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ByteDance nears deal to buy MediaTek’s custom AI chips for data centers
ByteDance is in advanced talks to purchase custom data-center chips from MediaTek, according to Bloomberg. The agreement would make the TikTok owner a major customer of MediaTek’s application-specific integrated circuit business, potentially its second-largest after Google. The chips would support B
Amazon Great Indian Festival 2026: Best Deals on Samsung Products
Samsung Galaxy A56 5G is listed at Rs. 31,999 in the Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale 2026, compared with its original price of Rs. 49,999.
APOD: 2026 October 15 – The Milky Way over Manhattan
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 15 – The… 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. The Milky Way over Manhattan Explanation: The city lights outshine the stars in the City That Never Sleeps. Who would have thought that the Milky Way could be visible in this sky?
Health Check: Another day, another ASX biotech CEO departs | Stockhead
The list of departing ASX biotech CEOs continues to swell, with Medical Developments chief Brent MacGregor signing off today.
Super Bowl stock report for NFL Week 6: 49ers emerge as new favorites, Bears await Caleb Williams' return
We assess the NFL title race after Week 5 and identify three upcoming games that could reshape the Super Bowl picture
US-Iran stalemate: What are Trump’s next military options?
Trump has ruled out attacks before the midterms. Analysts weigh what he could do next, and at what cost.
‘No Kings’ October 17 protest: 2,500 rallies, marches, and parties in all 50 states urge Americans to vote early in midterm election
The “No Kings” movement, which began as a populist protest against the Trump administration, has now morphed into a get-out-the-vote movement ahead of the U.S. midterm elections on November 3. On Saturday, October 17, “No Kings: Vote Early” is scheduled to take place, and more than 2,500 events are on the map in all 50 states. Organizers are preparing a range of events, from protests to neighborhood block parties and cookouts, with a focus on ensuring free and fair ele
BBC News channel launches on YouTube for viewers in UK and US
The move forms part of the BBC's wider strategy to reach digitally-native new and younger audiences.
YouTube Music is making AI-generated songs easier to spot while listening
YouTube Music is rolling out player labels for songs made primarily with generative AI. Listeners can tap for details, while an expansion to the main YouTube app is planned without a confirmed date.
I switched from Android to the iPhone 18 Pro Max for 3 weeks — my 5 biggest takeaways
I tested over 50 Android phones this year. I used the iPhone 18 Pro Max to see how it differs from Android rivals — and what it does better.
Ozempic and Wegovy linked to rare risk of sudden vision loss
Popular diabetes and weight loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy have been linked to a slightly increased risk of a rare condition that can cause sudden, potentially permanent vision loss. Although the risk remains very low, Rutgers researchers say the findings warrant attention as millions of peop
Antidepressants can trigger sexual problems, drug watchdogs warn
Antidepressants will carry stronger warnings about suicidal thoughts and long-lasting sexual side effects under new safety measures announced today.
College football bets: Week 7 odds, parlays for favorites and underdogs include Ohio State vs. Indiana
SportsLine football expert Mike Tierney gives his best parlay bets for college football in Week 7
Ukrainians fear US intelligence cuts as Russian strikes intensify
Reduced missile warnings increase threat to civilians as Trump pushes an 'energy ceasefire' and peace negotiations.
He helped build Meta’s smart-glasses technology. Now he wants to take on Big Tech’s grip on personal AI
AI-powered smart glasses promise to keep your phone in your pocket, but their usefulness depends on how much work they can take off your day. Meta ties its glasses to its own AI services, while Google is courting eyewear makers with Gemini. As an AI assistant learns a wearer’s preferences, it can become more useful and harder to replace. If that knowledge cannot move to a competing brand, choosing better glasses could mean starting over with an assistant that knows less about you. Ash Saul
Salman Khan shares RARE pics with father Salim Khan, says 'Baap baap hota hai, he is the real monster'
Salman Khan shared photographs with his father, veteran screenwriter Salim Khan, alongside a message celebrating their bond. The actor posted the pictures on X, offering fans a rare glimpse of their time together.
Gas Exporter Venture Global Wants to Get In on AI Power Boom
The company plans to build gas-fired power plants to supply data centers.
Salman Khan Recalls Multiple Health Struggles After Sultan; Says, ‘No Matter How Old You Are…’
Salman Khan opened up about his health struggles on Koffee With Karan season 9, while discussing how he keeps himself fit at the age of 61. The revelation was made after the filmmaker recalled the actor’s characters that went shirtless and set a benchmark in Bollywood.
Richest getting richer
This is really going to surprise you, but the wealthy people in the United States became wealthier over the past three years. For the Wall Street Journal, Rachel Louise Ensign and Justin Lahart rep…
Essential items to stock in your medicine cabinet for cold and flu season
Cold and flu season is here. Before someone in your household gets hit, make sure you have these essential meds and comfort items in your medicine cabinet.
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Syrian authorities arrest main suspect in 2013 Baniyas mass killings
Ali Kayali, also known as Mihrac Ural, was apprehended as he tried to cross the border, state media reported.
Even female chatbots get paid less than male AI agents
Even chatbots aren’t immune from human prejudice. A study earlier this year aimed to chart how humans interact with AI at work, depending on how the agents are designed and presented. That included asking participants to work with two human-like AI assistants, one presenting as male and one as female, then judging them on trustworthiness, the quality of their work, and how much they deserve to be paid. In a troubling mirror to the real-world gender pay gap, both men and women said that the
Brooklyn novelty shop reeling from 'surreal' row with Kelly Clarkson over mechanical bird
Art of Play says its staff have been threatened after the singer complained online about how she was treated.
Epic Games Somehow Gets Even Worse On AI Than Tim Sweeney’s Anti-Disclosure Take
There have certainly been some bad takes on both sides of the AI in video games argument. In one corner, we have the never-AI-ers who reflexively claim that any use of any type of AI in any game is…
School roof collapse kills at least 18 people, injures more than 3 dozen in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The roof of a private school collapsed in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 17 children and a teacher and injuring more than three dozen others, an emergency services official said. Several children remained trapped under the rubble in Peshawar, the capita
Russia and China are using AI to stage relentless cyberattacks against the UK | New Scientist
AI is increasing the speed of attacks against infrastructure in the UK but also being used to help defend against it
Neuroscientist reveals how accurate your sleep tracker actually is
Given the growing popularity of sleep trackers, it's worth asking whether a sensor on your wrist or finger can really tell you how your brain was sleeping last night.
NFL Week 6 picks: Our experts face off on Seahawks at Broncos, Ravens at Browns and more
CBS Sports writers Jordan Dajani and Jared Dubin predict Week 6's top games
FIFA set for rule change after Balogun red card row at the World Cup: reports
The governing body's council is expected to prohibit disciplinary committees from overturning match suspensions.
How the Minnesota Twins kept fans safe during a recent nearby shooting
On September 2, 40 minutes before Target Field opened its gates for a Minnesota Twins game against a division rival, the Detroit Tigers, a man opened fire nine blocks away in downtown Minneapolis, resulting in three deaths and six injuries, including law enforcement officers. “The number of emergency vehicles going by the stadium, headed that direction, was frightening. It was a nonstop cascade of sirens,” said Jeff Beahen, director of security for the Twins. Beahen, who served
Salman Khan calls out paparazzi, says obsession with phone cameras has ruined lives
Salman Khan has spoken out against paparazzi culture on two different shows. In September, he used ‘Bigg Boss’ platform to call out photographers who click actresses inappropriately, warning that strict action would be taken against them.
When an agent acts, who is accountable?
As agents take on more work, enterprises need to know what they can do, who owns them, how authority is delegated, and how every action can be traced.
Survey shows that most of us aren't adventurous when it comes to weather apps
We asked over 2,500 readers if they use their phone’s default weather app, downloaded a third-party option, or skip forecasts entirely.
Historic St Michael's Mount cannons airlifted for restoration
Cannons are lifted from St Michael's Mount by helicopter so they can be taken away for restoration.
UKHSA 'bacterial infections' statement with 'cause' highlighted
While many strains exist harmlessly, others can prove fatal
NFL Week 6 upset alert: Can Titans beat TD-favorite Colts? Will rested Bucs upset Steelers?
These favorites are not only at risk of not covering, but they could lose outright in Week 6
Long-delayed China-North Korea bridge officially opens
China and North Korea have officially opened the New Yalu River Bridge after a 12-year delay.
AGI may already be here, we’re just too dependent to notice
Recently, a pretraining researcher named Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and posted the reason on X. His central claim, from someone who spent three years inside both OpenAI and Anthropic, was blunt: “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible, but I hear the same people express fear privately.̶
Salman Khan Says Karan Johar Was 'Scared' Of Him Because Of Shah Rukh Khan: 'It Was Not Good'
Karan Johar admitted that Salman Khan makes him stressed and hyper.
Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform
Figma is also releasing its code layers feature in open beta.
Nexus Venture Partners backs Indian resale startup Circle
Circle, a Bengaluru-based managed marketplace for pre-owned goods, said on October 14 that it had raised 250 million rupees (US$2.63 million) in seed …
Video. Latest news bulletin | October 15th, 2026 – Morning
Video. Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this October 15th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.
'Some think endometriosis is just a bad period, but it's so much worse'
Women with endometriosis are suffering financially as well as physically, a new report by MPs warns.
It wouldn't shock me IF ... NFL Week 6: Trevor Lawrence melts down at Wembley, Giants extend lead in NFC East
Could Tennessee notch its first win of 2026? Will a Packers' RB erupt?
Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia could be postponed by a year amid Houthi attacks
The tournament is scheduled to begin on January 7 but could be moved by a year if needed, AFC president says.
This startup is turning fallen leaves into biodegradable plastic
First-generation bioplastics were made from food crops like corn and sugar. A new biomaterials startup is using something very different: the autumn leaves collected by cities each fall. The startup, Perennial Polymers, extracts the natural polymers in leaves—lignin and cellulose—to make plastic that can easily break down. It’s an approach that can ultimately be less expensive than making other bioplastics, the company says. “I spent the last 12 years or so in the biomaterial space, and go
‘Normal People’ removed from sale in UK over author’s pro-Palestine support
Sally Rooney has been using the proceeds to support Palestine Action
Leak: images and specs of Samsung's upcoming Android XR smart glasses surface
Eyewear brand Gentle Monster created six designs, while Warby Parker created three. Each design comes in several colors and with different lenses.
Representation Conditioning for Generation
Representation-alignment methods effectively accelerate the diffusion transformer training. REPA, for example, uses a pretrained vision encoder to supervise an intermediate layer through an MLP projection head which is discarded after training. It aims to import semantics from the vision encoder to the diffusion backbone. While this objective is achieved at early layers by back-propagating the alignment loss, there is no guarantee that later layers, supervised by the velocity prediction loss alo
Newly discovered 'Frankenstein' bird fossil challenges theories of evolution
The crow-sized Jurassic bird lived 150 million years ago
Do you really need protein powder to build muscle?
Do you really need protein powder to build muscle?
Rays vs. Guardians ALCS Game 3 picks: Winner of final day game of 2026 MLB season Thursday likely wins series
We have a rescheduled afternoon ALCS game Thursday when the Rays visit the Guardians in Game 3
Dozens of children killed after roof collapses in Pakistani school
At least 29 people, mostly children, have been killed after the school collapsed on them in Pakistan’s Peshawar.
Why every leader needs radical accountability
Leadership is often reduced to a familiar collection of habits: waking before sunrise, exercising, and arriving at work before everyone else. The implication is that successful leaders are naturally disciplined people who organize every part of their lives with almost mechanical precision. I do not believe that. I believe leaders are made, not born, and discipline is developed through circumstances and practice. I have seen this within our Ukrainian team since the full-scale war began. Und
Kirti Kulhari’s Production Debut ‘Kinaare’ to Premiere at Dharamshala, Rima Das’ ‘Not a Hero’ to Open Festival
Kirti Kulhari’s production debut ‘Kinaare’ will premiere at the Dharamshala International Film Festival, which opens with Rima Das’ ‘Not a Hero.’
Scientific simulation and AI-data startup SciVisual raises tens of millions of RMB
Chinese scientific simulation and AI-data startup SciVisual has completed angel and angel-plus funding rounds totaling tens of millions of RMB, ChinaVenture reported on October 15. Investors include Shanghai Future Industry Fund, Houxue Capital and Pudong Venture Capital. Founded by University of Sc
CVE-2026-110909 Wheels Local Server Verification improper authentication
A vulnerability was found in Wheels up to 4.1.0. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-110909. Upgrading the affected component is advised.
Fires Arrive in the Amazon Rainforest
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Fires Arrive in the Amazon… 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 Unlike a tornado or thunderstorm that can deliver destruction in minutes, El Niño exerts its influen
Our response - Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism
Rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm and eating disorders have risen considerably, while rates of severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia ...
Revisiting the Micah Parsons trade: Who got the better of the deal between Cowboys, Packers?
It hasn't been a lose-lose situation, but it's not going the way either team planned
Fighting in Yemen intensifies: What’s the latest on the battlefield?
Houthis attempt to raise the cost of the Yemen war for Saudi Arabia as attacks, fighting intensify.
Trump’s new ‘superintelligence’ website is a rebrand fail
President Donald Trump’s push to rebrand artificial intelligence as “superintelligence” has a new government URL. The Trump administration launched SI.gov on Tuesday, a narrative microsite that promotes the administration’s AI policies and initiatives. The old AI.gov, which formerly linked to the administration’s AI action plan and executive orders now, redirects to the new site. As a work of marketing, the website is slick and graphically compelling. The over
‘My Heart Will Go On’: Celine Dion gets her own Barbie doll
LONDON, Oct 15 — Barbie has honoured Celine Dion by creating a new signature doll in her image, PA Media/dpa reported.The appearance of the doll pays tribute to the navy,...