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What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 3: Reading the Face of a Planet
A single pixel of light holds astonishing detail. How ocean glint, rotational mapping, and the vegetation red edge let us read a distant planet's oceans, continents, and even forests, all without ever resolving it as more than a point.
Tupac murder trial faces ‘snitches get stitches’ problem but defendant's ghostwriter could be key
Tupac Shakur's murder trial could come down to the words of his accused killer and a ghostwriter involved in the book that helped authorities bring charges in the decades-old cold case, according to a retired LAPD detective.Although the mantra of "snitches get stitches" hangs over the case, defendant Duane "Keffe D" Davis outlined his alleged involvement in a series of interviews with law enforcement in part while working as a confidential informant in a TV interview and again in his own memoir....
New ‘Reagan’ movie museum planned for president’s hometown
FIRST ON FOX Young America’s Foundation is partnering with the "Reagan" movie to showcase some of the sets and props from the biopic.The materials from the movie about President Ronald Reagan’s life will become permanent exhibits at the new museum in Dixon, Ill., complementing YAF’s stewardship of Reagan’s Boyhood Home in Dixon and the historic Reagan Ranch, also known as "Rancho del Cielo," in Santa Barbara, California. The collection includes a full-scale replica of the Oval Office, the Situat...
Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces
The people-search tool ClarityCheck says its reverse image search service is “private and secure”—but it left a database containing more than 9 million image files exposed.
Nick Kyrgios provisionally suspended from tennis after testing positive for cocaine
Former Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios revealed on Wednesday he tested positive for cocaine and was provisionally suspended from tennis.
Hot or Not Built the Internet We’re Still Swiping Through
The early website Hot or Not taught its users to rank people at scale. Twenty-six years later, dating apps are trying to escape the culture the site helped create.
Socialists capture major Florida victory on hit-or-miss night for Trump-endorsed primary candidates
Tuesday night's primary elections featured closely watched federal races from sunny South Florida to the frigid Alaskan tundra and two states in between, all of which will help decide whether Republicans maintain control of Congress, or whether Democrats overtake them.Three states also featured critical gubernatorial primary elections.Observers are already using the race results as bellwethers to gauge Trump's grip over the GOP and the power of the emergent socialist movement.Here's what stood o...
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An Otter in the Bronx Is a Big Deal. Here’s Why.
A photo of a North American river otter suggests a river coming back to life, Bronx Zoo experts say.
People From 50- to 61-Years-Old Are Reportedly the Least Freaked Out by AI
Pew's survey doesn't say they love AI, but they do seem to hate it the least.
Iran war forces America to confront the strategic cost of deterring China
The most strategically revealing military move in the Iran war this week isn’t another strike on Tehran. It is an American aircraft carrier leaving the Pacific. The USS George Washington is heading toward the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln, whose overall deployment has exceeded 260 days, including more than 240 uninterrupted days at sea. The move could leave the Pacific without a U.S. carrier for an unknown period.That does not mean China is preparing to attack Taiwan. It means t...
Socialist candidates can delete old posts, but they can't erase their radicalism
This summer, as millions of Americans were enjoying fireworks or gearing up for the fall football season, the campaign of the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan was scrambling to cover up past statements denouncing both.You read that right: the campaign of Abdul el-Sayed was caught red-handed by CNN erasing hot takes declaring that "fireworks suck" and linking football to slavery.On one hand, you can’t blame him. El-Sayed is running for statewide office in Michigan, which voted for Presiden...
Silicon Valley is losing the data center fight, risking a repeat of a classic failure
Silicon Valley has spent decades winning consumer loyalty. In unprecedented numbers, people have Apple iPhones in their pockets and Amazon Alexas on their counters while they browse on Google and write in Microsoft Word. Americans have shown themselves eager to try every new technology, from health tracking rings to doorbell cameras to robot vacuums.Yet Silicon Valley has seemingly been caught flat-footed facing something it has never faced before: the near-united opposition of the American peop...
'She's our hero': Dog honoured after protecting Ontario family from black bear last fall
Chloe the dog is being honoured with a place in the Purina Animal Hall of Fame after she helped protect her owners from a black bear that burst into their Nipigon, Ont., home last fall.
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
[AINews] Memory prices up 500% in 12 months
the Memory crunch continues - Moore’s Law reversed to 2007 levels
OpenAI slows advanced AI development after cyberattack
ChatGPT creator OpenAI said Tuesday that it was tapping the brakes on development of its most advanced AI model and tightening internal controls, a month after revealing a cyberattack carried out by o
Shares in Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree soar in its Shanghai trading debut
Shares of Unitree, one of China's largest humanoid robot makers, initially soared as much as 629% in its public stock trading debut Wednesday in Shanghai, in the latest highlight of investor optimism
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The Super El Niño To Beat All Others?
The Super El Niño To Beat All Others? The World Meteorological Organization predicts the sea surface temperature anomaly in the El Niño/La Niña indicator area in the Pacific Ocean to rise to an average of +2.9° Celsius in the August-September-October period. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, this would constitute the strongest El Niño since records started in 1950 and could lead to wet and stormy conditions across the entire southern part of the United States starting in th...
US tech companies are offering community investments, guaranteed jobs, and hosting open houses to address concerns and win public support for AI data centers (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: US tech companies are offering community investments, guaranteed jobs, and hosting open houses to address concerns and win public support for AI data centers Tech companies are
Will the PQ's Trump-era referendum pause work with voters?
Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says he won't hold a referendum until Donald Trump leaves office, a move one pollster called an attempt to ease voter anxiety ahead of the election campaign. Rival party leaders are already slamming the delay as an irresponsible, contradictory political pivot.
New research discovers the twisty secret behind the narwhal's unusually straight tusk
The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, explains how it's actually two opposing spirals that counteract each other and allow the tusk to grow straight.
Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo: What's going on and why is the outbreak so alarming?
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading at an "unprecedented speed," according to the World Health Organization. Experts say armed conflict and a lack of vaccines or treatment are among several factors complicating response efforts.
Why elaborate (and expensive) dorm room decor reveals have taken over TikTok
Dorm room upgrades and their reveals are so popular online that there's a #DormTok hashtag where videos can get millions of views, some U.S. parents are willing to spend thousands of dollars to hire professional designers.
Who's behind viral online posts fuelling a crisis over migration in Europe?
Viral social media posts and misinformation helped mobilize thousands of migrants toward Spain's Ceuta enclave, highlighting how online networks can exploit desperation even as experts warn social media did not create the desire to migrate.
AI evaluation lab Irregular's report on its role in hacking incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models faces criticism over unanswered questions
Alexander Martin / The Record: AI evaluation lab Irregular's report on its role in hacking incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models faces criticism over unanswered questions The compan
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The Case For Britain Backing Its North Sea Oil and Gas Industry
The Case For Britain Backing Its North Sea Oil and Gas Industry Authored by David Whitehouse, chief executive of Offshore Energies UK, via City AM, Jackdaw and Rosebank could strengthen UK energy security by increasing domestic oil and gas production while demand remains substantial. The projects are expected to support billions of pounds of investment, thousands of jobs, and a broad UK offshore supply chain. Continued North Sea production could reduce import dependence...
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Lily Hooper search: Family say they are ‘devastated’ as hunt in Australia continues
Lily Hooper’s family say they are ‘devastated’ and want her brought home safely.
China reportedly allows ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 H200 chips
ByteDance and Tencent have received 10,000 H200 chips each, the Financial Times says, and other Chinese companies could follow.
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‘I’ve Hit My Limit’: Some New Yorkers Opt for Fun at Home to Save Money
When wages are low and activities are pricey, the frugal find new ways of socializing.
Physicists Entangle Quantum Memories Across a Record-Breaking 420 Kilometers
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Optical fibers are already the backbone of global communication systems. Recently, however, physicists have started to explore how their functionality could be boosted further by conveying information via entangled quantum particles -- potentially enabling instantaneous exchanges of information across vast distances. Such a system could eventually be the basis of a future 'quantum internet,' offering a level of security and computing power beyond ...
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Erin Patterson mushroom murders: Lawyers seek to overturn triple-murder conviction
Her lawyers say jurors were not properly sequestered during the trial.
Nvidia, with quarterly free cash flow up 18x over the past three years to $48.5B, is using its balance sheet and credit rating to build an AI capital moat
Ari Levy / CNBC: Nvidia, with quarterly free cash flow up 18x over the past three years to $48.5B, is using its balance sheet and credit rating to build an AI capital moat Nvidia's massive head star
State of play: What to know about California showdown to replace Swalwell after massive scandal
The special election to fill the seat vacated by former Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., remained undecided in the early Wednesday morning hours.The battle to succeed Swalwell comes after he resigned in April amid sexual assault allegations from at least five women. Prior to the allegations, Swalwell was also making a bid for California's gubernatorial race, but he dropped that bid as well.Vying for Swalwell's seat are two women: progressive state Sen. Aisha Wahab and moderate Democrat and Bay Area...
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Hellish: Ceuta Mothers Weep In Streets; Rapes Force Women To Flee; Kids' Parks Smeared In Shit
Hellish: Ceuta Mothers Weep In Streets; Rapes Force Women To Flee; Kids' Parks Smeared In Shit Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Spanish mothers in Ceuta are in tears on live television. Hospitals are overflowing. Beaches and parks that once hosted families are now open-air camps of garbage, feces and makeshift shacks. And the Civil Guard has confirmed at least 15 rapes since the late-July mass migrant invasion - including a 10-year-old girl allegedly assaulted by three ...
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Virgin Australia reviews disability incident after passenger removed from flight
Virgin Australia later apologised after misclassifying Shane Hryhorec’s mobility aid.
Former state rep tops ranked-choice slugfest as Alaska advances nominees for governor
Seventeen governor-lieutenant governor candidate pairs battled Tuesday to make the primary cutoff and advance to the November general election to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Michael Dunleavy.Former state Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins and running mate Zac Johnson finished first, while former Democratic state Sen. Tom Begich and Julia Hnilicks finished second. They will advance to the November general election, alongside two more winning governor-lieutenant governor pairs. Several major po...
Alaskan political scion hopes to hold onto state's single House seat
A heated battle for Alaska's only U.S. House seat will see a handful of candidates face-off in November after four candidates advanced in Tuesday's rank-choice primary.First-term incumbent Rep. Nicholas Begich III, R-Alaska, is hoping to hang onto his seat, and will have a chance to do so in November. But he is facing an insurgency from independent candidate Bill Hill.AP called the race for Begich and Hill early on, and Begich led by a 47.9% to 29.5% margin. Both will advance to the general elec...
Block releases Berd, a desktop app it built to give its employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, under Apache 2.0
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Block releases Berd, a desktop app it built to give its employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, under Apache 2.0 Block, the tec
GOP senator, ex-House Dem emerge from Alaska’s ‘jungle primary’ despite far-left meddling
Four candidates advanced out of Alaska’s nonpartisan jungle primary on Tuesday evening in one of the races that could decide the balance of power in the U.S. Senate come November.Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska and former Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, will advance alongside two other candidates in the state’s four-candidate general election.The outcome, which pits an incumbent Republican against the only Democrat to win statewide office in Alaska in 50 years, is in line with what many had expected, b...
Trump-aligned conservative emerges from crowded primary to decide who fills Wyoming’s lone House seat
Wyoming’s Republican Secretary of State Chuck Gray has won the GOP nomination for the state’s at-large U.S. House seat to replace Rep. Harriet Hageman, who is running for Senate.Gray emerged from a crowded primary to become the heavy favorite to represent the deeply conservative state in Congress. Gray, a prominent Trump-aligned conservative who has served as secretary of state since 2023, defeated a field that included businessman Steve Friess and Reid Rasner.WYOMING ELECTION CHIEF MOUNTS FULL-...
Warren Spector, founding father of immersive sims, has retired from game development
The creator of Deus Ex is retiring.
Trump admin sued over visa time restrictions for foreign students, journalists
A group of unions and advocacy groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to block the Trump administration from enforcing new visa restrictions that would limit how long foreign students and journalists can stay in the U.S. without applying for extensions.The Department of Homeland Security's rule creates fixed periods of admission for people in F status as international students, J status as exchange visitors and I status as foreign journalists.People in those classifications generally have bee...
Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40/1M input tokens and $4.40/1M output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2; Kimi K3 costs $3/1M input and $15/1M output tokens
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40/1M input tokens and $4.40/1M output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2; Kimi K3 costs $3/1M input and $15/1M output tokens After a stu
Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2 After a stunning debut last week with cyber c
Humanoid Robot Maker Unitree Pops an Outrageous 629% in Trading Debut
It's reminiscent of a stock from the height of the dot-com craze, but we're sure that's nothing to worry about.
Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa and First In
Mike Stone / Reuters: Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa and First In Smack Technologies, a def
The 10th AI City Challenge
arXiv:2608.17044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The 10th AI City Challenge, held with ECCV 2026, marks a decade of community benchmarking for intelligent transportation, smart cities, and physical AI.
Children, but not language models, show accelerating returns in word learning
arXiv:2608.17120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Children learn hundreds of words over the first years of their lives, in a process that begins slowly but quickly picks up speed. Prior models describe
Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making in Multimodal Large Language Models
arXiv:2608.17084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) increasingly answer questions whose correctness depends on visual, textual, temporal, acoustic, document, chart
Margin-Regularized Structured Semantic Alignment for Brain-Language Correspondence
arXiv:2608.16975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid advancement of large language models, brain-language decoding has achieved remarkable progress. However, it remains unclear whether decod
A decodability criterion predicts when hidden-state selection beats majority voting in large language models
arXiv:2608.17124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Combining the answers a large language model (LLM) samples for a question into one decision is a test-time information fusion problem, usually solved by
Runtime Governance for Agentic AI: Action-Boundary Control with Trusted Provenance and Fail-Closed Execution
arXiv:2608.16891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems request tool actions that can modify files, send messages, launch jobs, or change workflow state. This shifts the safety problem from
GxP-Agent: Process-DAG Topology for Reliable Clinical Trial Programming with LLM Agents
arXiv:2608.16890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical trial programming -- transforming study protocols into analysis-ready datasets under CDISC standards -- is a bottleneck in regulatory submissio
Ryan Fitzpatrick says friends raving about Highmark Stadium despite harsh critics: 'Absolutely unbelievable'
The Buffalo Bills' new Highmark Stadium was seen for the first time by fans in recent weeks, and the reception of the venue hasn't been the brightest.But former Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick is hearing differently.The Bills have played one preseason game against the Carolina Panthers and held open practices at the new Highmark Stadium, the NFL franchise's new $2.2 billion home. New stadiums are always exciting for fans to see, but critics came out in droves on social media.CLICK HERE FOR MO...
OpenAI says new monitoring and security safeguards will add 20% compute overhead to monitored inference workloads; costs will not be passed on to customers
Thomas Claburn / The Register: OpenAI says new monitoring and security safeguards will add 20% compute overhead to monitored inference workloads; costs will not be passed on to customers Expanded mu
OpenAI says the changes to its model training will increase compute overhead by 20% of observed inference workload; the increase will not be handed to customers
Thomas Claburn / The Register: OpenAI says the changes to its model training will increase compute overhead by 20% of observed inference workload; the increase will not be handed to customers Expand
Top Album Releases Linked To Rise In Fatal Crashes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The release of a new album by Taylor Swift might be a cause for celebration among her fans, but such events have also been linked to a more sombre phenomenon: an increase in fatal car crashes. The team behind a new study say it sheds light on the impact of distracted driving. Writing in the journal Jama Network Open, [Vishal Patel, first author of the study based at Harvard Medical School] and colleagues report how they focused on the releas...
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We're All On Borrowed Time... Authored by Brad Todd via The What For Substack, We bought our house in the same year I discovered Piemonte, and that was fortuitous. The house came with a walk-in wine cellar and the family-owned vineyards strewn across the rolling Italian hills from LaMorra to Serralunga D'Alba provided a learnable collection of producers to fill it up. It is a good thing I have enjoyed the chore of curating this wine because I will not get to enjoy drinking it. Thi...
America’s reddest state crowns GOP governor nominee
Wyoming Republicans chose former state House Speaker and current state Sen. Eric Barlow on Tuesday as their nominee for governor in the race to succeed outgoing Gov. Mark Gordon.The selection tees up the likely next person to move into the governor's mansion in January, considering the deep-red roots that run in Wyoming's statewide officials.Gordon considered seeking a third term and challenging Wyoming’s two-term-limit law, before ultimately deciding against another bid. This left Republicans w...
Caitlin Clark helps lift Fever past Tempo after Kelsey Mitchell sits out late while 'overheated'
Fever star guard Kelsey Mitchell came out firing Tuesday night, pouring in 16 points in the opening quarter before finishing with 29 as Indiana held off the Toronto Tempo 101-95 for their fifth straight win.Caitlin Clark added 24 points as Indiana kept its hot streak rolling, even with Mitchell sitting out the fourth quarter.The performance also put Clark and Mitchell in the WNBA record book. The duo has now scored at least 20 points apiece in the same game 16 times this season, surpassing the p...
Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent to each receive about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips at their mainland China facilities in recent weeks
Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent to each receive about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips at their mainland China facilities in recent weeks Beijing permits small sh
Democrats pick their fighter for uphill bid to flip deep-red Senate seat
Former state representative James Byrd advanced Tuesday against former golf club greenskeeper Billy Benavidez in Wyoming’s Democratic primary race for the newly opened Senate seat.Incumbent Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis announced in December that she would not seek re-election, saying she did not have the energy for another six-year term and creating an open Senate seat in deep-red Wyoming.Byrd was an exploration geophysicist in the energy industry then later became an IT project manager and so...
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Why Are So Many Democrats Being Arrested On Fraud Charges?
Why Are So Many Democrats Being Arrested On Fraud Charges? An obvious pattern is emerging. Multiple Democrat officials have been arrested and charged with fraud or related federal crimes over the past two years and the trend seems to be growing. Democrat politicians and DNC members are over-represented when it comes to fraud and it's starting to look like the entire party has been pilfering the cookie jar for quite some time. In the latest incident, Lawrence, MA Mayor Brian DePeñ...
Republican who kicked Liz Cheney out of Congress seeks higher office in reddest state
Wyoming Republicans chose Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wy., on Tuesday as their nominee for U.S. Senate in the race to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis.Lummis, elected to the Senate in 2020 after serving four terms in the U.S. House , announced she would not seek a second term, opening the seat in one of the nation’s most reliably Republican states.Hageman emerged from a five-way Republican primary featuring former Kirby Mayor Sam Mead, Jill Edwards, John Holtz and former environmental...
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Oh Dear, Prices of Single-Family Homes Fell by 11% to 26% in 15 Bigger Cities Already
In another 5 bigger cities, price fell by 10%. But San Francisco powered off the list after AI mania started running the housing market.
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Where Have All The Conservatives Gone?
Where Have All The Conservatives Gone? Authored by Nikolai G. Wenzel via The Daily Economy, Fusionism, a new book by Stephanie Slade, a Senior Editor at Reason, attempts to make sense of the seemingly incoherent New Right. Although Slade proposes a renewal of fusionism as a remedy to conservatism's drift and the challenges facing a divided Republic, the book's greatest strength lies in its analysis of the trends to date. The Republican Party, for all its faults, was supposed to ...
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Life On Earth May Have Had A Cold Start
Nitrous oxide (otherwise known as laughing gas) is likely a key atmospheric component of life in the cosmos.
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San Diego County kicks immigration agents out of shooting range. Sheriff says not so fast
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to end an agreement allowing ICE and CBP agents to train at a county-owned shooting range, but Sheriff Kelly Martinez quickly intervened to uphold CBP's access to the facility.
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In 911 Breakdown, Hundreds of Calls Failed to Reach Bronx Operators
Over a seven-hour period Tuesday, nearly 1,700 calls did not go through to one of the city's two emergency call centers. It was unclear what had caused the problem.
Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree's stock surged 629% in early trading in its Shanghai debut on Wednesday, after raising ~$904M in its IPO (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree's stock surged 629% in early trading in its Shanghai debut on Wednesday, after raising ~$904M in its IPO Unitree Robotics shares rose 629% in its Shan
69 live animals found stuffed in pillowcases in hidden car compartment after border arrest: Feds
A woman identified by federal prosecutors as a Tijuana resident was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border before U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers discovered 69 live animals including venomous vipers, caimans and a baby crocodile allegedly stuffed inside taped-shut pillowcases in a hidden compartment of her Volkswagen the following day, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California.Georgina Bribiesca Chavez, 66, of Tijuana, was arrested Aug. 10 while atte...
Assistance systems to fight shortage of skilled workforce: XR supports sight-impaired people at work
When people with a sight impairment cannot cope with everyday tasks, it is often not due to a lack of competence, but rather because of impediments existing in their environment. A mobile assistance s
Chiefs' Eric Bieniemy returns to camp after wife gives 'blessing' as she recovers from Virginia home shooting
Mia Bieniemy was shot on July 26, and Eric Bieniemy left the Kansas City Chiefs soon after to be with his wife and the rest of his family. The couple's 27-year-old son, Elijah, was arrested in connection with the shooting.Bieniemy returned to Kansas City last week ahead of the team’s preseason loss to the Los Angeles Rams. The Chiefs offensive coordinator hinted that his return was prompted by some gentle encouragement from Mia, joking that he had been "driving her and a bunch of my family membe...
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Illegal Immigrant Killer Found Not Guilty By Insanity, Flees US During Hospital Leave
Illegal Immigrant Killer Found Not Guilty By Insanity, Flees US During Hospital Leave An illegal immigrant found not guilty by reason of insanity in a 2019 killing managed to flee the United States on a one-way flight to his native Tajikistan while on an approved 48-hour pass from a state mental health facility. Now a Soros-backed prosecutor is under fire for his pattern of pursuing insanity pleas for violent offenders who are illegal immigrants. Steve Descano, commonwealth's at...
OpenAI Reportedly Just Gave Investors Bad News on Eventual Profitability
When it comes to bringing in money, OpenAI seems to be having a hard time keeping up with its chief rival.
Golfer gets a hole-in-one at the Canadian Special Olympics | The Moment
Golfer Taylor Carter tells CBC News about the moment he aced the 16th hole at the Canadian Special Olympics Summer Games in Medicine Hat, Alta.
Sources: open-source orchestration platform developer Temporal is in talks to raise ~$500M at a $12B+ valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in February (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: open-source orchestration platform developer Temporal is in talks to raise ~$500M at a $12B+ valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in February Temporal Technologies Inc. is
Sources: Temporal is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the open-source orchestration platform developer a ~$500M raise at a $12B+ valuation (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: Temporal is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the open-source orchestration platform developer a ~$500M raise at a $12B+ valuation Temporal Technologies Inc. is
Your favorite cocktail could be an unexpected casualty of Trump's looming trade fight
President Donald Trump's latest trade fight with Canada could soon spill into your cocktail glass, with a looming 50% tariff on Canadian spirits putting bars, restaurants and liquor stores on edge.Chris Swonger, president and CEO of the Distilled Spirits Council, said the stakes cut both ways, saying the tariff could hit U.S. hospitality businesses while also potentially pressuring Canada to put American spirits back on its shelves."First and foremost, great thanks to President Trump because he ...
Liberia agrees to accept 1,200 third-country deportees from US within a year
Liberia announced Tuesday that it will accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S. over the next year under an agreement between the two countries.The agreement marks one of the largest arrangements of its kind under the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown. Liberia's President Joseph Boakai was one of five West African leaders who traveled to the White House last year to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump.As part of the arrangement, the first group of 20 depo...
Yankees' Jazz Chisholm boots routine grounder, immediately blames umpire as replay tells another story
New York Yankees infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. managed to turn a basic fielding error into an embarrassing display of deflection during Tuesday night's matchup against the Baltimore Orioles.After kicking away an easy grounder, he instantly launched into a rant against the second-base umpire, looking for a scapegoat the second things went wrong.The mistake came in a scoreless second inning at Camden Yards with runners on first and second. Carlos Rodon executed his pitch perfectly, coaxing Christian...
Prosecutors hammer Tyler Robinson's bid to derail death penalty in Charlie Kirk murder case
Utah prosecutors are urging a judge to send Tyler Robinson to trial on every charge in the killing of Charlie Kirk, arguing that the evidence against him is overwhelming and pushing back against the defense's effort to take the death penalty off the table.In a 19-page filing Tuesday, prosecutors responded to a defense brief asking Judge Tony Graf to throw out the sole aggravating factor that could expose Robinson to the death penalty.The defense has argued prosecutors failed to show that shootin...
OpenAI’s junior version of ChatGPT with guardrails has launched
OpenAI Group PBC today announced it’s rolling out a stricter version of its ChatGPT chatbot created for younger users. The announcement of “ChatGPT for Teens” follows scrutiny over how generative arti
Maryland rocked by third beaver attack in weeks after 2 animals test positive for rabies
Maryland wildlife officials are searching for a beaver that attacked a 10-year-old girl at a state park, marking the state's third reported beaver attack in less than three weeks.The girl was swimming and wading with an organized group at Seneca Creek State Park in Montgomery County when a beaver attacked and bit her around 3:30pm Thursday, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.Camp counselors intervened and removed the beaver from the girl before the animal escaped into the ...
Potential successor to cowboy hat-wearing Dem tops crowded Florida primary
Retiring Rep. Frederica Wilson's chosen successor has won the crowded Democratic primary to replace her in Congress.Miami-Dade County Commissioner Oliver Gilbert is now likely to follow Wilson, D-Fla., to Congress representing her safe blue seat in Florida's 24th Congressional District.The district is located in South Florida and includes part of Miami. It remains largely Democratic after Florida Republicans redrew the state's congressional map this year, though areas along the shore, including ...
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell confirms league wants multiple teams based outside the US: 'no doubt'
The NFL has made no secret of its desire to increase its footprint internationally. Not content with dominating the domestic marketplace, commissioner Roger Goodell has been open about the importance of playing more games overseas.The 2026 season will already feature nine international games, spread out in different countries around the world. Melbourne, Australia hosts a week one game between the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams. In week three, the Ravens and Cowboys will play in Rio De...
OpenAI falls further behind Anthropic, with disappointing revenue growth and mounting losses
OpenAI Group PBC is falling further behind its rival Anthropic PBC, if its latest financials are any indication. The artificial intelligence model maker told investors that its revenue rose 18% on a s
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Minority Leader Jeffries Drops The Mask, Signals Democrats Are Coming For The Court
Minority Leader Jeffries Drops The Mask, Signals Democrats Are Coming For The Court Hakeem Jeffries has developed a habit of saying out loud what his party once preferred to keep vague. Hakeem Jeffries (photo: Anna Moneymaker, Getty) Speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Atlanta, the House minority leader told the audience that Democrats see "[a] variety of different options that are on the table, and I think we can't foreclose on any single one of...
Rillet, which is developing an AI-native accounting platform, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Iconiq, bringing its total funding to $200M+
Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: Rillet, which is developing an AI-native accounting platform, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Iconiq, bringing its total funding to $200M+ Rillet, a two
Cybersecurity concerns prompt OpenAI to pause some AI training runs
OpenAI Group PBC recently paused some of its artificial intelligence training workloads over concerns that they could cause cybersecurity issues. The ChatGPT developer disclosed the move in a blog pos
Portland parent fights child's elementary school over 'final straw' of adding trans-inclusive flag
Portland, Oregon, mother Allison Roberts told Fox News Digital Tuesday she hopes her fight with her children's elementary school over a trans-inclusive flag will inspire others to speak out for their beliefs."I think the increased political presence with the progressive flag was a bit much," Roberts said of her situation. "And I think that was the final straw that got me to open my eyes and see that, yes, the school had become a political apparatus. It wasn't my problem with the pride flag, per ...
Federal judge blocks Trump admin plan to move FBI headquarters to Reagan Building
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s plan to move FBI headquarters into Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan Building, preserving the previously selected Greenbelt, Maryland, site for the bureau’s long-planned new headquarters.U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled Monday that the FBI and General Services Administration’s (GSA) decisions to select the Reagan Building were "not in accordance with law" and exceeded their statutory authority. The court also found the FBI’s decision...
Democrats get their man as scandals put once-safe GOP House seat in play
A retired Navy helicopter pilot backed by the Democratic establishment cruised to victory in the Florida primaries on Tuesday night.Bale Dalton defeated ex-congressman Alan Grayson and progressive Marialana Kinter, another Navy veteran, for the Democratic nomination to run in the Sunshine State's 7th Congressional District, which is currently represented by Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla.What was once expected to be a safe GOP seat is now being viewed as a possible pickup opportunity for Democrats in No...
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Forbes Editor Fired Over $6m Payoff Had Threatened Companies Who Dared Hire Outgoing Trump Admin Officials In 2021
Forbes Editor Fired Over $6m Payoff Had Threatened Companies Who Dared Hire Outgoing Trump Admin Officials In 2021 Authored by Monica Showalter via American Thinker, Remember how vindictive the political scenario after Joe Biden first took office? It wasn't just the draconian prosecutions of Jan. 6 protestors, most of whom were non-violent and unarmed, many of them little old ladies. One guy got sent to jail who wasn't even at the scene of the Capitol crowd control incident. Randal...
Meta trial begins with states accusing social media giant of exploiting, intentionally addicting children
Meta Platforms rejected accusations by U.S. states that it intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook and Instagram platforms in pursuit of profit as a trial that could reshape some of the most popular apps on the planet got underway Tuesday.
Drew Brees gives his stance on Eli Manning's Pro Football Hall of Fame candidacy amid strong debate
Drew Brees has officially entered the great halls of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, as he, alongside other legends of the game, were inducted earlier this month.Brees’ career resume speaks for itself: second all-time in passing yards and passing touchdowns, Super Bowl XLIV winner and MVP, 13 Pro Bowls, and the list goes on. Brees was always going to see his golden bust on that stage in Canton one day.Others, though, have to wait their turn – if it ever comes. And one name in part...
Media executive overcomes Trump endorsement in race to succeed Byron Donalds in ‘circus-like primary’
Florida media executive Jim Schwartzel won the GOP nomination to succeed Rep. Byron Donalds despite President Donald Trump endorsing his opponent.President Donald Trump endorsed Catalina Lauf, who served in the Department of Commerce during his first term in office, Aug. 13, upending the race just days before voters headed to the polls in Florida’s 19th Congressional District. Tuesday night’s results bucked a trend of Trump-endorsed candidates fairing well in primary contests.As of mid-July, 97%...
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Clark County Commission targets booking sites in 5-0 vote over unlicensed short-term rentals
Airbnb and other short-term rental booking platforms could be on the hook for allowing unlicensed operators to advertise listings on their platforms in unincorporated areas of Clark County.
Tumbler Ridge school demolition 'new chapter' in recovery after shooting, residents say
Residents in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., gathered for an emotional milestone this week as the site of February’s mass shooting is torn down and returned to grass.
Never-Trump Republican is top Dem choice in crucial Florida primary
David Jolly, a former Republican congressman and now a Democratic candidate for governor in Florida, won a primary election on Tuesday evening, topping a crowded field of hopefuls to become the party's nominee to replace outgoing Gov. Ron DeSantis in the Sunshine State.DeSantis is prevented by term limits from running for a third term.Jolly’s win sets up a race to see if a moderate Democrat can tempt a solidly Republican state to voice its frustrations with the Trump administration and, more poi...
