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Video: Elden Ring Gameplay Showcase Released Ahead Of Switch 2 Launch
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Bill Rasmussen, sports TV visionary and founder of ESPN, dies at 93
Bill Rasmussen, whose vision and ambition fueled the 1979 launch of ESPN as the world's first 24-hour television network, died Tuesday. He was 93.
Bill Rasmussen, sports TV visionary and founder of ESPN, dies at 93
Bill Rasmussen, whose vision and ambition fueled the 1979 launch of ESPN as the world's first 24-hour television network, died Tuesday. He was 93.
Control Resonant Developer Announces Last-Minute Delay For Physical Edition
Control Resonant has been hit by a last-minute delay that will impact the launch of its physical editions.
Bill Rasmussen, sports TV visionary and founder of ESPN, dies at 93
Bill Rasmussen, whose vision and ambition fueled the 1979 launch of ESPN as the world's first 24-hour television network, died Tuesday. He was 93.
Mortal Shell II's achievement list has been revealed
The Mortal Shell II Xbox achievements have been revealed, offering you a glimpse at what is required of you before the game launches this week.
Pixel 11 Pre-Orders Begin Shipping
For those of you who jumped on those Pixel 11 pre-order deals, there's a good chance that your devices have shipped, right on time. With it being August 18 and launch date less than 48 hours away...
CMS announces QualTech event focusing on innovative technology to improve health outcomes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday announced the launch of QualTech, a new event created to identify innovative technology that improves health outcomes. CMS is seeking participants from U.S-based teams, academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, private sector companies, industry associations and other stakeholders to propose technology solutions in advance of the event.
UNC Health Launches UNC Health Ventures, Marking Next Phase of Strategic Investment Platform
New initiative builds on Rex Health Ventures’ legacy to advance system-wide innovation, partnerships and long-term value.
Order of the Sinking Star launches October 8
Narrative puzzle adventure game Order of the Sinking Star will launch for PlayStation 5, Switch 2, and PC via Steam on October 8, publisher Arc Games and developer Thekla announced. A demo is avail…
Huntington Bank Launches National Business for Community Associations and Management Partners
/PRNewswire/ -- Huntington National Bank has launched a national specialty group focused on providing community associations and their management partners with...
Labcorp and NACHC Launch Strategic Alliance to Strengthen Health Center Leadership and Advance Community Health
/PRNewswire/ -- Labcorp (NYSE: LH), a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, and the National Association of Community Health...
Exclusive: You Can Finally Buy a Fairphone—a Sustainable, Repairable Smartphone—in the US
More than a decade after launching in Europe, the Netherlands company is now selling its repairable phones in the US, starting with the Fairphone (Gen 6+).
'We cannot survive in this landscape' — Sony CEO confirms the PS6 has no fixed launch date and it needs to 'take some action' as the RAM shortage continues
Sony CEO Hiroko Totoki has confirmed that the PlayStation 6 release date remains undecided due to the ongoing manufacturing component crisis and trade wars.
$500 Neko Health body scanner announces US launch
The $500 Neko Health scan is geared towards health-conscious consumers and longevity biohackers looking to collect their own data.
Work-from-home mandate led to ‘mass exodus’ of radiologists at 1 health system, OIG says
Veterans Affairs launched the probe last August after receiving reports that rad departures were causing care delays and imaging backlogs at the VA Washington DC Healthcare System.
Douglas County, Colorado launches plan to cut red tape, speed up business development
Douglas County, Colorado launches plan to cut red tape, speed up business development
Douglas County leaders have launched an initiative to reduce red tape and incentivize business development in the county.
Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action
Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate. In a short demo, a man holds a book up so the camera in the AirPods can see the title. "With Visual Intelligence, your world becomes savable. See something you like? Just ask me to save it for later," says the voiceover text.
The New Love Center and River Valley Health partner for Food Pharmacy
The New Love Center and River Valley Health held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the launch of their Food Pharmacy, a partnership with the goal of delivering nutritious foods to clients using the facility. The project had been in the works for roughly six months when River Valley Health reached out to The New […]
University Place to become ‘entertainment district,’ allow alcohol on property
As University Place in Chapel Hill continues its redevelopment, the mall is preparing to launch an “entertainment district” that will allow customers to order alcoholic drinks to go and walk around the property. An entertainment district is a state-governed drinking area, whereas a social district is created by a local government with an ordinance, Aaron...
University Place to become ‘entertainment district’, allow alcohol on property
As University Place in Chapel Hill continues its redevelopment, the mall is preparing to launch an “entertainment district” that will allow customers to order alcoholic drinks to go and walk around the property. An entertainment district is a state-governed drinking area, whereas a social district is created by a local government with an ordinance, Aaron...
Douglas County launches strategy to become one of the nation's most business-ready communities
As headlines continue to raise alarms about Colorado’s business climate, Douglas County is charting a different course. Business leaders across the state have warned that increasing regulatory complexity and unpredictable…
Northeastern Graduates Launch Tubender, a New Business in Bedford
Jaison Patel and Joshua Baum launched the business based on a Capstone project.
Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users and editors explain their song picks
Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories and reasoning behind their favorite music. Editors will be using the feature, too, on top playlists like RapCaviar and others.
Science Club For Girls highlights opportunities for women in STEM
The Science Club for Girls focuses on teaching girls about opportunities in STEM and training them on the skills they need to grow a career.
UAlbany Athletics Launches New and Improved Mobile App
Stay connected to your favorite Great Dane teams with the newly updated UAlbany Sports app, the official mobile app of UAlbany Athletics, powered by SIDEARM Sports.
Indiana working to preserve local businesses across ownership changes
The recently launched “Keep IN” initiative is focusing on a “silver tsunami” of retiring company owners.
iPhone 18 Pro: Six new features are coming next month
Here are six new features rumored for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, both of which will launch next month at Apple’s September event.
Sonos just launched Live Activities on iPhone
The Sonos app on iPhone just added a big new feature: Live Activities. Here are the details on how they work.
Sinclair's AMP Sports Expands College Football Podcast Slate with THE RIVERSIDE: A Podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers
Produced in Partnership with Fox 17 Nashville, The Riverside to Launch on August 25 with hosts Phillip Fulmer, Erik Ainge, and Fred White BALTIMORE – August 17, 2026 – Sinclair's AMP Sports today announced the launch of THE RIVERSIDE: A Podcast on the University of Tennessee Volunteers, continuing the expansion of its growing portfolio of...
EY turns internships into residencies as AI changes entry-level work
EY is launching a months long residency to train young consultants on the skills they will need for the AI era.
Abbott and NACHC launch nationwide Food for Health initiative to make nutritious food a core part of healthcare
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New Applied AI major prepares students to lead in an AI-powered world
To prepare students for a future transformed by AI, William & Mary is launching a new major in Applied AI.
TCG Card Shop Simulator gets full 1.0 launch next month
Xbox Game Pass' addictively good TCG Card Shop Simulator is getting its full 1.0 launch next month, adding a highly requested feature.
Business split over whether SBTi’s new net-zero standard will boost action or dilute ambition
Five years since its initial launch, the Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) flagship Net Zero Standard has undergone its first major update, prompting a mixed response from the climate community.
Acer intros new MacBook Neo rival with 120Hz display and Thunderbolt 4 ports
There's a new configuration available for the Acer Go Air, and this new MacBook Neo rival is powered by an Intel Wildcat Lake processor, the Core 5 320. It also sports a 120Hz display and Thunderbolt 4 ports. The launch price is CNY 5,499, about $815.
Disinformation tracker maps declining confidence in science and public health
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, false claims about “US-run biolabs” began circulating almost immediately through Russian state
Final UI for Googlebook ‘Desktop Camera’ app revealed [Gallery]
Ahead of the Googlebook launch this fall, we now have a full look at the Desktop Camera application that will...
Satellite operators emphasize launch deals in a constrained market
Amid a constrained launch market, satellite operators are increasingly emphasizing to investors and customers that they have lined up launch capacity.
The Scientists Who Want to Steer Hurricanes
Over the weekend, Hawaii was lashed by Hurricane Lala, which has washed away homes, left more than 125,000 people without power, shut down two of the state’s busiest airports, threatened dangerous flash flooding and, at time of writing, has killed one person. What if we could’ve steered the storm away from Hawaii, into the vast expanse of the empty Pacific Ocean that lies all around the islands—where no one could get hurt? This scenario might sound like the stuff of science fiction. But earlier this year, a peer-reviewed study published by the Public Library of Science found that it might be possible, and sooner than we think. The study was titled: “Weather Jiu-Jitsu: Prospects for atmospheric nudging to defuse the impact of catastrophic weather extremes.” According to the paper, the controversial practice of cloud seeding could enable human beings to make hurricanes change direction. The potential results could be astounding: The authors suggested that Hurricane Sandy, which in New York City alone killed 44 people and caused $19 billion of damage in 2012, could’ve been diverted by 200 miles, missing the metropolis entirely. Cloud seeding, which first succeeded in the U.S. in 1946, is a practice whereby small particles—for example, dry ice, silver iodide, or salt—are dropped into clouds, causing moisture to condense into precipitation. In the 1960s, the U.S. government launched Project Stormfury, an experiment that saw Navy pilots flying into the heart of a hurricane, dodging winds over a hundred miles per hour, to cloud-seed inside it, in the hope of reducing the storm’s power. “The seeding,” the theory went, “would stimulate the formation of a new eyewall that would surround the existing eyewall. The new eyewall would contract, strangling the old eyewall and reducing the intensity of the hurricane.”
Duck King gameplay trailer released for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, and he'll be dancing on the stage with his chicks next week
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is continuing its breakneck pace for DLC character launches here in Season 3 following Rick Strowd last month.Now it's finally Duck King's time to shine after many years on the sidelines ...
Gloucester CPA launches business founder-focused podcast
The profit and performance adviser said many of her clients’ revenue would grow, but the founders running the businesses were “stuck in the weeds.”
LeBron James reunites with 2016 Cavaliers teammates for surprising new project
LeBron James is taking his talents from the hardwood to the golf course, launching a new YouTube venture with an unforgettable 2016 Cavaliers reunion in Scotland.
MUSC Health Orangeburg launches mobile mammography unit
MUSC Health Orangeburg will celebrate the launch of a new mobile mammography unit next week, bringing breast cancer screenings directly to patients in the region.
LSU New Orleans hires ex-NOPD chief; PR vet launches own firm; new staff at education nonprofit
Take a look at some of the recent promotions and new hires announced at south Louisiana businesses.
Timeline: Santa Fe's Mobile Integrated Health Office and Alternative Response Unit
A look at the launch, development of and changes to the Santa Fe Fire Department's Mobile Integrated Health Office and Alternative Response Unit.
Sports Final: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sports Writer Daniel Guerrero On Joshua Baez’s Historic Debut
ST. LOUIS – We’ve never seen this before. Joshua Báez made MLB history at Wrigley Field, launching three home runs in his Cardinals debut and becoming the first player ever to homer in each of his first three career at-bats. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Cardinals Writer Daniel Guerrero joined Sports Final to break down this historic […]
Cincinnati health center expands amid double-digit growth
The health collaborative also will launch Tidal Health, a 12-month individualized healthspan program.
MacBook Neo 2 Release Date Will Boost Apple’s Spring Sales
The MacBook Neo 2 is expected to launch in Spring 2027 alongside the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e. It's another step by Apple to split its professional and consumer hardware.
Deals: Pixel 11 series goes on pre-order, Galaxy Z8 foldables and S26 models drop prices
The new Pixels will be available from August 20, but Samsung is already trying to undercut the newcomers. Google launched its new Pixel 11 series earlier...
What investors say went wrong at Selena Gomez's mental health startup
Selena Gomez launched the startup in 2021 alongside her mother, Mandy Teefey, and Daniella Pierson, a business partner.
What investors say went wrong at Selena Gomez's mental health startup
Selena Gomez launched the startup in 2021 alongside her mother, Mandy Teefey, and Daniella Pierson, a business partner.
‘He had magnetism’: Lula returns to site of political origins to launch fourth-term campaign
Brazil’s president was union chief who led metalworkers’ strikes of 1979-80 that paved the way for return of democracy
Scientists simulating ant swarms find a 'first mover' can set the colony in motion
In ant colonies, a single ant can be the catalyst for a wave of mob activity, launching brief bursts of coordinated movement involving hundreds or even thousands of swarming workers, according to new ...
5 Small Business Ideas You Can Launch for Less Than $5,000
There are plenty of small business ideas with less than $5,000 in startup costs. Just ask the Inc. 5000 CEOs.
ICYMI: here's the week's 7 biggest tech news stories from the Google Pixel 11 launch to Honor's revolutionary Robot Phone
Here's your firmware update for August 15, 2026
Santa Rosa launches downtown pilot program aimed at boosting local businesses
Santa Rosa kicked off a pilot program Friday night to bring life back into the downtown area. The goal is to help local businesses keep their doors open and flourish. But it's also an opportunity to bring community back to the city.
Debbie Maue
Having worked remotely sporadically for 11 years, Debbie Maue says that splitting time between the action in Chicago and launching a development in Montana (“Landmark Whitefish” in Whitefish, Mont.) was a natural transition. She says that she’d already been doing FaceTime and recorded video tours for almost two years prior to the shutdowns, and as a result, sees virtually “walking through” a property as natural as an in-person tour. She is president of Real Estate to the Rescue and chair of Chicago Association of Realtors International Committee.
‘My form of Zionism’: Jerusalem nonprofit helps new olim build businesses in Israel
MATI Jerusalem gives new immigrants the guidance, tools, and confidence they need to launch successful businesses and keep them growing.
Launch Family Entertainment in Denton targets fall opening date
An air basketball arena, dodgeball, soft play area, trampoline courts and bouldering wall will be some of the attractions found at the center.
MVNU launches online Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology
MOUNT VERNON — Mount Vernon Nazarene University has launched its Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology (MS-SLP), a graduate program featuring fully online coursework and extensive clinical training to prepare the next generation of skilled speech-language pathologists. Offered through MVNU’s College of Adult and Professional Studies, the program prepares students to diagnose and treat a […]
‘Very outdated’: Trump’s directive to revert to steam catapults on new aircraft carrier baffles naval experts
President Donald Trump has directed the US Navy to scrap the modern electromagnetic launch system on an upcoming aircraft carrier and instead revert to an older, steam-powered catapult method — potentially adding billions to its price tag and delaying its deployment into the late 2030s.
University Honors Health Fellows Program to Expand Student Opportunity and Strengthen Tennessee’s Healthcare Workforce
UT Knoxville in partnership with UTHS is launching the University Honors Health Fellows Program in fall 2026 to bolster Tennessee’s healthcare workforce.
UT Austin Launches 5-Year Engineering-Business Degree With McCombs B-School
UT Austin’s new five-year Cockrell-McCombs honors program lets students earn an engineering bachelor’s and specialized business master’s degree.
Epic launches new diagnostic image exchange
Clinicians can now retrieve diagnostic-quality images from other health systems and patients can "ditch the disc," the company says. Next up: The healthcare IT giant wants TEFCA to adopt it as a standard.
Gemini app gets 3.7 Flash & setting to turn off corner media watermarks
When Gemini 3.7 Flash launched yesterday morning, Google said it was just powering the Spark agent in the Gemini app. The updated model...
New Listen Up Florida campaign warns of hearing loss risks
Florida launches the Listen Up Florida campaign to encourage hearing loss prevention and regular evaluations.
Unforgetful is a new app from the creator of Overcast that enhances Apple Reminders
Overcast developer Marco Arment just launched a brand-new app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Called Unforgetful, the new task-management app...
Google has another Pixel 11 discount for up to $175 off, here’s where to find it
Following a collection of discount codes that were sent out ahead of the Pixel 11 launch this week, Google has...
Trump orders Navy to use older system of launching jets off aircraft carriers
The new mandate would likely cost billions of dollars and revert the Navy's most advanced ships to a system that takes more sailors to operate and is more difficult to maintain
IRC launches health, child protection response as Colombia earthquake death toll rises
As search and rescue efforts continue following the deadly earthquake in western Colombia, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has launched a response to assist the most vulnerable communities, including children.
Florida State University Launches Quantum Science and Technology Graduate Certificate
Florida State University launches a graduate certificate in quantum science and technology covering quantum computing and engineering.
Small Businesses Despise Trump’s Tariffs
Mere hours after the Trump administration's latest tariff scheme launched on July 24, the government was sued again by the same small businesses that had already defeated prior White House tariff shenanigans, most notably at the Supreme Court. As Bloomberg Law reported, these companies are part of an “increasingly vocal cohort of business owners who emerged as the face of mom-and-pop tariff resistance.” What about Walmart Inc., Ford Motor Co. and the other titans of corporate America paying many
Epic launches new one-click feature allowing outside hospitals to share medical images without CDs
The Verona, Wisconsin-based vendor this month is rolling out its Care Everywhere Diagnostic Image Exchange across the Epic community.
New initiative set to help small businesses grow in El Paso's Mission Trail
El Paso’s Mission Trail small businesses are getting an SBA-funded boost as Rep. Veronica Escobar, the County, Revby, and EFO Media launch hands-on marketing and technical assistance, from workshops to 1-on-1 support.
iPhone 17 Pro One Year Later: What Held Up and What Didn't
We're getting close to the launch of new iPhone 18 Pro models that will replace the iPhone 17 Pro models, so MacRumors videographer Dan Barbera decided to take a look back at the iPhone he's been using for close to 12 months. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. Ceramic Shield 2 was the best iPhone upgrade this year. Apple said it's more resistant to scratches, and that turned out to be true.
RWJBarnabas Health Partners with NJ Department of Health to Launch “Stay well. learn well.” Vaccination and School Physical Init
RWJBarnabas Health is partnering with the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) to launch Stay Well. Learn Well., a comprehensive back-to-school initiative offering vaccinations and school physicals to help ensure children across the state begin the school year healthy, protected and ready to learn.
NEO BERLIN 2087 launches in 2028
Action RPG NEO BERLIN 2087 will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam in 2028, publisher ByteRockers’ Games and developer ELysium Game Studio announced.
I spent $100,000 testing my sock business idea
Allison Strumeyer says ordering 10,000 pairs of socks before launching doublesoul helped prove demand and gave her the confidence to build the company.
Google unveils Gemini 3.7 Flash AI model for coding, agent workflows
Alphabet's Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash on Thursday, its latest AI model designed for software coding and automated business tasks, but offered no details on when its flagship Pro model will be released.
Gemini 3.7 Flash launches three weeks after last model, live in Spark
Just three weeks after the last release, Google today announced Gemini 3.7 Flash, which continues the company's accelerated cadence.
Instagram Unveils New Logo and People Are Already Making Fun of It
Meta's Instagram proudly launched a new logo Thursday -- its first update in a decade -- and the trolling has already begun.
'Call Her Daddy' Host Alex Cooper's Unwell Beverage Business Is Shutting Down
The superstar podcaster launched a line of drinks in 2025 in partnership with Nestlé and sold at Target stores
AI needs science’s search history
“Actually, that’s where the gold is,” said Alasdair Russell, my graduate school friend who leads a pre-clinical genome editing group at Cambridge. He was talking about the winding road of science that is omitted from published papers. “When you’re discussing how to do the experiment, and why this way is better than another way, and what does the data really mean? I know what it shows, but what does it mean?” At RAAIS 2026, he described how his group has begun logging the twisting path of discovery as it happens, recording the verbal and written exchanges that normally disappear. Ideas become nodes in a living graph: they branch when a meeting produces two plausible experiments, merge when separate lines of evidence converge, and go dark when someone quietly stops pursuing them. In his implementation, one agent scores novelty, while another tries to learn “how scientists think and how they navigate through a complex world of data,” so that high-potential nodes can trigger deeper investigation. As frontier AI labs deploy agents toward scientific discovery, giving AI authentic scientific taste remains a trillion-dollar dilemma. The bottleneck is that the record we have kept for centuries of science might be insufficient to get us there. The experiments that never make the paper Peter Medawar, 1960 Nobel laureate and “father of transplantation,” asked in 1963 whether the scientific paper was a fraud, and answered yes: the form of the paper misrepresents the thinking that produced it. Sixty years on, the diagnosis is unchanged. A paper presents a clean progression from hypothesis to result to conclusion. Lost along the way are the unconventional theories, the abandoned or unaffordable methods, and the underwhelming and inconclusive data. It reads like a browser history with every dead end deleted: the ten open tabs, the four rephrased queries, the wrong turn down a subforum. All scrubbed, leaving one clean path from question to answer as the canonical path. What has changed since then is that the discarded material is now worth something. No high-impact journal wants these artifacts, but raw trial and error is the most likely source of the training data required to develop scientific intuition, or what researchers call taste. Earlier attempts to capture the discards were motivated by scientific integrity. The Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine launched in 2002 to publish rigorous studies that disputed established models or exposed ineffective treatments. Its archive preserved negative conclusions after they had become papers, rather than the live alternatives and arguments that produced them. BioMed Central closed it in 2017, saying the mission had been served now that other journals publish null results. A less generous reading is that in fifteen years it published around 200 papers because almost nobody wants to read a negative result, let alone write one up when it will not count toward academic tenure. AI models are different. Even an uninteresting negative result can be useful, provided it is labeled. Earlier this year, Anthropic put a version of this to the test. The company pulled 129 decision points from real Claude Code sessions between January and March 2026, showed models the work up to a human detour, and asked what should happen next. Claude Mythos Preview beat the human choice 64% of the time, while Opus 4.5 managed 51%. The comparison was tilted toward the models because Anthropic deliberately chose moments where the human decision had room for improvement. On 127 further scenarios where the human action was already strong, the models improved on it only about 20% of the time. The study was possible because Anthropic’s researchers work inside a tool that logs by default. The reasoning, detours and outcome are produced in the same working environment. Biology has no equivalent. Its reasoning happens in hallways, at benches, in Slack threads and on whiteboards, while the outcome arrives weeks later somewhere else. The record has to emerge from the work itself. Ask scientists to reconstruct it afterwards and we’ll create another polished account. Subscribe A log is not a label Before any of this becomes training data, a negative result has to say what failed. The first paper published in the Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine examined 234 negative studies across five leading medical journals. Only 30% discussed statistical power, and half clearly defined a primary outcome. Tell a model an experiment failed, without telling it whether the assay was underpowered, a reagent had degraded, or the hypothesis was simply wrong, and it will learn noise with confidence. Decision histories have a second missing label too. When a lab considers five experiments and runs one, only the chosen branch returns an outcome. The other four are experimental counterfactuals. Researchers call this the selective labels problem: the data reveal results only for the actions someone chose to take. Such a record can teach a model to imitate a lab’s taste, but it cannot establish that the taste was good. It also smuggles local constraints into general lessons. A lab that never ran cryo-EM because it did not own a microscope teaches a model that cryo-EM is rarely the right call. Alasdair’s nodes preserve the candidate set, which is the necessary first step. To be useful, each decision record needs six fields: The evidence available at that moment, and nothing that arrived later. The candidates considered, including the ones dismissed in a sentence. For each candidate: the expected result, the confidence attached to it, and the cost in time and money. The route chosen, and the reason. What happened next. How the evidence changed the scientist’s view. These must be timestamped before the outcome, because hindsight turns uncertainty into inevitability. Disagreement also has to survive. Averaging three scientists into one clean rationale reproduces exactly the information loss we are trying to fix. But there is an obvious failure mode here. Once decisions are logged and scored, people log for the record post-facto. Anyone who has watched an electronic lab notebook fill up with retrospective tidying knows how quickly a research tool becomes a compliance exercise. A record that costs a scientist ten minutes of honest reflection per decision is worth far more than one that costs an hour of performance. A publication initiative called Registered Reports offers a useful starting point. Here, researchers submit their rationale, methods and analysis plan for peer review before the data exist, and the journal commits in principle to publish if they follow the approved plan. Nature has now expanded the format across every field it covers. This approach to paper writing timestamps intent before the outcome, but it freezes one plan. A useful search history must also preserve how the plan changed, which alternatives were rejected, when, and on what evidence. Subscribe Run the runner-up Autonomous labs show what happens when decisions and outcomes are connected in a loop. Liverpool’s mobile robotic chemist ran 688 experiments over eight days in a ten-variable formulation space. A batched Bayesian search used each result to choose the next experiments and found photocatalyst mixtures six times more active than the starting formulations. Every completed experiment changed what the system did next. The robot optimized within a goal and search space that humans had already chosen. It did not decide which scientific question mattered. So what this work demonstrates is narrower, but still useful: a search history pays off when the options return standardized outcomes quickly. Open-ended biology is harder because branches can take weeks and the discarded alternatives may never be run. Some exploration therefore has to be bought. Where two branches are plausible and the stakes justify the cost, a lab should sometimes run the runner-up. Otherwise the record captures what today’s scientists usually chose and stays silent on what they systematically overlooked. A funder could ring-fence a small fraction of a grant for the branch not taken, provided that the decision record and the outcome are both deposited. That costs money, but so does having every lab rediscover the same abandoned path. Test whether taste transfers When it comes time to evaluate if our new AI system exhibits taste, the comparison should run across laboratories and fields. At selected decision points in a live research campaign, we should freeze the six fields: the evidence, the candidates, expected results, confidence, costs and the choice made. Experts then rank the options before the outcomes are known, and those outcomes are checked independently later. We could give models one of two diets - papers alone, or papers plus decision histories - and ask them to rank the next experiment on unfamiliar projects. Then, we score information gained per dollar and week, calibration, and how quickly weak branches are abandoned. If histories improve choices only inside the lab that produced them, they amount to useful organizational memory. If they improve choices on unfamiliar problems elsewhere, Alasdair’s group will have captured something science has never managed to write down: a transferable record of taste. Until that happens, a scientific search history is a promising record, not yet a training set.
Three new iPhones launch next month, here’s what’s coming
Apple’s big September event is almost here, with three new iPhone models set to launch: iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and iPhone Ultra.
Applications Now Accepted for Business on Main Street Accelerator
Applications are now being accepted for the Business on Main Street Accelerator, a joint initiative between the Delaware Division of Small Business and Launcher.
Darksiders 4, Next Kingdom Come Game Both Planned to Launch Before March 2028
Plenty of time to catch up
iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra: When is the Next Apple Event?
It is now mid-August, meaning that Apple's annual iPhone event is just around the corner. Below, we take a look at when the event might be held this year. This September, Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and an all-new foldable iPhone that will reportedly be named the iPhone Ultra. The regular iPhone 18, a lower-end iPhone 18e, and the iPhone Air 2 are not expected to be announced until around March 2027, as part of a new launch strategy.
iPhone Ultra could launch in US only at first, per report
iPhone Ultra is almost here, and a new report claims the initial rollout could be extremely limited, including being US-only at launch.
Nintendo’s next Fire Emblem has a bold new structure
Fortune’s Weave launches on September 17th.
'iPhone Ultra' Could Face Staggered Country Rollout Like Vision Pro
Apple's foldable "iPhone Ultra" may get a Vision Pro-style staggered country-by-country launch over several months, with initial availability limited to the U.S. market, according to an Australian publication. In a report labeled "exclusive," ChannelNews said today it has been told by local carriers and one major retailer that Apple's first foldable iPhone will be a "no show" when the iPhone 18 Pro models launch in September, despite being unveiled together.
Gears of War: E-Day updates drop ahead of today's Open Beta launch
Gears of War: E-Day's hotly anticipated Open Beta starts today for all Xbox and Steam players, and it'll feature some improvements over last week's test run.
Apple's 2026 Back to School Offer is Now Live Across Europe
Apple's annual Back to School promotion is now live in the United Kingdom and 18 other European countries: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey. The European launch follows the company's back-to-school promotion rollout in the United States and several other regions and territories last month.
With 'Fat Marmot Week,' scientists hope to turn important marmot research into serious fun
For a marmot living in the Rocky Mountains, summer is the time to fatten up and get ready for hibernation. But this year's warmer, earlier spring has made it tough for marmots to get enough calories. A team of marmot scientists near Crested Butte is launching the first-ever Fat Marmot Week to raise awareness about these unique, chunky mammals.
New rumor tells us all about Apple's imminent iPhone price hike
How much and when. According to a new rumor from a tipster on X, Apple will be raising prices for all existing iPhone models, as well as those launching...
MIT selected to lead new NSF materials research center
The National Science Foundation selected MIT to establish a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center to develop materials for medical imaging, sustainable metals production, and next-generation electronics. MRSEC will also launch outreach programs exploring the role of materials in society and the lessons learned from materials failures.