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Loops seed round: $3.5M from a16z speedrun to unify AI shopping tools
‘A retailer does not need five different AI products’: Loops raises a $3.5M seed round to build one AI layer for commerce.
Why small businesses can’t afford to treat cybersecurity as an afterthought
Bitdefender Ultimate Small Business Security could be the cybersecurity co-worker to help you succeed
‘We still love you’: Washington reassures Europe over defence division
US Ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, has enthused that there is no “love” lost between Washington and Brussels amid a more Europeanised NATO. #EuropeNews
Pope Leo XIV will have surgery in coming days to remove nodule on his lung
VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo XIV announced Sunday (Oct 11) he will undergo surgery "in the coming days" to remove a nodule on his lung, in the first major health event of his 17-month pontificate.The 71-year-old Leo said the nodule was found at an early stage and was "circumscribed" or small and well-loc
Has the David Bailey breakout arrived? Jets' No. 2 overall pick shines in three-sack day vs. Browns
Bailey quieted the critics with the best game of his young career
Trump critic Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home searched by federal agents
US authorities searched the Democratic congresswoman’s home as part of a criminal investigation.
Realized Tail-Risk Conditional Autoregressive Expectile Models: Accurate and Stable Forecasting Performance
A realized tail-risk conditional autoregressive expectile (RTCARE) model is proposed for joint forecasting of value-at-risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES). Realized tail measures such as the realized quantile and the realized ES, constructed from intraday high-frequency returns, are incorporated into the dynamics and measurement equations of the conditional expectile, allowing information about lower-tail risk to enter the forecasts. The parameters are estimated by Markov chain Monte Carlo, a
Hepworth piece could fetch up to £8m at auction
A post-war sculpture inspired by the Cornish landscape is set to go under the hammer.
Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background
Ambi is releasing apps for iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch that enables ambient capture
Towards Physically Grounded Articulated 3D Assets: A Multi-Agent Pipeline and Benchmark
In this paper, we study physically grounded articulated 3D asset generation---moving the goal from reproducing how objects look to capturing how they move and function. Inspired by the literature on procedural and agentic generation, we present Artisan, a system that extends the latest method Articraft by introducing a multi-agent pipeline with physical simulation feedback, enabling comprehensive attributes beyond geometry, appearance, and physically plausible articulation, such as collision-fre
A Core Demographic of People Who Love AI: Pedophiles
AI models that are partially or fully open-source have led to a major surge in child sex abuse material online.
DyssomniaNN: Multi-Scale Spiking Neural Modeling of Human Sleep Disorders and Perceived Restedness
Clinical sleep medicine repeatedly documents profound divergences between objective sleep duration and subjective daytime impairment, notably exemplified by sleep state misperception in paradoxical insomnia and boundary instability in narcolepsy type 1. Here, we present DyssomniaNN: a multi-scale biophysical computational framework coupling Borbély's two-process regulation of sleep homeostasis and circadian drive with Saper's hypothalamic reciprocal flip-flop circuit and a recurrent corticothala
College Football Power Rankings: Georgia rises to top spot, Alabama jumps to No. 2 after Bulldogs win showdown
There are nine unbeaten teams remaining after a wild weekend in college football
Will Ukraine survive the winter?
Washington's position on Ukraine remains ambivalent while losses mount and an energy crisis deepens.
Hub Group upgraded by Baird on possible gains amid accounting turmoil
Hub Group upgraded by Baird on possible gains amid accounting turmoil
Tom Cruise film Digger could lose $245m at box office
The film dropped by around 60% in its second weekend, and could become one of Hollywood's biggest flops.
This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready blueprints in minutes
Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.
OnePlus 16 With a 9,000mAh Battery Debuts at This Price
OnePlus 16 will go on sale in China in Tomorrow's Star, Martian Masterpiece, and Dark Forest (translated from Chinese) colour options.
Biotech Startup Proposes Genetically Modified Microbes for Mars Settlement
A new genetically engineered microbe may one day help humanity settle Mars, a nonprofit biotechnology research startup suggests. Our species has launched nearly 50 missions to Mars since 1960, all of them robotic. If everything goes according to plan, they've all been building toward crewed Red Plan
Designing Protein Structures from Natural Language
A central challenge in de novo protein design is generating proteins with desired structural and functional properties. Existing design models typically require a dedicated input representation for each property, limiting the design objectives they support. We develop Prompteina, the first all-atom structure generation model that supports new and broader design objectives specified in natural language, analogous to text-to-image generation. To train Prompteina, we construct Prompteina-Data, a pa
Making sense of two confusing decisions: Barnwell on the Commanders' folly, the Texans' trade for Harrison
What were the Commanders doing in the final minute of OT? Why did the 1-4 Texans make an aggressive trade for Marvin Harrison Jr.? Let's try to find the logic.
Why are the Houthis striking Saudi airports?
The attacks mark the deadliest assault on Saudi soil in more than a decade.
How AI can prevent knowledge from walking out the door
Knowledge is what separates a good operation from a great one. It is also the hardest thing to scale, because the knowledge that matters most does not live in systems. It lives in people. The team member who knows that this client needs a call before a decision, not after. The leader who has seen this pattern before and knows where it breaks. The analyst who understands why the model is wrong this time even when the numbers say otherwise. That knowledge compounds when it stays and disappears whe
‘He could have just shaken hands with her’: Amitabh Bachchan’s 84th birthday video outside Jalsa sparks debate after he declines young fan’s request
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From Selfies to Creators: Oppo Executive on F Series at 10
In an exclusive interview with Gadgets 360, Goldee Patnaik, Head of Communications at Oppo India, discusses the F Series' 10-year journey, its 30 million users, the growing creator economy, and what the F35 Series brings to the table.
Inside Amazon’s robotic arms race and what it means for the future of human work
No organization in the world operates more robots than Amazon. The company already has more than 1 million robots working in warehouses around the clock to make tens of millions of same-day and one-day package deliveries happen on a daily basis—and Amazon is poised to significantly grow that robotic fleet in the coming years as it establishes new factories to churn out increasingly more capable robot workers. Despite deploying so many robots, Amazon is also the second-largest corporate employer in the world, with more than 1.5 million full-time and part-time human workers, according to its 202
Why the worst El Niño killed millions – and how we can avoid a repeat | New Scientist
The world hasn't experienced an El Niño this strong since the 1870s, when it sparked a terrible global famine. Are we better prepared this time?
Voter Registration Campaign Engages People Impacted by Chronic Diseases - BioSpace
Americans with Kidney, Cardiac, and Metabolic Disorders Target Barriers to Care Choice. Newly Registered Voters Motivated by Medical Innovation ...
Delaware vs. MTSU prediction, odds: Week 7 college football Tuesday picks by proven model
The SportsLine Projection Model has revealed its best bets for the Tuesday matchup between the MTSU Blue Raiders and Delaware Blue Hens on CBS Sports Network
Iran-Saudi talks on Yemen’s Houthis: What’s in it for Tehran?
Tehran seeks dialogue in Yemen conflict, warning a military solution risks complicating the volatile regional situation.
Duo the owl’s next big act is an animated series
Duo the owl has twerked on main, flash mobbed a Charli XCX concert, died, sent his ashes to Dua Lipa, and come back to life. His next big act? Starring in his own animated show. Duo TV is a new animated series that was created entirely by Duolingo’s in-house design studio. The six-episode series stars in-app characters including Duo himself, the deadpan goth teen Lily, her best friend Zari, and a grumpy bear named Falstaff as they navigate working at a mysterious grocery store called DuoMart. Th
5 Chinese Fantasy Dramas To Watch On Netflix, Prime Video: Veil Of Shadows, Moonlit Reunion And More
All of these Chinese shows are currently available to stream in India.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts tomorrow: Your final chance to secure up to $100 ticket savings
Tomorrow at 8 a.m. PT, it all begins. 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech operators will gather at San Francisco’s Moscone West for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 for three days of ideas, connections, and startups shaping what comes next. This is your last 24 hours to secure ticket savings of up to $100, and get 50% off a second.
Splat2Act: From Captured Scenes to Personalized VLA Manipulation
A user who brings a generalist manipulation policy into their home or office wants it to pick up their objects from their shelves, counters, and tables. Yet even a strong generalist like $π_{0.5}$ achieves 0% pickup success in our captured deployment scenes without adaptation, and collecting real demonstrations in every user's environment is prohibitively expensive. We present Splat2Act, an automated real-to-sim-to-real pipeline that personalizes a pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policy
Unifying spherical convolutions through lifting
We develop a unified description of convolution on the sphere by lifting to the rotation group. A number of definitions of spherical convolution have been proposed, differing in whether the kernel is axisymmetric or directional, whether the output is on the sphere or the rotation group, whether the signals carry spin, and in their computational cost. No unified treatment exists. Regarding the sphere as the homogeneous space $S^2 \cong \text{SO(3)}/\text{SO(2)}$, we lift a spin $s$ field to the r
Six-item 'American Covid' kit pharmacist urges people to keep at home
Keeping the six items ready at home can help if you suddenly fall ill with the virus
Lane Kiffin has plenty of complaints, but LSU's latest loss starts with the man in charge
Questionable late-game decisions, officiating complaints and a missed opportunity leave LSU facing a steep climb to the College Football Playoff in Year 1 under Kiffin
What are the key matches to watch as the UEFA Champions League returns?
Atletico vs Man United and Man City vs PSG headline the league's match day two action as the competition returns.
As midterms approach, Trump is sticking with tariffs even though voters disapprove
Maybe President Donald Trump really does believe that “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the dictionary.Despite higher prices, criticism from trade experts and displeasure among voters, Trump holds fast to his belief that imposing the highest import duties on U.S. trading partners since the Great Depression is a winner.A recent poll suggests that is a big gamble with less than a month before the Nov. 3 midterms. Most U.S. adults disapprove of his trade policies, with more than 64
Dungeons and Dragons: World of Warcraft - Every Alliance Subfaction
Dungeons and Dragons players can check out the long list of Alliance subfactions that may become allies or enemies in their WoW adventures.
Celebrating the brilliant pragmatism of TCP/IP, the wiring of the world
Nothing this old should scale this well. Yet here these words are
Can Language Models Play the Wikipedia Game?
Language models increasingly support or automate information retrieval from document collections too large to index. This task is difficult when it requires specialist linguistic or scientific knowledge. We used the Wikipedia Game to test language models on an analogous information retrieval task. In the game, players must reach a target article using only article links. We compared sentence embedding models and LLMs across five Wikipedia languages and five academic-literature datasets. We const
Scientists Shielded Fruit Flies From Earth’s Magnetic Field. Some Lived 20% Longer
Removing Earth’s magnetic field changed mitochondria, movement and lifespan in fruit flies.
People think I'm in my 20s and are stunned when I say I'm almost 50
On her birthday last month, she posted a video holding a cupcake with candles that changed from 29 to 39 and finally 49 - sparking a fierce debate about her real age.
CBS Sports 138: Georgia takes top spot over Miami, Notre Dame in college football rankings
The Bulldogs moved up to No. 1 after a win at Alabama and Texas' upset loss to Oklahoma in this week's comprehensive FBS rankings
Iran sets crosshairs on ‘US-UAE’ oil shuttle out of Strait of Hormuz
The IRGC is hitting more ships allegedly part of a shuttle operation to move crude oil beyond the Strait of Hormuz.
Linear Demand Systems are Consistent with Discrete Choice
Aggregate linear demand systems can be micro-founded by a population of heterogeneous consumers making discrete choices. They can also be extended to incorporate income effects. I prove these results and show how to structurally estimate this class of models using only market-level data. The distribution of consumer preferences is recovered by disciplining the corner solutions with aggregate terms only. This approach allows for the same richness of Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995) [BLP] while
Madhuri Dixit's Husband Didn't Recognise Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan At Reception: 'Only Knew Amitabh Bachchan'
Dr Shriram Nene said that he didn't watch a lot of Hindi films.
Google Fitbit Edge launching today as Charge 6 successor
Google has officially teased the Pixel Watch-style fitness tracker, seemingly showing us the Champagne Gold and Cayon colourway to match the Pixel 11 Pro
This new Android weather app solves my biggest complaint about Pixel Weather
MeteoCompare shows that forecast uncertainty is just as important as the forecast itself.
Necessary conditions for benchmarking next-generation AI in materials discovery
Current AI predicts materials by speeding up energy minimisation and training on large databases. However, scaling data generation prevents manual analysis by domain experts. If novelty is evaluated by chemical compositions or traditional representations in Crystallographic Information Files, or standard structure matchers based on manually chosen thresholds, one can easily generate millions of ``new'' compositions or files without discovering truly novel materials. This paper uses a hierarchy o
US turns to low-cost Blackbeard hypersonic missile to overwhelm Chinese defences
At US$385,000 per unit, the carrier-launched weapons are being developed with an emphasis on affordability and mass production.
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Israeli settlers abuse and reportedly poison goats in Palestinian village
An Israeli settler was filmed abusing and reportedly poisoning livestock in the village of Al-Mughayyir.
Intentionally Overidentifying Local Projections
Local projections (LPs) have become a standard tool for estimating dynamic effects in macroeconomics and are typically implemented using ordinary least squares (OLS) for a given lag order. We propose an alternative approach that exploits additional lags as excluded instrumental variables (IVs). Under a finite-order model with martingale-difference shocks, the resulting (optimally weighted) IV estimator is never asymptotically less efficient than OLS and, as we show, can deliver substantial effic
Cannes Festival Winning Producer Quijote Films Launches In-House Scripted Series Division (EXCLUSIVE)
Chile’s Quijote Films, behind Cannes Un Certain Regard prizewinner ‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,’ is venturing into high-end scripted series.
NVIDIA’s 9-Year-Old Tesla V100 Still Packs Some Inference Muscle; 4 GPUs On An NVLink Board Can Outperform M5 Ultra, DGX Spark In Various AI Benchmarks By Up To 230%
Four 9-year-old NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs on an NVLink board can outpace the M5 Ultra and DGX Spark in AI inference benchmarks by up to 230%
How to watch Clown Panic online from anywhere – guide to stream the doc now
The brand new Killer clown documentary is the perfect start for the countdown to Halloween
The Crews Harnessing A.I. to Fight Wildfires
Our reporter, John Branch, joined a team installing cameras in the Sierra Nevada for detecting wildfires. Artificial intelligence is used to sift through images from the network, helping firefighters identify and respond to early to signs of wildfires.
PhySeqNet: physics-informed fluorescent foci detection for BARseq spatial transcriptomics
BARseq enables spatially resolved gene-expression profiling across intact tissue, but its sensitivity depends on accurate detection and decoding of dense fluorescent rolonies. Existing spot-calling approaches can be conservative where signals overlap, while supervised deep learning is limited by the lack of reliable manual ground truth in real tissue images. Here we present PhySeqNet, a physics-informed deep learning framework for annotation-free fluorescent foci detection in BARseq. PhySeqNet t
NFC East makes dubious NFL history with winless Week 5 as Giants hold unlikely division lead
The NFC East's Week 5 is something that has happened just four times since 2002 divisional realignment
Zizou Bergs stuns Alcaraz in Shanghai as Zverev claims year-end top ranking
After defending his Japan Open title after returning from injury, Alcaraz never found his rhythm in a scrappy contest.
Silicon Valley responds to Trump’s hands-off approach to AI regulation at Tech Week
Tech Week is in full bloom in San Francisco, packing the city’s restaurants this week with venture capitalists and AI founders ebullient about the White House’s stance on regulating artificial intelligence — namely, don’t do it.And after months of debate about leading AI companies’ unchecked AI agents meddling with everything from U.S. government websites to healthcare data, the nation now finds itself further from governing AI systems than it was a few years ago.Presiden
Mastery Monday Fortnite (October 12): Start Times and Sprite Bonuses
Fortnite Mastery Monday returns October 12 with double Sprite XP. Here are the start times to master new Trick or Treat Sprites.