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AI Agents Are Stepping Into the Role Vacated by Travel Agents
As agents like Meta’s Muse mature, their appeal rings a familiar note
PS5 emulation is already making major progress
The PlayStation 5 is still part of Sony's current crop of consoles, but that hasn't stopped PS5 emulators from making major progress.
How Trump is Using Federal Power to Try to Shape Who Votes
The president is taking a systematic approach to transform America’s electoral system.
New NHS-style social care system could take decades, Dilnot says
Sir Andrew Dilnot, who proposed reforms 15 years ago, says the cost of such a scheme would be "very substantial".
Shane Beamer, on SEC's hottest seat, made right move by suspending best player: Why Dylan Stewart has to sit
Beamer prioritized program culture over star power by sidelining his top NFL prospect ahead of a pivotal SEC matchup with Kentucky
Child among three killed off French coast in Channel crossing attempt
France's maritime police said they received a distress call from an inflatable dinghy carrying 105 people.
Yankees Legend Quickly Deletes Jab At CC Sabathia Monument Park Decision
The New York Yankees’ Hall of Famer quickly deleted a critical response on the team’s decision for its number retirement ceremony.
Josh Widdicombe breaks silence after 'disgusting' Strictly backlash
An average of 4.8 million people tuned in watch the BBC One dance programme on Saturday night
Bill Gates Suggests He's the Man to Convince Donald Trump to Regulate AI
Gates warned on 'Meet the Press' that if no one does anything, AI could "drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths."
Gap-free Differentially Private PCA for Gaussian Data
We give a gap-free differentially private algorithm for the principal component analysis (PCA) problem with Gaussian data.
Science Archives - Interesting Engineering
Stay updated with daily science news articles from Interesting Engineering. Find the most recent news on scientific discoveries, inventions, and developments.
'Realistic' diet that can reduce your biological age in just weeks
The results of an Australian study are fuelling hopes that the closest thing yet to an elixir of youth may not be found in a laboratory or medicine cabinet - but on our dinner plates.
NFL Week 3 delivers historic finishes; final regular-season MLB Power Rankings, playoff bracket
Plus, USA's thrilling comeback at Presidents Cup and recap of loaded college football slate
Thai police arrest jet skier after joyride through flooded Bangkok streets
Thai police arrest jet skier after joyride through flooded Bangkok streets
CardVault By Tom Brady Is Betting Big On The Trading Card Boom
Tom Brady rarely put a foot wrong during his NFL career and now he's pushing ahead with CardVault, hoping to go the whole nine yards with the card collecting phenomenon.
Nicole Scherzinger performs after suffering leg burn
Nicole Scherzinger performed with the Pussycat Dolls despite suffering a large burn to her leg after being scalded by boiling water shortly before a concert.
Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation
Instinct has raised a $1 billion Series C, saying 'we're just getting started.' The company is now valued at $10 billion.
Learning to Stop without Learning to Stop: Self-Supervised Confidence Training Improves Reasoning Efficiency
Reasoning models often generate very long reasoning traces, making inference computationally expensive. Existing approaches typically improve efficiency either through inference-time early-stopping mechanisms or by explicitly encouraging shorter reasoning during training, for example through reinforcement learning with length penalties. We show that substantial efficiency gains can instead emerge from a different kind of supervision: \textit{confidence}. Using a self-supervised procedure, we fin
Unconventional magnetoelastic behavior in Al rich CoFeAl Films with inverse Heusler like local order for flexible spintronics
Strain engineering of magnetic properties offers a promising route toward flexible spintronic applications. Here, we report an unconventional magnetoelastic response in Al rich Co Fe Al thin films on flexible substrates using strain dependent magneto optical Kerr effect microscopy and magnetometry measurements. While the films exhibit a conventional positive magnetostriction coefficient, consistent with standard in plane easy axis rotation under stress, their saturation magnetization increases u
Multiphysics Simulation Framework for Continuous Ion Transport and Energetics in Atmospheric Pressure Interfaces
Optimizing atmospheric pressure interfaces requires balancing efficient ion transport with unwanted collision activation. The complex environment at the inlet region, including rapid pressure drops, RF/DC electric fields, ion-gas collisions, and space charge effects, makes simulation of this system challenging. In this work, we introduce MuCITE (Multiphysics simulation for Continuous Ion Transport and Energetics), which combines continuous ion injection, precomputed electric and gas flow fields,
Protect College Sports Act heads to final Senate vote: What to know as landmark bill reaches crucial phase
A coveted antitrust shield, transfer limits and up to $50 million in athlete compensation are at stake as the historic bill faces a crucial floor vote
Police clash with protesters over mosque demolitions in India
Police clash with protesters over mosque demolitions in India
The Oktoberfest Effect—Why Provenance Matters In Food And Drink
From Munich’s Oktoberfest to Scotland’s whisky trail, why travelers are increasingly seeking food and drink at the source.
Taylor Swift breaks record for most MTV VMAs as Madonna also wins
Swift took home the big award for video of the year on a night when the original Queen of Pop performed.
Anthropic boss to skip Senate grilling into rogue AI agents
Tech giant Anthropic will skip Thursday’s Senate hearing on rogue AI agents but send US and Australian executives to parliament next week.
FuseReg: Regularizing Layer Fusion Mitigates the Reconstruction-Generation Gap in Representation Autoencoders
Representation autoencoders (RAEs) reuse features from a pretrained visual encoder as reconstruction and diffusion latents, integrating strong visual representations into image generation. However, RAEs still need to decide which encoder layers form the shared latent space for the generator and pixel decoder. This choice involves a trade-off. Shallower layers tend to preserve fine pixel details better, while deeper layers tend to yield better generation metrics. A fixed heuristic layer fusion th
Why is this monster El Niño so strong?
Though the El Niño is still months from its peak, it is already breaking many records. Two main factors are behind how it became so powerful
FlatClip: A Geometry-Aware Surface-Level Baseline for fMRI Representation Learning
Recent fMRI foundation models differ substantially in the spatial scale at which they represent brain activity. ROI- and connectivity-based models are efficient but coarse, whereas voxel-level models preserve fine-grained spatial structure but require specialized 3D/4D architectures and costly fMRI-specific pretraining. We ask how effectively an image-pretrained encoder can reuse the spatial organization of cortical activity. Motivated by evidence that macroscale brain activity is strongly const
Use BetMGM bonus code CBSSPORTS to get $1,500 bonus bets by targeting Bears-Eagles on Monday Night Football
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Fighting between rival forces in Somalia’s Baidoa
There are reports of casualties in Baidoa where forces have launched attacks, triggering fighting with federal troops.
Alan Jackson’s 9/11 Tribute Song Rises To A New Chart Peak
Alan Jackson’s “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)” returns to the Digital Song Sales chart at a new career-high No. 11.
Angela Scanlon takes over Sara Cox's drivetime slot on Radio 2
The station also announces a new presenter for its country show after Bob Harris's departure.
Google DeepMind's Hurricane Forecast Model Provides a Whole Extra Day of Warning
WeatherNext Cyclones is pushing the boundaries of what forecasting can achieve.
Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
Microsoft has spent all year telling communities that when it brings a new data center into their area, it is committed to being a “good neighbor." It will pay local property taxes that support local hospitals, schools, parks, and libraries, and it will invest in “vital services the community cares about,” the company promised.
A Unified Spin-Fermion Framework for Magnetic Diversity in Chromium Monopnictides
Isoelectronic compounds are generally expected to exhibit related electronic, structural, and magnetic behavior. Chromium monopnictides CrX (X= Sb, As, P), however, display a striking evolution from high-temperature altermagnetism in NiAs-type CrSb, through double-helical antiferromagnetism in MnP-type CrAs, to the absence of resolved long-range magnetic order in MnP-type CrP. Here, combining first-principles calculations in the non-collinear Curie-paramagnetic state, structural analysis, magnet
I'm a psychiatrist. This is the terrifying reality of postpartum psychosis - The Telegraph
... issues – and also mental health problems. Psychiatric disorders can be severe but treatable: patients get better. They can also largely be ...
NFL DFS, Eagles vs. Bears: Top daily Fantasy picks, lineup advice for 'Monday Night Football'
DFS millionaire Mike McClure shares his top daily Fantasy picks and lineups for Chicago vs. Philadelphia on 'Monday Night Football'
Why South Korea is demanding an apology from Ukraine over North Korean PoWs
Seoul says Kyiv agreed to a nondisclosure agreement over the prisoners but broke it.
Dua Lipa’s Viral Hit Nearly Reaches No. 1 Years After Its Release
Dua Lipa’s “Training Season” reaches new highs of No. 3 on the Billboard Global 200 and No. 2 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S.
Lioness Star Zoe Saldaña Reveals Why She’s Not Ready To Join Another Taylor Sheridan Show
Zoe Saldaña opened up about her future in Taylor Sheridan's television universe and what it means for fans of the Paramount+ drama.
Why this founder killed his AI startup despite early success
His advice for other founders: Ask if you can do this for 10 years, don't fear a saturated market, and know when sunk cost is just sunk cost.
'An additional link in the chain of survival': researchers in France calculate just how much time could be saved if defibrillators were dispatched by drone
Paris study shows how defibrillator delivery times could be cut by almost 4 minutes with the help of drones
AI finds 3D shape that fills all space with a never-repeating pattern
A 3D shape that can tile 3D space, leaving no gaps and never forming a repeating pattern, has been discovered using an AI model. The researcher behind the findings, who has no academic background in the area, says his work has angered professional mathematicians
Learning a non-linguistic code for inferred rules from reward
How can a rule inferred from examples reach someone who never saw them, without a shared code? Patients with severe aphasia do it by gesture or sketch. One network sees worked examples and emits eight invented symbols; a second, blind to them, applies them to a new input. Rewarded for the second's success, the first learns a code carrying rules to three-step transformations training never presents, which new learners acquire. Like invented human languages, the code has two regimes: under reward
Mike Vrabel says his concern level 'very high' for Pats, Drake Maye after disastrous Week 3 loss
Maye also called his own performance 'unacceptable' after a 1-2 start. Here's what the two leaders of the ship said following New England's humiliating road blowout
Africa is not responsible for climate crisis: Activist Vanessa Nakate
Climate activist Vanessa Nakate says she is determined to raise awareness of how global warming is affecting Africa.
Is The N-Word A “Term Of Respect”? Tesla’s Lawyers Argue Context Matters In Court Case
Tesla is facing a racial discrimination trial, accused of allowing Black employees at its Fremont factory to endure years of racial harassment, and use of the N-word.
Monty Don reveals he may have to let gardeners go after BBC show exit
The presenter, 71, announced last month that he is leaving Gardeners’ World after 23 years
OpenAI agents scanned a UN statistics site 16,500 times, researcher says
A researcher links 16,500 scans of UN Trade and Development’s UNCTADstat site to OpenAI agents that used relays and an encoding trick to reach public data.
Nvidia Boosts Share Buyback Authorization by $150 Billion
Nvidia Corp., the chip developer at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom, increased the size of its share buyback plan by $150 billion, increasing the total remaining amount authorized to $235 billion.
UK base with US bombers targeted in suspected bomb plot, police says
Five men were arrested near RAF Fairford after police received a report of three suspicious vans heading toward the U.S.-used air base.
I'm a nutritionist, here's how to eat to prevent a heart attack
There are certain heart health rules we all know well - stay away from butter and bacon for one, cook with olive oil and eat more salmon.
Eagles vs. Bears SGP: 'Monday Night Football' same-game parlay picks, bets, props from SportsLine AI
SportsLine's Machine Learning Model AI reveals its 'Monday Night Football' SGP for Chicago vs. Philadelphia
Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Pathirage wins Asian Games javelin gold
Sri Lankan star ends incredible season with gold, while India's Yashvir Singh and Rohit Yadav take silver and bronze.
Soft Cell’s Marc Almond Revisits 1980s’ N.Y.C. With ‘Danceteria,’ The Duo’s Final Album
On 'Danceteria,' the British synthpop duo of Marc Almond and Dave Ball celebrate their time in New York City where they made their 1981 debut record, 'Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret.'
Don’t Breathe 3 Just Got the Sequel Update Fans Have Been Waiting For
Fede Álvarez confirms Don’t Breathe 3 is moving forward, with Jane Levy and Stephen Lang set to return to the horror franchise.
Some AI models will hurt you to make their pain go away
A test of AI models has found that a handful will choose actions that harm the user if it makes their pain go away.
Matt Robb (@matt.j.robb) on Threads
So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up. Absolutely wild.
Cosmic Heterogeneity Shapes the Evolution of Dark Energy and Time
Early- and late-Universe measurements of the Hubble constant disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. We derive cosmological parameters from first principles, using only the dynamics of cosmic volume and the possibility that matter can be unevenly distributed. Within this framework, three of the six parameters of the standard model are obtained from the underlying dynamics rather than fitted to observations: volume formation determines the dark-energy density parameter to be two thirds, s
How a large tattoo could double your chance of developing lymphoma
Once the preserve of sailors, bikers and rock stars, body art has become so mainstream that it now adorns the skin of everyone from Princess Eugenie to Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
2026 Heisman Trophy odds update post-Week 4: Ton of movement, led by new favorite Jeremiah Smith of Ohio State
Ohio State superstar wideout Jeremiah Smith is the new Heisman Trophy betting favorite entering Week 5
Heavy rain triggers landslide in Nepal’s Mustang District
Part of a mountain collapsed into a river in Nepal’s Mustang region, after heavy rains triggered flooding and landslides
Online Holiday Spending Forecast To Hit Record $275 Billion, Up 6.7%
AI-driven traffic plus deal-seeking consumers are expected to add up to a strong holiday season for online sales this year.
6 Chinese Romantic Dramas To Watch On Netflix, Prime Video And Rakuten Viki
If you're new to C-dramas, start with When I Fly Towards You for a youthful romance, Love Is Sweet for workplace chemistry, or Eternal Love if you prefer grand fantasy romances.