World in a Pulse
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Hiding inside Palantir’s skyrocketing quarter is a foreboding signal
Palantir's U.S. commercial revenue surpassed U.S. government revenue for the first time ever.
iPhone Duo's woes are a boon for Samsung as Galaxy Z Fold8 sales go up by 20% in a week
At least that's the situation in South Korea and Samsung is extending its promo campaign to get even more buyers through the door.
Astronaut and Earth
CSA CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk is pictured during the Oct. 29, 2026, spacewalk. The International Space Station was soaring 267 miles above the South Atlantic Ocean at the time of this photograph. Kutryk and NASA astronaut Anil Menon installed a new roll-out solar array on the space station and performed some get-ahead work for their next spacewalk, which will take place on Nov. 5, 2026.
How Lisa saved herself when she started choking and couldn't breathe
Lisa Bennett was halfway through her lunch recently when a piece of chicken became lodged in her throat.
Champions League expert picks, predictions, best bets: Manchester City aim for turnaround vs. RB Leipzi
Check out all the picks from our experts as the Champions League league phase rolls on
Raphinha, Lamal fire Barcelona to 3-0 Champions League win over Aston Villa
Barca took early lead through Lamine Yamal before Raphinha continued fine goal-scoring form with a second-half brace.
The 2026 midterm elections could change everything for Trump. Here’s what’s at stake
The midterm elections have the potential to upend everything from politics, to business, to the stock market. But the person most impacted by Tuesday’s results could be President Donald Trump and determine the course of his final two years in office. On the political front, the battle to control Congress remains front and center with a number of seats in play, including 435 in the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 in the U.S. Senate. At issue, whether Democrats will gain control
Other Mommy Sets Digital Streaming Release Date After Massive Box Office Run
Other Mommy arrives on digital platforms soon with Jessica Chastain starring in the horror film that has grossed $108 million worldwide.
Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows
The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less-efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-discarded jet engines.
Buttons are back and storage is king when it comes to car interiors
As with interior design for houses, interior design for vehicles is also subject to fashion trends. And like any fashion trend, even the best ideas can become stale and played out with overuse. Some ideas weren’t the best, either, like demonstrably worse human-machine interfaces that add to driver distraction; yet, they still proliferated throughout the industry and across the cars offered for sale.
Detection of the Galaxy--Galaxy--Temperature Skewed Bispectrum
We present the first measurement of the galaxy--galaxy--temperature skewed bispectrum, obtained by cross-correlating the squared, filtered unWISE galaxy overdensity with \textit{Planck} maps at 100, 143, 217, and 353~GHz. The signal is detected with high significance in all four channels. Its frequency dependence reveals contributions from hot gas through the thermal Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect and from dust through the cosmic infrared background (CIB). With the galaxy occupation fixed, our
What older adults living with certain chronic health conditions need to know about RSV
Adults over 50 years with certain chronic health conditions face higher risk of severe RSV symptoms. Still, RSV's impact is underestimated.
NC State football coaching search 2026: Candidates, hot board, names to watch from Wolfpack experts
The PackPower team just revealed its top North Carolina State coaching candidates after Dave Doeren was fired on Saturday, Oct. 24
Kyiv protest raises suspicions of possible Russian orchestration
Ukraine is investigating clashes between protesters and authorities at a military dormitory near Kyiv.
Xbox’s Arkane Studios Attracts Multiple Bidders, Including Ubisoft
Microsoft’s gaming unit is looking to divest the French company behind ‘Dishonored’ and ‘Marvel’s Blade’
Moroccan-Belgian Superhero Picture ‘Atoman’ Secures North American Release – AFM
Moroccan-Belgian Superhero Picture ‘Atoman’ Secures North American Release - AFM
Google Lets Schools Turn Off Gemini, But Not the AI in Search
Schools that want their K-12 students to have access to Google Search will soon have to turn it on themselves, and the AI features built into Search will come with it, under changes the Alphabet Inc. company announced Tuesday.
Wherever there are people, there is also wildlife—though not necessarily at the same time
Human-induced global change has reached an unprecedented scale and intensity. Through intensive land use and the associated loss of species, humans are permanently altering the habitats and communities of wild animals. "How do predators manage to find their way in landscapes heavily shaped by humans
OpenAI Wants to Change the Name of Data Centers to the Stupidest Thing You've Ever Heard in Your Life
OpenAI is starting to reach for desperate — and borderline comical — measures to regain the narrative on data centers.
GP reveals signs you should get help for 'sausage fingers' like King's
Concerns about what this means for Charles's health have been reignited. It's a worry I see often in my clinic when the temperature drops - but it's also common in extreme heat.
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President Zelenskyy says US elections will impact war in Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy has said that the US midterm elections will impact the ongoing war in his country
Taco Bell says it has a ‘magic formula’ for bringing customers back. Here’s what it is
Yum! Brands, the parent company of Taco Bell—as well as KFC, and The Habit Burger Grill—reported third-quarter earnings on Tuesday, beating analyst expectations, in part, from KFC’s global expansion and higher revenue from its franchises. However, an outbreak of cyclospora linked to tainted shredded lettuce at Taco Bell, what the company considers its “growth engine,” affected the company’s same-store sales which dropped 4% in the U.S. for the quarter. Despite that, it appears
Terry Dubrow Reveals Cadaveric Fat Transfers Are the "Hot New" Procedure—Yes, Really
Terry Dubrow revealed a shocking truth, stunning Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg during his appearance on her podcast when he revealed fat transfers from cadavers are a new cosmetic trend.
Apple's iOS 27.3 is offering a major upgrade to your web browsing
New Safari features are coming for the iPhone, iPad and Mac and are in the Beta right now
Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
Russian tech companies are scrambling to harden and hide their data centers underground after Ukrainian drone strikes damaged facilities housing AI supercomputers and disrupted cloud services for millions of Russian users.
Crypto Docs Host GitBook Hit by AI Agent Security Breach, Urges Users to Rotate Keys - Decrypt
GitBook says attackers accessed infrastructure credentials in an AI-assisted breach, prompting a shutdown and emergency token resets.
Map reveals the US states where you're most likely to die young
As millions head to the polls in the midterm elections, stark differences raise questions about the state of the nation's health, and why some parts of the country are faring so much better than others.
Bills release C.J. Gardner-Johnson just days after being suspended for spitting incident
Gardner-Johnson signed a one-year deal with Buffalo back in March
Netanyahu’s eight-seat problem
Netanyahu’s Likud-led bloc won the most seats in the general election, but forming a government is another battle
U.S. job postings rose sharply in September
U.S. employers ramped up their job postings in September as stronger economic growth may be encouraging more hiring. Yet voters are headed to the polls Tuesday, largely gloomy over an economy beset by higher prices. U.S. job openings jumped to 7.5 million from a revised 7.19 million in August, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. It is the largest number of openings since May and up from a recent low of 6.9 million in March. The department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (J
Fair City on Thursday: 'I thought we could have a chat'
JJ confronts Victor in Thursday's Fair City on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player.
Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures seeks $490M for new funds amid AI-driven cybersecurity boom
Cybersecurity-focused Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise $360 million for a new flagship fund and another $130 million for a separate investment vehicle.
Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too
While Google is trying to move beyond Chromebooks, the ubiquity of these devices has made the company's education products huge in schools. Now, Google says it will let educators choose whether to allow its AI tools in the classroom. However, blocking AI tools also means giving up search, leaving schools with a difficult decision. Google's new overarching approach to AI in K-12 classrooms sounds good on the surface. After consulting educators, researchers, and lawmakers, Google has decided that schools using its education products will be opted out of AI tools by default.
There's a Dark Reason So Many Celebrities Are Subjugating Themselves to AI
Celebrities are shilling AI companies, and it's not just because of money. Enter a man known as "OpenAI's Hollywood whisperer."
RangeFinder: Predicting Ligand Property Ranges from Protein Pockets
Identifying ligands for a protein target requires searching a vast chemical space for a comparatively small set of compatible molecules. Existing machine learning approaches primarily address this problem by generating candidate ligands or scoring individual protein-ligand pairs, but provide limited information about the broader chemical space compatible with a binding pocket. We introduce RangeFinder, an SE(3)-equivariant transformer pocket-level model, trained and evaluated on BioLiP2 data, th
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US midterm election results live: Polls to start closing in some states
Polls to start closing in waves across the country, with the earliest closures at 23:00 GMT in Indiana and Kentucky.
Mallet & Company: Federal Court Permanently Bans Bundy Baking Solutions from Selling Release Agent Products Derived from Stolen Mallet Trade Secrets
/PRNewswire/ -- In the latest in a series of sharply worded post-trial rulings against Bundy Baking Solutions and its affiliate, Synova, related to the theft...
Comedy legend makes emotional end-of-life confession after devastating loss
That’s genuinely heartbreaking
Netflix’s new AI Discover tab helps you find something to watch based on your mood
The first experimental feature under the tab will allow users to get recommendations based on what they're currently in the mood for.
NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms
The New York Times and other newspaper companies sued Brave Software yesterday, alleging that the browser maker illegally bypasses paywalls and sells stolen news content to AI companies. "Brave is the supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content for its own users and many of the most prominent GenAI companies, including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere," the NYT alleged in a lawsuit filed in US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Doomed 3,200-pound NASA telescope to crash back to Earth tomorrow
NASA is monitoring the uncontrolled re-entry of a space telescope that will crash back to Earth sometime on Wednesday.
RSV-related hospital costs high in kids with underlying medical conditions - CIDRAP
Direct medical costs were adjusted to 2025 dollars for the study. Those with neurologic, neuromuscular conditions see highest costs. A total of 1,715 ...
Dave Richard's Week 9 Trade Chart and rest of season rankings: Jets, Raiders RBs in flux
Your trade deadline is coming soon! Use the trade chart to make post-draft deals and improve your team with assigned values to help you navigate your league's trade market
Texans vote in most expensive Senate race in US history
Pivotal Texas race for US Senate breaks spending records, with $573.2m poured into Paxton and Talarico campaigns.
The next big subscription service could be sunlight. And it might cost $5,000 an hour
A satellite startup wants to fill the night sky with ultra-powerful beams of redirected sunlight. What could go wrong? According to astronomers, almost everything. Reflect Orbital’s plans to launch 50,000 satellites equipped with giant mirrors is akin to “a bullet in your head,” says one astrophysicist, citing threats to both the natural world and the future of astronomy. Selling the sun Reflect offers “sunlight-as-a-service,” planning to use its constellation of satellites to beam down
Bill Hader Says Divorce Helped Him Finally Direct: A Therapist on Why That’s Half the Story.
Bill Hader finally made the movie he’s wanted to make his whole life. He told IndieWire that his divorce, SNL, and a Kiyoshi Kurosawa obsession all helped him build They Know. Cue every tablo…
AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surges
The five-year-old startup raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer.
Another child dies of measles as CDC reportedly holds up health alert
A child in New York has died of measles, health officials in the state announced late Monday. It marks the first reported measles-associated death in New York in more than 30 years. It is the seventh measles-linked death reported in the US this year; all six of the other deaths were reported in Pennsylvania, which is experiencing a dramatic measles outbreak that has stricken over 1,430 people this year.
Google will let schools turn off AI, but they may also lose Search | CNN Business
Google is rolling out new controls for schools to limit students’ access to the company’s AI tools. But if schools opt out of AI altogether, they’ll also lose access to Google Search.
From FAIR to AI-FAIR Metadata-First Infrastructure for AI-Enabled Science
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and their capabilities have advanced rapidly over the past few years, leading to widespread interest and adoption in the biological and ecological sciences. However, the data infrastructure and computational resources that provide the foundation for AI workflows in ecology and biodiversity science remain fragmented. Moreover, the flow of value remains largely unidirectional: data move from collectors, through repositories and aggregators into models, and
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Palestinian families return home after Israeli siege of Hebron
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U.K. celebrity in sex misconduct case denied anonymity despite self-harm claims
A UK celebrity accused of sexual misconduct lost his bid to have his name kept out of the news, but won’t be identified while appealing the ruling.
Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models’ identity
Called FlashProve, the system would let anyone check that an AI response really came from the model it claims to be from.
A single measurement makes quantum bits more reliable
Researchers at the University of Regensburg and their international partners have found a way to significantly reduce errors in quantum bits. In an experiment, they demonstrated that a single additional measurement before a series of quantum operations can cut the error rate by more than half. The r
The Inca Gave Children Drugs Before Sacrificing Them to the Gods, Including Cocaine and Alcohol
Chemical traces reveal how the Inca prepared children for sacrifice on sacred mountains 500 years ago.
Aging Untold: What to know about medical uses and risks for anti-wrinkle injections - WBTV
You might think of botulinum toxin injections being linked to wrinkles, but some people use them to treat medical conditions as they age. Dr. Rhea ...
Manchester United stun Roma with three-goal second-half Champions League comeback after dreadful start
Matheus Cunha fueled a furious second-half rally to beat Roma 3-2, offering Michael Carrick relief on a thrilling European night that still revealed deeper systemic flaws
First polls close in pivotal US midterm elections
With control of the US Congress on the line, results from Tuesday's races will have marked implications for the country.
Hinge is making a surprising change to its subscriptions. Here’s who stands to benefit
Hinge users may soon have access to a more affordable subscription tier. The app’s parent company, Match Group, announced Monday it is testing a new feature geared toward women. During its third-quarter 2026 earnings call, Match Group said the new tier will give users more control through additional filters and custom location boundaries. “It’s designed for women in particular, but also for price-sensitive users,” Steve Bailey, chief financial officer of Match Group, said during the call.&
Josh O'Connor: Bond rumours 'bizarre pinch-me moment'
Challengers star Josh O'Connor has said rumours of him playing James Bond are a "bizarre pinch-me moment".