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The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max was exciting until I found out about the price
RAMageddon sucks folks. Over the past few weeks I’ve been using the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max, a phone I’ve...
Sensorimotor Alignment: A Platonic Proxy for Embodied Policy Success
Robotic foundation models are typically evaluated through costly closed-loop rollouts, which motivates cheap offline proxies for model capability. The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (PRH) suggests that as representations improve, different modalities such as vision and language converge toward a shared statistical model of reality. We ask whether motion trajectories form another such modality: as embodied models become more capable, should their sensory representations converge toward the st
Bradford Council fund to help businesses switch to green vehicles
Council leader Stephen Place says it will help businesses counter the rising cost of fuel.
Behavioral Mapping of Hierarchical Dynamical Models Accelerates Bayesian Parameter Inference
Bayesian parameter inference for complex nonlinear dynamical models is often limited by the cost of repeated model simulation. We present a behavioral mapping framework that uses the inferred posterior of a higher-level model to accelerate inference of a lower-level model without requiring state or parameter correspondence between them. Building on approximate simulation relations for hierarchically related models, we define the notion of behavioral compatibility and quantify the behavioral supp
Duke vs. Virginia prediction, odds, time: Week 8 Friday college football picks from proven model
SportsLine's model revealed its best bets for Friday's ACC college football matchup of the Duke Blue Devils vs. Virginia Cavaliers
Bank of Russia has decided to keep its key rate at 14%
The regulator said that current price pressure remains elevated
Intraday Forecasting Ability and Liquidity Provision of Institutional Traders
This study uses a high-frequency dataset from a stock exchange to examine how forecasting ability and liquidity provision relate to institutional traders' proprietary intraday profitability. We discover persistent forecasting abilities among traders. Specifically, we demonstrate that hypothetical flow-following strategies based on the execution flows of these skillful traders yield annualized Sharpe ratios ranging from 16 to 63 across various trading frequencies. We match buy and sell executions
Clayface star teases future of the character – and explains the benefits of being the first to play him in film
Tom Rhys Harries plays the supervillain in DC's new origin story.
Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony.ai and Nvidia
inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.
Garmin's new voice controls are slashing battery life in half
Multiple users are reporting that the new 'OK Garmin' feature for hands-free activation is decimating Garmin's famed longevity
1,700-TEU electric ship design wins approval for 151 MWh battery power
South Korea's Hanwha Power receives ABS Approval in Principle for a 1,700-TEU electric containership design with 151 MWh of battery storage.
Music Between Two Minds: Individual Signatures, Shared States, and the Emergence of Creative Interaction
Some of the most valued forms of human creativity arise between people-in conversation, collaboration, and improvised music-yet how two minds jointly regulate the flow of novelty in real time remains unknown. Here we examined the information dynamics of interpersonal improvisation using 986 professional jazz improvisations. Pitch-based fluctuations of uncertainty and surprise behaved as signatures of individual identity: the two partners differed within 90% of takes, performers were identifiable
SAA: Rinse, repeat, WTF? | The Citizen
Groundhog Day? SAA received a new R1 billion state guarantee despite earlier assurances of financial independence and profitability.
Pulaku: The two faces of Nigeria’s vigilantes
Allegations of torture and abuse shadow a Fulani-led vigilante group despite its role in clamping down on kidnappers.
A jumping, punching, kung fu-trained robot that protects your house and family—what could go wrong?
A hooded man with a knife walks toward a woman sitting in her backyard. Before he reaches her, a humanoid robot steps between them and squares up. That’s the money shot in the one-minute video Unitree released on October 21 to introduce the H2-X, aka “Kung Fu Legend Guardian.” It’s a machine that, in the company’s words, offers “powerful performance to serve and guard you.” It’s a robot that a lot of people will want at home: the T-800 to their John
Gasps as Prince William makes surprise appearance on Graham Norton Show
The Prince of Wales was marking his Earthshot Prize, to which all of Norton's guests were linked.
SK Hynix says Solidigm suspends review of US IPO, citing market volatility
SEOUL, Oct 23 (Reuters) - South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix said on Friday that it had suspended its review of a US initial public offering for its Solidigm subsidiary, citing financial market volatility and share price trends.
Reading, Writing, Sharing, and Interacting with the World through Video
Video foundation models have advanced rapidly in understanding and generating visual sequences, while video world models seek to capture the underlying dynamics of the world they depict. Despite their different objectives, both concern the relationship between video observations and an evolving world. This survey adopts world modeling as a unifying lens for examining these developments. Viewing an observed video as a partial, lossy, and temporally ordered projection of a latent temporal world, w
100,000-year lifespan: World’s first nuclear waste repository gets operating license
Posiva may possess, process, store and dispose of up to 6,500 metric tons of uranium (about 7,200 U.S. tons) in spent fuel.
'Always remember, cancer doesn't discriminate'
Harriet Tsadioti says contracting breast cancer was one of her biggest fears growing up.
UMass vs. UConn prediction, odds, time: Week 8 Friday college football picks from proven model
SportsLine's model revealed its best bets for Friday's college football matchup of the UMass Minutemen vs. UConn Huskies on CBS Sports Network
What role does the military play in Israeli schools?
For Israeli teenagers, military life ordinarily kicks off in school.
Beyond city pairs: Higher-order information in urban growth across borders
We apply higher-order information measures to urban growth across borders and spatial units. We analyse 8,808 functional urban areas using gridded GDP estimates allocated from national accounts. Negative estimated O-information occurs in 29.93% of cross-border triplets and 2.00% of domestic triplets. This fifteen-fold contrast falls to fourfold at comparable dependence strength and persists under data-quality restrictions. Target-specific decompositions show how information overlaps or combines
Smita Jayakar Says Rhea Chakraborty Asked Her To Help Sushant Singh Rajput During Depression Treatment
In a recent interview, Smita Jayakar revealed that Rhea Chakraborty, her co-star in Sonali Cable, had reached out to her for help when Sushant Singh Rajput was in the hospital.
Steep bill for AI buildout punishes Meta, other tech favorites
NEW YORK, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The tab for the next round of the AI buildout came due on Thursday.
A Unified Framework for Image-to-3D Part Generation via Variable Granularity
Controllable 3D part generation is pivotal for digital asset creation, yet existing methods lack the flexibility to accommodate diverse user workflows requiring varying levels of control. In this paper, we introduce FlexPart, a unified image-to-3D part generation framework that supports variable-granularity geometric conditions within a single model. By seamlessly integrating heterogeneous inputs, ranging from sparse points to dense bounding boxes and masks, via gated adaptive modulation, FlexPa
A 250-Million-Year-Old Habit May Explain How Crocodiles Outlasted the Dinosaurs
It was their preference for warmer climates.
Bryan Cranston on death of Breaking Bad co-star RJ Mitte
US actor RJ Mitte, best known for his role as the defiant son of drug kingpin Walter White in the drama series Breaking Bad, died earlier this month at the age of 34.
Candy Kingdom Defense codes (October 2026)
Candy Kingdom Defense codes are available for players to redeem and get several important resources and consumables.
Russia, US need to move forward in eliminating bilateral irritants — Russian MFA
According to the statement, quite significant results have been achieved in the form of agreements to improve the operating conditions of the diplomatic missions
HawkEye 360 Successfully Launches Cluster 16 with Advanced Collection and Downlink Capabilities
/PRNewswire/ -- HawkEye 360, Inc. (NYSE: HAWK), the global leader in signals intelligence data and analytics, today announced the successful launch of Cluster...
‘The Mosquito Bowl’ Review: Peter Berg’s Powerful True WWII Story Takes Four Star Players From The Glory Of The Football Field To The Hell Of The Battlefield – AFI Fest
A review of 'The Mosquito Bowl' from director Peter Berg with true story focused on four college football stars who enlist in marines during WWII
Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind
MIT Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist discusses his research on the incorporation of randomness and irrationality into early AI models designed to mimic human creativity.
Widespread Token-Spraying Attacks Target Microsoft 365 Accounts
Security researchers identified attempts to access corporate networks which have been linked to a major Microsoft 365-targeted BEC campaign using phishing, stolen session tokens and social engineering
Scientists May Have Identified the World's First Corporate Psychopath
One shipwreck, two leaders, and a horrifying lesson about the abuse of power.
'I thought I was dying but it was health anxiety'
Hollie Sharman shares her experience of health anxiety and a doctor advises on how to manage symptoms.
Harry Kane explains why Ballon d'Or wait is 'very stressful' for his family ahead of 2026 award ceremony
Harry Kane says he would like to know the result of the 2026 Ballon d'Or before Monday’s ceremony in London, describing the wait as 'very stressful' for his family.
Malawi opposition demands answers over President Peter Mutharika's prolonged stay in South Africa
This is President Peter Mutharika's fifth visit to South Africa this year.
How to think in decades in a market obsessed with speed
This week, Inspired Capital is announcing Fund IV: $450 million in new capital to back early-stage founders. It’s a milestone I’m grateful for. Seven years into my own 25-year business plan, I have been reflecting on what carries a firm, or a company, that far. For me, the answer has always been a long-term mindset. From day one at Inspired, I have planned to be in it for the long haul. Knowing that what I want to accomplish can only happen in decades has shaped who we hire, who we partner wi
‘Closure’ Director Michal Marczak Set for Narrative Feature Debut With ‘Perfection,’ About Hipster Millennials in Berlin (EXCLUSIVE)
'Closure' director Michal Marczak is set for his narrative feature debut with buzzy drama 'Perfection,' about hipster millennials in Berlin.
We Were Never Asked to Write Code. We Were Asked to Solve Problems.
We Were Never Asked to Write Code. We Were Asked to Solve Problems.
Pixels and Galaxies aside, these are the phones that are worth your money
Options are scarce, but some are worth your time and money.
Odd radio circle J1555+2726: Observational evidence for shock re-acceleration of fossil plasma
Context. Odd radio circles (ORCs) are peculiar extragalactic sources recently discovered. They are characterised by one or more bright rings extending on scales of hundreds of kiloparsecs, and are filled with fainter emission. A massive elliptical galaxy lies at the centre of ORCs. While their formation mechanism is debated, a shock is plausibly involved. Aims. We aim to constrain the nature of ORC J1555+2726 (ORC4) through the analysis of its morphological and spectral properties. Methods. We u
Four ways to help your body adjust to the autumn time change
Changing the time on a clock does not instantly reset our body’s internal system. But these strategies can help.
UPDATE: Nikki Bella Leaves The Country Before Chelsea Green Title Match; Sends Message To WWE Champion
Nikki Bella left a message for Chelsea Green before her title match on SmackDown later tonight. She did that just before leaving the country in what was an interesting development.
Serbia’s snap election: What’s at stake and can students unseat Vucic?
A snap parliamentary vote on October 25 will determine whether a student-led group can loosen Vucic’s grip on power.
Causal inference in staggered adoption panels: The correct comparison set depends on your intervention
A powerful data structure for causal inference is staggered adoption: many units are observed over many time periods, during which some units adopt an irreversible treatment at various time points while others remain untreated. Popular methods that apply in this setting include difference in difference, fixed effects, matching, and synthetic control. All of these methods compare the future outcomes of treatment adopters and non-adopters to answer the question: for units who adopt treatment, what
‘Nobody Wants This’ Creator Erin Foster on Adam Brody’s Support for Palestine: ‘I Disagree With Him, and That’s OK’
"Nobody Wants This" creator Erin Foster has responded to Adam Brody's support for Palestine, saying: "I disagree with him, and that's OK."
One UI 10 could kill app icons. The world isn't ready
Samsung will reportedly deliver "unprecedented" changes in One UI 10. I believe it could do more harm than good
Musk wants to merge SpaceX and Tesla: Here's what to know
Elon Musk said this week that SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to study a merger of his two biggest companies.
A Robust Estimator for the Lyman-$α$ Forest 1D Power Spectrum at High Redshift
The Lyman-$α$ (Ly$α$) forest flux power spectrum $P(k)$ is sensitive to a range of astrophysical and cosmological effects, including the thermal state of and large-scale fluctuations in the intergalactic medium and the nature of dark matter. Measuring $P(k)$ becomes increasingly challenging at high redshift, where fewer quasar spectra are available and higher Ly$α$ optical depths result in lower transmitted flux. In addition, observational effects and missing data complicate standard Fourier-tra
Dynamics of random recurrent neural networks: colored noise and sublinear activations
We study the dynamics of recurrent neural networks with random couplings, sublinear odd activation functions, and temporally correlated noise. Using large N methods, we determine stationary correlations and distinguish the loss of local linear stability from the onset of chaos, characterized by a positive largest Lyapunov exponent. These thresholds delimit an intermediate regime in which local instability coexists with asymptotic stability under a common noise history. Their separation depends o
NC State vs. Stanford prediction, odds: Week 8 college football Friday picks by proven model
SportsLine's model revealed its best bets for Friday's ACC matchup of the NC State Wolfpack vs. Stanford Cardinal
NBA’s Irving praises Al-Shaair’s ‘selfless act’ after Hind Rajab fine paid
Kyrie Irving explains paying fine and praises Azeez Al-Shaair for continuously honouring slain Palestinian children.
KIC Sovereign Weath Fund Faces Questions Over Investable Capital
The strategic sovereign wealth fund of the Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), which promoted a capital of 16 trillion won (about $12.08 billion), is facing an
Final James Bond screen tests to take place this weekend, reports say
Callum Turner and Jack Lowden "appear to be in the mix" of actors doing screen tests for the role.
Red Hat opens Asia Pacific AI hub in Singapore
The center supports Singapore’s National AI Strategy, which aims to scale deployment in the public and private sectors.
Researchers say hackers targeted PHP before flaws were known
Hackers attempted to exploit security vulnerabilities in the widely used programming language PHP several days before the flaws became public.
Sound-Horizon-Agnostic Forecast for Constraints on $H_0$ and $Σm_ν$ from BAO, CMB Lensing, Supernovae and LSST-like Galaxy Lensing
We present a sound-horizon-agnostic forecast for constraints on the Hubble constant $H_0$ and the sum of the neutrino masses $Σm_ν$ from a combination of LSST-like galaxy weak lensing, Simons-Observatory-like CMB lensing, the completed DESI BAO program, and expanded supernova samples. Treating the sound horizon at baryon drag $r_d$ as a free parameter, the method provides a consistency test of $Λ$CDM without relying on the standard early-Universe calibration of $r_d$. The analysis incorporates r
Can a low-carb diet really shift a stone in a fortnight?
Advocates say the well-trodden diet, low in foods like bread, rice and pasta, can put diabetes into remission, reduce liver fat by up to 70 per cent and even stop epileptic seizures.
Naman Dhir: India’s Next T20 Finisher? Why Patience & Proper Grooming Could Unlock His All-Round Potential
Naman Dhir is emerging as India’s next T20 finisher. Can his explosive batting and off-spin solve India’s all-rounder conundrum with the right grooming and patience?
South Korea invites North for military talks over border
The proposal comes days after Pyongyang says it moved new military units into 'firing positions' along the border.
China Biotech Curbs Could Rattle K-Bio
As China moves to tighten export controls on biotechnology and the United States is also considering measures to restrict biotech investment in China, the deve
What channel is Ipswich Town v Nottingham Forest Premier League match on? TV coverage, live stream and kick-off time
Check out how to watch Ipswich Town v Nottingham Forest in the Premier League, including TV channel, radio coverage and kick-off time.