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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...
Pixels and Galaxies aside, these are the phones that are worth your money
Options are scarce, but some are worth your time and money.
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
World Series Game 1 odds, time: Brewers vs. Rays predictions by expert on 58-28 run
SportsLine expert Eric Cohen, who is on a 58-28 run on MLB money-line picks, reveals his Rays vs. Brewers bets for Game 1 of the World Series 2026
Ukraine plans independent satellite system as Starlink issues persist
Ukraine to team up with Finnish firms as Starshield problems, started amid Trump-Zelenskyy jibes, continue.
Your AI sprawl is DevOps sprawl all over again—fix it
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way,” said Mark Twain. Discovering hard truths through hands-on experience is how everyone is learning AI. That includes this CTO of a Fortune 500 solutions integrator. So take it from me: You’re likely repeating the sins of our past. How do I know? Confession time. We didn’t used to have a global contract with the frontier model providers. We do now, but back then, we had a bunch of well-meaning teammates swiping
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.
Ukraine learns to fight without Starlink as Musk plays politics with satellites
Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite service has played a pivotal role in supporting Ukraine’s successful resistance to Russia’s full-scale invasion for years.
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
Bulls vs. Bucks odds, prediction, time: 2026 NBA picks for Friday, Oct. 23, by proven model
SportsLine's model reveals its Chicago Bulls vs. Milwaukee Bucks best bets on Friday in Milwaukee's home opener
Are parents in France and Italy liable for damage caused by student protesters?
Parents could face financial penalties if their children participate in vandalism or looting during demonstrations.
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...
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.
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
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.
Duke vs. Virginia odds, picks, betting preview, kickoff time for Friday Week 8 college football
The Cavaliers host the Blue Devils in an ACC title game rematch Friday night
‘Pink blooms from among the rubble’: Battling breast cancer in Gaza
Health workers in Gaza are participating in a breast cancer campaign called ‘pink blooms from among the rubble’.
The sonic emotional anchors of our lives
Think about the last time a sponsored post from a lifestyle influencer genuinely gave you chills. Or when an athlete holding a sports drink made you reflect on a core memory. They don’t. Social influencers are highly effective at capturing fleeting, transactional attention. Athletes are exceptional at inspiring admiration and tribal loyalty. But music artists? They dictate our internal landscapes. A single chord progression can transport a consumer back to a summer memory, validate their feeling
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.
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
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.
Knicks reportedly duped employees with championship ring email that was actually a phishing test
Knicks coaches, meanwhile, received empty ring boxes during the opening-night ceremony this week
CAS clears Japan’s Olympic silver medallist Ikeda of doping, overturns ban
Race walker Koki Ikeda returns to competition immediately; Ethiopia’s marathon runner Ruti Aga given 6-year doping ban.
Europe’s brutally hot summer led to more than 50,000 heat deaths in urban areas alone
The summer of 2026 was brutally hot across Europe, with five successive heat waves causing record-high temperatures across the continent. Those extremes likely led to more than 50,000 excess deaths in urban areas alone, according to a new estimate. And some 32,000 of those deaths, or nearly two-thirds of that total, can be directly attributed to climate change, caused by the burning of fossil fuels. This makes the summer of 2026 likely the “worst on record” for heat-related deaths acro
‘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.
Rocket Report: SpaceX says no thanks to military launches; Spanish rocket nearly ready
Welcome to Edition 9.16 of the Rocket Report! Lots of SpaceX-related news this week including a couple of Thursday shockers. In one story, the company told the US Space Force thanks, but no thanks after being offered three military launch contracts. Then, on the civil space side of things, SpaceX's Starship may required up to 22 refuelings to support a lunar landing, a NASA safety panel said. As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site).
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.
The state of the outfield position heading into 2027: Pete Crow-Armstrong leads a talented but thin field
Pete Crow-Armstrong headlines the 2027 Fantasy outfield landscape, while Aaron Judge and Kyle Tucker look to rebound
The fight to protect India’s 600-year-old mosque in Ujjain
The minaret of Shahi mosque collapsed during demolition work to widen a road for a Hindu pilgrimage.
Young people are using AI for mental health support
For months, the news has been inundated with studies showing the high rates of AI use by young people, sometimes with tragic consequences. The urgency to put protective measures in place is palpable. Recently, I previewed longitudinal research results The Trevor Project is preparing to release this fall. It shows that AI use is particularly pronounced among LGBTQ+ youth: 53% of LGBTQ+ youth surveyed engage with AI platforms at least occasionally. We found that nearly half have used AI for friend
‘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.
Review: Crystal Lake suffers a bit from its obsession with Pam Voorhees
Peacock’s series, Crystal Lake, doesn’t feel like a Friday the 13th movie when you first press play, even though it’s set up to be a prequel to the original film. (This review includes spoilers of the original Friday the 13th movie but avoids major Crystal Lake spoilers.) Instead, Crystal Lake strives to build a drama that’s half homage, half uncharted territory while giving a long-awaited backstory to Pamela Voorhees.
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.
How the Rays and Brewers were made: 2026 World Series foes linked by roster-building philosophies
The two dueling teams ave taken savvy tactical approaches, necessitated by ownership's payroll restrictions, all the way to the finish line
US-Iran war, then and now: How the landscape has changed since February
The positions of Washington and Tehran have changed dramatically since US-Israeli strikes began the war, analysts say.
The iPhone Duo goes on sale today. Here’s how you could still get one in a store, despite ‘extraordinary’ demand
Today is arguably one of the most important days for Apple in decades. It’s when the company’s first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, goes on sale. But so far Apple’s biggest problem with the device doesn’t seem to be persuading people to buy it. Rather, the company doesn’t have the supply to meet all the demand. That means Apple fans who want an iPhone Duo on Day 1 may struggle to obtain one. But if you live in certain markets, all is not lost. There’s still a chance you can get your hand
‘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
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
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
NFL odds: Week 7 parlays featuring favorites, underdogs include Buccaneers-Panthers, Bengals-Ravens
SportsLine football expert Mike Tierney gives out his favorite parlays for Week 7 of the NFL season
Saudi Arabia security puts Asian Cup in doubt: Japan football chief
Tsuneyasu Miyamoto says it will be difficult for Saudi Arabia to host next year's tournament as scheduled.
Your customers have a shelf life
Most companies would never build a five-year financial plan using five-year-old market data. Yet when it comes to customers, organizations routinely make major decisions based on assumptions formed four marketing departments ago. From that older data, they know their audience. They know what customers value. They know why people buy. They know which segments matter most. Until they don’t. Customers rarely announce that they’ve changed. Their priorities shift gradually as new generations
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.
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
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.
NFL Week 7 picks, odds, best bets: Why Bengals will beat Ravens, Saints to cover in Paris
This week's five best bets include Kansas City and Cincinnati as road underdogs
Typhoon Champi unleashes huge waves along Taiwan’s coast
Huge waves were seen crashing into Taiwan’s northeastern coast as Typhoon Champi approached with winds reaching 191 km/h
Change.org wants to turn your TikTok rant into local political action
Most Americans—more than 80%—don’t think that their elected officials care what they have to say. Change.org has been rebuilding its own platform to try to change that. The platform, founded in 2007, is best known for campaigns that have gone viral nationally, like a petition to get justice for George Floyd in 2020 that got nearly 20 million signatures. Of course, most petitions don’t have that kind of audience. But you don’t need millions of people to make change happen, an
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.