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Midseason bowl projections for Duke football

A myriad of bowls and opponents dots the latest bowl projections for Duke and head coach Manny Diaz.

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Oct 20 • 2:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chargers Now Sit Near the Bottom in Latest Power Rankings

Following yet another loss, the Los Angeles Chargers sit near the bottom of the NFL in the latest power rankings.

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Oct 20 • 11:37 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Roland n/vision Review: Vision for the Future or Late to the Party?

The new Roland n/vision is the company’s first true wavetable synth. Can the latest addition to the Boutique series hold its own against the competition?

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Oct 20 • 3:00 AM EDT • Technology • gearnews.com
Toy Story 5, Backrooms and The Breadwinner Vie to Become the Second Biggest Film This Year...

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Often, people blame “data” for ruining Hollywood, when I’d argue that hype (which can often be debunked by data) is often worse, as you can see in these two headlines. To use a common meme, here’s how it started: and how it’s going: Earlier this year, I read countless (and I mean countless) articles (in almost every mainstream media outlet) about how Heated Rivalry was a huge hit and that it “heated” interest in hockey. But Heated Rivalry wasn’t a huge viewership hit compared to the hype: [ ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/you-cant-eat-buzzdid-heated-rivalrys) [ You Can’t Eat Buzz…Did Heated Rivalry’s Buzz Translate into Actual Viewership? ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/you-cant-eat-buzzdid-heated-rivalrys) Entertainment Strategy Guy · Jan 22 [ Read full story ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/you-cant-eat-buzzdid-heated-rivalrys) In this case, the hype (Heated Rivalry is really popular) belied the data (It didn’t make the top ten charts, meaning it wasn’t a huge hit.1) Even worse, every time I write about this, I get a lot of negative feedback, hence why I only sparingly mention the show these days or add lots of caveats when I write about it, but this just further cements the hype. But companies, and the executives leading them, have to determine strategy based on reality, not media coverage. The NHL committed real marketing dollars to a campaign that didn’t work. Sure enough, the latest NHL season opened to under a million viewers. At some point, you have to focus on what the data says, because real dollars are at stake. And that’s why we have the Streaming Ratings Report! To provide and analyze cold, hard data. Luckily, this week, I can be positive and take a look at a huge opening on streaming, along with a very buzzy horror film that customers kind of like, but don’t really love. And a comedy that tried to rebound on streaming. Today, I’m covering two weeks—21-Sep and 28-Sep—so we have a lot to discuss (nearly 5,000 words worth), including a series of film misses for Netflix, another argument for weekly-released TV shows on streaming, another sitcom tries to avoid the comedy curse, Netflix has two new game shows (one powered by AI), Reacher falling off the charts after a huge run, Prime Video tries its hands at the romcom game**,** a look at the WNBA’s big season, a big night for the VMAs on CBS and MTV, all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminate’s Top Ten Data, JustWatch and Reelgood interest data, Samba TV household viewership, company datecdotes, Netflix hours viewed data, Google Trends, and IMDb to determine the most popular content. While most data points are current, Nielsen’s data covers the weeks of September 14th to October 4th, 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Film - Two Hits and a Miss Come to Streaming… Three very interesting films came to streaming in one week, and I like comparing them since they show the range of theatrical films. One was a huge blockbuster, one was popular, and one was neither. One is a horror film, a buzzy genre; one is a comedy, a struggling genre; and one is an animated family film, the king of the box office. One went to a tiny streamer (HBO Max), one went to a second-tier streamer (Disney+), and one went to the biggest (Netflix). So… If you just went by box office, you’d expect Backrooms—the $197 million grosser, and partner of Obsession for “YouTube Horror Summer”—to dominate on streaming. If you read this report, though, you know that horror films don’t do great on streaming, and that’s the case again. Backrooms opened at 3.8 million hours according to Nielsen, and had 3.9 million hours in its second week. Here’s how that stacks up to other HBO Max films: We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… ...why I don’t buy Backrooms budget… …two new games shows arrive on streaming… …another sitcom struggles… ...another argument for putting out shows weekly on Netflix... ...and a whole lot more, nearly 5,000 words more... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. If you want an idea of just how much content you’d get in a full issue, check out this older issue. Coming Soon! Next week, I’ll be taking a look at the eighth season of Hulu’s The Kardashians, answering the question: will this show ever make the charts? If Mormon wives can make it, surely one of social media’s most popular families can as well. Also, Prime Video has a new horror show based on popular IP, Carrie, Netflix has a horror show starring Josh Hartnett, Below, and Apple TV has a UK import, Small Prophets. Plus a bunch of movies like Disclosure Day heading to Peacock, The Housemaid coming to HBO Max, Ben Affleck’s latest on Apple TV, Animals, and Matchbox the Movie on Apple TV, a John Cena action comedy inspired by Hasbro’s toy cars. The week after is even busier! I’ll look at another IP-based horror show, Crystal Lake, a new MCU show on Disney+, VisionQuest, season two of The Lowdown on FX/Hulu, the fourth seasons of The Diplomat on Netflix and Tulsa King on Paramount+, another season of Love is Blind, and four straight-to-streaming films: Netflix’s Sacrifice (starring Chris Evens, Anya-Taylor-Joy, Vincent Cassel, John Malkovich, Salma Hayek. Charlie XCX), Apple TV’s Tenzing (starring Tom Hiddleston and Willem Defoe), Prime Video’s Love of Your Life (Margaret Qualley) and Masterplan (Stanley Tucci) and a whole lot more, somehow. Long term, here’s some huge IP news: a Game of Thrones movie is coming to theaters, Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest in 2029, while Jon Watts (who helmed three of the most recent Spider-Man movies) is directing the next Star Wars trilogy, to be written by Simon Kinberg. I’m cautiously optimistic for both. It feels obvious to say that making good movies matters, but for bets this big (Star Wars is on a swoon, Game of Thrones hasn’t been to theaters yet), the quality has to be there.

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Oct 20 • 6:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com
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ESPN moves Florida up in bowl projections after Texas upset

ESPN’s latest bowl projections have Florida facing Pitt in the Gator Bowl or Nebraska in the ReliaQuest Bowl after its win at Texas.

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Oct 20 • 7:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Netflix’s latest cliff-hanger? Where it’s headed as a business.

The streaming giant has shaken up its staffing and is looking to compete in an evolving entertainment landscape.

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Oct 22 • 6:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • nbcnews.com
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Nintendo Switch 2 Gets Its First Software-Only Jailbreak, With Help From OpenAI Codex

Sammy Hajhamid, a security researcher who goes by pepsipu online, has released ns2jb, a software-only jailbreak for the Nintendo Switch 2 that runs on the latest 23.0.1 firmware. To show it off, Hajhamid modded Mario Kart World, a Switch 2 exclusive, and also dropped Peter Griffin, Hatsune Miku,...

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Oct 22 • 1:53 PM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com
A timeline of Mike Causey’s sometimes-turbulent tenure as NC insurance chief

A look at Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey’s career as a second complaint about his behavior with women surfaces.

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Oct 21 • 1:14 PM EDT • Politics • newsobserver.com
FC Barcelona News: 20 October 2026

A round-up of the latest Barcelona news and rumors

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Oct 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
C.J. Stroud's Latest Performance Could Cost The Texans More Money
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Oct 20 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Health Care Roundup: Market Talk

Find insight on IHH Healthcare and more in the latest Market Talks covering Health Care.

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Oct 20 • 7:10 AM EDT • Health • wsj.com
Vikings Given 'Reality Check' on Latest Trade Deadline Rumors

Minnesota’s undefeated start sparks aggressive trade speculation, but experts warn the front office to prioritize long-term assets over fleeting rentals to sustain this unexpected championship window.

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Oct 22 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
JFK’s mistresses recall their ‘irresistible’ and ‘solicitous’ affairs with the president in new book

Laurence Leamer’s latest book, “Ladies Man: The Careless Heart of John F. Kennedy,” is available for purchase wherever books are sold.

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Oct 20 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Opinion: In D.C. Schools, How the Science of Reading Offers a Blueprint for Math

Students in the nation’s capital posted gains in math and reading for the fourth straight year, according to the results of statewide accountability tests released last month. It was the latest piece ...

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Oct 22 • 10:30 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Google Cloud, DeepMind, and the EU: A New Model for AI-Driven Science

Google's latest European research initiative signals a shift toward collaborative AI innovation, where technology developers provide the tools and scientific institutions establish the priorities for discovery.

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Oct 21 • 7:30 AM EDT • Science • cloudwars.com
Dal researcher Dr. Rita Orji named Fellow of the International Science Council

Latest international recognition caps a remarkable stretch of honours and recognition for the Dal computer scientist, who has emerged as a global leader in responsible and human-centred AI.

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Oct 22 • 7:30 AM EDT • Science • dal.ca
Duke Blows Past Tennessee in Exhibition Game

The Duke Blue Devils beat Tennessee easily in their latest exhibition game.

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Oct 20 • 11:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
California latest target in DOJ efforts to end public benefits fraud

High-ranking federal officials in recent days have touted the crackdowns across the country

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Oct 22 • 4:17 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
AI as the next political divide

We have a guest post today from our friends at Focaldata, with whom we have done polling before. They have been doing a lot of work on attitudes towards AI and how this is affecting politics on both sides of the Atlantic. In this post, they explore exclusive new polling – with a whole set of fascinating charts on how voters’ views are developing and why. In particular, the authors explore why the debate is currently so much more polarised by party in the US than in the UK, to the benefit of the Democrats. Subscribe Focaldata HQ is located in Shoreditch, east London. To access the office from the Shoreditch High Street Overground station, you have to walk under the bridge at Braithwaite Street. We mention this not as a navigational aid, but because the posters above caught our eye over the summer. Since June, the area has been the centre of a fiercely contested debate around the construction of a data centre on the Truman Brewery estate on Brick Lane, less than 200 metres from our office. It was one of the first ‘US-style’ protest movements around AI data centres the country has seen, and may not be the last. These protests served as the catalyst for our forthcoming report, examining whether AI could become the next political divide on both sides of the Atlantic. We wanted to understand what was driving the emerging politics of AI and whether the dynamics at play in the US offer clues as to how the British debate will evolve. Over the last month, we polled 3,851 people across the UK and US about their views on AI. Our research found striking similarities between the two countries: for instance, both electorates are evenly split on their views towards AI development, with just over a third in favour (37% in each country), a similar number opposed, and the remainder somewhere in the middle or unsure. Statistically speaking, there is no difference in overall sentiment towards AI between the UK and US. Under the hood, demographic patterns also look largely the same in the two countries, with millennials, degree holders, full-time workers and those who describe themselves as financially comfortable more pro-AI than the rest of the country. Despite this convergence in overall attitudes, there is a striking divergence in how much of a politicised issue AI has become. In the US, attitudes are increasingly split by political affiliation and the issue has become the latest front in the seemingly interminable culture war, playing a role in the upcoming midterms. This stark political polarisation of AI has not happened in the UK – at least not yet. In what follows, we test several hypotheses for why the two countries are so far apart on a political basis. Understanding which hypothesis is correct will give us an indication of where the British dynamics go next.

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Oct 22 • 4:43 AM EDT • Politics • samf.substack.com
The 2026 midterms are less than 2 weeks away. Which party has a better chance of winning? Here's what the latest polls say.

Trump's approval rating is going down. Democrats' lead on the generic ballot is going up. Could this be a "wave" election?

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Oct 21 • 9:14 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
UC Davis may develop new Lake Tahoe science and community hub. Here’s where

The university has entered into a partnership with Placer County to explore a new project at three underutilized county properties.

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Oct 20 • 5:55 PM EDT • Science • sacbee.com
‘Wildwood’ review: Laika’s stunningly animated epic is a visual wonder

"Wildwood," the latest release from stop-motion studio Laika, shines bright visually. Its story, though, is quite a bit darker, writes our reviewer.

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Oct 20 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Cleveland office vacancy hits record high: report

Newmark’s latest report shows the sector ended August with a vacancy rate of 25.2%, which the firm says is an all-time high for the city's core.

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Oct 20 • 1:24 PM EDT • Business • crainscleveland.com
Netflix’s latest cliff-hanger? Where it’s headed as a business.

The streaming giant has shaken up its staffing and is looking to compete in an evolving entertainment landscape.

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Oct 22 • 6:00 PM EDT • Business • nbcnews.com
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Trump sued over Canadian tariffs in latest legal challenge

The lawsuit argues the White House exceeded its authority in imposing the latest tariffs on the country and caused "immediate harm to American businesses".

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Oct 20 • 3:30 PM EDT • Business • bbc.com
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9NEWS

KUSA (9NEWS Denver) is your source for breaking news, Colorado weather, traffic, and live coverage in Denver and across the Front Range. Get the latest updates from the 9NEWS team -- from major local headlines and investigations to severe weather, community stories and the moments everyone’s talking about. Watch live newscasts, stream breaking coverage and catch up on the top stories shaping Denver, Boulder, Aurora, Fort Collins and all of Colorado. Subscribe for: • Denver breaking news + live updates • Colorado weather forecasts, snowstorms and severe weather alerts • Investigations and accountability reporting • Community stories across the Front Range • Major events, sports and local explainers KUSA / 9NEWS Denver -- Colorado news and weather, live and on demand. 🔗 More: https://www.9news.com

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Oct 19 • 9:43 PM EDT • Business • youtube.com
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WKYC (Cleveland) is your source for breaking news, Northeast Ohio weather, traffic, and live coverage in Cleveland and across the region. Get the latest updates from the WKYC team — from major local headlines and investigations to severe weather, community stories, and the moments everyone’s talking about. Watch live newscasts, stream breaking coverage, and catch up on the top stories shaping Cleveland, Akron, Canton, and surrounding communities. Subscribe for: • Cleveland breaking news + live updates • Northeast Ohio weather forecasts and severe weather alerts • Investigations and accountability reporting • Community stories across the region • Major events, sports, and local explainers WKYC — Cleveland news and weather, live and on demand. 🔗 More: https://www.wkyc.com/

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Oct 21 • 4:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • youtube.com
Atrium and State Health Plan are clashing over NC benefits. Get up to speed.

A tiered network fight escalated into a lawsuit and an out-of-network move — all while 750,000 members were trying to pick a plan.

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Oct 22 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • newsobserver.com
COROS DURA 2 SOLAR Review: Big Upgrade, Bigger Price

Neil's latest review digs into his experience with the COROS DURA 2 Solar, a new bike computer that claims to improve on the first model...

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Oct 22 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • bikepacking.com
Android 17 QPR3 Beta 2 Released for Pixel Phones

Google released Android 17 QPR3 Beta 2 to all of its still-supported Pixel devices today. If you own a Pixel 6a up through the new Pixel 11 series, you can get an update with fresh software. This latest update has at least 20 fixes and improvements, which is welcome to see. The first QPR3 Beta...

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Oct 20 • 4:36 PM EDT • Technology • droid-life.com
ID@XBOX x IGN Showcase Recap: All the News and Announcements

We've just wrapped up another fantastic ID@XBOX and IGN Showcase, bringing the latest news and updates on many brilliant indie titles heading to XBOX.

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Oct 20 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • news.xbox.com
Catching up with sleep health supplements: A roundup of the latest science

Sleep has moved from a lifestyle concern to a core measure of health, as inadequate sleep affects a substantial share of adults and often occurs alongside chronic stress, undermining health, well-being and performance across sleep-wake cycles and life domains.

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Oct 21 • 8:20 AM EDT • Science • nutraingredients.com
Foldables are about to get huge

iPhone Duo demand meets a long delivery queue, giving Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 an opening. Plus the latest Google and Android news.

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Oct 20 • 7:00 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
Tacoma Dome eatery gets 60 red points. Here are Oct. 12 Pierce Co. food scores

Seven food establishments received 35 or more red points last week, which means they must be reinspected by the Health Department.

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Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • thenewstribune.com
Photos: President Trump stumps for SC candidates in Clemson.

Photos: President Trump stumps for SC candidates in Clemson.

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Oct 21 • 4:33 PM EDT • Politics • thestate.com
UNC’s student-led ‘nonpartisan’ politics institute argues with Democrats online

Commenters were swift to point out how the institute’s comments might be at odds with its nonpartisan mission.

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Oct 21 • 4:39 PM EDT • Politics • newsobserver.com
Stream CW Sports Videos on Watch ESPN

Stream the latest CW Sports videos on Watch ESPN. Your streaming home for all CW Sports events - NASCAR, WWE NXT, College Football/Basketball and more.

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Oct 22 • 6:27 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com
AMD is bringing FSR 4.1 to Xbox consoles and handhelds

AMD’s latest upscaling tech is also coming to laptops, 6000-series GPUs, and handhelds.

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Oct 20 • 12:21 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Women’s Health Wednesday: Protecting against the measles

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – As New York has declared a statewide emergency with measles spreading through rural parts of the state, we are taking a closer look at this latest outbreak as part of …

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Oct 21 • 2:05 PM EDT • Health • news10.com
Andrew Thomas’ latest update leaves the Giants waiting

John Harbaugh didn’t declare Andrew Thomas or Jermaine Eluemunor ready for Houston on Monday. He said both tackles, along with […]

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Oct 20 • 3:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
With ‘Wildwood,’ Laika’s stop-motion magic returns to the PNW

The animation studio's latest film, the Pacific Northwest-set "Wildwood," opens in theaters this week. Here's how the magic happened.

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Oct 21 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Could Steelers Snatch Pro Bowl WR From Latest Opponent?

The Pittsburgh Steelers could acquire another playmaker from one of their recent opponents. The Pittsburgh Steelers are once again in […]

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Oct 20 • 6:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
John Turturro on Hollywood, Oscars and getting better with age

Stealing the spotlight in his latest movie, ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.’ the quintessential indie actor reflects on a career spent following his instincts.

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Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
When the Miniature Railroad added a library, did a ghost tag along?

If lights turn themselves on or keys go missing at the Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin Science Center, staffers might look to the latest addition to the...

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Oct 21 • 4:00 AM EDT • Science • post-gazette.com
Earn up to $4,300 in travel with the latest Capital One Venture X Business card offer

This Capital One Venture X Business card welcome bonus is more valuable than any previous offer for this card.

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Oct 20 • 3:15 PM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
Christian Horner reveals Red Bull talks with Lewis Hamilton management before telling Mercedes' Niki Lauda to sign British driver

Christian Horner joins Simon Lazenby on the latest episode of Sky Sports The F1 Show Podcast to reveal all on Red Bull talks with Lewis Hamilton before the latter joined Mercedes and his thoughts on Kimi Antonelli, who could become world champion this Sunday at the United States GP

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Oct 21 • 2:00 AM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
Jaxson Dart is Officially on Notice After Giants' Latest Decision

New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart may have to watch his back.

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Oct 21 • 3:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
An exploding baseball and a smashed guitar. What went down at Modesto’s State Theatre

The winners of the annual MAMA Awards were announced Tuesday.

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Oct 21 • 1:57 PM EDT • Entertainment • modbee.com
Trump takes transactional politics to a new level at latest campaign rally

Trump effectively told Kansans he’s prepared to hurt the state on purpose if he dislikes an election result, which is every bit as remarkable as it sounds.

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Oct 20 • 10:58 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
Apple explains new Safari ad tracking privacy restrictions

Apple's latest privacy crackdown is rattling the online ad industry. And it isn't backing down.

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Oct 20 • 2:24 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
ABB says data centre business booming, Q3 figures in line with forecasts

ABB ​is continuing to see a boom in ‌spending on data centres ⁠used ​to power ⁠artificial intelligence, the ‌engineering group ‌said on Tuesday, as ⁠it ⁠reported its latest earnings.

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Oct 20 • 1:04 AM EDT • Business • ksl.com
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USA TODAY Sports/AVCA Super 25 girls volleyball rankings, late October

These 25 girls high school volleyball teams top the nation in the latest USA TODAY/AVCA poll.

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Oct 22 • 5:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Kenya Confirms New Ebola Case, Total at Nine, Health Ministry Says

NAIROBI, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Kenya ⁠has ⁠confirmed a new ⁠Ebola case, bringing the total number of infections to nine, the health ministry ‌said on Tuesday. The ministry ‌said the latest case was ⁠a close ⁠family member of the first patient and had already been placed in quarantine. "All nine cases ...

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Oct 20 • 11:36 AM EDT • Health • usnews.com
Too Lost’s latest expansion is a deal with Xelon Entertainment

Distributor and tech firm Too Lost's ambitions in the APAC region continue. It acquired Australian distributor and artist-services company Gyro·Group in July, and now it has announced a partnership with another distributor, Xelon Entertainment.

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Oct 20 • 8:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • musically.com
Watch: Science Sunday With Kenrich

Watch this latest video | Oklahoma City Thunder

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Oct 19 • 8:35 PM EDT • Science • nba.com
Nigeria confirms an Ebola case in Abuja as a woman arriving from Uganda tests positive

Nigeria is the latest country to report an Ebola case as the outbreak spreads across the region. Kenya confirmed its first case earlier this month and has since recorded nine infections.

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Oct 20 • 4:19 PM EDT • Health • npr.org
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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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Liverpool Injury News: Szoboszlai, Munoz, and Frimpong Latest

Liverpool fans have been provided with a series of fitness updates following the team's pre-Brighton training session this morning. Multiple players face a race against time to be fit for the weekend's Premier League clash, with others set for longer layoffs.

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11 things to do around the Seattle area this weekend

From cheap meal deals to one last ride at Wild Waves, here are the latest local things to do around the Seattle area.

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Student-produced film captures Ireland sports experience | UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

The documentary created by a UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media team premieres on campus Oct. 22 and Oct. 23. — This story, written by UNC Hussman alumnus Michael Lananna ’14, was originally published at unc.edu. — Carolina senior Anna Laible came up with the idea about a year ago. At the annual UNC Sports and Entertainment Summit, the journalism student walked up to then-athletic director Bubba Cunningham and took a chance. “Hi, Bubba, I’m not sure if you remember me, but I’m part of the student broadcast team from the Olympics,” Laible told him. “I have this idea to do an Ireland documentary on the football team.” Encouraged by the enthusiastic response to the proposal, Laible and a team of students from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media worked diligently to turn that vision into reality. In August, Laible and seven peers traveled to Dublin, Ireland, with the Carolina football team and women’s soccer team. Equipped with video cameras, the student journalists covered both teams during their international games — both wins — and filmed scenes throughout Dublin, interviewing Irish locals, Tar Heel fans and key Carolina figures who helped make the trip possible. Back home, Laible’s team put the finishing touches on the documentary, with its first screening at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 22-23 in Carroll Hall room 111. The project is the latest in a long line of sports documentaries produced under the guidance of C.A. Tuggle, John H. Stembler Jr. Distinguished Professor. Since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Tuggle and the Hussman school have sent journalism students to cover each of the Summer Games, and Tuggle’s students have also produced documentaries on Carolina teams that win national championships. But this Ireland excursion presented a new kind of opportunity. “This trip is really unique,” Tuggle said. “Bubba liked the idea, so we started working on it, and it’s all because Anna was forward-thinking and assertive.” Laible’s team worked to create a holistic depiction of the Dublin trip, billed as “Much More Than a Game.” The documentary’s 12 chapters cover Irish culture, music, trips to the Guiness Storehouse and the myriad connections between Tar Heels and Ireland. “Our main focus was to make sure we gave a whole encompassing idea of what this experience was like,” Laible said. “We wanted to show not just the student-athletes, but other students, other Carolina fans, Carolina alumni, the music and really incorporate that all in the documentary.” Joining Laible in Dublin were juniors Emily Brietz, Cooper Hall, Eliza Jennings and Katherine McCullough and seniors Molly Malek, May Proctor and Merrily Tew. Those students also traveled to Milan for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in February. Those kinds of opportunities wouldn’t be possible without the support of UNC Hussman and, in the case of the Ireland trip, the Carolina athletic department. UNC Hussman students create Ireland trip documentary. (Submitted photo) “Never in a million years did I think I would have the opportunity to go to the Olympics or to the Aer Lingus College Football Classic, and now I’m even being presented with potential opportunities go to the Super Bowl,” said Malek, who served in a leadership role with Laible in Dublin. “I think that Carolina does a terrific job of connecting us to these opportunities that almost no other university does. This is a university where you have the opportunity to have an interdisciplinary education and to learn and experience a lot of things all at once.” With the support of UNC Hussman, Tuggle and fellow students like Malek, Laible turned a spur-of-the-moment idea into a documentary. When the film screens, Laible said she’s not quite sure what emotions to expect. “I’m a little worried that I might cry — not that crying is a bad thing,” Laible said, laughing. “But I’m really grateful for so many people helping, and I’m excited for everyone to see it.”

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Chiefs News: Mecole Hardman signs with Colts practice squad

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

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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.

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FC Barcelona News: 22 October 2026

A round-up of the latest Barcelona news and rumors

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Israel on the ballot: Moskowitz, Singer battle for Jewish vote in new FL district

For a solid thirty minutes, the candidates defended their honor as the race’s most pro-Israel candidate.

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Houston Texans Adding Homegrown Cornerback: ‘Smooth Operator’

The Houston Texans are set to bring in local product and rookie cornerback Collin Wright in their latest roster adjustment. The post Houston Texans Adding Homegrown Cornerback: ‘Smooth Operator’ appeared first on HEAVY.

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Shader Compilation Stutter Begone: Nvidia's Latest GPU Drivers Finally Add Advanced Shader Delivery

Now AMD, Qualcomm and Nvidia all support the tech - with Intel coming soon.

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Are partisan politics even changing up our accents? They just might be, y’all

Vowels have become the latest players in partisan politics, a barometer of how beliefs and values fit within the old vs. new South.

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Oct 20 • 8:39 AM EDT • Politics • theconversation.com
Trump Says Data Centers Must Provide Their Own Electricity

The move is the president’s latest attempt to address widespread opposition to the AI boom ahead of the midterm elections.

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Is Mold in Coffee a Real Problem? Here Is What the Science Says Before You Panic

Is mold in your morning coffee actually a problem? Food scientists say probably not and here is why.

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AU report raises red flags on these Ga. health problems

The 2026 “Healthy Georgia: Our State of Public Health” report, produced by the Institute of Public and Preventive Health, compiles the latest available numbers on 31 health topics.

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Google says Chrome’s Safe Browsing Enhanced Protection mode makes users 10x safer

Chrome today announced the latest features for Safe Browsing Enhanced Protection. Google says this mode makes users ten times safe...

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Former NC GOP Senate candidate sues Wake schools over access to public records

Wake says it would take 703 hours of staff time at a cost of $15,395 to process the public records request from Scott Lassiter.

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Nvidia’s latest GPU driver brings a new way to speed up PC games

Microsoft’s new Advanced Shader Delivery technology is now part of Nvidia’s drivers.

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49ers overreactions: Are Eddy Piñeiro's misses creating another kicker problem?

NBC Sports Bay Area's Matt Maiocco responds to the latest 49ers overreactions from San Francisco's Week 6 win over the Washington Commanders.

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Twice’s Jihyo officially leaves JYP Entertainment after 21 years

The 29-year-old singer announced on Wednesday (Oct 21) that she will be departing her longtime agency, JYP Entertainment, making her the latest Twice member to do so.

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How the Trump administration’s crackdown on international students could affect the economy

A new proposed $70,000 fee for international students who are seeking to work in the U.S. after graduation is the latest Trump administration policy targeting scholars from abroad.

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Podcast: James Wood's Monster 2026 Season on Washington Nationals

On the latest episode of the DC Roundtable Podcast diving into the Washington Nationals, we discuss James Wood's monster season and what that means for the future

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This election ‘may break our campaign finance laws,’ warns Idaho secretary of state

Opponents of Proposition 1 have been particularly noncompliant, the secretary of state says.

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How much longer will Sacramento’s progressive politics let Califia suffer?

“Cali is dying on the streets because there is no way...to help her.”

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Section V girls soccer tournament scores: Small school playoffs begin

Here are the latest scores, stats and recaps from the Section V girls soccer playoffs.

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Oct 21 • 12:13 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Microsoft is now scaling back Copilot in Windows 11 amid Microslop backlash, pulling 8 AI actions from File Explorer and calling it “simplifying”

Microsoft says it's retiring "Copilot actions" from the File Explorer context menu, which it recently began rolling out.

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Oct 20 • 5:45 PM EDT • Technology • windowslatest.com
UK unemployment rate falls in pre-budget boost, but firms keep cutting vacancies

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

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Oct 20 • 2:17 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com
Buccaneers Again a Bottom-5 Team in NFL Power Rankings

Tampa Bay is once again a bottom-5 team in NFL power rankings after its latest loss.

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Oct 20 • 9:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sacramento news roundup: ICE incident, seized business and energy rank

From a congressman's call for ICE accountability to a State Bar raid that hauled off 14 boxes of files, here's what's driving Sacramento conversation.

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Oct 20 • 7:07 PM EDT • Business • sacbee.com
Live updates: Trump to rally for Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina

Live updates and the latest news as Trump rallies for Darline Graham in South Carolina and the candidates for Senate in Michigan and Kansas and governor in Wisconsin debate.

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Oct 21 • 7:27 AM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Iowa football ascends in latest USA TODAY Sports 1-138 re-rank

Despite having a bye week, the Hawkeyes saw themselves rise in the newest USA TODAY Sports 1-138 re-rank.

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Oct 22 • 5:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bigfoot to Bojangles: How a Charlotte family built a business on make-believe

Long before the store became a Charlotte fixture, it started with a phone call, a rack of costumes and a couple willing to take a chance.

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Oct 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • charlotteobserver.com
Okpareke’s ads don’t add up on her federal campaign finance report

By Kevin Hendricks — Didi Okpareke’s congressional campaign paid for Facebook and Instagram ads that popped up on screens more than 150,000 times this summer, mostly in New Mexico. Her latest federal campaign finance report says she spent nothing. The Republican nominee for New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District spent between $500 and $599 on several […]

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Oct 22 • 4:23 PM EDT • Politics • nmpoliticalreport.com
Latest threat to democracy: Politicians bullying journalists

When officials refuse to answer questions they aren’t simply disrespecting journalists. They are disrespecting the citizens those journalists serve.

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Oct 22 • 11:15 AM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
Excessive Litigation Undermines Small Business Growth, Innovation and Opportunity - Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council

By Karen Kerrigan – America’s small businesses are remarkably resilient. They continue to navigate rising costs, economic challenges, robust competition, rapidly changing markets and workforce gaps while continuing to invest, innovate, and serve their customers. SBE Council’s latest Small Business Outlook Survey (October 2026) revealed that 81% of small business owners said their business is […]

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Oct 21 • 7:53 PM EDT • Business • sbecouncil.org
Kansas City Chiefs React to Patrick Mahomes’ Career News

The Kansas City Chiefs have another reason to celebrate Patrick Mahomes after the franchise quarterback reached a career milestone that places him alongside one of the NFL’s greatest players. His latest achievement reinforces his remarkable consistency and highlights how quickly he has established himself among the league’s elite signal-callers. Mahomes tied Tom Brady for the […] The post Kansas City Chiefs React to Patrick Mahomes’ Career News appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.

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Oct 21 • 9:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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This concert was going to be the last at Red Hat as we know it. Now it’s canceled

It’s the end of an era. Here’s what to know about the final show and ticket refunds.

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Oct 21 • 7:57 AM EDT • Entertainment • newsobserver.com
Stranger Than Heaven: The Final Preview of the Yakuza Team’s Ambitious, Decades-Spanning Action-Adventure

in a new three-hour demo, I got to play Stranger Than Heaven from the start, see a bit of its decade-spanning story in action, and explore the different towns that represent each time period. That also meant getting real familiar with how to throw hands in the re-tuned combat, and it feels like I've done a complete 180-degree turn on RGG Studio's next game. Meaning, I’m now all-in on the Yakuza team’s latest.

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Oct 21 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
The week in politics (Oct. 21, 2026)

On Wednesday's show: We preview this week's debate between candidates for Harris County Judge. And we discuss the latest developments in politics.

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Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • houstonpublicmedia.org
NFL Legend Tom Brady Makes Clear Choice Between Patriots, Bills

Tom Brady ranked the 4-2 New England Patriots higher than the 5-1 Buffalo Bills in his latest NFL power rankings.

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Oct 21 • 10:17 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Here’s 1 way to stop some of the political texts you receive before the election

Unfortunately, you still may see the campaign ads on television no matter what.

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Oct 22 • 1:01 PM EDT • Politics • thestate.com
PS5 console jailbreak on latest 14.10 firmware shared before GTA 6 release date

PlayStation may have hoped it would take longer to compromise the current 14.10 firmware. However, a homebrew developer has found a way to exploit Sony's software. The PS5 console jailbreak could enable piracy of games like GTA 6 that require the update.

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Oct 19 • 10:04 PM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net
KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Fall 2026 Update on Vaccine Views

The latest KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust finds about half of parents mistakenly believe spacing out vaccines is healthier for children, while confidence in many long-standing childhood vaccines is high across partisans. These findings take on new relevance following President Trump's recent executive order calling for changes in U.S. childhood vaccine recommendations, including splitting the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine—currently given as a single combined shot—into three separate vaccines across multiple visits.

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Oct 20 • 8:30 AM EDT • Health • kff.org
Trump takes transactional politics to a new level at latest campaign rally

Trump effectively told Kansans he’s prepared to hurt the state on purpose if he dislikes an election result, which is every bit as remarkable as it sounds.

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Oct 20 • 10:58 AM EDT • Politics • ms.now