World in a Pulse
Briflio distills the day's signals into one calm feed — a personalized mix of the top stories across every topic, with context, not noise.
The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities
In the book “How AI Sees the City,” MIT researchers examine implications of using visual AI to study urban life. Across cities, more images means more data, more insight — and more concerns about privacy and fairness.
Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party leads in provisional election results
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party won the largest number of seats in the country’s parliamentary election, according to provisional results announced by the Interior Ministry early Thursday. Meanwhile, the governing National Assembly of Independents suffered major
Fast-Neutron Scintillation with Multi-Quantum-Well 2D Perovskites
Fast-neutron scintillators must efficiently convert neutron energy into detectable light while enabling selectivity between neutrons and the γ-ray background. Here, we report a synthesis strategy for layered two-dimensional (2D) lead halide perovskite scintillators with independent control of the macroscopic detector geometry and microscopic phase composition. Our synthesis approach produces mm-thick, large-area scintillators with a deliberately engineered multi-quantum-well energy landscape, cr
Circadian Derived Features for Early Discrimination Across Insomnia Severity Levels: At Least 8 Weeks of Monitoring Are Needed for Clinically Meaningful Assessment
Background: Wearable devices provide continuous, objective measures of daily activity and offer promise for assessing sleep disorders. However, the minimum monitoring duration needed to differentiate insomnia severity remains unclear. We investigated when wearable-derived behavioral features become informative for distinguishing Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) categories and examined the contribution of Activity Count (AC) and circadian-derived features. Methods: We analyzed wearable data from 2,3
Debbie Beard and Amanda Thorpe lost their husbands - this is their story
Debbie Beard and Amanda Thorpe speak to the BBC's Simon Jack at the launch of a new suicide prevention toolkit.
Monarchy-aligned PAM leads in Morocco election provisional results
Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) took 97 out of 395 seats in parliament, as turnout falls to 38 percent.
AI Immerses People Into Emotional Bubbles And Is Fueling Society Toward Behavioral Turbulence
AI is creating emotional bubbles. People find their emotions fueled via AI. It's a vicious cycle. Here's what to do about it. An AI Insider scoop.
Survivor 51 Premiere Recap: 'Permanent Uncertainty' Runs Amok, As Jeff Reveals A Shocking New Spin On A Past Twist - TVLine
A former Survivor twist is coming back in a big way — read our premiere recap for all the details.
AI glasses: The lens technology bringing AI into your line of sight
AI glasses are moving beyond simple displays. NBC News’ Janis Mackey Frayer visits South Korean startup LetinAR to explore its PinTILT lens technology, designed to put AI and digital information directly in your line of sight.
Contrastive Learning for Authorship Verification
Our results show that contrastive learning outperforms a classification-based approach to authorship verification under the tested settings. We identify loss function, batch size, training duration, pre-trained model, input context length, and random text span data augmentation as important factors of model performance. Based on these considerations, we develop a ModernBERT Bi-Encoder model that achieves 98.4% accuracy on the PAN21 authorship verification task.
Beamed energy from the ground to keep solar-powered drone airborne 24/7
BAE Systems is giving its Persistent High Altitude Solar Aircraft (PHASA-35) solar-powered stratospheric drone an upgrade under a £15.7-million (US$21 million) contract to install a system allowing it to use energy beamed from the ground.
AI-Driven Neural Surrogates for In Silico Design of Cognitive-Affective Neuromodulation Targets
In neuropsychiatry, the primary goal is often not only to decode brain activity but to change it, for example to lessen a negative affective bias or an overly salient memory. Motivated by control theory, we develop an AI-driven neural-surrogate framework that proposes candidate representational changes and tests their predicted perceptual effects from snapshots of stimulus-evoked fMRI activity, without physical stimulation. The framework combines fMRI decoding, deep generative modeling, and cons
Freedmans hope for more bittersweet success with late bloomer
Magnatear has hit career-best form for Will and Richard Freedman at age seven, and the training team now hope he can keep it going for rich spring targets.
UN funding cuts hit refugees at Cox’s Bazar settlement
Refugees living in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh are feeling the brunt of severe UN funding cuts.
Sivers Semiconductors Makes Changes to Senior Leadership Team for Next Phase of Commercial Growth
/PRNewswire/ -- Sivers Semiconductors AB (STO: SIVE), a global leader in photonics and wireless technologies, today announced a series of senior leadership...
After Resident Evil, Zach Cregger’s Other Hit Leaves Streaming & Finds Old Home
Zach Cregger's 2022 horror hit is on the move again. Find out when his acclaimed film returns to Hulu after leaving HBO Max.
Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent
The tiny hardware device creates another mobile home for its AI agent Muse.
StudentBench: AI and human tutoring yield equivalent GRE learning gains
Artificial intelligence offers an unprecedented opportunity to augment human capabilities, yet progress at the frontier has focused primarily on advancing model capabilities. We introduce StudentBench, a suite of AI teaching evaluations and a public platform that enables large-scale data collection with over 175,000 student-AI messages to study whether large language models (LLMs) produce learning gains equivalent to human tutoring. Using StudentBench, we measured learning gains on Quantitative
Differentiable astrophysics at scale: solving and differentiating ODE ensembles on the GPU
Astronomers increasingly fit their models with gradient-based methods, such as Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, which need the derivatives of the model with respect to its parameters. In many analyses a prediction requires solving a small system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) for thousands to millions of parameter sets, and this ensemble of integrations often sets the cost of the analysis. We introduce to the astronomical community GRADSOLVE, a JAX library that moves this computation to graph
Socioeconomic factors explain racial differences in disability insurance approvals
The results suggest that differences in allowance rates are associated with other factors-such as marital status, health conditions, and pre‐ ...
Rumor Killer: WWE Not Letting Drew McIntyre Get Back On TV
Drew McIntyre is currently on a lengthy WWE hiatus, sparking crazy fan theories regarding his absence.
Gaza $2.45 billion reconstruction plan. Who decides its future?
Gaza’s $2.45bn recovery plan spans housing, health and 4G, but Israeli pullout and Hamas’s disarmament remain unclear.
Amazing Shohei Ohtani’s Los Angeles Dodgers Target 2026 World Series
The Dodgers and Brewers will both try to get through the first rounds of the playoffs, and head to a showdown for National League entry to the World Series.
Harry Potter play producer says cost of living made two-part show 'impossible'
The London production, which has been running for 10 years, will reopen next month as a one-part show.
Meta launches smart glasses designed by K-Pop star LISA
"Every pair of Meta Glasses by LISA comes with an exclusive, collectible charm inspired by LISA’s own beloved pets," says Meta about the new LISA-designed collection of its smartglasses.
Trump’s China rivalry and “AI race” delusion may endanger US, experts say
This week, the US and China, the two world leaders on AI, finally started talks meant to keep the whole world safe from emerging safety risks. But whether meetings between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping can lead to a reliable global governance framework for AI depends on how much the fierce rivals are actually willing to cooperate. It's clear Trump wants it to seem like discussions are going well. Before Trump and Xi meet on Thursday and Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that both sides had already discussed setting up a new AI safety notification mechanism.
GLP-1 weight loss and diabetes drugs linked to nutritional deficiencies in nearly 1 in 6 children
Children taking GLP-1 medications (such as Victoza, Saxenda, Trulicity, and Ozempic) for weight loss, prediabetes, or type 2 diabetes may face an overlooked risk: nutritional deficiencies. A new study found that nearly 1 in 6 young patients developed a diagnosed deficiency within a year of starting
In vitro devices get less attention in EU reform
Only a fraction of MEPs' amendments address in vitro diagnostics
Gregg Popovich marries ex-wife of his former longtime Spurs assistant coach
Popovich and Mike Budenholzer coached together in San Antonio for nearly two decades and won four NBA titles
Outcry in Sudan as US reportedly holds al-Burhan’s UN visa over truce plan
Media reports say US withheld army chief's visa to pressure him into accepting a 90-day truce in Sudan's civil war.
OpenAI Agent Hacked Into Australia’s Medicare Database, Prime Minister Says
The incident is the first known hack of a major government services database by an AI agent, and it comes amid broader safety fears about the technology.
Federal judge delays ruling on White House media ban
During a roughly 45-minute hearing, a lawyer for CNN, Politico and MS NOW disputed Trump administration arguments that the ban was over national security concerns.
Want to try Ubuntu’s AI dictation feature? Here’s how
Ubuntu’s new AI-powered dictation tool Myna isn’t officially ready, but you can give it an early test. Canonical has added the Myna orchestrator snap and a pair of speech-recognition AI models to the Snap Store recently, and made its new desktop Myna Settings tool available to test from a PPA. Ubunt
On the Diffusibility of High-Dimensional Latents
Representation Autoencoders (RAEs) enable diffusion models to operate in the feature spaces of pretrained visual encoders. However, many off-the-shelf encoders are not optimized for faithful reconstruction, discarding fine-grained visual details. As expected, finetuning these encoders for image reconstruction recovers such details. However, perhaps counterintuitively, this procedure reduces the effective dimensionality of the resulting representation, and the altered geometry has downstream effe
Aerial maps reveal successful woodland expansion in Scotland's Cairngorms
A University of Cambridge–led team has used aerial surveys across a huge swath of the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland to create detailed 3D maps that show the beginnings of large-scale recovery of native woodland.
NHS staff investigated over access to dead teenager's medical records
Oliver McGowan, who died in 2016, may have had his medical records accessed inappropriately after his death by NHS staff in Bristol.
Fantasy football Week 3 Start 'Em & Sit 'Em: Chuba Hubbard continues heater with a top-10 finish in sight
Jamey Eisenberg cautions Fantasy managers not to overreact after the first two weeks, but highlights several players with new opportunities to produce big due to a rash of injuries
Gaza watches Israel’s elections with fear and antipathy
Palestinians are following the campaign, but few feel next month's vote will make their lives any better.
Walmart Stock: Failing To Live Up To Rich Multiples (NASDAQ:WMT)
Walmart faces valuation risk as high interest rates challenge its premium P/E multiples amid slowing US comp sales. Read why I downgraded WMT stock to Sell.
America’s Got Talent Reveals Season 21 Winner: Who Won $1 Million?
Are you curious to know who won America's Got Talent Season 21? Then, read further ahead to find out the winner!
Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse
CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It's even coming to Meta's AI glasses.
Xiaomi Pad 9 Pro and Pad 9 announced
The latest tablets were unveiled alongside the Xiaomi 18 Pro lineup. Alongside the Xiaomi 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, which were unveiled in China, the company...
More REM sleep linked to lower risk of 83 diseases
A large study tracking more than 95,000 people suggests that how you sleep may be linked to your risk of developing dozens of diseases. People who spent more time in REM sleep had lower risks of 83 conditions, including dementia, heart failure, and Parkinson’s disease, while more deep sleep was asso
Looking for #womenshealth information on Instagram? 4 out of 10 posts are ads
If you’re looking for #womenshealth on Instagram, a new study shows you’d better be prepared for lots of adverts dressed up as health advice.
BREAKING: Former WWE Star Finally Responds To "R*pist" Allegation
A former WWE star has finally responded to allegations made against him of being a "r*pist." This comes after the star issued a statement.
Trump-Xi summit: Here’s what’s on the agenda, and why it matters
The leaders of the US and China are expected to discuss trade, AI and Iran in their third in-person meeting in a year.
Sovereign Grassroots Currencies: A CBDC Architecture for Credit and Monetary Policy (Full Version)
A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is central-bank money in digital form, held by the public. Leading designs have two limitations: conversion from bank deposits into CBDC can accelerate deposit flight, requiring safeguards; the CBDC stays outside credit creation and monetary-policy operations. Here we present a CBDC architecture that overcomes these limitations, based on grassroots currencies. It has three components: (1) Money: sovereign grassroots coins, which are digital debts of one uni
Teen rocker Nene Royal becomes first Thai to win America's Got Talent
Her heavy metal performance trumped nine other finalists, including magicians and even a robot crew.
Why AI won't fix Britain's supply chains
Businesses hoping AI will solve their supply chain problems risk wasting their investment unless they first fix weaknesses in their data, skills and management, according to new research published in the Benchmarking: An International Journal.
From Static to Adaptive: Why This Fall Is the Right Time to Rethink How You Sit
Up to 37% Off LiberNovo's Ergonomic Chairs, with 30-Day Price Protection
Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter Cries for GeV Heavy Neutral Leptons
The ordinary and dark matter in the Universe may share a common origin in the framework of a minimal extension of the Standard Model by three right-handed neutrinos. A pair of such heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) can give masses to neutrinos, generate the baryon asymmetry at the electroweak scale and produce a large lepton asymmetry at the QCD scale, which is then resonantly transformed into an abundance of the third state that acts as sterile neutrino dark matter. The minimality of this setup, kno
Dana Williamson sentencing delayed over health issues - KCRA
New court records filed Wednesday describe her health as "unstable," as the judge overseeing the case agreed to reschedule the status conference that ...
MMA debuts at Asian Games, but is it fighting a losing battle for recognition?
Athletes compete in open space across six weight classes in Japan, with different rules and enhanced safety features such as shin pads.
Pakistan-administered Kashmir votes for president amid unrest
Lawmakers will choose a president despite seven vacant seats in districts at the centre of months of unrest.
Judge Blocks Trump’s White House Ban On CNN, MS NOW And Politico
Late last week the Trump administration had banned three media outlets, CNN, MS NOW and Politico, from the White House premises, accusing them of pushing “fake news.”
Will.i.am backs campaign for Sir Tom Jones to return to The Voice
Sir Tom Jones, 86, has appeared as an on-off coach on the ITV show since 2012.
China's AI chip blitz arms Xi with a message for Trump: 'You can't choke us off'
A run of new chips and AI models from national champions gives Chinese President Xi Jinping a confidence boost, as the U.S. summit gets underway.
You can now play driving games in your Android Auto car when you're not driving
The moment we've been waiting for has finally arrived in Android Auto
Rare wasp spider spotted in UK county for first time as experts issue warning
A rare wasp spider has been recorded in Cheshire for the first time - and conservationists say her discovery highlights the need to make space for nature
Penguin data reanalyzed via Computational Taxonomy
We employ Computational Taxonomy (CT) to reanalyze the penguin data set penguins_lter by validating and addressing two biological issues: Sexual Size Dimorphism (SSD) and mate-selection criteria. Via Scientific Data Analysis (SDA) computing, CT constructs a Taxonomic Hierarchy by splitting Species first and then Sex, without involving Island, to achieve less complexity. This Taxonomic Hierarchy validates SSD as a branch comparison: (Species, Sex = Male)-vs-(Species, Sex = Female), upon which SDA
Gordon admits England can't match Spain's style as star defends Tuchel
Tuchel received widespread criticism, particularly over his comments that keeping the ball is not within England's 'DNA', amid complaints about his negative tactics.
China vs US: Who is winning the AI race, in four charts
The US dominates AI spending and computing power, but China is ahead in research and closing the gap on advanced models.
Google faces UK push to put AI assistants on Android, Chrome choice screens
Britain's competition watchdog on Wednesday put forward proposals to give Google Android and Chrome users greater choice and control over the search services they use, including AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity. The tougher rules would require Google to show users a choice of search prov
National security experts claim Trump has strategically boxed in China ahead of Xi summit
Experts say Trump’s administration has strengthened the US position against China through military, economic and tech measures ahead of the Xi summit