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Republican congressional candidate Tom Stalcup on how both parties abuse science for political gain

Scientific American spoke to the candidate for Massachusetts’s fourth congressional district about climate change, misinformation and why, when it comes to health care, some socialism may be required

Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • scientificamerican.com

Republican congressional candidate Tom Stalcup on how both parties abuse science for political gain

Scientific American spoke to the candidate for Massachusetts’s fourth congressional district about climate change, misinformation and why, when it comes to health care, some socialism may be required

Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • scientificamerican.com

Netflix slides as weak profit, ad outlook intensify investor anxiety

Oct 21 (Reuters) - Netflix shares dropped 6% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the company cut its full-year advertising forecast and issued a tepid fourth-quarter profit outlook, deepening

Oct 21 • 5:41 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com

UK inflation jumps to 3.5% on rising motor fuels cost; UK approves Jackdaw gasfield

Petrol and diesel costs rise the most in four years

Oct 21 • 2:14 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com

Science Hill advances as four local teams fall in state volleyball tournament

Five local teams began their bids for state volleyball titles Tuesday in Murfreesboro, with Science Hill earning a five-set win to advance to the Class 3-A semi

Oct 21 • 12:12 AM EDT • Science • wcyb.com

Local runner, med student killed night before Detroit Free Press Marathon

Grace Nolan died in a car crash the night before she was to compete in the Detroit Free Press Marathon. She finished fourth in last year's competition.

Oct 21 • 12:04 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

New Orleans Pelicans Decide on Options of Four Young Players

The New Orleans Pelicans are keeping their young talent around as they exercised three options on Tuesday.

Oct 20 • 9:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

For young voters, political engagement is easier said than done

It’s a comfortably crisp Friday in October, and desperate for a win, University of Iowa fourth-year student Kasey Ludlow ambles up the creaky steps of one of Iowa City’s many historic homes. It’s one of 35 doors he’s knocked on that day, a tall task anywhere in such a politicized America, but perhaps even more...

Oct 20 • 9:00 PM EDT • Politics • dailyiowan.com

Three Valley healthcare organizations earn Newsweek honors

Three Valley healthcare organizations earned national workplace honors from Newsweek, including four awards for FHCN.

Oct 20 • 7:31 PM EDT • Health • thebusinessjournal.com

Detroit Pistons Stun Celtics With Epic Fourth Quarter Comeback

Detroit Pistons overcome a 22-point deficit with a stunning 23-0 fourth-quarter run to beat the Boston Celtics 121-113 in their 2026-27 season opener.

Oct 20 • 5:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Tarasov Gets Detroit’s Net Again as the Road Trip Opens

Todd McLellan goes back to Daniil Tarasov in net as Detroit opens a four-game road trip. #RedWings

Oct 20 • 4:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

How Democrats Might – or Might Not

Just a few months ago, it didn’t look feasible for Democrats to flip control of the U.S. Senate. Now it’s a real possibility – and this is how the party could get there. It’s all about the math. Today, Republicans control the chamber, 53-47. If Democrats can hold all four of their vulnerable seats,

Oct 20 • 3:51 PM EDT • Politics • usnews.com

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.

Oct 20 • 1:47 PM EDT • Technology • bigtechnology.com

Haley Friedman Joins Linden Entertainment (EXCLUSIVE)

Haley Friedman has joined Linden Entertainment as Senior Digital Talent Manager after nearly four years at digital talent management firm Made By All.

Oct 20 • 1:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • deadline.com

Voters in pre-election poll mixed on state of Massachusetts

Many respondents to a new poll believe Massachusetts has become a worse place to live over the past four years and they still favor keeping incumbent Gov. Maura Healey in

Oct 20 • 1:30 PM EDT • Politics • statehousenews.com

The #Cavs have exercised their fourth-year team option …

The #Cavs have exercised their fourth-year team option …

Oct 20 • 1:02 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Zurich names North America energy leaders

Zurich North America on Tuesday announced four executive appointments within its U.S. energy business.

Oct 20 • 12:48 PM EDT • Business • businessinsurance.com

McLellan Sets the Tone as Red Wings Head West

The Red Wings head out for four straight with the Dylan Larkin question still unresolved. #RedWings

Oct 20 • 12:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Who are you rooting for in the World Series?

Four days after the Milwaukee Brewers finished off their sweep of the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series, the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday night won their American League Championship Series by dispatching the Cleveland Guardians in Game 6 at Tropicana Field. The Brewers last played in the Fall Classic in 1982, when they […]

Oct 20 • 12:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

AP Entertainment SummaryBrief at 12:03 p.m. EDT

A new Beatles attraction is coming to Liverpool as interest in the Fab Four surges

Oct 20 • 12:03 PM EDT • Entertainment • dailyrecordnews.com

Pistons Guarantee Ron Holland’s Fourth Year Before Tipoff

The Pistons settled Ron Holland's contract future hours before their season opener. #Pistons

Oct 20 • 11:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

A new Beatles attraction is coming to Liverpool as interest in the Fab Four surges

Liverpool is set to get a new visitor attraction dedicated to The Beatles | WWL

Oct 20 • 11:32 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com

As Summer Crowds Fade, Keystone Businesses Navigate the Annual Shift to Winter

After a summer defined by packed streets, Fourth of July festivities, and celebrations marking America’s 250th anniversary at nearby Mount Rushmore, the tourist hub of Keystone is settling into its quiet off-season

Oct 20 • 11:20 AM EDT • Business • kotatv.com

Paxton campaign showing ‘desperation’ with manufactured story: Political commentator

In the final days until election, President Trump is set to hold another rally in Texas for Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton. MS NOW National Reporter Rosa Flores shares what she is hearing from voters there. MediasTouch Journalist Adam Mockler, Democratic Strategist Basil Smikle, Bloomberg Businessweek Journalist Max Chafkin, and Rolling Stone Magazine Politics Reporter Nikki McCann Ramirez join the Group Chat with Stephanie Ruhle to share their analysis.

Oct 20 • 10:02 AM EDT • Politics • ms.now

New Apple TV 4K Features 'Whole Room Audio' With Four HomePods

The new fourth-generation Apple TV 4K announced last week can connect to up to four HomePods in front-left, front-right, rear-left, and rear-right positions, enabling an all-Apple surround sound system for home theater setups. There is also a related new feature that has not received as much attention: Whole Room Audio. Apple says the Whole Room Audio feature spreads sound evenly across four HomePods in a room.

Oct 20 • 10:02 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

'Unsolved Mysteries' ventures into a new realm: video podcasts

Over the course of nearly four decades, the celebrated show 'Unsolved Mysteries' has evolved amid the changes in the TV business.

Oct 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com

'Office Space' star Richard Riehle dies at 78

Actor Richard Riehle arrives at the premiere of New Line Cinema's 'A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas' at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on November 2, 2011 in Hollywood, California. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)Richard Riehle, known for his role in the 1999 film Office Space, has died. He was 78.A statement shared by Artists & Representatives and Wright Entertainment, Inc. announced Riehle's passing on Monday, writing, "Our industry has lost an exceptional talent, and our community has lost a truly wonderful man.""We are deeply saddened to confirm the passing of our beloved client, Richard Riehle, this past weekend," the statement said. "A remarkable actor whose career in theater, film, and television spanned nearly five decades and more than 400 projects, Richard leaves behind an extraordinary legacy."The statement continued, "Beyond his immense talent, he will be remembered for his genuine goodness, boundless kindness, and unwavering generosity, particularly toward emerging actors and filmmakers, whom he encouraged and supported at every opportunity."Born on May 12, 1948, Riehle starred in many television series and films over the years.Notable projects include Casino, The Man from Earth and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.He got his start as an actor at the University of Notre Dame, where he was involved in the University Theatre and starred in several stage productions. He went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts in acting and directing from the University of Minnesota.While he's played characters that have an "average Joe" presence, he always made the most of his brief screen time.Some roles that he is remembered for include The Quartermaster in Glory, the train guard in The Fugitive, Reverend Scroggins in Fried Green Tomatoes and Bill Cozbi in Bridesmaids.On television, he starred as Principal Ed Rooney in the 1990 series Ferris Bueller and as grandfather Walt Finnerty in the early 2000s sitcom, Grounded For Life.In 2023, he also played Warden Reynolds in Barry.Riehle is survived by his wife, Jane Latham, and their four children.Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Oct 20 • 8:56 AM EDT • Entertainment • willmarradio.com

Duke Slots #2 In Preseason AP Poll

The ACC has four teams in the Top 15

Oct 20 • 7:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

GDC Festival of Gaming 2027 moves to four-day format to "create a higher quality, more focused and valuable experience"

"We're concentrating programming and opportunities during the days when the community is most active," say organisers

Oct 20 • 4:37 AM EDT • Technology • gamesindustry.biz

I sold my apartment and cashed out my pension to build a chip startup

Hans Hasselby-Andersen quit his engineering job during the 2008 financial crisis with four kids and spent a year raising his first funding.

Oct 20 • 12:51 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Jessica Lange ranks her “American Horror Story” characters: ‘I loved the whole world we created’

In “AHS: 13,” the actress reprises all four: Constance Langdon, Elsa Mars, Sister Jude Martin, and Fiona Goode.

Oct 19 • 10:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Jessica Lange ranks her ‘American Horror Story’ characters: ‘I loved the whole world we created’

‘American Horror Story’ star Jessica Lange ranks her four iconic characters: ‘I loved the whole world we created.’

Oct 19 • 10:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

‘Open your doors for AI’: German chancellor urges businesses to embrace AI as Nvidia announces new investments

Nvidia announced planned investments in four German startups as Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged businesses to embrace AI at an industry summit in Berlin.

Oct 19 • 10:16 PM EDT • Business • cnbc.com

Three Free Agent Relievers Who Could Fix Tigers’ Bullpen

The free agent relievers class is both strong and deep this off-season. That's great news for a Detroit Tigers team that struggled in high-leverage situations late in games, blowing 68 leads en route to a disappointing fourth-place finish in the American League Central. Those 68 blown leads are both a franchise and Major League Baseball …

Oct 19 • 9:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Are the Houston Texans Finally Back?

After dropping their first four games, Houston has responded with back-to-back wins.

Oct 19 • 9:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Four goal 2nd half leads Belleville boys soccer over Newark Data Science in ECIT 2nd round

Belleville (9-6-1) advanced to the quarterfinals and host the winner between 10th-seeded Shabazz at seventh-seeded Newark Tech on Thursday, Oct.22.

Oct 19 • 8:55 PM EDT • Science • nj.com

Spurs Roster: Carter Bryant Makes Strong Case for Bigger Role

Carter Bryant is making a case to be a normal rotational player on the Spurs roster. Against the Suns on October 14th, he had 16 points and hit four threes. With improved shooting and improved defense, his case for a lot more playing time is strong. The question becomes whether or not he can stay […] The post Spurs Roster: Carter Bryant Makes Strong Case for Bigger Role appeared first on HEAVY.

Oct 19 • 8:29 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

$55 million gift to fund Marietta College housing, health sciences facility

MARIETTA — Marietta College plans to renovate three first-year residence halls, remove several campus buildings and open a graduate health sciences facility on Fourth Street with support from a $55 million gift commitment from Joe and Linda Chlapaty. President Kathleen Poorman Dougherty announced the commitment Friday during her State of the College address, held during […]

Oct 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • mariettatimes.com

Pearlington residents, business owners push for bridge replacement plan

The Pearlington bridge closed more than four years ago, cutting off a direct route between Pearlington and Louisiana.

Oct 19 • 7:43 PM EDT • Business • wlox.com

Nashville’s General Jackson Showboat to retire after decades on the Cumberland

The General Jackson Showboat will be retired after more than four decades on the Cumberland River, Opry Entertainment Group said, citing ongoing maintenance cha

Oct 19 • 6:17 PM EDT • Entertainment • fox17.com

What placing Romeo Doubs on IR means for the Patriots

The veteran wide receiver will be out for at least the next four weeks.

Oct 19 • 5:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Four AI Agents Have Slain Minecraft's Ender Dragon

"To our knowledge, this is the first end-to-end autonomous completion of Minecraft by AI agents."

Oct 19 • 5:15 PM EDT • Technology • gizmodo.com

Romeo Doubs placed on Injured Reserve Monday

Patriots WR Romeo Doubs to miss at least four weeks due to Week 6 injury

Oct 19 • 5:06 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Supreme Court may strike down school policies that limit Asian students

The court agreed to hear an appeal from parents in Montgomery County, Md., who were upset by a sharp drop in Asian students at its four magnet schools for gifted students.

Oct 19 • 4:27 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com

Colorado falls in USA TODAY Sports 1-138 re-rank after Week 7 loss

Colorado continues to slide in USA TODAY Sports' college football power rankings after a fourth straight loss.

Oct 19 • 4:02 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Hackers Exploit Plex2Shell Flaws to Install Crypto Miners and Linux Proxy Backdoor

Attackers exploit four Plex Media Server flaws chained as Plex2Shell to deploy XMRig miners and reverse proxy software after PoC release.

Oct 19 • 1:32 PM EDT • Technology • thehackernews.com

This Week: Politics 101, 20th Street Bikeway, Muni Trivia

Here is a list of events this week. Monday/Tonight! SF Politics 101 with Joel Engardio. Learn how local politics shaped San Francisco. Monday/tonight, October 19, 5:30-6:45 p.m. SPUR Urban Center, 654 Mission Street, S.F. Wednesday 20th Street Protected Bikeway Ribbon Cutting. The Oakland Department of Transportation, city officials, Bike East Bay and other community partners will celebrate the completion of the 19th Street BART to Lake Merritt Urban Greenway. Wednesday, October 21, 1:30 p.m. 400 Thomas L Berkley Way, Oakland. Thursday 2026 Silver SPUR Awards. This SPUR event brings together elected officials and business, civic, and philanthropic leaders to celebrate four individuals and their contributions. Thursday, October 22, 4-7:30 p.m. Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA, 700 Howard Street, S.F. Get tickets here. Friday Woman and Non-Binary Morning Ride. Join the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition for a socially distanced bike ride for women and nonbinary cyclists. Friday, October 23, 7:15-8:45 a.m. McLaren Lodge, 501 Stanyan Street, S.F. Friday Muni Trivia Night. Bring your friends or come solo and make some new ones. Friday, October 23, 7:30 p.m. Standard Deviant Brewing, Pier 70, suite 195, 1070 Maryland Street, S.F. RSVP here. Saturday Fifth Annual Firefighter Family Ride. Join SFFD, SF Safe Routes to School, and the SF Bicycle Coalition for a fun, low-stress bike ride through one of the city’s most beautiful routes. Saturday, October 24, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Panhandle Park Blacktop (Fell & Ashbury) to JFK Promenade (Whale’s Tail). Sunday Canvas for No on Prop G. Join the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition to canvas for No on ‘G’ to save Sunset Dunes Park. Sunday, October 25, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Marina Blvd & Laguna Street, S.F. Got an event we should know about? Drop us a line.

Oct 19 • 11:38 AM EDT • Politics • sf.streetsblog.org

The Crucial Questions Facing Business Services

Sector insiders offer their take on four big challenges.

Oct 19 • 11:26 AM EDT • Business • wired.com

Richland County Foundation funds $1.4 million in grants for health & housing needs

MANSFIELD – The Richland County Foundation Board of Trustees approved grants totaling $1,477,004.99 to non-profit organizations during its October meeting. Competitive and field of interest fund grants were approved by the board to four organizations. Community Health Access Project (CHAP) received a grant to enhance care coordination services for uninsured and underinsured residents in Richland […]

Oct 19 • 11:25 AM EDT • Health • richlandsource.com

CCIA Study Finds South Korea Fines U.S. Companies Up to Seven Times More Than Korean Firms Relative to Business Activity

Washington – A new study by the CCIA Research Center finds that South Korea’s competition authority imposes penalties on U.S. companies at rates four to seven

Oct 19 • 9:28 AM EDT • Business • ccianet.org

How the Brewers got to the World Series

Despite playing in MLB's smallest market, the Brewers posted the best record in the majors for a second straight year, earned their eighth playoff berth in nine seasons and won a fourth straight NL Central title.

Oct 19 • 8:47 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumnews1.com

Four questions with ThinkTennessee President Erin Hafkenschiel

Over the next several weeks, Tennesseans will head the polls to elect the state’s next governor. Meanwhile, Tennessee continues to face exponential growth and development — an issue the state’s

Oct 19 • 8:45 AM EDT • Politics • nashvillepost.com

TENNESSEE LADY VOLS SOCCER: Offensive woes continue in scoreless draw

Tennessee soccer snapped a four-match losing streak with a 0-0 draw against Kentucky at Regal Soccer Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Oct 19 • 8:43 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Candidates for Austin City Council District 9 discuss affordability, public safety and homelessness

Current City Council member Zo Qadri will face off with four challengers on the ballot in November.

Oct 19 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • kut.org

This family business survived 100 years to build on East TN's housing boom

Christmas Lumber nearly went under. Four generations and 100 years later, the Harriman family business is helping meet East Tennessee's housing demand.

Oct 19 • 5:03 AM EDT • Business • knoxnews.com

Governor Greg Abbott doesn't believe the polls and says Texans will put him in office for a fourth term

In an interview with Lone Star Politics, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott makes a lot of news. He commits to tough new data center laws next session. He explains why he doesn’t want to debate his opponent in November, State lawmaker Gina Hinojosa. And he lays out his priorities if elected once again.

Oct 19 • 5:03 AM EDT • Politics • nbcdfw.com

Four Red Flags and One Truth Amid the Peptide Hype

Experimental peptides are all the rage on longevity and “optimization” podcasts, but a lot of the chatter is misleading.

Oct 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • kffhealthnews.org

🎥 Pitch completely flooded! Referee still considers kicking off

This has to be satire. Or so you might think when you watch the following clip from Spain’s fourth division. A match there was called off last weekend due to severe flooding in the region. But that ...

Oct 19 • 3:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

'All INdiana Politics': Secretary of State candidates face off on voting reform and business portals

INDIANAPOLIS — The race for Indiana Secretary of State is taking center stage as four candidates vie to lead the office responsible for state elections and business licensing. The contest features former congressional aide Max Engling running as the Republican nominee, lawyer and former Marine Corps infantry officer Beau Bayh carrying the Democratic banner, small […]

Oct 19 • 12:05 AM EDT • Politics • wrtv.com

‘All INdiana Politics': Secretary of State candidates face off on voting reform and business portals

INDIANAPOLIS - The race for Indiana Secretary of State is taking center stage as four candidates vie to lead the office responsible for state elections and business licensing. The contest features for...

Oct 19 • 12:05 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com

Putin proposes summit with Trump and Xi to discuss Ukraine deal, WSJ says

Oct 18 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a summit next month with US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to negotiate an end to the four-year-old Ukraine

Oct 18 • 10:54 PM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com

Fourth-generation business owner creates space for wellness, beauty businesses

A new business in Columbiana is opening its doors with the goal of helping other businesses get started.

Oct 18 • 10:47 PM EDT • Business • wkbn.com

Four Tiny Snail Species New to Science Found on Limestone Karsts of Laos

Biodiversity surveys on Laos limestone karsts have revealed eight Alycaeinae micro land snail species, four of which are new to science, highlighting the urgent need to protect these overlooked ecosystems.

Oct 18 • 10:38 PM EDT • Science • bioengineer.org

Four-catch day for Chris Godwin in Week 6

Chris Godwin was held under 40 yards receiving for a fourth straight game, finishing with 37 in Week 6 against the Steelers.

Oct 18 • 9:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Chernobyl’s Radioactive Debris Is Defying Scientists’ Expectations 40 Years Later

Some of Chernobyl’s radioactive debris is more resilient than scientists expected, offering clues to when the material trapped inside could escape into the environment. Radioactive dust still contaminates the soil around Chernobyl four decades after explosions scattered debris from the nuclear reactor in Ukraine in 1986. The fragments measure just 8 to 50 micrometers across

Oct 18 • 8:16 PM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com

Celebrities in Saint Laurent at the 2026 Academy Museum Gala

Four celebrities wore Anthony Vaccarello's Saint Laurent to the Academy Museum Gala.

Oct 18 • 6:11 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Derrick Henry had a message for teammates after Browns loss

Derrick Henry apologized to Ravens teammates after his fourth-quarter fumble helped the Browns rally for a 13-10 victory in Cleveland.

Oct 18 • 5:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Steelers Complete Incredible Comeback to Beat Buccaneers in Overtime!

Aaron Rodgers Leads Pittsburgh to 26-19 Victory in Tampa Bay The Pittsburgh Steelers pulled off an impressive comeback Sunday, overcoming a 13-point fourth-quarter deficit to defeat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 26-19 in overtime at Raymond James Stadium. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers delivered another clutch performance, leading Pittsburgh to its second-half rally before connecting with rookie Germie…

Oct 18 • 5:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Cam Skattebo goes without a touch in loss to Saints, one week after critical OT fumble

Cam Skattebo has four fumbles in five games this season.

Oct 18 • 4:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Biketoberfest brings crowds to Daytona Beach, but not all businesses see a boost

Biketoberfest was expected to bring up to 125,000 people to Daytona Beach over four days, but one local restaurant owner says the motorcycle event slowed down his business as regular customers stayed away.

Oct 18 • 4:27 PM EDT • Business • mynews13.com

Streaming’s Biggest Show Returns…and a Buzzy Genre Struggles

(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.) Obviously, the big news of the week (if not month) is Netflix letting go of executive Bela Bajaria, their chief content officer. I’m going to cover this in my next “Most Important Story of the Week”, but I also have a data angle that I might publish before then. (Too much news this month, am I right?) But first, I have a bonus Streaming Ratings Report issue for you. Today’s article is a bit of a grab bag of topics I’ve wanted to write about, but couldn’t squeeze into the (already very long) Streaming Ratings Report issues. The NFL drives huge viewership numbers, so I’ve got a look at that. A whole bunch of TV shows returned to the traditional broadcast channels, and I have thoughts. And I have a quick look at adult animated shows, since a couple flopped earlier this month. Plus, the Emmys aired earlier this month, and we got some fun data bout how popular those nominated shows are and why I’m not optimistic about the show’s future. That’s a lot, so let’s dive right in. Subscribe Sports - Football Remains the King of Streaming Over the last two Streaming Ratings Reports, I sorta ignored the biggest “show” each week. (I was tempted to say “piece of content” but I know that word bugs folks.) In my database, I call these “specials”, and they sure are special. I speak of the king of American TV: football!!! Streaming football is back and, unlike some other sports, it routinely dominates all viewership. Probably the best way to show this is to update one of my favorite graphics, the “40 Million Hour Club”1 since football games have joined that club each week they’ve premiered: (Yep, that’s the data through 28-Sep, the first four weeks of the season. As a reminder, I take the average minute audience provided by Nielsen, factor out a percentage of linear TV viewers in home markets, and multiply the run time by the three-hour runtime.) Again, the numbers are huge. Let’s start with Netflix. They grabbed the rights to the bonus opening week NFL Kickoff game (which was on YouTube last year) and it put up 18.5 million viewers on average. That nets out to 47.4 million hours of estimated streaming hours. That’s good! Though, notably, it’s well below Christmas Day games from previous years. Compared to other streamers/broadcasters, that’s a bit of a mixed result. On one hand, Netflix’s 18.5 million average is about what YouTube claimed last year, though Nielsen used a bespoke methodology at that time, so I trust this viewership figure more. So that’s good. (The game also shifted from a Friday to a Thursday and that could have helped the viewership as well.) And Netflix continues to best Prime Video in total viewership—as you’ll see next—though Netflix has had much higher-profile (opening week and Christmas Day) games. NBC/Peacock’s opening game the night before averaged 25.1 million average viewers, which is just much bigger than Netflix (or Prime Video). That’s the big caveat to all streaming viewership records: even in success, they can’t compete with traditional linear TV. Previously, I called this my “hierarchy of viewership”, and the data keeps supporting that thesis. The downside for NBC is that this game’s viewership was down compared to previous years, though it may be a counting issue. Here’s a great chart from Sports Media Watch: Indeed, looking at all the opening week games across all windows, Netflix still lags the other primetime windows, but does well compared to the afternoon games: I saw a few folks make the case that streamers still lag traditional broadcasters in reach, and I’d add they really lag compared to “broadcast plus streaming” options like NBC/Peacock, ESPN/Disney+ and CBS/Paramount+. The best data I saw for this came from Samba TV, who charted reach through the 2025 season, and, wow. (Samba TV’s numbers are historically lower than Nielsen’s, so don’t compare their household figures to Nielsen’s hours, but use them as a proxy for the relative reach of the streamers.) The good news is Prime Video is NOT having a down year. Their opening Thursday Night Football game reached 18.6 million viewers (about what Netflix got), but that’s a high for Prime Video on Thursdays and the biggest Thursday night game since 2015. The TNF games the weeks of 21-Sep and 28-Sep continued this streak, getting 43.1 (16.8 million average viewers) and 42.5 total hours (16.6 million average viewers), which were both up from last year. Still, that continues the (typical) season slide: (For those new-to-streaming-football-numbers folks, the viewership declines for Thursday Night Football as the year goes along.) Overall, it appears as if Prime Video is now part of the “football habit”, be it for customers at home or out at places like bars and restaurants. And its viewership is slowly catching up to broadcast. One last chart shows this. Last season, Nielsen started adding out-of-home viewership to the charts, so I try not to do season-to-season comparisons as I did for the first few years. And while Nielsen added Big Data viewing this year, I’m going to compare the last two seasons. Here’s that chart, which shows the season-over-season gains: When it comes to streaming football, we have to keep a few seemingly contradictory thoughts in our head… First, streaming doesn’t come close to matching broadcast’s reach and, thus, viewership. Second, even with that gap, football is still the biggest “thing” on streaming. It’s very, very popular. Third, while some methodology changes have likely helped Prime Video’s numbers, their viewership does appear to be growing. Lastly, yeah, the NFL started the season off poorly, with week one dragging down the numbers in year-over-year comparisons. However—and again, methodology changes may have helped this—the viewership grew compared to previous seasons over the next couple of weeks. So football is still king. On streaming and off. Television - Adult Animation Continues to NOT Make the Streaming Charts In the last two reports, two adult-animated shows whiffed: Netflix’s animated comedy, Dang! Paramount+’s Sega-video-game-inspired fantasy/comedy, Golden Axe. Neither made the charts, but that’s usually the case for animated shows. I mean, here’s literally every animated show that’s made the Nielsen Original charts since the start of 2025: And one of those shows is G_abby’s Dollhouse_! A kids show! The problem with charts like this is that they don’t give you a sense of how many shows miss the charts. Netflix had at least eleven animated flops, including comedies like Big Mouth (a show everyone assumed was popular in the pre-Streaming Ratings Era), Long Story Short, Haunted Hotel, Mating Season, Strip Law, and Alley Cats, and action shows like Blood of Zeus, Castlevania: Nocturne, Devil May Cry, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, and Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft. Prime Video had at least six animated misses, two in the same universe (Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss), three more comedies (#1 Happy Family USA, The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy and Kevin) and an action show (The Mighty Nein). Disney+ had MCU and Star Wars animated misses (Eyes of Wakanda, Marvel Zombies, Star Wars: Visions, Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, and Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld) but I can’t tell how many of those shows were geared towards adults. HBO Max had Harley Quinn and Hulu had Solar Opposites. None of these shows made the charts! That’s a lot of misses! If I remade the chart with all those misses, here’s how it would look: Listen, I know the counter arguments. First, it’s cheaper to produce animated shows than live action. Fair enough, but with viewership this low, even that cheaper price point starts to not matter. Second, just look at the acquired charts. Hit animated comedies can generate viewership for years! Shows like The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, and Bob’s Burgers do really, really well. Fair enough, but streaming has failed to recreate the dynamic that Fox has mastered so well. That’s a problem for streaming still. Television - Emmys! The annual Emmys broadcast was a few weeks ago, and I’ve got data on how the nominees performed on streaming, plus hot takes on this year’s viewership (and the big news about the broadcast’s, er, streamcast’s future). 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… The top Emmy-nominated shows… ...why I’m worried about the future of the Emmys telecast... ...the pros of broadcast television ...and the cons... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. Coming Soon! Next week, we’ve got a double issue (since the weeks of 21-Sep and 28-Sep were so light), but then I’ll be all caught up after a deluge of streaming ratings data from Nielsen in September. In the meantime, I’m going to try to take a look at Netflix’s stats to explain why Bela Bajaria is out. But even light weeks give me plenty to talk about. The Great British Baking Show returns to Netflix and Apple TV has a buzzy new star-studded comedy. And Netflix has a controversial-but-appears-to-be-popular new game show. Plus big films like Toy Story 5, Backrooms and The Breadwinner head to streaming. And is East of Eden a hit? After that, The Kardashians return to Hulu, Prime Video has a reboot of Carrie, and Netflix has a horror show, Below. Disclosure Day heads to Peacock, The Housemaid heads to HBO Max_,_ a new Ben Affleck film, Animals, lands on Netflix, and Apple TV has a new John Cena action film based on, checks notes, Hasbro’s Matchbox toys. Okay. Longterm, some interesting TV production news. HBO Max ordered How to Survive Without Me, starring Kaley Cuoco, Joshua Jackson, Ray Romano and Rita Wilson, for fifteen episodes! I love that some streamers (or, at least, HBO Max) are finally ordering TV shows with more than eight episodes. In less wise production news, Landman does not appear to be coming back this year, since it just started production. Frankly, I don’t love this (get your shows out on time) but Landman is so popular, I doubt it matters.

Oct 18 • 3:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com

Apple Expected to Release New Products on Next Four Fridays

Apple likely plans to release MacBook Pro models with OLED displays, 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac models with M6 chips, and/or an iPad mini 8 with an OLED display on Friday, November 6, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The devices are expected to be announced on Tuesday, October 27 or Wednesday, October 28. If this timeframe proves to be accurate, then Apple will be releasing new products for the next four Fridays, with the other dates already announced.

Oct 18 • 2:01 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

Esther McGregor and Emilio Sakraya reportedly set to star in ‘Fourth Wing’ TV series

(CNN) — Esther McGregor and Emilio Sakraya are set to star in the small-screen adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’ hit romantasy novel “Fourth Wing” when it lands on Prime Video, industry

Oct 18 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • wqow.com

‘All INdiana Politics': Secretary of State candidates face off on voting reform and business portals

INDIANAPOLIS - The race for Indiana Secretary of State is taking center stage as four candidates vie to lead the office responsible for state elections and business licensing. The contest features for...

Oct 18 • 12:05 PM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com

Carrefour CEO says 50 stores and 20 supermarkets ransacked in France

Riots swept across France on Saturday after initially peaceful demonstrations turned violent.

Oct 18 • 10:55 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

What Doctors Want Women to Know About Menopause and Heart Health

The American Heart Association and The Menopause Society share four facts about menopause and cardiovascular risk for Menopause Awareness Month.

Oct 18 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • midwestmedicaledition.com

Five players who stood out in Nebraska football’s loss to Oregon

Saturday night hope turned into Sunday morning heartbreak for Nebraska football fans this weekend. Former Husker quarterback Dylan Raiola entered the game down five points in the fourth quarter and led Oregon to victory on his new home field. Nebraska (5-2, 2-2) lost 17-14 to the Ducks (4-2, 2-1) in Autzen Stadium late Saturday night. Over the last two weeks, fourth-quarter execution has plagued NU, with Oregon and Indiana outscoring them 25-7 in the final period.

Oct 18 • 7:45 AM EDT • Sports • dailynebraskan.com

Children learn about nuclear science as they trick-or-treat through Fall Fission Fest

AIKEN — Children dressed in Halloween costumes filled a downtown parkway Oct. 17, learning about nuclear science and even wielding Geiger counters at the SRS Heritage Foundation’s fourth Fall Fission ...

Oct 18 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com

Gut Punch, Part Two! Dylan Raiola, Oregon Top Nebraska in Final Minute

Nebraska had opportunities over the last two weeks, but fourth-quarter falters have left the Huskers with back-to-back losses.

Oct 18 • 4:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Don’t Worry… Sunderland Are Gonna Be Alright

Four points from six games, and with a tough run of fixtures coming - should Sunderland fans be worried, or do the underlying numbers suggest better times are just around the corner?

Oct 18 • 1:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

‘4,000 people minding our own business’: four decades on, Falklands again face a hostile Argentina

Facing a slump in the polls, Argentina’s president is making economic attacks on the islands’ oil industry, and suggesting its key fisheries industry could be next

Oct 18 • 12:00 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com

Arizona Fall League: week two

Javelinas sit in fourth place

Oct 17 • 10:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

U23 Celebrates Fourth Straight Win

Compared to the last-minute victory against SG Wattenscheid 09, head coach Daniel Rios made four changes to his starting lineup. Kevin Mutove, Luca Reggiani, Enzo Duarte dos Santos, and Daniel Sumbu r...

Oct 17 • 6:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Excellus earns four-star rating for commercial health plans

UTICA — Excellus BlueCross BlueShield has earned a four-star rating from the National Committee for Quality Assurance for its commercial health plans, the insurer announced Oct. 5.

Oct 17 • 6:28 PM EDT • Health • nny360.com

Freeland Elementary Middle School students enjoy magic show

On Oct. 7, Freeland Elementary Middle School’s fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students, along with their parents, enjoyed an exciting presentation by Joe Romano, titled ‘Is It Magic or Science?’ Through fun…

Oct 17 • 5:55 PM EDT • Science • standardspeaker.com

Los Retros frontman Mauri Tapia charged with unlawful acts on a child

Mauri Tapia, frontman of SoCal indie rock act Los Retros, has been charged with four felony counts of unlawful acts with a child under 10.

Oct 17 • 2:43 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com

Kenya confirms four more Ebola cases, bringing total to seven

Oct 17 • 12:48 PM EDT • Health • aljazeera.com

Kenya confirms four new Ebola cases, bringing total number to seven

Oct 17 () - Kenya confirmed four new cases of the Ebola Bundibugyo virus on Saturday, including three health workers who treated the country's first patient, bringing the ‌total number of confirmed ca...

Oct 17 • 11:20 AM EDT • Health • yahoo.com

Lady Vols defeat Arkansas for fourth SEC win

Lady Vols defeat Arkansas to win fourth straight match.

Oct 17 • 7:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Core Growth Group Updates HVAC Business Scaling Guide With Sequenced Growth Plan

The revised guide, updated October 1, 2026, sets out a four-step scaling sequence, a 24- to 36-month timeline, and the operational changes that ...

Oct 16 • 10:46 PM EDT • Business • markets.businessinsider.com

Saban Names Top Four Teams, Igniting Fan Debate

Nick Saban names Georgia, Notre Dame, Miami, and Ohio State as top teams. See how Alabama fans react to his comments before the Tennessee game.

Oct 16 • 10:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Quakertown football wins fourth straight with victory over CR North

Quakertown dispatched Council Rock North in a Suburban One League Continental Conference high school football game. The Panthers have won 4 straight.

Oct 16 • 10:03 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

OPINON: A vote for progress over politics

As the father of four young children the Talbot County Public School system, I am a strong supporter of public schools. I’d love to see all schools succeed, because at

Oct 16 • 7:03 PM EDT • Politics • stardem.com

Brain-infecting fungus that can kill 7 in 10 patients is on the rise across America

Cladophialophora bantiana, a neurotropic black mold with a 60%-70% fatality rate, surged nearly fourfold in U.S. detections between 2023 and 2025.

Oct 16 • 6:10 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com

A Look at the Computer Science Degree in 2026

In 2018, a student published an article in this paper titled “YC’s Computer Science Major is on the Rise.” His piece proved prescient for the next four years, as enrollment in Intro to Computer Science continued to increase, indicating a growing interest in the field. Enrollment in this introductory course in Yeshiva College reached an […]

Oct 16 • 5:03 PM EDT • Science • yucommentator.org

Bernalillo County reviews four potential models for the future of MDC healthcare services

Bernalillo County reviews four potential models for the future of MDC healthcare services

Oct 16 • 4:38 PM EDT • Health • koat.com

Louisiana renews deals with 4 Medicaid providers; lawmakers want better health outcomes

Louisiana lawmakers renewed state contracts Thursday with four private managed care organizations that provide Medicaid coverage, calling on state health officials to ensure the money results in better health outcomes.

Oct 16 • 4:04 PM EDT • Health • lailluminator.com