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Apple already announced a lot of new devices in 2026 and weβve been busy reviewing them all. In this installment of our bi-weekly roundup, we revisit the MacBook Neo, iPhone 17e and more, in addition to the βregularβ Galaxy S26 and Dell XPS 16. Thereβs even more than those gadget to catch up on, so β¦
Wrexham owners Mac and Reynolds helped commentateβBuildup and coverage of the game left a lot to be desiredβSwanseaβs chief executive has said the club will raise concerns over television coverage of their game against Wrexham with the English Football League (EFL), with Tom Gorringe saying the teamβ¦
The rapper will perform them on back-to-back nights this summer
OpenAI plans to allow sexting with ChatGPT. A human-AI interaction expert warns of a privacy nightmare.
Wait times aren't expected to improve until government funding is restored and TSA officers receive paychecks.
As other Asian economies race to conserve energy, China has huge reserves of oil and gas as well as alternative energy sources like wind and solarMiddle East crisis β live updatesXi Jinping has been preparing for a crisis like this for years. China must secure its energy supply βin its own handsβ, iβ¦
A U.S. district judge said he will vacate a declaration by Kennedy that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does not meet medical standards of care.
Former Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Randal Quarles says that the uncertainty from war could hit the economy sooner than we think. He cautions that business investment is liable to fall because of a volatile and uncertain environment. (Source: Bloomberg)
As busy schedules and sedentary jobs compete for our time, what's the least amount of movement you need to still see benefits?
This story was originally published byΒ Inside Climate NewsΒ andΒ is reproduced here as part of theΒ Climate DeskΒ collaboration. Recent attacks in the Middle East on desalination plants, facilities that remove salt from seawater, raise the potential for a humanitarian crisis if the regionβs freshwater pβ¦
A collapse of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica would sharply accelerate sea-level rise in coastal cities.
Sixteen Horsepower, Amigo the Devil, Borknagar, Agalloch, Full of Hell, and more will also perform at the Montana fest. 2026 Fire in the Mountains Festival Lineup: Neurosis, Baroness, YOB, and Enslaved Spencer Kaufman
Analysis of the tail of 3I/Atlas reveals that it contains an anomalous proportion of methanol, a class of alcohol used in fuels.
A new survey from the Partnership for Public Service, aimed at replicating the cancelled 2025 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, reveals just 7% of federal workers believe their political leaders engender high motivation.
High-speed rail freight services aim to offset truck driver shortages and dwindling passenger numbers
The answers to todayβs problemsEarlier today I posed four puzzles from the Hyde Park Math Zine, a maths fanzine from Austin, Texas. Here they are again with solutions.1. Ring it Continue reading...
In today's hyperconnected world, social media has become a critical channel for businesses to understand consumers. While social listening tools are widely used, they often fall short, providing only a superficial understanding of consumer sentiment. Existing methods struggle to capture the full speβ¦
Image with question βWhich way, Greenland man?β is a βkey concept in neo-Nazi and white supremacist subcultureβThe Trump administration has been called out, yet again, for using explicitly white supremacist verbiage in its increasingly aggressive social media strategy.The White House posted a cartooβ¦
Stone Age people in Macedonia created goddess figurines whose bottom half was a house.
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Government increases prices to encourage bids from developers
Attacks by powerful militias against civilians reflect the stateβs inaction eight years after a peace accord removed a powerful rebel group from the field.
The feature will start with paid users only, and it's off by default.
A weeklong rotation that has seen investors bail from richly priced technology names in favor of more economically sensitive industries picked up speed, sending the Nasdaq 100 to its worst drop in a month while lifting the majority of companies in the S&P 500.
Gut microbes can make people drunk without booze. Scientists now know which ones to blame.
Don't sell your hi-fi just yet.
The organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology behind flexible cell phones, curved monitors, and televisions could one day be used to make on-skin sensors that show changes in temperature, blood flow, and pressure in real time.
Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 6, December 2025.
Editorsβ selections from the current scientific literature
In the wake of the extraordinary U.S. capture of Venezuelan strongman NicolΓ‘s Maduro, the international spotlight has fallen on Delcy RodrΓgue.
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
How Trump and Xi can reset relations.
COMMENTARY | The launch of comprehensive acquisition transformation will lift the burdens keeping U.S. companies from being as agile and responsive as possible.
Israelis held their breath as four soldiers, all women, were released from the Gaza Strip, the second group to be freed as part of a fragile cease-fire agreement with Hamas.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the question whether independent agencies, as they have been known for the last ninety years, can continue to exist. In Trump v. Slaughter, the Court heard arguments about whether Congress can constitutionally design an agency to be insulated from direct preβ¦
From robotics to apps like βNerdXing,β senior Julianna Schneider is building technologies to solve problems in her community.
The best Stratechery content from the week of January 5, 2026, including whether AI will replace humans, the future of power generation, and what China thinks of what happened in Caracas.
Find answers to some of the most-asked questions about being a New England Aquarium volunteer. The post Volunteering at the Aquarium FAQ appeared first on New England Aquarium.
The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment β and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailedDeath and taxes are supposed to be the things we can depend on in this life. But in 2025, the American entrepreneur Ben Lβ¦
Artificial intelligence and data security company Cyera Ltd. announced it hasΒ raised $400 million in late-stage funding today, six months after its last capital infusion, bringing the companyβs valuation to $9 billion. The Series F round was led by funds managed by Blackstone, with participation froβ¦
A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing.
The Venezuelan oil industry is βa total bustβ according to Donald Trump, something he has promised to βfixβ after attacking Caracas and seizing the countryβs leader. But with analysts estimating it could take up to 14 years and billions to fix, what is in it for the US president? Jillian Ambrose, thβ¦
Letter from 11 South Australian cultural leaders labels cancellation of Palestinian-Australianβs participation a βgrave mistakeβ which brought festival into disreputeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe South Australian β¦
This time, a Colorado plant scheduled to shut down will be kept on standby.
The Constitution gives the president broad discretion in enforcing the law and conducting foreign affairs.
Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they may be converging toward a singular βPlatonicβ way to represent the world. The post Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality first appeared on β¦
IN A NUTSHELL π The study reveals that limiting warming to 1.5 Β°C could preserve approximately 100,000 glaciers worldwide. π‘οΈ Under a +4 Β°C warming scenario, only about 18,000 glaciers would survive globally. π» The Alps could see their highest rate of glacier loss between 2033 and 2041, impacting toβ¦
NFL playoffs and the road to the Super Bowl kick off on Saturday. On the docket for wild card weekend: The Los Angeles Rams face the Carolina Panthers. Then, Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears host their division rival, the Green Bay Packers. Charlotte Carroll, a staff writer with The Athletic, joβ¦
New footage of her killing at the hands of ICE isnβt exculpatoryβbut it sure serves a purpose for MAGA.
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators hurled threats at each other outside an event promoting real estate sales in Jerusalem. The mayor said those actions had βno place in our city.β
VarietyΒ Awards CircuitΒ section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars,Β Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated byΒ VarietyΒ chief awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages refβ¦
At CES 2026, Taiwan is sending a clear signal to the global engineering community: AI has entered an execution phase. The focus is no longer on algorithmic novelty or prototype demonstrations but on system integration, manufacturability, and deployment at scale. Backed by a deeply established electrβ¦
Meta's messaging app WhatsApp could soon be subject to deeper scrutiny (and punishment) under the European Commission's Digital Services Act, Reuters reports. Because the app's broadcasting feature WhatsApp Channels grew to around 51.7 million average monthly active users in the European Union in thβ¦
Josh Tillman originally teased the track on Instagram as "Godβs Trash" in November 2024. Father John Misty Returns with New Song βThe Old Lawβ: Stream Eddie Fu
Buyout firm Advent has picked banks to lead a planned US initial public offering of Innio, as the Austrian power equipment maker benefits from booming demand from data centers, people with knowledge of the matter said.
The Avenue of the Baobabs preserves the remnant trees of an ancient tropical forest on Madagascar.
From vision-restoring implants to quantum-based diagnostics, Tami Freeman looks back at some of this yearβs healthcare innovations The post Medical physics and biotechnology: highlights of 2025 appeared first on Physics World.
arXiv:2601.04765v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how syntactic and semantic information is encoded in inner layer representations of Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on the very large DeepSeek-V3. We find that, by averaging hidden-representation vectors of sentences sharing syntactic β¦
arXiv:2512.10427v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural scaling laws and double-descent phenomena suggest that deep-network training obeys a simple macroscopic structure despite highly nonlinear optimization dynamics. We derive such structure directly from gradient descent in function space. Forβ¦
AI tool also used to undress image of woman killed by ICE agent in US, says researchElon Muskβs AI tool Grok has been used to create sexually violent and explicit video content featuring women, according to new research, as the British prime minister added to condemnation of images it has created.Grβ¦
Bluetti just launched the new Charger 2, a bio-based Elite 100 V2 portable power station, and several more at CES 2026.
Elon Muskβs chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other βnudifyβ appsβbut continue to host X and Grok.
Canadian cultural resource management archaeologistsβprofessional consultants involved in environmental assessment and compliance processesβare increasingly finding themselves in the public eye when their work intersects with the development or disaster response related infrastructure projects.
Director general says BBC needs to reach young audiences online amid pressure to leave Elon Musk-owned siteThe BBCβs director general, Tim Davie, has said he will not be taking the broadcaster off Elon Muskβs social media platform, X, saying that its presence is needed to resist a flood of global miβ¦
Russiaβs foreign ministry accuses Washington of lowering the βthreshold for use of forceβ
The drama and deceit of the Emmy-winning reality show "The Traitors" returns in season four with a star-studded cast. Anthony Mason got a behind-the-scenes look at the show with host Alan Cumming.
A new analysis finds that in 2025, major catastrophes took 276 lives and caused $115 billion in damages. It could have been much worse.
Agentic AI adoption can go awry without a clear plan in place. Use this guide to ensure AI agents are deployed correctly and optimized for successful business outcomes.
Researchers at Maynooth University have achieved a forensic milestone by revealing fingerprints on fired bullet casings using a safe electrochemical process. The method uses mild voltage and non-toxic materials to make hidden ridges visible within seconds. Effective even on aged casings, it could heβ¦
Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.
Restoration Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2026.
arXiv:2601.03573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Counting the number of small patterns is a central task in network analysis. While this problem is well studied for graphs, many real-world datasets are naturally modeled as hypergraphs, motivating the need for efficient hypergraph motif counting algoβ¦
Moscow criticized the U.S. seizure of a Venezuela-linked oil tanker flying the Russian flag on Wednesday. The U.S. Coast Guard captured the Motor Tanker Bella 1, located in the North Atlantic, during a pre-dawn operation. The tanker had reportedly changed its name to the Marinera and was reflagged fβ¦
Martian winds can have quite an impact. ESA's Mars Express has spotted them whipping up sand grains and acting as a cosmic sandblaster, carving out intriguing grooves near Mars's equator.
The annual instalment of the massive series faces new challenges from competitor Battlefield 6.
The cryptocurrency industry has descended on Washington, D.C.,Β over the past year, becoming a key political force with allies at the highest rungs of the Trump administration after years ofΒ being spurned byΒ major policymakers. With the inauguration of President Trump, the crypto world was welcomed iβ¦
A keyboard computer has always been on my wishlist β that is, a computer where the entire machine was stuffed into a keyboard. Perhaps I caught a glimpse of the Commodore 64 at an impressionable age, but regardless, the idea has always been intriguing to me. At CES 2026, HP is bringing that concept β¦
In mid-December PNG said the company did not have a licence to operate in the country and ordered it to halt operationsFrustration is growing in Papua New Guinea weeks after the government ordered Starlink to shut down operations in the country as businesses, health providers and communities strugglβ¦
Police say 49-year-old man in Springfield on Central Coast tried to stab an officer before being shotFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA 49-year-old man has been shot and killed by police on the New South Wales Central Coβ¦
Archaeologists have announced their discovery of a metal hoard that contained an extremely rare example of a Celtic battle trumpet.
Disney's upcoming Tangled live-action film has found its Rapunzel and Flynn Rider, in Teagan Croft and Milo Manheim.
Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junctionβan essential component of quantum computers and voltage standards. The appearance of Shapiro steps in this atomic system reveals a deep universality in quantum physics and makes elusive microscopic effeβ¦
Other firms are taking advantage of Teslaβs sales slump, while technological advances mean that glitches are being left in the rear-view mirrorIn another era, before Elon Musk bought Twitter, changed its name to X to mark the spot of its descent into barbarism, honed Grok, a generator of far-right pβ¦
Netflix dropped a new "Cosmic Princess Kaguya!" trailer.
Plus, Kristen Stewart wants a lot of money and a lot of love for a new 'Twilight' remake.
Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cellβderived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus plays a decisive role in maturing the cortex and organizing its neural networks. Signals from the thaβ¦
When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it crossed the Pacific. The data revealed the waves were far more complex and scattered than scientists expected, overturning the idea that large tsunamis travβ¦
Thanks to Hollywood, whenever I think of a Dictaphone, my imagination immediately jumps to a mid-20th-century office, Don Draper suavely seated at his desk, voicing ad copy into a desktop machine. A perfectly coiffed woman from the secretarial pool then takes the recordings and neatly types them up,β¦
ETH Zurich scientists have levitated a tower of three nano glass spheres using optical tweezers, suppressing almost all classical motion to observe quantum zero-point fluctuations with unprecedented precision. Achieving 92% quantum purity at room temperature, a feat usually requiring near absolute zβ¦
The bacteria behind the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is known for developing antibiotic resistance. Now there are two new treatment options.
Meet this year's newest right whale mother and calf pairs. The post 2025β2026 North Atlantic Right Whale Mother and Calf Pairs appeared first on New England Aquarium.
Restoration Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2026.
The year promises new music from Charli XCX, Zach Bryan, A$AP Rocky, Megadeth, and Gorillaz, as well as (hopefully) The Cure, BTS, The Strokes, Alabama Shakes, Nine Inch Nails, and more. The Most Anticipated Albums of 2026 Jonah Krueger
Expert FAQ on the U.S. military operations against Venezuela, high seas boat strikes, seizure of vessels and more. The post Expert Q&A on U.S. Military Actions on Venezuela and Boat Strikes appeared first on Just Security.
At CES 2026, you can demo with an AI bartender that will guess your age.
The Linux kernel's "new mount API" that has been in the kernel since 2019 and recently made rounds for taking 6+ years to land the man page documentation on it will soon be the the only mount API internally within the kernel. Removing the "old" Linux kernel mount API internals is a candidate for theβ¦
My favorite thin and light laptop from 2025 is getting a refresh at CES 2026, and there's a new 16-inch option.
