World in a Pulse
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Samsung Rolls Out "AI-Focused" Tizen OS 10.0 For Select Refrigerators And Laundry Appliances
Samsung has announced Tizen OS 10.0 software update, bringing Google Gemini-based AI Vision and Bixby voice features to select refrigerators and laundry appliances.
φ-RIE: From Photorealistic Reconstruction to Interactive Environments
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) can reconstruct a captured scene photorealistically, but the resulting representation does not by itself support physical interaction. Robot simulation instead requires object-level change, \textit{i.e.}, objects must move independently, make contact, and reveal previously occluded surroundings. This gap arises because object appearance may remain entangled with the background, while hidden object geometry and occluded background content may be unobserved. To address
A hitchhiker’s guide to Hera’s target asteroids
Currently speeding through deep space at 12 km/s relative to Earth, ESA’s Hera spacecraft is due to reach its target Dimorphos asteroid this November. But if an astronaut were magically teleported onto the small-car-sized Hera upon arrival, what would they be seeing, and what would it feel like to w
Letters | Hong Kong’s mental health narrative must instil a sense of hope
Readers discuss how the chief executive positioned mental health in his policy address, and the suggestion that Hong Kong should import New York’s drug court model.
Prisco's Week 3 NFL picks: Browns upset Panthers, Giants rally behind Jameis Winston
Pete Prisco reveals all of his Week 3 picks, including Jaguars over Patriots and Bucs over Vikings
Europe’s centrists are finally paying the price of their extremism
The centre’s blind adherence to austerity has devastated European societies.
A Diesel Export Ban Would Be A Disaster
The suggested diesel export ban would be politically popular but economically inefficient.
Ella Langley says 'Choosin' Texas' success is 'changing my life' after her song breaks Mariah Carey's record
Ella Langley celebrated a career-defining milestone after “Choosin’ Texas" spent its 23rd week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
University programmes are disappearing as new AI-focused courses emerge
Translation, photography and design face major changes as Chinese universities redirect students toward AI, robotics and semiconductor careers
Make your website printable - a short guide
Have you ever printed a web page? Do you know how your site looks like on paper? There are many valid reasons why someone might print your site and with a few lines of CSS, you can make it look professional and provide a great reading experience. Let me show you how!
I'm an AI investor: here's why I just deleted Claude
Anthropic's messianic pronouncements are no longer like a marketing strategy, but a religious playbook
Trump administration to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees over fraud claims
White House officials allege these individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program or do not exist. Vice President Vance said the move would save $2.2 billion.
"Blew $120k on that thing" - Sean Sharaf opens up about accumulating $600k in debt after massive UFC 331 win
Sean Sharaf recently opened up about how he accumulated a massive debt of $600,000 after beating Gable Steveson.
World leaders say UN Security Council failing to function
World leaders say UN Security Council failing to function
Micron Technology Stock Is Up Over 260%. Where It May Be Heading Next
Micron Technology (MU) stock has rallied massively on AI memory demand. Discover expert analyst forecasts, price targets, and future growth catalysts.
‘Fluorescent, Dirty and Sexy’: Eire Cid’s ‘The Imaginary Kings’ Presented at Madrid Film School (ECAM) Incubator
Madrid Film School (ECAM) Incubator title ‘The Imaginary Kings’ by Eire Cid deals with the angst of male urban youth.
Apple weighs its first server since the Xserve, and as always, Nvidia may hold the key
Apple is reportedly exploring an M8 Ultra AI server for 2029
Flash-dLLM: IO-Aware KV Caching and Parallel Decoding for Fast, Memory-Efficient Diffusion LLMs
Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive LLMs by enabling non-autoregressive text generation. However, their practical deployment remains limited by inefficient inference, largely due to the absence of effective Key-Value (KV) caching and scalable parallel decoding mechanisms. Existing acceleration methods typically study KV caching and parallel decoding in isolation, overlooking the I/O bottlenecks that arise when cache reuse and
Livestock grazing may boost soil carbon storage in Iceland's subarctic grasslands
Grassland plants transfer large amounts of carbon to soil through their roots, and most of that carbon is stored underground. Therefore, promoting soil carbon storage can help combat climate change. Grazers feed on grassland plants, and conventional wisdom often assumes that removing grazers benefit
Men are ready for contraception, pharma is not
In Germany and Sweden, 55% of men said they would take a contraceptive within a year of its approval
Barcelona star could be out for up to 2 months after recent injury: Reports
Barcelona defender Andreas Christensen could reportedly be out for up to two months. He picked up a left thigh injury during the 3-1 win over Sevilla last weekend.
‘Annihilate’ vs ‘crushing’ attacks: Why Iran, US up rhetoric amid talks
Trump threatens to 'annihilate' Iran and then brags about diplomacy, provoking Tehran to warn of a response.
Lane Kiffin And LSU Have To Just Win, Baby, Or Somehow Return All That Money
Lane Kiffin and his LSU Tigers have no choice. They have to win. They can't keep pocketing this much money from supporters around such a poor state and lose. Ever.
Ed Sheeran feels 'exploited and used' and will 'never get over' Macklemore chaos
Ed Sheeran is reportedly feeling 'exploited and used' by celebrities who have criticised him, as sources say he feels the commentors were 'enjoying the publicity at his expense'
“We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle”: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI
Most leaders on a trade mission stick to the pitch, but when I interviewed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week, he also admitted that no government is ready for what AI is about to do.
Aussie Josh Payne files for $49bn Nscale NYSE listing | Stockhead
A 32-year-old Australian who once dug coal in the Hunter Valley could become a billionaire after his AI data centre start-up Nscale filed for a US$35bn NYSE listing.
To USR or not to USR: An effective description of two-field dynamics
Single-field models of inflection point inflation experience a phase of ultra-slow roll (USR), leading to amplified curvature perturbations. Recently, Lorenzoni et al. modified the scenario by adding a light spectator field, showing that it ruins USR by setting a floor for the first slow-roll parameter $ε$. Mixing with isocurvature perturbations still amplifies the curvature power spectrum. We offer an alternative point of view, arguing that the inflaton still undergoes effective USR. The specta
In Vivo Length Distributions as Mechanistic Fingerprints of Pathological Protein Aggregation
Modern imaging techniques can resolve individual pathological protein aggregates in postmortem human samples, providing detailed measurements of aggregate size distributions that are inaccessible with conventional bulk approaches. These distributions represent mechanistic fingerprints of the microscopic processes that generated the observed pathology, but extracting this mechanistic information requires a quantitative theoretical framework. Here, we develop the mathematical tools needed to inter
Indian girls register resounding 20-1 win against Thailand in Asian Games women's hockey competition, Deepika notches up third straight hat-trick
Yet another dominant show from the Indian girls culminated in a 20-1 win against Thailand in a Pool B game of the Asian Games women's hockey competition on Wednesday (September 23).
Qatar’s Dakar Rally champ Nasser Al-Attiyah wins Asian Games shooting gold
Al-Attiyah is the first person to win a gold medal at the Games in the same year as his Dakar Rally triumph.
Latest Study Reveals The New Rules Of Podcast Advertising
n Audacy study reveals traditional brand tactics are outdated; performance now hinges on host trust, not celebrity status.
Prince and Princess of Wales share a laugh with Tom Cruise at film premiere
William and Catherine renew their friendship with the Hollywood star at the premiere for his film Digger.
SPONSORED: Why security belongs in the network
Merging security into the network makes enterprise protection more agile
Meta set to unveil new AI products at Connect as Zuckerberg doubles down on agentic tech
NEW YORK, Sept 23 — Meta has spent billions to stay competitive with artificial intelligence, but the tech giant faces growing pushback as CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepares to...
The First Blind Survey of Intervening NaI Absorbers: Incidence and Cosmic Evolution with DESI
We present the first blind statistical survey of intervening NaI absorbers over the last $\simeq3$~Gyr using quasar spectra from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release~1. We identify 3636 NaI D doublets at $0.01\lesssim z_{\rm abs}\lesssim0.27$ along 214,035 quasar sightlines. We quantify the survey selection function through end-to-end injection--recovery tests and estimate the residual contamination from visual inspection. The completeness reaches 50% at a rest-equivalent width
Simulation and Analysis of Solute Transport in Multi-Lymphangion Lymphatic Vessels
The lymphatic system (LS), a body-wide network of vessels and lymphoid organs governing fluid homeostasis and immune surveillance, has so far not been investigated as a domain for diagnostic and therapeutic molecular communications (MC) applications, despite several properties that make it a promising, complementary alternative to the cardiovascular system. These favorable properties include slower flow, simpler and less dense molecular fluid composition, and direct anatomical access to lymph no
How to get Sparkling Cube in Aniimo
Aniimo has a variety of Aniipods to aid in catching the various critters around the world, including the incredibly rare Sparkling Cube.
As AI leaders warn of catastrophe, US and China shun slowdown calls
Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are expected to agree to only limited cooperation on AI safety at summit.
The NBA Has Turned Max Contracts Into An Endangered Species
Thanks to the introduction of the second apron, max contracts are becoming far more exclusive in the NBA, although players are still able to secure generational wealth.
Megyn Kelly Slammed Over Cindy Crawford Parenting Criticism After Son’s Death
Megyn Kelly draws massive criticism over her comments about Cindy Crawford's parenting in wake of her son's demise.
Trump rejects global AI controls and urges US to press ahead with "superintelligence"
US President Donald Trump used his September 22 address to the United Nations General Assembly to reject international efforts to control artificial intelligence, argue that the US must maintain its lead over China, and urge officials to call the technology "superintelligence." The remarks sharpen a
HARMONY: Hierarchical Agentic Reasoning for MONocular Image-to-Scene Synthesis
Compositional 3D scene reconstruction has recently been explored from two directions: agentic reasoning that provides semantic understanding of spatial relationships but lacks precise alignment with input images; and visual geometry foundation models that predict dense point maps from input images but the reconstruction quality is limited. Therefore, recovering a complete 3D scene from a single monocular image with accurate inter-object relationships and high-fidelity reconstruction quality rema
Tachyonic particle production in strongly supercooled phase transitions
In strongly supercooled cosmological phase transitions, which generically lead to strong, observable gravitational-wave backgrounds, the scalar field typically transitions to a value well below the minimum of its potential. We study particle production caused by the subsequent evolution of the field. Because some modes feature temporarily tachyonic masses, they can be efficiently produced, and a significant fraction of the energy density released in the phase transition can get converted to part
Deep Learning in Infant Functional Neuroimaging: Challenges, Advances, and Future Directions
Infancy is a critical developmental window characterized by rapid functional brain reorganization, during which large-scale networks emerge, individualized connectome signatures continue to form, and early deviations may shape long-term cognitive and clinical outcomes. Functional MRI (fMRI) offers an opportunity to study these processes in vivo, yet extracting developmentally meaningful information from it remains challenging due to comparatively short scan duration, structured motion artifacts,
NRL Tips - Finals Week 3
Before the round of footy gets underway, catch the tips from Brad Fittler and Andrew Johns.
Ethiopian Airlines suspends flights to three northern Tigray airports
The suspension comes after Tigrayan forces took control of Mekelle airport.
Gable Steveson Fallout Exposed 2 People — And Jon Jones Isn't One Of Them
Gable Steveson responded to his 12-second UFC 331 loss and the 2019 allegation raised during fight week. Jon Jones took responsibility for the Octagon exit.
Nigella Lawson is 'icing on the cake', TV critics say as she enters Bake Off tent
The TV chef joined Paul Hollywood in the tent as the Channel 4 competition returned for a new series.
US-based Swarmer bets up to US$224M on Ukrainian combat robot maker Ratel
Autonomous software company Swarmer, based in Austin, Texas, has agreed to acquire Ukrainian unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) maker Ratel Robotics in a deal worth up to US$224 million. The acquisition aims to combine frontline battlefield experience with AI coordination software to build a platform tha
Limited-edition Bamford G-SHOCK just dropped below £200 in a rare 30% price cut
G-SHOCK's third collaboration with British watchmaker Bamford is considerably easier to justify at this price
Sensors and drones can help farmers improve crop quality while saving water
New research in Plants, People, Planet demonstrates how precision agriculture techniques involving drones and sensor-based irrigation can save water needed to produce tomatoes and grapes while also improving the quality of these crops.
Open wounds and eyes that can't close - women warn about cheap bleph eyelid surgery
A concerning number of patients are reporting problems from treatment abroad, say doctors.
Week 3 NFL score predictions, picks: Model reveals projections from 10,000 simulations
SportsLine's model has simulated every game 10,000 times and locked in its Week 3 NFL score predictions
Mirabai Chanu wins Asian Games silver as Ri breaks weightlifting record
Chanu finally clinches an elusive Asian Games medal in Japan and Ri Song-gum wins North Korea’s first gold.
Phillies Make Don Mattingly Decision After Hated Rival’s Stunning Change
The Philadelphia Phillies offered a response on their permanent manager decision after a shocking announcement from a division rival.
Legendary rock star dies aged 79 - eight years after son's tragic death
A legend of Australian rock, Gary 'Angry' Anderson, has died aged 79 following a brief health battle, with his death coming just under a decade after the tragic loss of his son
Francis Ma on Systems Thinking for Teams of AI Agents
Francis Ma talks Firebase, product management, systems thinking, and why leading fleets of AI agents looks a lot like leading teams.
Beats 360 Over-Ear Headphones Debut With Interchangeable Cushions and ANC: Check India Price, Specs And More
Beats has launched the Beats 360 premium over-ear headphones in India and global markets. The headphones feature replaceable ear and headband cushions in different colours and materials.
Super El Niño could cause 451,000 deaths, scientists predict
Scientists from the University of Chicago used climate models to predict the impact the devastating climate event could have.
We asked people with dementia about voluntary assisted dying. Here’s what they said
New research shares the stories of Australians with dementia who want a choice in how they live and die.
Super Bowl stock report for Week 3: Bengals are total package, Chargers' season over before it started
We assess the NFL title race after Week 2 and identify four upcoming games that could reshape the Super Bowl picture
Yemen government forces claim control of Mount Qarfan in Taiz
Mountain’s capture disrupts Houthis' defences and impacts their advances along Red Sea coast.
Rays’ Victor Mesa Jr. Is A ‘Sparkplug’ For American League East Champs
A healthy Victor Mesa Jr. has had an impressive run with the Rays. A toolset featuring a cannon arm, power and speed has made a difference for the AL East champs.
Sister Group Strikes Partnership With Branded Entertainment Company Common Interest, Makes Minority Investment
Sister Group, Jane Featherstone and Elisabeth Murdoch‘s ever-growing transatlantic powerhouse, has entered the branded entertainment business by forging a strategic partnership with London-based company Common Interest, in which it has also taken a minority investment. The partnership with Common In