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AI comes for MoneySmart’s margins
MoneySmart is dealing with declining margins due to AI, while a new report shows that Southeast Asia’s genAI use is broad but shallow.
EA Shutters BioWare, Creator of Mass Effect, Dragon Age, KOTOR and More
The legendary studio has been shut down just months after EA was acquired by a private equity consortium.
Fires Char New Guinea
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Fires Char New Guinea 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 New Guinea, the world’s second-largest island, harbors an extraordinary variety of plant life across more
How Idaho's abortion ban reshaped reproductive care and fueled a fight for change
This November, voters in Virginia, Nevada, Missouri and Idaho will decide on the future of reproductive rights. In deeply red Idaho, a citizen-led initiative faces an uphill battle to restore some abortion rights. Special correspondent Sarah Varney reports on whether the fallout from the overturning
Familiar faces, new places: Grading debuts for Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kawhi Leonard, other NBA stars
As Giannis debuted for Miami and Kawhi made his great escape to Toronto, LaMelo Ball was up to his old tricks and Anthony Davis... finally played a game!
Can Trump deport Congresswoman Ilhan Omar?
Can Trump deport Congresswoman Ilhan Omar?
A Tailor-Made TFSA Stock: An 8.3% Yield With Monthly Paycheques
A non-bank lender paying monthly dividends, including year-end special dividends, is tailor-made for a TFSA.
‘Petal Dance’ Director Ishikawa Hiroshi Ends 13-Year Feature Hiatus With ‘The Blue We Touch’ (EXCLUSIVE)
The ‘Petal Dance’ director’s first feature in 13 years stars Nao and Karata Erika and will be released in Japan by Bitters End in 2027.
Meta says Muse has over 10M users, with shopping a top activity
Meta Muse users are adopting the app for shopping and personal productivity, the company said during Q3 earnings. The AI app now has over 10M users.
LongZero: Enhancing Long-Context Reasoning in LLMs from Zero Data
Reinforcement learning (RL) is an effective way to strengthen the long-context reasoning of large language models (LLMs), but it needs training data that are long, diverse, challenging, and verifiable. Human annotation of such data is expensive, naturally occurring data are too scarce to sustain RL, and existing synthesis methods depend on external corpora or stronger teacher models, which become harder to obtain as the trained models get stronger. Recently, RL from zero data, in which a model l
APOD: 2026 October 22 – The First Green Star, WD J1330+6435
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 22 – 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 First Green Star, WD J1330+6435 Explanation: Star light, star bright: is there a green star out tonight? Other than the Sun, all stars are so far from Earth that they appear as points in the sky.
Hundreds of Alzheimer's patients to get ADHD drugs
Andy Burnham, whose father Roy died with the disease last month, said he was proud to support the trial in the hope people could benefit from breakthroughs faster.
LSU standout TE Trey'Dez Green poised for return vs. Auburn
Trey'Dez Green, widely regarded as one of the top tight ends in the country, is poised to return Saturday after missing the past three games with a leg injury.
Russia frees American Stephen Hubbard after 4 years behind bars
Russia frees American Stephen Hubbard after 4 years behind bars
Tesla: Don't Fall For The SpaceX Merger Hype (NASDAQ:TSLA)
Tesla's results missed revenue estimates as margins plunged and growth products lag. Click for this bearish update on the TSLA stock.
Batman: James Gunn Gives Disappointing Update on Dark Knight’s DCU Costume
DCU fans receive a shocking update from James Gunn over Batman's costume overhaul in an awaited superhero movie.
Australia’s cybersecurity website hit in flaw that could affect ’70 per cent of the internet’
A report from a cybersecurity firm estimated that the software flaw had existed undetected for more than a decade, but AI tools helped quickly identify a fix for them.
Student motivation and responsibility shown to be key to tackling bullying in physical education
Physical education has traditionally been one of the most eagerly awaited classes of the school day, since it lets students get out of the classroom, move around and interact with their classmates in a different way—conditions that are conducive to learning values such as camaraderie and cooperation
Methane and ethane adsorption on calcite surfaces: effects of surface morphology from molecular dynamics and 3D-RISM
Understanding the adsorption of alkanes on mineral surfaces is important for industrial processes such as oil and gas recovery from shale reservoirs. Previous studies have examined the adsorption of functionalized and non-functionalized alkanes on calcite, as well as adsorption under confinement. However, real surfaces commonly exhibit defects that can influence adsorption behavior. In this work, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and the three-dimensional reference interaction site model (3D-R
Diabetes and ADHD drugs to be tested on Alzheimer's patients in new study
Drugs will be tested simultaneously, which it's hoped will speed up the process of finding new treatments for this common type of dementia.
NBA winners and losers: Giannis gets nothing from new Heat teammates; Anthony Edwards-LaMelo Ball duo thrives
If an opening night blowout loss to Minnesota was any indication, Giannis' first season in Miami could be a bumpy one
Qatar, France call for opening of Hormuz and Gaza ceasefire implementation
Qatari and French leaders stress need to restore freedom of navigation in Strait of Hormuz.
No direct exposure to Indonesia fires, says Olam
The group said it was not aware of any formal regulatory inquiries or notices relating to the fires
Kid Cudi To Star & Direct In Jean-Michel Basquiat Film Next Year
One of the great artists of the 20th century is coming to the big screen from one of the 21st century's hip hop legends.
Blackstone’s Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown
Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.
FCC chair warns media not to run the "fake polls" Trump keeps complaining about
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr today warned broadcasters about airing "fake polls," amplifying one of the many complaints that President Trump has regularly made about the news media. Carr's post on X said, "Many journalists and broadcasters have been amplifying or airing these Polls without regard to basic journalistic ethics and without informing the public that those Polls lack a scientific, accurate, or even real basis...
Tesla Optimus production starts as Musk targets 20,000 robots weekly
Tesla has started Optimus robot production in Fremont as Elon Musk targets 20,000 humanoid robots per week by the end of 2027.
Bio-Inspired Auditory Processing: Coupling Parallel Resonate-and-Fire Dynamics with Ternary Recurrent Networks for Speech Recognition
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) promise energy-efficient inference through sparse, event-driven computation, yet remain constrained on continuous, context-dependent tasks such as automatic speech recognition (ASR). A key bottleneck is the Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) neuron, whose membrane decay erases information across pauses and phonetic boundaries while it must both extract features and retain long-range context. Inspired by cortical separation of nonlinear filtering and somatic integration
Enes Kanter Freedom says he was 'kicked out of' Game 3 of WNBA Finals after refusing suite
Freedom was previously ejected from a WNBA game in August as he has involved himself in the conversation around transgender athletes
Australian TV reporter rescues man from sinking car
Australian TV reporter rescues man from sinking car
Is it time for founders to ditch the pitch deck?
Last month (actually it was August—I’ve been busy), my desperate plea to founders to please stop sending AI slop decks went viral. I wrote it because my Monday-morning pitch deck review routine had gone from exciting to neutral to mildly annoying to downright soul-sucking in the course of a year. Decks used to be like a bag of Bertie Botts Every-Flavored Beans—some blah, some gross, some absolutely delightful. Today, it’s all vanilla and completely indistinguishable. I heard from a lot of yo
Olivia Cooke on Returning to ‘Slow Horses,’ On-Set Injuries and That Shocking Finale Cliffhanger: ‘I Want a Showdown!’
Olivia Cooke discusses her return to 'Slow Horses' as Sid Baker, working with Jack Lowden and the Season 6 finale cliffhanger
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies.
Think Harder Where It Matters: Item-Level Adaptive Recursion for Sequential Recommendation
Existing sequential recommenders usually allocate a fixed computational budget to every item in a user's interaction history, regardless of the item's contribution to the final prediction. We challenge this de facto design with two diagnostic findings. (1) Non-uniform computational need: items within the same sequence vary drastically in how much computation they require. Most converge after shallow processing while a critical minority only stabilizes at full depth. (2) Suboptimality of fixed al
US' missiles production to get boost with solid rocket motor facility
The new facility, along with additional propellant processing facilities, will support production for the U.S. Army’s Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS).
'Betrayed by my body': The taboo health issue women are talking about on social media
Women are sharing their experiences with chronic urinary tract infections on social media in an effort to break the stigma surrounding UTIs.
Blockbuster title match officially announced for AEW Full Gear 2026
A major title match has been set in stone for AEW Full Gear 2026 pay-per-view.
Trump administration seeks Supreme Court approval to build Big Bend wall
US federal judge blocked wall's construction on Texas-Mexico border amid an ongoing legal battle.
Demand Estimation for Rationally Inattentive Consumers
We develop a rational-inattention BLP (RI-BLP) model for demand estimation from aggregate market shares, allowing for endogenous prices and unobserved preference heterogeneity. We establish conditions for uniqueness of market-share inversion and construct a simulated RI-BLP GMM estimator with instrumental-variable moments and market-share constraints. Under regularity and simulation-accuracy conditions, the estimator is consistent and asymptotically normal as the number of markets grows, with th
Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa Reveal How Jay-Z Made Them Cool Parents
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos joked about how their history with Jay-Z earned them cool points with their three kids, Michael, 29, Lola, 25 and Joaquin, 23.
OpenAI to bring AI models, Codex to Google Cloud
The integration will also include Google Cloud’s access controls and data governance tools for workloads involving sensitive data.
Rethinking Video Autoencoders for Interactive World Models
Video world models predict future frames from past frames and actions. They serve as simulators in which agents train, plan or are evaluated, and that humans can control interactively. They generate in the latent space of a video autoencoder, whose compression sets their cost per frame and how long each action waits to take effect. Yet world models often reuse the autoencoders of text-to-video generators, built for offline generation with no agent waiting and, without their training data and cod
Donut Lab battery retains 93% energy at -22°F in heating-free test
Donut Lab's 14-cell battery module delivered 1,254 Wh at -22°F in a laboratory test without external heating.
Learning Epidemic Threshold Equations from Simulation: REEBLRA, an Interpretable Bayesian Classification Framework for Reproduction Numbers
The basic reproduction number, $R_0$, is central to infectious-disease modelling, yet analytic expressions can be difficult to derive for high-dimensional, nonlinear, or structurally complex models. We introduce REEBLRA ($R_0$ Equation Estimation using Bayesian Logistic Regression Algorithm), an interpretable framework that learns explicit surrogate equations for epidemic thresholds from parameter--response data. Rather than directly regressing $R_0$, REEBLRA estimates $\Pr\{R_0(\boldsymbolθ)>c\
2026 WNBA playoffs bracket, WNBA Finals schedule: Dream take Game 3 vs. Valkyries
The Dream and Valkyries are battling in the 2026 WNBA Finals and Atlanta now holds a 2-1 lead
WSJ editors blast Trump after he caves in hostage deal: ‘No cause to be grateful’
A conservative editorial board threw cold water on one of President Donald Trump's latest diplomatic wins, warning his team was getting played.The Wall Street Journal's editorial board wrote Wednesday that there is "no cause to be grateful" to Russian President Vladimir Putin for freeing Stephen Hub
Broadcom's M&A Strategy Is A Value Play (NASDAQ:AVGO)
Broadcom's financial health remains strong, with leverage declining post-acquisitions. Click here to find out why I rate AVGO stock a Strong Buy.
Chris Pratt Shares His and Katherine Schwarzenegger’s Relatable Parenting Struggle With Halloween
The Terminal List star Chris Pratt told E! News that he and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger are dealing with one of the most common challenges when it comes to Halloween: costumes.
AI isn’t shrinking work. It’s changing who does it and how
Transaction data from 10,000+ startups suggests AI is reshaping work, not shrinking it. But there’s a catch: The entry-level ladder may narrow.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is 'entering a new phase' with Muse - Engadget
Zuckerberg expects the agent will generate more revenue per user than the company's apps.
On Particle Production from Bubble Collisions in the Non-runaway Regime
Particle production from bubble collisions during First-Order Phase Transitions (FOPTs) has been studied as an efficient mechanism for baryogenesis and dark matter production, but existing semi-analytical treatments assume runaway bubbles with wall velocity $v_w\to 1$. We generalize this treatment to arbitrary $v_w< 1$, relevant for scenarios such as electroweak baryogenesis and transitions with significant wall friction. We first extend the analytical trapping-equation approach to finite-thickn
What's the best way to take a vitamin - tablet, gummy or spray?
The analysis found newer supplements, marketed as more convenient and appealing alternatives to traditional pills, cost significantly more despite providing lower doses of key nutrients.
BREAKING: Jon Moxley faces heartbreaking betrayal on AEW Dynamite
AEW star Jon Moxley was stabbed in the back by his former allies on Dynamite tonight. The Death Riders and War Dogs had a great relationship in the past few weeks.
What is the FDLR, and why does its anti-Tutsi ideology endure?
Four former FDLR officers reveal how its anti-Tutsi ideology took root and endured in Africa.
Climate-Driven Supply-Demand Matching Reshapes Global SolarEV Decarbonization Potential
Rooftop photovoltaics (PV) can support rapid urban decarbonization, but their contribution is constrained by the imbalance between PV generation and demand, both shaped by local climate. Growing urban electric-vehicle (EV) deployment creates distributed storage near rooftop PV, shifting PV electricity across time. Here we simulate rooftop PV integrated with EVs as batteries across 5,000 grid cells globally, using hourly meteorology and climate-induced demand. We find that PV-EV systems can suppl
Clayface’s Rotten Tomatoes Score Reveals How DCU Movie Compares to Superman & Supergirl
Clayface's Rotten Tomatoes score reveals how the DCU movie compares to Superman and Supergirl, with critics praising its disturbing visuals.
Websites go dark worldwide as AI exposes critical security flaws
A major issue involving PHP, which runs 70 per cent of the world’s websites, means attackers could take over servers without a password.
CVE-2026-103090 Google SAM Control Plane Enrollment Status server.go HandleEnrollStatus missing authentication
A vulnerability was identified in Google SAM up to 0.1.0-alpha.8. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-103090. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
Optimal galaxy magnification: generalized fundamental-plane residuals and number counts are all you need
Weak-lensing magnification complements cosmic shear through its effects on galaxy fluxes, sizes, and number counts. We derive the optimal magnification statistics from galaxy properties and show that the optimal measurement can be decomposed into an optimal mean statistic and total number counts. The optimal mean statistic can be constructed from the residual distribution of a generalized fundamental plane (GFP), $F(i,\boldsymbol{X})$, which predicts galaxy size or, equivalently, flux from surfa
Unlocking the Full Potential of Taylor Dispersion Analysis Through Advanced Detection
Today, pharmaceutical sciences rely on a wide range of innovative therapeutics of varying sizes: nanoparticles, proteins, antibodies, and nanocarriers for drug delivery. Measuring their size is one of the crucial parameters in their characterization, to ensure drug safety, stability, and effectiveness. Over the past two decades, Taylor Dispersion Analysis has emerged as an important sizing method. Its scope of application is perfectly suited to the sizes of these therapeutics. By design, it can
First trophy, old tradition: St. Louis City SC brings U.S. Open Cup back to soccer's oldest American hotbed
Backup keeper Ben Lundt saved the opening penalty in the shootout after Roman Burki was hospitalized, and St. Louis City SC claimed the first trophy in club history
Tigray resumes daily life amid fears of wider war
Mekelle’s reopening offers little relief as instability and economic hardship persist.
Policy Learning with Network-Shaping Assignments
Many policies determine social arrangements whose effects depend on the relationships formed afterwards. We study how to learn such policies when a constrained joint action changes network formation and outcomes depend on exposures to the resulting network. Policy value integrates an outcome response over the distribution of post-assignment networks. The large number of feasible arrangements makes it difficult to evaluate policies directly from historical data. We therefore adopt a model-based a
‘Paper Tiger’ Producer Rodrigo Teixeira Set for GLAFF’s First Visionary Award, Presented by Wagner Moura (EXCLUSIVE)
Oscar-nominated producer Rodrigo Teixeira will receive GLAFF’s first Árbol de la Vida Visionary Award, presented by Wagner Moura, for "Paper Tiger."