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How to Turn Your Photos, Sketches and Ideas Into Animated GIFs Using ChatGPT: Prompts Inside
ChatGPT is no longer limited to generating static images, as OpenAI's Images 2.6 can now create animated GIFs. Users can turn existing photographs, hand-drawn sketches and text-based ideas into short animations.
Do You Miss the Nights We Spent Crafting Figures? Rethinking Teaser and Framework Figures in the Age of Generative AI
Scientific figures give research ideas a visual form through choices of abstraction, composition, and emphasis. Generative AI offers new ways to realize these choices, raising questions about explanatory clarity and purposeful visual expression. We examine these questions through a visual retrospective of 371 motivation and framework figures from 200 papers. The corpus comprises a quota-based main sample of 160 papers spanning four temporal periods and a separate purposive style-contrast sample
3 charged in scheme to use AI to impersonate CEOs and attorneys to steal $129 million
Three people have been charged in a scheme to use artificial intelligence to impersonate corporate executives and attorneys to steal about $129 million.
Weight loss shot side effect that makes skin feel like it's 'ON FIRE'
The little-known phenomenon is a type of nerve pain that causes the skin to hurt in response to things that normally wouldn't be painful.
Meet the Australian 23-year-old in the finals of Swedish Idol
Physics student Bligh Walter moved to Stockholm for the sake of adventure and exploration. Now, the Sydney local has progressed to the finals stage of Swedish Idol.
US judge halts construction of Trump’s triumphal arch in Washington, DC
A 14-day pause has been ordered blocking the so-called 'Arc de Trump' project in Washington, DC.
Bursa Malaysia stocks hammered as AI rout spills into regional markets
KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia gave up its recent gains as an AI rout gripped global markets amid fears a Democrat-led US Congress would mean more oversight in the sector.
Tom Brady Shares Cryptic Message on "Correcting" False Rumors Amid Candice Swanepoel, Joan Smalls Drama
Tom Brady shared a cryptic message about "false" narratives amid a rumored fallout between his girlfriend Candice Swanepoel and her fellow Victoria's Secret Angel Joan Smalls.
Democratic Congress set to challenge Trump on energy, AI, and EVs
Democrats have won control of Congress in the US midterm elections, turning the second half of President Donald Trump's term into a lame-duck period. Trump still holds the veto, however, and overriding it requires a two-thirds vote in both chambers. Congress is therefore more likely to apply pressur
Google's Wyoming data center plan pairs gas power with carbon capture
Google's $17 billion Wyoming investment includes a planned 702 MW fuel-cell development with carbon capture and storage.
This Rare Hawaiian Bird Has a ‘Swiss Army’ Beak and Swings Its Body Like an Ax
Learn how Hawaii’s critically endangered ʻakiapōlāʻau uses its mismatched beak, powerful ankles, and whole-body movements to chisel into wood and extract insects.
Interpretable many-body interaction laws for collective motion from few trajectories
Models of collective motion usually reduce social interactions to pairwise forces, despite empirical evidence for many-body effects. We introduce the directional atomic cluster expansion (dACE), which adapts the atomic cluster expansion (ACE) of interatomic potentials to self-propelled agents. dACE provides a systematically improvable, exactly equivariant expansion of an agent's acceleration that splits uniquely into 1-, 2-, 3-body and higher contributions, along with a self term for the agent's
Jaguars vs. Ravens prediction, odds, time: NFL Week 9 'Thursday Night Football' picks via advanced model
SportsLine's model has revealed its Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Baltimore Ravens picks for 'Thursday Night Football' with the Ravens down to third-string quarterback Joe Fagnano
Indonesia names fourth wiretapping suspect as political intrigue deepens
Scandal is driving divisions between President Prabowo Subianto and predecessor Joko Widodo.
Ringgit opens lower amid mixed US economic and market signals
KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit opened lower against the US dollar on Friday, as mixed signals from the United States economy and financial markets weighed on the greenback's outlook.
Scene X Review: 7 Tweets To Read If You're Planning To Watch Suriya, Naslen And Nazriya Nazim's Film
With the first shows now underway, early reactions have started pouring in on X, offering a glimpse into whether the Suriya's Scene has managed to impress audiences.
From Text Prompt to Short Video: A Lean AI Creative Workflow
Keeping image and video generation inside one browser workspace
UK tax havens linked to €8bn in EU tax losses: Who loses most?
EU countries lose nearly €60bn a year to corporate profit shifting, the Tax Justice Network estimates. It links about €8bn of those losses to the UK and its tax haven network, even as the UK itself ranks among the countries that lose the most worldwide.
Scientists examining dinosaur fossils report evidence of preserved red blood cells and collagen amino acids, a finding led by Curtin University that could change how researchers investigate ancient biological material
Time has a way of taking almost everything away. Bodies decay.
‘I got rhabdomyolysis from a kettlebell workout – I noticed these tell-tale symptoms’
As an experienced exerciser, Amy Wilkinson never expected to find herself dealing with rhabdomyolysis from a gym workout
El Nino threat prompts call to be water-wise | The Citizen
Residents are urged to start saving water not just because of current woes but for a possible drought due to El Nino.
Abdul El-Sayed did not have to become less Muslim to win
His historic victory in Michigan shows that Muslim Americans need not abandon their identity to succeed in politics.
Patch Attention Wisely: Understanding Patch Length in Attention-Based Forecasting
Attention-based time series forecasters commonly group consecutive observations into patches. Patch length is known to have a substantial impact on forecasting performance, yet its selection remains largely empirical. We develop a theoretical framework that explains why patch length matters for forecasting accuracy and provides a principled basis for its selection. For linear state-space models, we derive an exact factorization of the forecasting coefficient matrix that separates forecast dynami
U2 on Dolly Parton's final duet; and the 'grudge match' behind their new album
The rock group discuss Parton's final recording before her death, and why they refuse to be censored on stage.
How Generation AI is reshaping consumer behaviour and commerce
Inside the new playbook for winning over "Generation AI."
Instagram Edits Arrives on Mac With Multi-Track Timeline and 4K Video Export Support
Instagram has expanded its video editing platform to macOS, bringing Edits to desktop users. The app offers a larger workspace with multi-track timelines, keyframe editing, advanced colour tools, and support for custom fonts and audio.
Archaeologists studying an ancient Spanish copper mine uncovered stone tools and new evidence of Bronze Age production; the findings suggest metal from Iberia may have travelled as far north as Scandinavia
Have you ever wondered where the things our ancestors used came from? Today, we can order almost anything from anywhere in the world, and a product can travel thousands of kilometres before reaching our doorstep.
Same Behavior, Different Mechanism: What Finite Experiments Can Certify About Integrated Information
Interpretability, AI auditing and assessments of machine consciousness increasingly rest on mechanism-level quantities: functionals of a system's causal transition law that describe how it computes, not what it outputs. Experiments see that law only through finite, partial and noisy interventions. We ask when such a quantity is identifiable from an experiment's access, continuous in the mechanism and certifiable from finite data, and answer exactly for a deliberately demanding case - the integra
Dak Prescott delivers blunt assessment of Cowboys' offensive identity: 'Are we proud of it? I don't know'
Prescott's frustrations could be boiling over as Dallas reaches its midseason point
Global tech stocks plunge over fears of AI curbs in US
Asian markets plunged Friday, tracking a sell-off in Western stocks following the US midterm elections.
What is ueno bank and how did it trigger Paraguay's political crisis? - BusinessWorld Online
Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña resigned on Thursday after the collapse of ueno, a prominent commercial bank with ties…
Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed finds some common ground with Trump, calls for bipartisan cooperation
Abdul El-Sayed said he was looking forward to working with anyone who is 'interested in getting money out of politics, putting money in pockets, and passing Medicare for All'
Indian Stocks Gain Haven Appeal as Investors Flee AI Trade
Indian stocks were a lone bright spot in Asia on Friday as the rest of the region slumped on renewed concerns over artificial intelligence.
Make Room, Wordle: The New York Times Is Reportedly Close to Purchasing Letterboxd for $330 Million
Sony and A24's bids apparently didn't make the cut.
Torsion talks only to spin: the CMB temperature as a test of energy exchange in Einstein-Cartan cosmology
The cosmic microwave background temperature at $z=0.886$ is known to $2\%$ from molecular absorption towards PKS~1830$-$211; CO absorbers and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich clusters extend the measurement to $z\simeq3$. We use them on a question that cosmologies with torsion leave open. When the geometry exchanges energy with several matter components, which of them receives it? In Einstein-Cartan theory the Noether identities of each sector fix the answer. A sector's energy-momentum fails to be conserved o
Tempted by snacks before bed? Here's why - and what you can do about it
There are biological reasons why you may reach for sweet treats before bed, but you can change the habit.
UConn vs. Michigan prediction, pick, odds, spread: Dan Hurley eyes national championship game revenge
The Michigan-UConn heavyweight tilt features loaded backcourts and high-dollar transfer bigs. Here's what you need to know
Lebanese pack bags and stock up amid fears of new Israeli escalation
Lebanese who lived through two Israeli escalations are stocking up and packing bags in case of a third.
The midterm elections’ blue wave could throw a wrench in SpaceX’s mobile ambitions
Elon Musk has made no secret of his hopes of turning SpaceX into a viable competitor to mobile companies like Verizon and AT&T. But with the Democrats’ resounding victory in the 2026 midterm elections, that plan is suddenly thrown into question. SpaceX has been busy over the past month making deals and positioning itself to step into the mobile space. In October, it bought an 800 MHz spectrum portfolio from private equity firm Grain Management, which had acquired it from T-Mobile fo
Ramayana Box Office Collection Day 1: Ranbir Kapoor, Yash's Film Mints Rs 64.85 Crore On Opening Day
Ramayana Box Office Collection Day 1: Namit Malhotra-backed project falls short of projected Rs 100 crore India net.
Jim Cramer explains why no AI stock seems safe from the market carnage
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said AI stocks are becoming increasingly difficult to value.
US launches Super Intelligence Task Force to tackle foreign threats
The DOJ's Super Intelligence Task Force will tackle technology-related fraud, national security threats and unlawful uses of advanced systems.
APOD: 2026 November 6 – A Farewell to Swift
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 November 6 – A… 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. A Farewell to Swift Explanation: It is time to say goodbye to NASA‘s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.
Kinetic models of a K channel with 2 stage voltage sensor activation and an opening step
The activation of a K channel with 2 voltage sensors and a separate opening step may be described by a 4 state kinetic equation. If $k_{o}$ and $k_{c}$ are the opening and closing rates, and $α$ and $β$ are the voltage sensor rates such that $k_{o}$ $\ggα,k_{c}\ggβ$ and $k_{o}$ $\gg k_{c}$, the kinetic equation may be reduced to a 3 state model where the effective backward rate from the activated-open state is $2βk_{c}/(k_{o}+k_{c})$. However, if a K channel voltage sensor activates in 2 stages,
Police investigate alleged rape of nurse at Thomas Embling Hospital
The nurse was allegedly raped when staffing numbers were low at Victoria’s only mental health hospital for prisoners.
Can America ever return to pre-Trump politics?
The US midterms were a rejection of Trump's politics of division, but his legacy may be impossible to undo.
Cross-Border Ownership and Input Access: Evidence from the Lithium Supply Chain
How does cross-border ownership shape the lithium supply chain? Using global data on mines and refineries, I estimate a model in which ownership can lower refiners' effective ore costs, encourage mines to restrict spot sales, and soften competition. To study these effects, I examine policies motivated by national security concerns about reliable access to critical mineral inputs: divestiture of Chinese stakes in overseas producers and a ban on ore exports to China. Divestiture increases spot ore
PBS Kids' Arthur Turns 30—and It's a Wonderful Kind of Day, Even If You Feel Old
PBS Kids is celebrating Arthur as it marks 30 years since the children’s show first premiered in October 1996 and became a cultural phenomenon.
Asia's tech giants are getting crushed in the AI trade rout
South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan are home to some of the world's biggest suppliers of the chips, memory, and equipment needed to power the technology.
User Embeddings are Superpositions of Interpretable Behavioral Modes
User embeddings are central components of modern recommendation, personalization, and behavioral modeling systems. Though these embeddings can compactly encode rich behavioral information, they are inherently dense and opaque, limiting interpretability. To address this gap, we argue that user embeddings can be understood as sparse superpositions of interpretable behavioral modes. This structure is directly predicted by generative models of user behavior for linear embeddings and extends approxim
Taking a Gander at Utah’s Goosenecks
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Taking a Gander at Utah’s… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mission: Biomes About About Us Subscribe 🛜 RSS Contact Us Search October 6, 2026 Tens of millions of years ago, the San Juan River in what is now southern Utah shared
Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Cutting Administrative Requirements for Excellence in Patient Care (CARE) (CMS-3484-P)
Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Cutting Administrative Requirements for Excellence in Patient Care (CARE) (CMS-3484-P)Overview
"More Medals And Champions In Future": IPS Atul Singh Praises NDTV-IGPL Push For Young Golf Talent
Atul Singh, IPS, stressed the need to make golf accessible to young talent in India, highlighting financial barriers and the potential of NDTV and IGPL's collaboration.
Israel’s President Herzog to name candidate to form government on Sunday
Announcement comes after majority of Israeli lawmakers endorse Eisenkot over Netanyahu.
Asia stocks crumble after AI rout rocks US markets
SINGAPORE: Asia's tech-heavy markets sank on Friday as fear of increased regulatory scrutiny and a slowdown in AI build-out unleashed the steepest fall in US stocks since the tariff-triggered "Liberation Day" rout a year and a half ago.
Scientists Think They've Discovered What Makes Men's Testicles Age Faster
Researchers identified a protein that may contribute to testicular aging, potentially offering new clues about declining male fertility.
Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M
Clutch, backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million, according to a source.
Where and Why is Grounded Reasoning Useful?
Grounded reasoning, where a model outputs text coordinates of relevant locations in chain-of-thought reasoning, is a common strategy for solving complex visual reasoning problems. However, the benefits and limitations of grounded reasoning are understudied. We study where and why grounded reasoning is most useful. To do so, we introduce a chain-of-thought analysis method to measure how much a model uses its outputted grounding in its thinking trace and perform a detailed ablation study of a grou
Joint analysis of the Macquart relation and the dispersion measure power spectrum: cross-covariance and redshift self-calibration
The dispersion measures (DMs) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) trace ionised baryons along the line of sight, probing baryonic feedback. Two complementary observables can be constructed from an FRB catalogue: the DM-redshift (Macquart) relation of host-identified FRBs, and the angular power spectrum of the DM field of the full catalogue. Their joint analysis requires their cross-covariance. We derive it within the halo model and show it is a super-sample effect: only the monopole of an individual DM
Healthcare rally rolls on as CSL cools and Neuren surges | Stockhead
Healthcare has carried its October momentum into November, with the ASX sector edging higher after a 6.32% rally last month.
Bhayshul Tuten Net Worth In 2026: How A Fourth-Round Rookie Deal Shapes His Early Earnings
Bhayshul Tuten signed a four-year, $5.27 million rookie deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars after being selected 104th overall in the 2025 NFL Draft, with a fully guaranteed signing bonus of just over $1 million anchoring his early earnings.
How Israel is tightening its grip on Palestinian schools in East Jerusalem
Israeli restrictions on teachers and pressure to adopt Israeli curriculum threaten Palestinian education in the city.
Economies of scale and the equity-efficiency trade-off: Evidence from a piped water network in rural Bangladesh
Policymakers who set prices for public infrastructure often anticipate an equity-efficiency trade-off: while higher prices could increase revenues from fee-paying users, helping to offset costs, they may reduce take-up among the poor. But this trade-off is fundamentally altered in the presence of economies of scale, which are common in infrastructure networks. We elicit willingness to pay for a household-level piped drinking water connection in rural Bangladesh, where truthful revelation of pref
'Want to experience the magnitude of Ram and Raavana?': Sandeep Reddy Vanga calls Ranbir Kapoor and Yash 'Commanding' in 'Ramayana'
Filmmaker Sandeep Reddy Vanga has shared his reaction to Nitesh Tiwari's 'Ramayana', adding to the growing list of celebrities praising the mythological epic. He singled out lead actors Ranbir Kapoor and Yash for their performances as Lord Rama and Ravana.