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Independent Talent Group Appoints Dan Chard To spearhead Sport And Entertainment Commercial Expansion

London, October 22, 2026 - Independent Talent Group today announces the appointment of Dan Chard in the newly created role of

Oct 22 • 6:07 PM EDT • Entertainment • roastbrief.us

University of New Haven Student Explores the Power of Peer Support in

University of New Haven Master of Public Health student Donrine Adeyinka Theo Harding ’28 MPH reflects on a Born This Way Foundation event exploring how peer support, mental health education, and mean

Oct 22 • 3:33 PM EDT • Health • newhaven.edu

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’

Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.

Oct 22 • 2:43 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com

Railroads pull ahead as high fuel costs hit truckers harder

Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern and CSX all reported jumps in third-quarter profit and revenue.

Oct 22 • 2:20 PM EDT • Business • detroitnews.com

Stony Brook Researchers David Miloschewsky and Supartha Podder Resolve a Decades-Old Puzzle About the Limits of Quantum Computing

Finding a path through a maze is hard, even for quantum algorithms. A quantum computer can find the exit of a certain kind of maze far faster than a classical computer. But can it also give you directions? David Miloschewsky and Supartha Podder of Stony Brook University’s Department of Computer Science have proven that finding

Oct 22 • 1:50 PM EDT • Science • news.stonybrook.edu

Analysis | The Republicans who aren’t endorsing Trump

In today’s edition … Immigration fear heats up Trump-Haley clash, dominates late GOP ad spending … Twelve House hard-liners sink a procedural rule in protest of Johnson’s bipartisan government funding deal.

Oct 22 • 1:40 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Judge insists Trump must be deposed in his $10B lawsuit against the BBC, warns it could be tossed in fight over records

A federal judge warned President Donald Trump could see his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC dismissed if he does not work harder to produce information the news outlet it is entitled to in the case, including sitting for a deposition.

Oct 22 • 1:08 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

How well have past GOTY winners sold?

We’re less than two months away from 2026’s The Game Awards, and what a year it’s been for fantastic games, including Resident Evil Requiem, Forza Horizon 6, Slay the Spire II, the Blood of Dawnwalker, and Control Resonant – just to name a few. So as we approach the end of the year, we thought we’d look back on our estimates for the GOTY winners of the past four years. In terms of revenue, Elden Ring (2022 winner), Baldur’s Gate 3 (2023), Astro Bot (2024), and Expedition 33 (2025) have generated a combined $3.8B via 73M copies sold: Let’s have a look, then. Elden Ring has generated $2B in revenue Elden Ring is a phenomenon in every sense. It’s sold a whopping 36.4M copies across Steam (50%), PS5 (35%), and Xbox (15% across console and PC). Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Elden Ring also just passed an astronomical milestone: $2B in revenue. While PlayStation and Xbox account for half of Elden Ring’s copies sold across these three platforms, they account for 57.5% of revenue. This – as ever – is due to regional pricing and the higher relative share of PC gamers in lower-priced markets. For example, around 17.4% of Elden Ring’s Steam copies sold were in China, where the game costs about 26% less than the price in the States. There’s an … interesting narrative going around these days that console gamers are only interested in ball-and-gun games and have the patience for little else. Well, Elden Ring’s impressive sales prove that is simply not true, and across all platforms. What’s more, over 9.8M people have played Elden Ring for over 100 hours, with nearly 3.5M people getting all of the achievements and trophies. For reference, 10.9% of Elden Ring’s PlayStation players have the platinum trophy, while 10.5% of players on Steam and 3.9% of Xbox players unlocked all the achievements. Git gud, Xbox players! Of the 1.5M people who played Elden Ring on PlayStation last month, 4% also played Dark Souls 3 last month, 4% played Bloodborne, and 3% played Sekiro. There’s those Soulsborne diehards for you. By many accounts, including my own, Elden Ring is one of the best games of all time. It’s an evergreen seller that will continue to be a cash cow for Bandai and FromSoftware for years to come. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Elden Ring has sold another 2M copies across Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox this year, generating almost $110M. This means it’s outperforming many of this year’s high-profile releases. Even Elden Ring’s standalone run-based PvE spinoff, 2025’s Nightreign, has sold 7.8M copies and generated $282M in revenue. Baldur’s Gate 3 is another billion-dollar-plus banger Another cross-platform phenomenon is Baldur’s Gate 3, which has sold 23.2M copies and generated over $1.2B in revenue. About 18.7M of these copies (80.6%) are via Steam, 2.9M via PS5 (12.7%), and 1.6M (6.8%) via Xbox. Around 1.3M folks on Steam bought BG3 before it hit 1.0. The PlayStation version launched about a month after the PC 1.0 release, while the Xbox version came four months later due to technical issues around developing local co-op on the Series S. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Across platforms, Baldur’s Gate 3’s monthly active users have never dropped below 2M, including 2.2M MAUs last month (68.5% on Steam, 21.9% on PS5, and 9.6% on Xbox). And it still regularly brings in 280K to 400K players every day: About 1% of BG3’s Steam player base has played for over 500 hours! That’s a little under 200K people. Astro Bot is also an evergreen seller, albeit a more niche, family one Astro Bot, 2024’s winner, has now sold 4.7M copies and generated $291M in revenue. The budget, including marketing, is almost certainly under $100M, given the small Japan-based core team and three-year dev timeline. You can really see why the tides are changing toward less expensive hubs. Astro Bot is the only first-party winner on this list, but follows other first-party winners of The Last of Us Part II (2020’s winner), God of War (2018), and Breath of the Wild (2017). Around 46.6% of Astro Bot’s copies sold have been physical, which is far higher than the typical game. This makes sense for a couple of reasons: There’s a large family audience for this one, and physical boxes are an item to wrap when giving Astro as a gift. Astro has collector value for the PlayStation core (this is nostalgia-fueled platformer celebrating PlayStation’s history) Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Astro is another one of those games that continues selling over time, regularly selling more than 100K a month. It’s sold around 1M more copies this year ($60M in revenue) and is a popular title with families. We can see this using the Alinea platform’s MAU crossover tool: Astro Bot’s top #2, #3, and #4 games by crossover in any given month this year are Minecraft, Fortnite, and Roblox – without fail. The #1 title every month, though, is Astro’s Playroom, a pack-in with all PS5 consoles. For every month this year, between 20% and 30% of Astro Bot players also played Astro’s Playroom that month. So the free pack-in is a noice funnel for converting players to a full paid product. Expedition 33 sells 8.7M despite Game Pass cannibalisation Finally, we have last year’s winner – Expedition 33. The turn-based-RPG banger has generated $366M via 8.7M copies sold, with 58.8% on Steam, 35.7% on PS5, and 5.5% on Xbox. Xbox’s share of copies sold is this low due to Expedition 33 launching on Game Pass, where 4.3M people across console and PC accessed the game. A little under 700K Xbox players used their subscription to play Expedition 33 this year. That said, the game’s 1.5-year Game Pass deal ended last week on October 16, and we’re already beginning to see a positive trend on Expedition 33’s copies sold via Xbox (but the jury’s still out!). There’s understandably a lot of French pride behind this one, as France is the game’s #3 market on both Steam and PlayStation. Vive la France! One thing that stood out to me is that the GOTY winners aren’t $300M Hollywood productions made in the US. They’re mostly mid-budget studios outside the traditional AAA cost centres. Lots to think about there. Also, good games sell well; who’d have thunk it!? And there’s a whole load of them this year, with GTA 6 still to come, too. GTA just made the cutoff point for the VGAs this year. What a coincidence! Loading... Cool links and other stuff Our physical games newsletter from Tuesday was picked up by GameSpot, Eurogamer, TweakTown, and a bunch of others. We’re offering a free trial of our platform for games companies. Send us a message here, or reply right here on Substack/email, and we’ll set you up. Next week, we’ve got some exciting news regarding the future of our newsletter, so stay tuned! The last word Reply to this email – or reach out here – if you have any feedback for the newsletter – or want to request a game for us to cover. Want to see why these companies (and many others) are subscribed to Alinea? Get a free platform trial! [Alinea Analytics boasts the most accurate PC and console estimates in the business. Game makers use our platform to understand their audience, keep an eye on the competition, monitor sales trends, and spot new opportunities. We equip game studios and financial institutions with accurate data and the confidence to make smarter, data-driven decisions. Want to talk about all things games market data? We’d love to chat!]

Oct 22 • 1:02 PM EDT • Technology • alineaanalytics.substack.com

Healthcare shouldn’t be so hard; health literacy can help

OPINION — A visit to the doctor may get you a diagnosis. A trip to the pharmacist fills the needed prescription. Your health plan has all sorts of information about benefits. Healthcare. Straightforward and easy to understand, right? Eye roll. Laugh stifled.

Oct 22 • 12:01 PM EDT • Health • yourvalley.net

Chris Pratt says Star-Lord will return to MCU after ‘hard action’ was taken to ‘make good on that promise’

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” ended with a cryptic teaser indicating the character would return — and Pratt says it’s almost here.

Oct 22 • 11:41 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Top Weekly Entertainment Picks

Get ready for a full weekend of headline concerts and seasonal fun in South Jersey. Hear Godsmack perform live at Hard Rock, enjoy a seasonal market with

Oct 22 • 10:13 AM EDT • Entertainment • shorelocalnews.com

Introspection required if EU Inc fails, says start-up lobbyist

European start-ups have a new voice in Brussels. Startups for Europe, created from the merger of lobby groups Allied for Startups and the European Startup Network, is hoping to harness the momentum behind EU-Inc, a campaign that united start-ups and investors behind demands for a new pan-European company regime.At a launch event for the new association in Brussels on October 1, the mood was remarkably upbeat compared to a typical Eurobubble gathering, more Silicon Valley than Schuman roundabout.When asked whether this reflects a feeling that Europe is on the right track, chief executive Serena Borbotti-Frison said it’s a “scary” moment as the continent looks to boost its competitiveness amid a new technological arms race.“What is at stake is quite intense, and the way we can answer is by delivering, but also with hope,” she told Science|Business. “It’s what our industry does. It’s not about identifying a pain point and then saying it’s too hard.”For many in the start-up community, that sense of hope is dwindling. In March, the European Commission presented its proposal for EU Inc, naming its initiative after the grassroots campaign.EU Inc was meant to be a gamechanger: the ability to incorporate within 48 hours for less than €100 and scale up across Europe; a harmonised stock option regime enabling start-ups to compete for talent; and simplified insolvency procedures for innovative start-ups to reduce the cost of failure.However, haggling by EU governments has raised concerns that EU Inc will be stripped of the very features, including stock option harmonisation, that are meant to make it attractive for companies.“I fear we are proving to ourselves that the model doesn’t work,” Borbotti-Frison said of the policymaking process. “Everyone agrees we should have EU Inc. Everyone agrees it’s hard to scale and we need to scale to answer the competitiveness [challenge], and still we cannot deliver? [. . .] What does that say about ourselves?”The Commission has made EU Inc a cornerstone of its single market reform, and has agreed with the European Parliament and the Council of the EU to target an agreement by the end of 2026. However, several points are currently holding up an agreement, including national rules around employee participation in management decisions, and the provision that employee stock options always be taxed at the point of sale. Some EU governments have reportedly pushed back on the Commission’s choice of legal basis, contending that anything related to taxation requires unanimity in the Council.Trade unions have also protested against EU Inc, fearing it will be exploited by companies looking to undermine workers’ rights.“If this doesn’t work, it’s introspection time, on the way our institutions work, maybe the way our lobbies work, and maybe the way the cooperation between them works,” Borbotti-Frison said.“Is it in the national interest? Is it a gap between political will and technical ability to operate? Is it speed? I don't know, but something needs to be fixed.”Ahead of last week’s European Council meeting, EU-Inc campaigners tried a new strategy: appealing directly to EU presidents and prime ministers. In an open letter, they urged EU leaders to “step in and give your negotiating teams a clear mandate to change course and reverse their objections to the Commission’s original proposal.”Lessons from EU-IncLike its predecessors, Startups for Europe will represent national start-up associations, but it is also targeting investors. The founding sponsors are venture capital firm Atomico and EQT, the investor selected earlier this year to manage the €5 billion Scaleup Europe Fund.It also wants to harness the knowledge and cross-border experience of European success stories. “Take the list of the 100 biggest unicorns in Europe. We are speaking to all of them,” Borbotti-Frison said. The association plans to publish a full list of supporters following the Slush tech conference in Helsinki in November.Andreas Klinger and Simon Schaefer, two key figures in the EU-Inc campaign, are both on the board of the new association, and Startups for Europe wants to take the lessons from their campaign.What was unprecedented about EU-Inc was “how rooted it was, and how strong it was in bringing everyone on board behind one clear pain point and solution to fix it,” Borbotti-Frison said. “This is an inspiration for us, and then we need to turn it into something more systematic, more bridged in Brussels, more connected to the policymaking game, and to scale it.”If it’s possible to unite such a broad coalition, it’s because the European start-up ecosystem is now mature, she said. “Maybe it was not ten years ago. Maybe it was not five years ago. But now, it’s mature to speak with one voice.”Open and liberal EuropeThe association plans to campaign on files related to three “pain points,” Borbotti-Frison said: “start and scale in Europe, fundraise and invest in Europe, and making Europe the most innovative continent.”As well as EU Inc, she cited public procurement, the EU’s simplification push, the Savings and Investments Union, and files related to AI adoption and technological sovereignty as priorities for the coming months.What these files have in common is that they relate not to subsidies but to the framework conditions influencing the availability of mostly private, or in the case of procurement, public, funding.Related articlesEmployee participation disagreement delays MEPs’ vote on EU IncCommission urges EU governments not to water down EU IncEU’s ‘ultra-fast’ €5B scale-up fund is set up to win, says its fund managerThe budget dispute over the next Horizon Europe programme will also impact start-ups, which are supported notably through the European Innovation Council. But EU innovation funding is a drop in the ocean compared to venture capital and public procurement budgets.“If competitiveness and innovation are a priority, then the [EU budget] should reflect it,” Borbotti-Frison said. However, she added that the main question is not how much public money is invested, but “how do we create the right conditions for the market to solve the problem?”The Scaleup Europe Fund mixes both approaches, using €1 billion in EU funding to crowd in private investors and address Europe’s lack of large-scale, late-stage growth funds. “It’s a proof of concept. Ideally, then the market will do it itself,” Borbotti-Frison said.Startups for Europe is also focused on bringing an alternative political narrative. Amid competing visions for open, global markets on the one side and a protectionist Europe on the other, it wants to offer “a third voice, to say we can be proudly European and build a strong continent in a liberal economy, open to the world, and global.”It can be tempting, when thinking about how Europe can better support innovation, to look across the Atlantic. But while it’s important to compare statistics to see where Europe needs to catch up, that’s where the comparison should stop, Borbotti-Frison said. “On everything else, we need to do it our own way. We don't have the same history. We don't have the same political model. We don't have the same way of life.”Many of the key files that could benefit the start-up community, including EU Inc and the Savings and Investments Union, rely on closer integration within Europe, making it easier to operate across borders.While the Commission has made deepening the single market a political priority, support at national level is more precarious. The coming months will see pivotal elections in Spain and France, while the German government has also been coming under pressure domestically. In each country, far-right parties have been gaining ground.When asked if she was concerned the political situation could jeopardise this progress, Borbotti-Frison responded: “Of course. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t.” However, she continues to believe that cooperation is the only way forward. “Doing it alone is not the solution. It’s also not who we are, it’s not the model we are building, and it’s not the scale we need.”

Oct 22 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencebusiness.net

Britain Politics

Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham receives a flu vaccination from Pharmacist Aneet Kapoor in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026. (Christopher Furlong/Pool Photo via AP)

Oct 22 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • postregister.com

Britain Politics

Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham looks at his Manchester bee tattoo before receiving a flu vaccination from Pharmacist Aneet Kapoor in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026. (Christopher Furlong/Pool

Oct 22 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • postregister.com

Britain Politics

Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham meets pharmacy staff before receiving a flu vaccination at Kapoor Pharmacy Services in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026. (Christopher Furlong/Pool Photo via AP)

Oct 22 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • postregister.com

iPhone Duo 2 Prototypes Include Under-Display Face ID

Apple's second-generation iPhone Duo could gain Face ID, with prototypes already incorporating the technology beneath the outer display, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In the latest episode of his "Power On" podcast, Gurman described Apple's work on adding facial authentication technology to its foldable iPhone. The company is said to be testing the hardware for a successor expected next fall, but has not finalized whether the feature will ship.

Oct 22 • 6:46 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

Which college football team is the biggest disappointment of 2026?

Some of college football's biggest preseason contenders have stumbled ... hard. From Texas to Texas A&M and beyond, we want fans to name the biggest disappointment of 2026.

Oct 22 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Hardly Strictly Celtic comes to the Nevada Theatre Oct. 24

Paul Emery’s Nevada City LIVE! series presents Hardly Strictly Celtic, a multigenerational evening of something new, something old, something borrowed, something bold… A musical experience combining over 100 plus years

Oct 22 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • theunion.com

Workers Now Pay $7,471 on Average Annually for Family Health Coverage, Up 9% or $621 from 2025, Benchmark Employer Health Benefits Survey Finds

Workers are paying on average$7,471 annually toward the premiums for employer-sponsored family health benefits this year, which is up 9%, or $621, from 2025, per KFF’s annual benchmark health benefits survey of large and small employers. The burden of family premiums hits particularly hard for workers at small firms with less than 200 workers.

Oct 22 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • kff.org

MVP MMA On Netflix One And Done?

Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano was the first live MMA event to ever feature on Netflix. It may also be the last for quite some time. Jake Paul and Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) intended to disrupt the MMA world with their collaboration with the streaming giant, but Netflix has fallen on hard times. Its stock […]

Oct 22 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Mexican Mafia member found dead in California state prison cell

Richard Buchanan, a reputed Mexican Mafia from the San Diego area, died in prison Tuesday morning, authorities said. Guards found Buchanan unresponsive in his cell at Kern Valley State Prison,

Oct 21 • 9:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com

Candid Candace: Magic Johnson shares business lessons and basketball memories at World Business Chicago gala

Magic Johnson shared stories about Michael Jordan, Richard M. Daley and his business career at World Business Chicago's annual gala at the Field Museum.

Oct 21 • 4:00 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com

Kings’ Murray ‘Happy’ To Start the Season Healthy

After enduring a surgical recovery and a career-low 23 games last year, Sacramento’s vital X-factor returns to the hardwood aiming to reclaim his elite two-way form.

Oct 21 • 2:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

NYSPHSAA boys basketball championships returning to Glens Falls

Harding Mazzotti Arena will host the 2028-30 tournaments, as the tourney moves back from Binghamton.

Oct 21 • 2:12 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com

I’ve Taken a Necessary Measure to Protect Myself During Sex. Uh, It’s Going to Be Hard to Explain.

I've already gotten weird looks.

Oct 21 • 1:30 PM EDT • Technology • slate.com

Miami Heat Could Be Tim Hardaway Jr Breakout Season

Tim Hardaway Jr. has long been due for a breakout, and this year with the Miami Heat could be his chance. His NBA career, which began in 2013 with the New York Knicks, has featured dynamic seasons with multiple teams over the last 13 seasons. But there has been something missing until now. About to …

Oct 21 • 1:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Baidu (BIDU) Expands Its AI Business, but the Core Revenue Recovery Remains Uncertain

Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) is expanding autonomous driving and AI services while its traditional business stays under pressure. That raises a hard valuation question: can the new activities grow fast enough, and profitably enough, to replace what the established business is losing? At roughly 19 times forward earnings, investors pay for that transition to work. They […]

Oct 21 • 10:07 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

James Harden Identifies Cavaliers’ Biggest Priority Entering His 18th Season

James Harden enters his 18th NBA season still chasing a title and says Cleveland’s biggest priority is staying healthy and trending up.

Oct 21 • 8:56 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

What goes wrong? Why most entertainment, sports celeb brands fail, struggle to make profits - These might be key reasons

New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- Celebrity brands often attract attention, but turning that interest into profit is harder. Fans may celebrate a launch without becoming regular customers. A famous name helps people notice products while quality decides whether they return. Experts say fame alone cannot build…

Oct 21 • 8:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com

More needs to be done to support student mental health

When it comes to mental health resources at the University of Miami, numbers to call, sexual assault hotlines, therapy appointments and other resources aren’t hard to find. On paper, UM is doing exactly what it should to provide students with mental health outlets. But this support needs to extend beyond a counseling building and a

Oct 21 • 8:02 AM EDT • Health • themiamihurricane.com

Overlooked: Black Women’s Heart Health

Rhonda Poe has always held a job. From Church’s Chicken to more than a decade in the jewelry industry to working as a script supervisor in the film industry, her daughter, Lily Poe, describes her as a hardworking and determined woman. That all changed on Super Bowl Sunday, February 9, 2025, in New Orleans. Rhonda...

Oct 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • lsureveille.com

Chiefs News: Mecole Hardman signs with Colts practice squad

The latest Chiefs news, brought fresh to you every morning!

Oct 21 • 6:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

James Harden Challenges Evan Mobley to Play With ‘Ultimate Confidence’

James Harden says Evan Mobley has the talent to dominate on both ends, but Cleveland needs him playing with consistent “ultimate confidence.”

Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Why Albania's political crisis is deepening

Albania's capital, Tirana, has experienced several days of violent confrontations. Student-led protests against PM Edi Rama have become a focal point for wider frustrations over corruption and economic hardship.

Oct 21 • 1:15 AM EDT • Politics • dw.com

Student-led composting business brings sustainability efforts to MSU

Starting a business is not easy. Coming up with a good idea is difficult, and securing funding and resources for it once you have it can be even harder. For Tanner Marlow, one of his startup business struggles came after those two steps. He secured ample space and the resources he needed from the university...

Oct 21 • 1:00 AM EDT • Business • reflector-online.com

TWICE’s Jihyo Departs JYP Entertainment After 21 Years + Launches New Agency EMITHAUS

Jihyo is beginning a journey with a new company! On October 21, the TWICE member took to her Instagram to share the following handwritten letter: Hello, this is Jihyo. I’m writing today because there’s something I’d like to share with you. After 21 years, my journey with JYP Entertainment, which began when I was just a child, has come to an end. Trying to put 21 years into just a few words is harder than I thought it would be.From childhood through my teenage years and into adulthood, I’ve spent most of my life at JYP.There were good days and difficult ones, but one thing I know for certain is that every one of those moments has shaped who I am today.I want to express my sincere gratitude to everyone at JYP who has been by my side and helped me grow over the years.I will always cherish the time we shared and the memories we made together. To me, independence is not so much a conclusion about the time that has passed, but a choice about how I want to live going forward.As the first step in this new chapter, I have established my own company, EMITHAUS.Just as “EMIT” means to “express or release,” I hope this will be a place where I can freely explore and bring to life even the possibilities within me that I have yet to discover.As I step away from a familiar environment and begin working in new ways, I will approach every decision and every endeavor with even greater thoughtfulness and responsibility. I also want to make it clear that this decision does not mean saying goodbye to the team I’ve been part of for so long.TWICE is an irreplaceable part of my life.Just as I cherish all the years we’ve shared, I look forward to all the moments still ahead of us.I will continue to stand on stage with my members and keep building more memories together for many years to come. Above all, I want to thank ONCE for believing in me and standing by my side for the past 11 years.I know that watching someone grow and change through so many stages of life and continuing to support them along the way is never something to be taken for granted.Thank you for giving me the courage to keep moving forward through your unwavering trust, love, and support.I will continue to fill the years ahead with choices and efforts that stay true to who I am and keep growing as an artist who lives up to all the love and support you’ve given me. Thank you. https://www.instagram.com/p/DevZGTkmTD2/ Jihyo is the third TWICE member to officially leave JYP Entertainment following Jeongyeon and Chaeyoung. Wishing Jihyo all the best on her new start!

Oct 20 • 11:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • soompi.com

Bills Have Made Their Feelings on Rookie Davison Igbinosun Clear

Jim Leonhard says Bills rookie Davison Igbinosun has earned a bigger role at cornerback, but penalties and technique remain areas to improve.

Oct 20 • 10:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

UAB opens Shelby Biosciences Research Building to advance health

UAB has opened the Shelby Biosciences Research Building, an eight-story facility named after former U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, aimed at supporting health research and creating new jobs.

Oct 20 • 9:37 PM EDT • Health • wvtm13.com

Urban Meyer only has one concern about a 24-team College Football Playoff

Urban Meyer won three national titles as a college football head coach, but the game is already very different from his time at Florida and Ohio State. The ways NIL and the transfer portal have shifted the sport’s landscape were hard to predict, and the Fox Sports college football analyst is among those who misread…

Oct 20 • 6:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Kansas to ‘Carry on Wayward Son’ at Hard Rock Feb. 4

With a music catalog that continues to resonate with generations of fans, classic rock band Kansas is making its return to the Hard Rock Live stage inside Hard Rock Hotel

Oct 20 • 4:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • cherokeephoenix.org

Karl Rove and David Axelrod give their predictions for 12 key midterm races

Rove, the reviled and revered hardball strategist behind the George W. Bush years, and Axelrod, the Obama strategist behind Democrats’ authentic-and-tenacious school of thought, give their takes on races to watch.

Oct 20 • 3:47 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

Sundar Pichai: Google’s Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products and Businesses

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has little patience for doubts about Google’s willingness or capacity to compete at the frontier of AI. His company’s latest Gemini 4 Argon model — long-promised and recently delivered — beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest public models on coding, math, science, and knowledge-work benchmarks and has placed Google’s AI back among the world’s best. Amid chatter that Google was fine with good-enough lightweight ‘Flash’ models, Pichai pushed back hard against any suggestion that company is limiting its research ambitions. “We won’t do it any other way,” he told me in a Big Technology Podcast interview recorded this week at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Pursuing cutting-edge research is costly for Google, requiring compute and chips that otherwise could be sold at a high markup by its cloud business. But Pichai said allocating resources to frontier AI development is “ground zero” for Google. “Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development,” Pichai told me. In our conversation, we discussed Argon (which Pichai says processed three times as many tokens as Gemini 3 in the 72 hours after launch), AI’s role in developing better models, the AI interface of the future, competition with OpenAI, Google’s partnerships with Anthropic and Apple, data centers in space, and the nature of his optimism. You can read the full conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, below, or listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice. Alex Kantrowitz: Google is back at the frontier with Gemini 4 Argon, which beats OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s public models on benchmarks spanning coding, math, science, and knowledge work. The conventional wisdom was that Google had given up on the frontier to focus on fast, good-enough models for its products. That was wrong? Sundar Pichai: Very wrong. Look, we are so committed to being at the frontier. It’s in our DNA. We won’t do it any other way. We’ve been thinking about the AI frontier for well over a decade now. The frontier is very dynamic. It’s very competitive. It’s very exciting. I couldn’t be more pleased with how Argon has come together. We took our time with it. We made sure we tested it safely and deployed it carefully. We took a bit longer than our other models, given its capabilities. Across the board, be it for agentic work, knowledge work, coding, creative tasks, Argon is one of the really good frontier models. The first 72 hours since we launched, it’s almost up to 25 trillion tokens used, which is about three times what Gemini 3.0 had in the first 72 hours. And we are capacity constrained as we are serving it. Excited, but there are always areas….. You know, the frontier is very dynamic, and you have to keep evolving the models. There are areas which we can see we need to improve as well. We’ll be at work on all of that as well. Which areas? On any given model, Argon would be across the board better at everything if you just look even two months back. But the space is so evolving. Even on coding, for example, there are pockets where we know we need to do better, and there’s clear feedback. We’ll make it better. The argument for standard models is that they’re already good enough to build great products, with the frontier valuable only for certain tasks. Meta built Muse with good models rather than the best, and Google could put standard models into Maps, Gmail, and Search. Why isn’t that sufficient? It’s definitely not how I have thought about it at all. We are deeply committed to driving the state of the art and actually pushing where this technology can go, all the way from transformers. That’s a journey we’ve been on. You will see us continue to do that. When you’re at the frontier, you get an earlier look into the emerging capabilities, earlier than others, which helps you better prepare for the future. We are fortunate to have a wide set of opportunities across consumer and enterprise. Some of our cloud customers, for sure, want the model at the frontier. The frontier models will be better at developing the next set of models in an era of recursive self-improvement. I would argue it matters there. Internally, we have definitely seen a steep point of inflection by deploying Argon to our developers. It definitely tackles problems which our previous models could not do. Being at the frontier puts you at the innovation frontier and helps you drive that as well. There is room for models of all sizes and capabilities. That’s why we did Flash, Flash-Lite, etc. I agree with you that you can develop very good product experiences with not necessarily the most frontier model, because they tend to be slower and more expensive too. But we care about the Pareto frontier, and we’re committed to doing all of that. You said developing frontier models gives you a look at what’s coming. What do you see on the horizon? What makes this moment so exciting is you build something which you think is a culmination of months of work, and you put it out. You already see clear headroom ahead. We’ve all been working on these agentic, long-horizon capabilities, but clearly the frontier is going to have multiple of these agents working together to do things. That’s an example of an exciting paradigm underway. It’s also clear to me that users, both in consumer and enterprise, will have access to some multi-agent framework for them, working all the time doing things. It feels like a moment of infinite possibilities. Sergey Brin said one of Argon’s core innovations was relying more on the model to help develop the model. Yet incidents involving OpenAI’s bots breaking containment and Google’s bots accessing a site they shouldn’t have suggest these systems still aren’t perfectly aligned. Isn’t there reasonable cause for concern about accelerating toward recursive self-improvement? There are three parts to your question. Let’s first talk about RSI itself. You’re right, Sergey mentioned RSI being a critical contributor as we are developing Argon. But to be very clear, today, in a continuum, we are pretty far from the end state of RSI or something like that. The right way to describe it is you have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development. You almost have agents helping AI researchers in some automated way work together to build these models. It’s good to at least understand where we are today, and it’s super exciting. I expect that continuum to keep making progress as we go into next year. The second question is around safety. Security comes from defense in depth. You’re talking about alignment, obviously. We all are doing a lot of work to make sure the models are as aligned as possible. But it’s an active area of research, and there are clear gaps. That’s not the only thing we rely on. You have the work you do on alignment, but beyond that, we put a lot of effort into real-time monitoring as these models are working. Making sure you have good telemetry into what’s happening so that you can intervene in real time if you see unexpected behaviors. How you do that, the architecture with which you do that, how you make sure it’s all sandboxed and isolated in a way that it can continue doing its job during real-time monitoring — these are all areas of investment. Obviously, when we deploy these models, giving customers, enterprises, control, both with real-time monitoring, but their ability to decide where they deploy, what type of data which models ever have access to, etc. All that work is very, very important, and we are doing a lot of that. As an industry, we need to constantly up our game and take the time to do all this stuff, including dedicating the compute required to make sure you can safely deploy these models. The third part is: Is it all enough? This is why there are a lot of conversations in the industry, and I think it’s reasonable to be worried. The right way to approach something you worry about is early on thinking about what more we can do. As an industry, you’re definitely seeing increased levels of work on alignment, testing for safety, etc., as we deploy these models. The next step would be developing better standards so there are cross-industry standards of how we do these things, including the ability to evaluate using independent evaluators. If you look at areas like financial controls, we have accounting standards, we have independent auditors. Those are all the next natural steps for us as an industry to work toward, and regulation will end up playing a role as we go through all of that as well. Google pursues both language models and world models, while some other AI companies like OpenAI have focused more heavily on LLMs as the path to AGI. Why is world-model research important to you? As humans, you obviously perceive the world around you, and you’re taking all those inputs. Making sure these models are able to understand the laws of physics, simulate the world in high fidelity. All that, I think, are key enabling blocks for intelligence. We are working across all possible applications of this. Take an area like robotics. It’s not an accident: If you look at embodied reasoning benchmarks, Argon is state of the art. That all comes from our experience building world models. Inherently, I would expect there will be architectures which will converge all of this in the future. But for us, we view this as, today, this jagged frontier that is intelligence. We want to be at the frontier of all the possible approaches, and that will help us both drive better research, better insights, and develop a much better AGI model, is how we think about it. Some people argue Google should focus on selling its computing resources rather than using them for AI research. Cloud wants to sell compute at a high markup, while researchers need a very big computer to build the best models. How do you balance those demands? Ground zero for us is making sure we are investing in the compute that’s needed to be at the AI frontier. In 2015, I set the company to be AI-first. AI is that key horizontal ingredient across everything we do, all the way from Search to Cloud to Waymo. That is ground zero for us, making sure both for research and developing the models that we have enough compute needed. Beyond that, we have these independent businesses which each have their own long-range plans. They’re using those long-range plans to project forward, and we plan for compute for all of them. The cloud team, they have a business and they have a projection and they have demand signals. They have committed contracts. With that help, we can plan on a long-term compute trajectory for them. We’re fortunate to have this wide set of opportunities. There’s no company in the world which isn’t making trade-offs at any given moment in time. But the first principles we operate on is making sure we have enough compute to invest in the frontier, and that’s non-negotiable, and everything else works on top. Remember, we are building our own compute, our own data centers. There are long lead times. The compute we have today is a function of decisions I made in 2024. Even if you think back to a year from today, last year the agentic coding takeoff hadn’t happened. Today, obviously, when you sit and look at anything, everyone is short—not just us, other companies—and everyone wishes you had two times what you had planned for. That comes with the territory. At any given moment in time, we are planning for what we would need two to three years out in the future. You’re going to find some decisions you make may look suboptimal two years out, depending on where the state of the art is. I don’t spend too much time thinking about it. The way I think about compute allocation is making sure Google DeepMind, both for research and frontier model development, is cutting edge in terms of compute access. After that, we plan for all our businesses. It’s great we can provide our compute to other people too, like we have done. It allows us to scale that up, get real tests for it in the widest application set possible, test it in the real world, and make sure we are at the cutting edge of technology at every layer of our AI stack as well. Ben Horowitz relayed on a podcast that Andy Jassy had said compute was sold out until 2028. Are you seeing the same thing? If today a customer is coming out and asking us for compute in ’27, that is incredibly difficult to do. Even last year we went out and leased some short-term compute to accommodate some customers and help them out. But yes, we are all dealing with similar timelines. Every major technology shift seems to involve overbuilding, from railroads to fiber. Do you think that’s happening here? It depends on the time frames you’re looking at. This level of build, if I take a long enough time frame, it makes complete sense to me. We are at early stages of the most consequential technology ever, and this is not like fiber. It’s not dark. We are using it. We are capacity constrained on a daily basis. The applications, the underlying technology is improving rapidly. But running a company, the way I work through the moment is you look at your demand signals. You look at your committed revenue opportunities that you’re getting in the form of contracts. You balance that with the underlying technical capability, or internally you balance how we are using it internally, the model trajectories. Based on all that, you take a disciplined approach—a confident, aggressive, but disciplined approach—to plan out compute. But when you talk about the broader economy as a whole, you’re having people operate with various levels of risk. I focus on what I can control as a company and plan through it. If your question is, can there be an overbuild? Yes, because you can have some constrained components. Remember, what matters is a set of everything you need to build out that compute. Memory, electricity, electricians…. Land. Like 2,000 components or more. You could get constrained at some point. There could be things which cause bottlenecks, and then you could have overbuilds. There could be external shocks to the economy. There are macro risks. All that is possible at any given time. But am I confident that the compute we are planning for, we will have uses for it given enough time? Absolutely, yes. I was in the room when you said AI would be as profound as fire and electricity. If you believe that, shouldn’t you give researchers the biggest possible computer, even at the expense of today’s cloud profits? We’re all doing some form of that. Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development. What you’re seeing is true already. But you want to be thoughtful. Even our AI researchers have some constraints, which are also good. That’s what inspires creativity. That’s what helps you come up with a more efficient algorithmic breakthrough, maybe to use less memory. What we are committed to is to invest what’s needed to stay at the frontier. OpenAI President Greg Brockman told me a few months ago that the ideal AI product might have no interface at all—just as natural as conversation. What do you think the interface looks like in the age of AI? Computing historically has been humans adapting to computing. With AI, it’ll be the other way around. The technology will adapt seamlessly to how humans live and go about their day-to-day life. You want to be able to speak to that AI when you want to. It has context. It can be persistently running somewhere, give you continuity. You’re not dealing with a lot of complexity. It’s natural. All that makes sense to me. That doesn’t mean it won’t have any interface, however. Nowadays, even on my phone, Gemini voice models are so good. I can just press the microphone button. I can just ramble. That’s why we call it Rambler. I can ramble. It intelligently corrects with my personal context. Even my friends’ names, weird names, it gets it right, even if it first guesses it wrong. It’s amazing. I’m not going in, backspacing, editing once I finish saying it. It’s remarkable how good it’s gotten. But there are going to be moments you will need an interface. You may want to entertain yourself. You may want to watch a video. You may ask your AI to create something, and you want to watch it, consume it. The way I think about it is, you want it to be as seamless and as natural as possible, and that you are not doing the hard work adapting to whatever the interface is. The technology is adapting to how you’re working at any given moment in time. When I asked Sam Altman about competition from Google, he argued that OpenAI was building AI-native products and implied Google was bolting AI onto existing ones. Do you accept that framing, and can a “bolt-on” compete with an AI-native product? First of all, it’s a very dynamic moment. We are all pushing each other. OpenAI has pushed us as a company too. This is not just we are doing something to them. Far from it. Yes, Google went into its own version of a code red too. In the AI moment, all of us have to respond with varying levels of urgency at any given moment in time. We are constantly building new products as well. Gemini was built from the ground up as a product—the Gemini app I’m talking about. Or tomorrow, as all of us are adapting to agents, are you bolting agents onto ChatGPT, or are they building it natively? How would you think about that? You can always put these questions back. I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as you want to build world-class product experiences that are AI-native and they are winning. Some of it is adapting products, some of it is rethinking new experiences. They will all be part of how you approach this moment. How do you expect to make money from these AI interfaces? If an agent recommends a product and I buy it, should it take a cut of the sale, even if that’s disclosed? I’m going to put enterprise aside. Consumers are going to increasingly value this technology. Take software developers today. Developers are willing to pay for these coding models because it really helps make them more productive. Nobody would want to code the way they were coding three years ago, or even the same time last year. When you’re delivering value, there’s value to be had. I’ve never seen examples where consumer products really scale to billions of users, where people are using it intensely, and haven’t had monetization to go along with it. If you’re providing value to people, there is inherent value to be had. The nature of it may change. You’re asking a scenario in which agents are doing stuff for you. At the end of the day, you will have commercial needs. The agents need to fulfill those commercial needs. The providers on the other side are going to see value in that. There’s going to be some mechanism by which it gets fleshed out. That’s what an efficient system does. But what matters is that you’re building those world-class consumer experiences. I promised myself one product feature request: Can you make Gemini-powered search in Gmail as good as searching Gmail through ChatGPT? What’s going on here? One of the exciting things we announced recently is the unified Gemini agent for enterprise, and we’re bringing that to consumers. These are persistent agents which run 24/7 in the cloud. We’re spinning up a micro VM effectively for every query, and from the runtime, the harness, the model—it’s all a headless service. It’ll work everywhere, and it has your context with you. You can address this agent whether you’re in Workspace, in Search, in Gemini. Agents are going to drive this unification from a customer experience, which people are looking for. When you have a broad product portfolio and you’re moving forward fast, there are always areas where you’re moving forward faster than some other areas. That’s valid feedback. But we are putting a lot of time and effort into making sure, as we build out our agentic experience, that unification and that capability works well across all these services. People have asked where Google’s equivalent of Muse or Dots is. Do you anticipate creating a new product to compete with them? Our goal with Gemini is to be a personal, proactive, and powerful assistant. That’s what we are working toward. You saw us describe the early versions of it at Google I/O this year with Spark. Effectively, already, if you open the Gemini app as a Pro or an Ultra user, you see Chat and Task, and they start giving you that agentic experience. With Argon now, that capability is dramatically accelerated. What we announced recently in our enterprise event, we are bringing that to consumers as well. Soon in Gemini, you will be able to ask something, and it’s a continuum. You don’t need to think about whether you’re asking a chat or an agentic task. It’ll just automatically do the right thing, and it can work persistently in the background securely and get things done for you. Already, empirically, when I look at what’s coming into Gemini in our app, last year you would have tagged them and most of them would have been chats. But a steadily growing percentage is already agentic tasks in Gemini. Yes, we are going to bring personal agents to our consumers. It’ll work in the Gemini app. It’ll work in Google Search. It’ll work in Gmail. You can address it, call it, etc. We want to make sure we’re getting it right. It’ll be powered by Argon, and we are very excited to bring it to our users. Google has invested and committed tens of billions of dollars to Anthropic. What do you see in Dario Amodei that makes you want such a deep investment and partnership? Very early on, when we looked at the founding team of Anthropic, it was very clear to us this was a world-class team which was involved in some of the earliest GPT models. We were quickly able to assess that they would be at the frontier. We’ve always tried to identify and partner with companies which would be at the cutting edge of technology. We’ve done that with SpaceX. We’ve done that with Anthropic. That’s what we saw, and we had a chance to partner. Is your partnership with Apple to license Gemini for Siri expanding, contracting, or standing still? For both us and Apple, that partnership was about translating the capabilities of AI into better experiences for users. I thought Apple has done a phenomenal job of incorporating—they customize these models and build it into Siri—and it’s been great to see the reception. We are committed to doing more. You’re going to do more with them? There’s nothing specific to comment, but it’s a partnership. It’s working well. What have you learned so far about the feasibility of data centers in space? It’s a very exciting project. Projects like this remind me—I still recall that moment in the desert for the DARPA Grand Challenge, watching the Stanley car compete in it, which ended up being the basis for Waymo. With all these technologies, you’re at a moment in time where it looks a bit like sci-fi, but 10 to 20 years down the line, it’s actually working in a meaningful way. I feel the same in space. We’ve always believed in betting big on these technologies. Quantum has been a great example of it. We’re probably 10 years into the journey. Waymo, we are almost 20 years into the journey. Space, we are two to three years into the journey. It’s clear to me that it’s an approach which will make a lot of sense in the future. Being in sub-synchronous orbits with 24/7 access to the most abundant form of energy we have access to will make a lot of sense for this exponential increase in compute that we are going to need. Having said that, this is a challenging project. The team has disciplined milestones. It was a super exciting milestone to send the TPUs up to space. Sometime, as we are speaking, we are expecting a “hello world” moment from them. I look forward to seeing that happen, and we’ll continue investing here too. You previously said 25% of the code written within Google was written by AI. What’s the number today? That number in our world today is meaningless in the sense that every part of what we now touch is influenced by AI deeply. What we are tracking with Argon, for example, it’s been a point of inflection. People are using Argon to really go tackle complex projects, including projects which affect millions of lines of code. In the four weeks since we have launched Argon, we have seen a 30% increase in CLs, and more importantly, almost a similar increase—a one-third decrease in rollbacks. People are writing code more productively and better code with it. We are tracking it with newer metrics now. How are you dealing with opposition to data centers? If you can’t build in the U.S. the way you want to, where else do you go? We’re very committed to building our data centers very responsibly. When I look at our largest data centers in some of the communities where we have been the longest, I visit them, I talk to people. There are people who come and tell us their kids have gone to college because of our investments in these communities, and we’ve grown in those communities. To me, this is about doing it right. Engaging with the communities early, doing it transparently. We are committed to making sure we are bringing incremental power, and we cover 100% of the cost of our power needs for these projects. It’s understanding the impact on neighborhoods and making sure you’re working thoroughly to address them. Done rightly, you can continue making progress. But we are constantly taking feedback into account. I do worry not everyone operates the same way. People have been surprised by data centers showing up in their backyard. Those are all important. As an industry, we should continue to do better. But part of the reason, in a 20-year time frame, we are thinking about things like data centers in space is making sure we are able to put these data centers where maybe the trade-offs will be different. What unproven area of AI is Google working hardest to crack? Is it continual learning—getting models to keep updating after release—or something else? There are multiple parallel paths. You saw with Argon we have a million output tokens. With our Gemini models early on, we had a one-million context window on the input side. These are all examples of breakthroughs we are constantly working on. How do you think about synthetic data? How do you think about continual learning? How do you think about more efficient architectures? We do dedicate a meaningful percentage of our compute to these research bets too. It always goes hand in hand, including our world models. Those are all bets we are placing. Sometimes, as part of these bets, there are ideas that emerge which just make their way into the mainline models. Maybe we don’t fully talk about it, but we have multiple steps in these areas. Working in technology requires optimism that building something will improve the world, but those bets can leave real consequences when they fail. I recently returned to a town in El Salvador where enthusiasm for Bitcoin had given way to unfinished construction and something resembling a ghost town. How do you maintain the optimism you spoke about in your Stanford commencement address while accounting for those risks? I genuinely have a deep conviction that improving technology and improving access to technology makes people’s lives better. It’s been my personal experience in my life, out of which comes that deep conviction, optimism. But with that, I’ve always felt humanity’s journey is always about working hard to harness that technology to make it work well for society. The optimism is not an optimism that you just build whatever you want, whenever. You work hard to make sure you’re building technology in the service of humanity, to make the human condition better. That’s got to be the defining goal as we are approaching it. With that framework, I’m very, very optimistic. We are in very early stages of the kind of progress that we are going to see on many areas. We’re all talking about areas like healthcare. A lot of the progress is ahead. The ability to make things in a fundamentally cheaper way on many things where things have been getting expensive for a long, long time, discovering new materials, etc., which really bend the curve—it’s tough to step today and understand the impact of all that, but they’re going to be very profound. I’m very optimistic, but we have to be rightfully concerned about all the ways this technology can go wrong. Sundar, I know you don’t do many of these. Thank you. Thanks, Alex. Appreciate it.

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Richard Riehle, dependable TV and film character actor who was in 'Glory and 'Office Space,' dies

Beloved character actor Richard Riehle has died at 78.

Oct 19 • 7:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • news4jax.com

Detroit Tigers’ Biggest Offseason Problem Is Worse Than Fans Realize

The Detroit Tigers blew 32 saves in 2026, but their biggest offseason concern runs deeper. Here's why fixing the bullpen could be harder than expected.

Oct 19 • 5:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Scientists are growing human brain tissue in living mice—could this make their welfare harder to assess?

What happens when scientists start changing the brain—the very system through which an animal's mental states are expressed in behavior?

Oct 19 • 4:40 PM EDT • Science • phys.org

Richard Riehle, prolific character actor known for roles in 'Office Space' and 'Casino,' dies at 78

Riehle's signature mustache and warm persona made him a regular staple in TV and film throughout his nearly 50-year career.

Oct 19 • 3:57 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's Hard Mode is available from the start this time, so you won't need to replay the mammoth RPG to get to the good stuff

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi has confirmed that Hard Mode will be available to select from the beginning, unlike Remake and Rebirth.

Oct 19 • 2:27 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net

Salazar Accused By City Of ­Manufactured Dispute To Tank Entertainment District

by Glen Richardson Cities in Colorado are finding that entering into a seemingly binding contract with a developer to construct a critical downtown project does not mean it will ever, in fact, be done. The City and County of Broomfield entered into a $300 million agreement in 2019 with developers to construct a Broomfield Town […]

Oct 19 • 1:51 PM EDT • Entertainment • glendalecherrycreek.com

Richard Riehle, 'Office Space' actor with iconic mustache, dies at 78

Richard Riehle, the versatile character actor best known for his roles in "Office Space" and "Grounded for Life," has died. He was 78.

Oct 19 • 11:19 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Lets You Play On The Hardest Difficulty From The Start Because Of The 'Wide Variety Of End-Game Content'

One of my biggest gripe has been fixed

Oct 19 • 11:00 AM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com

It’s hard to imagine wireless headphones ever getting lighter than these

Lightweight headphones that aren’t earbuds.

Oct 19 • 10:03 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com

PS5 "bullet ballet" game Saros gets a big update to make it both easier and harder

PS5 shooter Saros gets a big update. You can modify the game to make it both easier and harder now, and slow time to give yourself more time to think.

Oct 19 • 9:56 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net

Liverpool want move for £60m Premier League star

Richard Hughes left Liverpool with a lot of work to do to their team. Even though the Reds' former sporting director managed to spend way over £600 million during his time with the Anfield outfit, th...

Oct 19 • 9:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

GTA VI will run better on Xbox Series X than on the base PS5.

A technical analysis of the hardware specifications of current gaming platforms indicates that the anticipated crime action game Grand Theft Auto VI...

Oct 19 • 9:14 AM EDT • Technology • en.gamegpu.com

Legacy Berkeley businesses and orgs that have lasted decades honored by city

Berkeley Ace Hardware and Berkeley Humane (both est. 1895) are among the hundreds of organizations 25 years or older celebrated.

Oct 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • berkeleyside.org

Even Realities G2 review: Smart glasses, stupid controls

Even Realities makes one of the best smart glasses on the market, but controlling its growing feature set is harder than it should be.

Oct 19 • 7:30 AM EDT • Technology • engadget.com

Clippers rebuild includes developing young core alongside veterans

With the Kawhi Leonard era over and James Harden departed, a healthy Darius Garland will be running point for a team blending youth with veterans.

Oct 19 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Who funded Nebraska Working People, America First parties? Law doesn’t require disclosure.

Nebraska law doesn’t require new political parties to disclose their finances until they are qualified to have candidates on the ballot.

Oct 19 • 6:45 AM EDT • Politics • nebraskaexaminer.com

Fears about kids’ online safety unite Democrats and Republicans

The U.S. Senate candidates in Texas could hardly be more different: James Talarico, a former seminarian turned Democratic state lawmaker who speaks in calm cadences about love and empathy, and

Oct 19 • 4:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com

From politicians on TikTok to fetching a ping-pong ball: Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams

Hard to watch …

Oct 19 • 1:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com

What Is The Most Affordable Gaming Console In 2026?

On paper, Nintendo ties Xbox for the cheapest console to date, but it also has the weakest hardware, and owning one of its systems comes with hidden costs.

Oct 18 • 11:17 PM EDT • Technology • bgr.com

AmTrust announces plans to be bigger than Lloyd’s in London

The New York specialty insurer has hired Canary Wharf veteran Sir George Iacobescu to plan a skyscraper that would rival the Shard - and the project says a lot about how much London matters to its business

Oct 18 • 10:24 PM EDT • Business • insurancebusinessmag.com

The EU heads into a perfect political storm

Last week’s summit gave Brussels a taste of how hard it’s going to be to get a deal on the budget — or anything else.

Oct 18 • 10:00 PM EDT • Politics • politico.eu

Gypsy Rose Blanchard involved in car crash in Louisiana

The accident comes weeks after the death of Ken Urker, Blanchard’s ex and the father of their daughter Aurora.

Oct 18 • 6:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Clarksville Area Chamber of Commerce’s Veteran Business of the Month, Above Standard Building Maintenance - Clarksville Online - Clarksville News, Sports, Events and Information

Clarksville, TN - Above Standard Building Maintenance has been providing services like janitorial services and hard-surface stripping and waxing to folks in

Oct 18 • 5:00 PM EDT • Business • clarksvilleonline.com

OnPoint Helps Small Businesses in Oregon and SW Washington Defend Against Latest Cyber Scams - The Source

Cyber threats are becoming harder for small businesses to detect as criminals use artificial intelligence, stolen credentials, and increasingly sophisticated impersonation tactics. Half of small and midsize businesses reported a cybersecurity incident in the past year, according to the National Cybersecurity Alliance’s 2026 Small Business Cybersecurity Awareness & Practices Survey. OnPoint Community Credit Union is highlighting emerging […]

Oct 18 • 1:51 PM EDT • Business • bendsource.com

Director Naoki Hamaguchi Confirms Hard Mode in FFVII Revelation, Gives Us the Details!

Director Naoki Hamaguchi sits down with Hardcore Gamer to talk everything from Hard Mode and FITS to his thoughts here at the journey's end.

Oct 18 • 10:03 AM EDT • Technology • hardcoregamer.com

Woman allegedly hit business owner with a closed fist when he tried to stop robbery

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Oct 18 • 9:30 AM EDT • Business • okcfox.com

Some conservative states aren’t using Medicaid hardship exemption

States like Missouri and Iowa are choosing to not take up exemption designed to help low-income people keep coverage during hardship

Oct 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • theguardian.com

Some conservative states aren’t using Medicaid hardship exemption

States like Missouri and Iowa are choosing to not take up exemption designed to help low-income people keep coverage during hardship

Oct 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com

Many Women Are Still Struggling to Fill Estrogen Patch Prescriptions. What to Do If You Can’t Get Yours

As demand for menopause treatment increases, estrogen patches are hard to find at pharmacies. Here’s what to do if you can’t refill your prescription.

Oct 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • today.com

At the center of the state’s growing measles outbreak, it’s business as usual

In hard-hit Mifflin County, concern for the potentially deadly virus has yet to catch up to national alarm.

Oct 18 • 5:01 AM EDT • Business • inquirer.com

Penguins dominated by Golden Knights for sixth loss in seven games

LAS VEGAS — Pittsburgh Penguins fans who didn’t stay up for Saturday’s late-night matchup with the Vegas Golden Knights did themselves a favor. The pitiful performance was hardly worth losing

Oct 18 • 1:38 AM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com

Gold surged to a record, then fell hard. What happened?

Gold has been on a wild ride this year.

Oct 18 • 1:30 AM EDT • Business • telegraphherald.com

Netflix co-stars bring Hollywood ambitions to The Rock

Close to signing on the dotted line, American actors Richard Lawson and Ricco Ross are primed to begin shooting film and television projects on The Rock soon for their separate production companies.

Oct 18 • 1:09 AM EDT • Entertainment • jamaica-gleaner.com

Intel Inference Microservices: Xeon for Local AI

Intel Inference Microservices run language models on Xeon servers and automatically select suitable, pre-tested hardware profiles.

Oct 18 • 12:00 AM EDT • Technology • igorslab.de

Scientists Discover a 99-Million-Year-Old Insect With a Bizarre Feature Never Seen in Living Species

Like a bendy straw, an ancient insect’s folded mouthparts may have flexed without collapsing, revealing a feeding adaptation unknown in living planthoppers. About 99 million years ago, a tiny insect became trapped in tree resin with mouthparts nearly twice the length of its body. The resin hardened into amber, preserving an unusual feeding organ that

Oct 17 • 9:13 PM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com

PS6 RAM and Storage Alone Reportedly Cost Sony Over $680, Claims Leaker

The memory crunch looks like it is hitting the PlayStation 6 harder than expected. Hardware leaker KeplerL2 claims on NeoGAF that the RAM and NAND flash storage in Sony's next console alone cost over $680. He posted it as a reply to a forum member who floated $680 as a possible subsidized retail...

Oct 17 • 7:33 PM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com

Quantum magic state cleanup cuts errors 40-fold in first successful hardware test

Qubits, the quantum equivalent of digital bits, are fragile and prone to errors. That makes building reliable quantum computers extremely difficult. One fix has been to use traditional magic state distillation, ...

Oct 17 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • phys.org

AI, Robots, and Jobs: Why Gardeners May Still Be Safe

Anthropic's robotics research puts more hands-on jobs in AI's path. But messy tasks such as gardening remain hard to automate.

Oct 17 • 10:00 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

‘Danger zone’: These 5 US states are about to be hit hardest by El Niño, experts warn

A powerful El Niño is underway. Here’s how the weather pattern could affect hurricanes, wildfires, flooding and extreme weather across the US.

Oct 17 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencefocus.com

Dear Abby | Daughter with grudges makes herself hard to love

Dear Abby: I have three grown children and seven grandchildren. I have solid relationships with my oldest and youngest, their spouses and their children. My middle daughter, "Hope," has always

Oct 17 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • wenatcheeworld.com