspects ranging from Sinestro to Noah.