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Appeals court rejects DOJ request for California to set aside disputed ballots
The panel’s 2-1 ruling is the latest setback for the Trump administration’s efforts to assert control over state-run elections
West Bank introduces rooftop greeting for airport passengers
West Bank has unveiled a 37-foot-wide happy face, pictured above, on the roof of its West Des Moines headquarters to greet passengers arriving at Des Moines International Airport. The display, called “The West Des Moines Welcome,” features the city’s name and is designed to be visible to passengers on aircraft approaching the airport from the…
New California Science Center exhibit brings the solar system to audiences
The Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center features a towering space shuttle as well as 100 artifacts and interactive displays.
Troy Aikman and Joe Buck’s ‘Monday Night Football’ Clash Revealed: ‘Never Thought You’d Do It to Me’
A bitter dispute between longtime NFL broadcasting partners Troy Aikman and Joe Buck has spilled into the open, raising questions about whether the pair will remain together after this season. New details about their heated confrontation before an October 12 Monday Night Football game emerged, The Athletic reported on Friday, October 30. Sources familiar with […]
The HomeView and Echo Show 16 could be the family computers I’ve been asking for
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‘You People Don’t Realize What This Business Is Like’ — ESPN Broadcaster Ticked Off By Critics Calling Pat McAfee ‘Thin-Skinned’
Pat McAfee’s dispute with the University of Utah has sparked a full news cycle across sports media, with many in the NFL and college football worlds critical of the former Indianapolis Colts punter. But amid all the noise, he got support from someone inside ESPN on Thursday.
Collingswood Schools Report Gains, Wide Science Proficiency ...
Collingswood reported testing gains, but wide science proficiency gaps persist among Black, Hispanic and IEP students, board members said.
US midterms: With deep-red states now in play, could blue wave redraw America's political landscape?
Local small business owners say cost of living is top midterm issue
With the approaching midterm elections next Tuesday, four New Haven small business owners told the News that they want their future governor to lower energy costs and allow their customers to have enough disposable income.
Rural US hospitals, collateral victims of Trump politics
Ninety miles (140 kilometers). That is how far residents of Fredonia, a small town in the central US state of Kansas, must travel for cardiology care in the event of a heart attack or stroke.
Sports chiefs face losing battle to keep sport separate from politics
IOC president Kirsty Coventry's desire is that "politics does not take over on the field of play", but Ukraine and former executives from her organisation have told AFP that politics and sport remain…
Guest columnist: Science of finding cancer early just proved itself
Residents of Houston’s Fifth Ward live adjacent to documented creosote contamination. The neighborhood is 94% non-Hispanic Black. It is a state-designated cancer cluster. Those who live there do not need […]
New Apple TV 4K and iPad Mini: RAM Amounts Revealed
Apple today released Xcode 27.2, and it reveals how much RAM is in the new fourth-generation Apple TV 4K and the new iPad mini with an OLED display. As expected, the new Apple TV 4K with the A19 chip is equipped with 8GB of RAM, while the new iPad mini with the A20 Pro chip has 12GB of RAM. For good measure, Xcode shows the iPhone Duo is equipped with 12GB of RAM.
Acer launches 8.8-inch 5G gaming tablet with 3K 165Hz display and 512GB storage
Acer has introduced the Shadow Knight G710, a compact gaming tablet with an 8.8-inch 3K display and a refresh rate of up to 165Hz. It features a Dimensity 8300 processor, 5G connectivity and a 6,300mAh battery.
Apple VP talks new iPad mini: OLED without ProMotion, Acoustic Display, more
Apple unveiled its “biggest update ever” for the iPad mini this week, introducing a thinner, lighter design and an OLED...
Why Miami Is a Destination for Latin America’s Political Exiles
The city’s Hispanic majority, news media reach and air links to Latin America have made it an ideal base for politicians escaping their home countries.
Justice Department appeals ruling allowing California to count disputed ballots
The federal government has appealed a court decision allowing California to count ballots allegedly sent to noncitizen voters. The appeal came just hours after a district judge rejected the Justice
Apple says it’s ‘only getting started’ updating macOS for touchscreens
Apple says it’s “only getting started” making macOS more touch-friendly for the new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display.
You Can Turn Off the New MacBook Pro's Touchscreen Functionality
The new MacBook Pro models with OLED displays have an accessibility setting that allows you to turn off touch input entirely, according to MacStories editor-in-chief Federico Viticci. The new MacBook Pro models with OLED displays have an accessibility setting that allows you to turn off touch input entirely, according to MacStories editor-in-chief Federico Viticci.
Nations accused of undermining science at UN nature talks
Political tensions are mounting in the final days of the United Nations biodiversity talks with a handful of countries accused of trying to weaken the science that underpins global nature policy.
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, historic Mexican politician and former presidential candidate, dies at 92
An undisputed leader of the Mexican left, Cárdenas was the son of one of the country’s most popular presidents — Gen. Lázaro Cárdenas. He was respected by allies and critics alike.
Spring homeowner’s meteorite to go on display at Houston Museum of Natural Science
A meteorite crashed through Sherrie James’ roof in Spring, Texas, on March 21, landing near her daughter and causing a pressure wave that scientists estimated equaled about 26 tons of TNT. That space rock will now be on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science on Nov. 6.
Hands On With Apple's MacBook Pro PROLED XDR: Yes! Touch Displays Come to Mac Laptops
Apple just teased the first full touch-screen MacBook in Los Angeles, and I got to try it. The PROLED XDR looks like a winner—and I'm excited about what it portends for future MacBooks.
Singapore Airlines brings in an enhanced in-flight entertainment experience
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is rolling out enhancements to its KrisWorld IFE platform, with highlights being 4K seatback displays, spatial audio, a redesigned user interface and a wellness planner
Three Red Sox who deserved postseason MVP honors
The Red Sox have a postseason history unlike any other franchise in the 21st century. That went on full display in last week’s commentary on building their new-school World Series lineup. Boston put moments in the history books in the highest of highs and lowest of lows in October throughout the last quarter-century. Within those […]
Climate Change Can Cause Small Business Displacement Beyond Major Disasters
Sponsored: The myriad effects of climate change compound challenges many Black, Brown, and immigrant-owned businesses already face.
Business Brief: Columbus Realtors recognized at state convention
Two Columbus Realtors were recognized during the Mississippi Realtors Annual Convention and Expo this month.
Mary Means Business: New Salon opening in Columbus next month
More life is being breathed into Catfish Alley with a new business opening next month.
An AI Breakthrough Has Made Decades of Computer Science Research ‘Irrelevant’
Anthropic and OpenAI say they’ve disproved a key tenet of computer science. Researchers are struggling with the fall but also feel like “overexcited bunnies” as they look at new questions to explore.
A golden age of science is coming
It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?”, “Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time”, and “Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science”. In 1996, science writer John Horgan even published a book called The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age. The fundamental idea was that the Universe only has so many insights to discover, and that we’ve picked the low-hanging fruit. It was the idea that Joseph-Louis Lagrange expressed when he said that “we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.” As the big ideas and the simple ideas get mined out, we’re forced to throw ever more brains at the mysteries of nature just to keep scientific progress going at a fraction of its old pace: It looked like science was hitting a wall. Then along came AI. It’s far too early to tell how much AI will eventually speed up the growth of total factor productivity. But already we can see signs of a speedup in science. Anthropic Founder Jack Clark assembled some of the hopeful data points in a recent lecture: [ Dror Poleg@drorpoleg "If you pick different parts of science, you see the same pattern show up: Progress is accelerating, and it has started to accelerate in the last two years." Jack Clark @jackclarkSF I’m speaking at the IMF in an hour about the singularity and why I believe it has begun and the choices we'll need to make. Watch live here: https://t.co/Hj9HzcXx5h 6:08 PM · Oct 18, 2026 · 21.2K Views 2 Replies · 10 Reposts · 123 Likes ](https://x.com/drorpoleg/status/2111882070376980529) Anthropic is accelerating its investment into drug discovery, and is already announcing some impressive preliminary results: [ BioTender@Junioryu136689 BREAKING: Anthropic unveils early results from six Claude-powered drug development collaborations. • 70% shorter CAR-T signaling domain • ~35,000 antibody designs • >10× tighter antibody binding • 89% less batch-record review time Still largely preclinical. Anthropic @AnthropicAI Over the past few months, Anthropic scientists have engaged in deep research partnerships with six organizations developing new medicines. We've also begun drug discovery efforts of our own. In doing so, we’ve learned much more about how Claude can support the many stages of 9:43 PM · Oct 27, 2026 · 11.2K Views 3 Replies · 24 Reposts · 205 Likes ](https://x.com/Junioryu136689/status/2115197821150495150) Claude also appears to be enabling rapid progress toward a treatment for food allergies. OpenAI, meanwhile, announced a possible breakthrough treatment for neurodegenerative disease. Meanwhile, Google Cloud Chief Scientist Pushmeet Kohli has a list of recent scientific advances that have been enabled by its new Gemini model, including breakthroughs in nuclear fusion reactor design, rare disease research, and quantum computing: [ Pushmeet Kohli@pushmeet Gemini 4 Argon is a step change in model performance. In recent weeks, it has had a transformative impact on the Science projects in our team at @GoogleDeepMind and our external collaborators, and helped make a number of remarkable advances across scientific disciplines. 🧵👇 4:47 PM · Oct 13, 2026 · 36.5K Views 8 Replies · 41 Reposts · 497 Likes ](https://x.com/pushmeet/status/2110049807385702623) But as cool as these stories sound, they’re just very minor, preliminary efforts. There are a number of reasons to think that AI is going to propel us into a golden age of scientific discovery. That age might not last forever — AI might still run into diminishing returns eventually. But the next few decades are probably going to be an absolutely amazing time for human science. The number of “effective researchers” is no longer limited The most important input into science is scientists themselves. Until this year, that meant human brains — talented, highly trained human brains. The number of trained human brains could be increased by sending more people to grad school, but only to a point — the smartest people tend to be sent into the hardest research fields first, and if you 10x the number of researchers, the average quality will go down. This constraint was already starting to bite, as Ekerdt and Wu argued in 2024: We argue that a substantial portion of the downward historical trend in U.S. research productivity is a composition effect resulting from self-selection in researcher ability and the dramatic expansion of the research sector…[W]e find that this composition effect has lowered average researcher ability by between 37% and 53%[.] And of course, low fertility was making the problem worse, because fewer children meant fewer people who were able to become future scientists. AI just blows up this constraint completely. If an AI agent can function as an autonomous researcher, there’s no constraint on the number of researchers in the world — you can just build more of them, by building more computer chips and data centers that enable the running of more AI agents. Whether or not massive hordes of agents can collaborate to solve individual problems much faster, increasing the number of agents allows them to tackle many different research questions in parallel. What’s more, these AI “researchers” can be trained incredibly quickly compared to human beings. A human scientist takes decades to train, and more years to reach the frontier of their research field by diligent reading and conversation. This is the “burden of knowledge”, and it’s commonly believed to be one reason ideas have been getting harder to find — by the time human scientists can get up to speed, they’re often so old that their ideas are no longer novel. AI just annihilates this constraint — it can assimilate the entire literature and reach the frontier of research extremely quickly, and it can also tell human scientists where the frontier lies without forcing them to discover that for themselves. It can also pivot to new research directions more easily than humans can. And there’s also a self-reinforcing economic cycle here. Because scientific advances enable higher GDP, they enable more resources to be invested into the creation of yet more electronic “scientists”. Now that doesn’t mean the amount of scientific research goes to infinity — there may still be some essential bottleneck task that human researchers are still needed to perform. There are some indications that AI’s progress on open-ended conceptual research tasks is slower than in other dimensions, and it may be that humans are still needed to provide some of this long-term conceptual thinking. I’d bet against this being true for much longer, but it might be true for a long time. Even in this most “pessimistic” case, though, the amount of effective capital that scientists can use to leverage their work just went up by a lot. AI eliminates the theory bottleneck Science proceeds by an iterative process of theory and experiment. The theory part of that cycle is typically short, but non-trivial — it took a couple of years after the blackbody radiation spectrum was observed for Max Planck to come up with the quantum hypothesis to explain it, and decades longer before quantum theory as we now know it was created. It took about a year for Watson and Crick to figure out the shape of DNA after the requisite data was gathered. AI will basically eliminate the theory bottleneck entirely — or at least shorten the turnaround time between experiment and theory by an order of magnitude. AI is an absolute beast at math. Recently, an OpenAI model solved some of the most important open problems in computer science, math, and theoretical physics, and no one even batted an eyebrow because that sort of triumph is becoming increasingly commonplace. One of those solutions was a proof that the Standard Model of Particle Physics could be mathematically well-defined — a problem that human theorists had so far been unable to tackle. Not all research relies equally on theory, but understanding novel experimental results almost always involves some important component of either mathematical or spatial reasoning. That part of the task has now been made much, much faster. And on top of that, science is now open to a greater number of humans who aren’t naturally good at theorizing. AI can read the whole literature Much of the work of human scientists involves reading and understanding endless amounts of papers and going to endless conferences and seminars. The purpose of that work is to understand the existing scientific literature. Understanding the literature allows scientists to do the following things: Come up with new ideas for hypotheses to test Avoid doing research that someone else has already done Synthesize approaches from different areas or fields AI can reduce this effort to almost zero. Consider this excerpt from OpenAI’s blog post about their new research into neurodegenerative disease: The team divided the analysis among thousands of AI agents powered by GPT‑Rosalind, an approach we call distributed biological reasoning. The agents examined a whole-brain CRISPR atlas…a dataset showing how gene disruptions affect different types of cells across the mouse brain. Each agent investigated a gene disruption, analyzed cellular responses, searched scientific literature, and proposed explanations for the results. Their reports were combined into a reasoning atlas linking genes, cellular effects, relevant publications, and possible biological mechanisms. The research team estimated that comparable human analysis and literature review, conducted one perturbation at a time, would take months to a year. The agents reproduced findings from human analyses while uncovering additional leads. Their assessments of novelty and scientific value also aligned with judgments from blinded human experts. These findings help prioritize further experiments needed to test the proposed biological mechanisms. Some of these insights point to new leads for understanding brain disease. [emphasis mine] This is one case in which parallel work by a large number of agents really does make a huge difference: [ Haider.@haider1 this is actually insane openai deployed thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents to analyze millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, work that could take human researchers months to a year also the agents uncovered new leads for brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's OpenAI @OpenAI GPT-Rosalind surfaced a new lead for drug discovery: could restoring cholesterol transport protect neurons from degeneration? DCTN1 is a gene linked to Perry syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. In mouse-brain data, disrupting it increased expression of genes involved in 2:41 PM · Oct 21, 2026 · 51.5K Views 26 Replies · 95 Reposts · 1.26K Likes ](https://x.com/haider1/status/2112917197903540516) Not only does instantaneous literature review vastly speed up the research process, but it allows AI to make novel conceptual leaps from combining approaches from wildly different fields of research. AI regularly does this in math research, combining results, approaches, and theorems from far-flung places that no human mathematician would have thought to combine. It can do it in science, too. Much of scientific innovation, historically, has been “recombinant” innovation — scientists applying insights from one field to another. With AI, essentially all research is now cross-disciplinary — AI can read not just the literature on a particular subject, but the literature on a million other subjects that might have produced useful techniques or insights for the problem at hand. Superscience So far, all of the factors I’ve listed are ways that AI can speed up science as it’s already done. I’ve basically described how AI can send gigantic hordes of superhumanly fast, superhumanly well-read, superhumanly mathematically gifted researchers to re-accelerate scientific discovery. But it’s also possible that AI will enable types of discovery — and ways of understanding the natural world — that no network of humans, no matter how large or how brilliant it was or how long it had to work, would ever be able to discover. In a post back in July, I wrote about how that might work: What if there are lots of…aspects of the Universe that [are] too complex to understand in terms of simple laws, but not so complex that they just dissolve into unknowable chaos? It’s possible that we can reliably control these complex phenomena with AI, even if we never reduce them to the kind of principles that we can teach a grad student in a textbook… Another way of saying this is that there may be laws of the universe that humans can’t understand but AI can. I call these “cloud laws” — causal regularities that can be exploited by technology, but which are too diffuse and complex for an individual human being to either intuit or communicate… Perhaps social sciences like economics, sociology, and political science obey similarly complex regularities, and AI can help us find them. Perhaps there are physical processes — plasma, or topological materials, or aerial turbulence, etc. — that obey cloud laws instead of chaos?… [H]uman collaboration is bottlenecked — it’s limited by our ability to intuit patterns at an individual level, and to communicate these patterns from one individual to another. AI, being a computer, just doesn’t have this sort of limitation; it can work with vast, diffuse patterns without having to break them into pieces or simplify them in order to compress them into the tiny pipelines of person-to-person explanation… If much of the Universe turns out to be ruled by cloud laws, we could be on the precipice of a scientific renaissance. In order to discover cloud laws, AI will need huge amounts of data about the natural world. AI figured out human speech by assimilating essentially all of the text humans have ever written. If it’s going to figure out hidden patterns in biology, neuroscience, materials science, etc., it’s going to need similarly massive amounts of data from physical instruments. That data will be far, far more than humans — individually or collectively — would be able to parse, label, characterize, or model. But AI was built to do this. If scientists simply build huge arrays of sensors to measure complex phenomena like the brain, the cell, the economy, etc., they may be able to feed this flood of data to AI directly and bypass human cognitive intermediation entirely. AI would then learn about the world directly, and it might learn things that humans never could. This “superscience”, if you want to call it that, would actually go beyond the kind of science humans have done heretofore. Many of the technologies it yielded would be beyond human comprehension — indistinguishable from magic. But to the AIs, they would make perfect scientific sense. In any case, it seems clear that the scientific slowdown that threatened human progress will now be delayed — at least for a while. Unless humans have somehow found most of the actual exploitable regularities in our Universe, we’re about to enter a new golden age of science. Subscribe Share
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, historic Mexican politician and former presidential candidate, dies at 92
An undisputed leader of the Mexican left, Cárdenas played a pivotal role in Mexico’s democratization.
Things to do: Oct. 29-Nov. 4
HUNTINGTON — Several chances to see live music, as well as meet authors and share your own creations, are on tap this week. Here are events to look out for.
What’s on Paula Poundstone’s mind? Politics, comedy and a famous cat
Paula Poundstone's spontaneous wit will keep the crowd on its toes when the veteran stand-up comic comes to Columbus on Oct. 30.
CLOG's 'Annie' coming to the Clay Center; 'Les Misérables' auditions slated
CHARLESTON — The Charleston Light Opera Guild and the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia will co-present the beloved Broadway musical “Annie” Friday and next weekend
Why the WHO must declare climate change a public health emergency
Across the world, people have felt the impacts of climate change firsthand. The Northern Hemisphere has had another record-breaking summer season of heat and extreme weather events. The Southern Hemisphere ...
Brenda Lucas: Community news for Thursday, Oct. 29
Click for community news in the Huntington, West Virginia, and Tri-State area.
John Gillispie: 'Masters of the Universe' mixes humor & action
Movies & More reviewer John Gillispie shares his thoughts on the new film version of “Masters of the Universe,” which is rated PG-13 and available on DVD.
Photo Essay: College of Science and Engineering Research Showcase
Fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major Jess Visaya and Fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major Dorette Pirie show off their soft robots. The robots are made to mimic worms, whose bodies bunch up before extending to propel themselves forward. The robots use pneumatic actuators to make linear movement outwards. Visaya and Pirie set up two of their worms with syringes attached to tubing which was then threaded through the end cap into the worms. Visitors to their station were encouraged to race the two worms by pumping the attached syringes. Third-year Biochemistry major Ira Evetts worked in Dr. Christopher Whidbey’s lab studying the vaginal microbiome, in an attempt to better understand the different microbes that build it up and how it affects health outcomes. Evetts’ research was specifically focused on lactobacillus iners, one of several bacteria naturally present in a healthy vaginal microbiome, and methylation systems. Fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major John Diesko Boehm and Fourth-Year Mechanical Engineering major Ian Agopsowicz hold up their “DAQMobile.” They built their project, a modified RC kit car, to help teach mechanical engineers about circuits and electrical design through real-world application. Fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major Ben Murphy holds up his mole crab and crawfish-inspired burrower. Murphy wanted to imitate the motion of a crab’s legs through robotics, with the primary goal to “turn the rotation of one motor into four alternating legs that would successfully displace soil.” Murphy was inspired by works that take inspiration from the natural world, and he found mole crabs particularly interesting. Although a mole crab is at an advantage with its burrowing being underwater, thus the sand being fluidized and easier to displace, Murphy’s machine is able to successfully burrow three centimeters into the ground. Second-year Mechanical Engineering major and Physics major Arabelle Miller shows off her rubber gripper, inspired by kirigami and origami. She took a piece of rubber and strategically cut slits into it to make it fold the way she needed, then glued googly eyes to the front. The gripper is able to hold up to 38 times its weight, or 226 grams. Third-year Mechanical Engineering major Joonseong Park talked about how his project took an unused and broken 3-D printer and transformed it into a testing platform for soft robotic grippers. The former-printer was reprogrammed and had its extruder part modified to be a mount for the grippers. Park shows off some of the other grippers that can be attached to the testing platform. Park classified grippers into two large categories. The first set of grippers is designed to deal with small delicate objects with great precision, and the second is made to lift heavy or large objects. Third-year Mechanical Engineering major Jiashuo Liu set out with a goal to deploy free open-source AI models to pre-existing robots to integrate object recognition and retrieval and command. The models are used to process the data received from the robots’ cameras in order to detect certain objects and their locations. Fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major Cole Purohit focused on agricultural automation of raspberry picking. His project utilizes kirigami to make grippers to close around a raspberry when the two ends are pulled. “Nobody wants to eat a squished raspberry,” Purohit said. Fourth-Year Biochemistry major Mariel Nolan’s project focused on bacteria and proteins within the bacteria whose functions are unknown. Nolan’s research is finding a way to isolate those proteins with the ultimate goal of determining their functions. Fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major Kai Boydon and Fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major Evan Nguyen show off their project, which uses custom extensors to help with the rehabilitation of stroke patients. They compared their project to a “party-popper” in the way it unfurls itself when placed under a patient’s fingers, helping the stroke patient rehabilitate finger movement. Boydon shows off the testing rig built for their project. It works as a mount for their extensor, as a way to test against resistance. Their program inflates the extensor through an air pump, which then makes the extensor push against the bed whilst an arduino calculates the force created and air pressure associated with the force. Navigate Left Navigate Right
Colorado teacher's one-of-a-kind find revealed at Denver Museum of Nature & Science
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is preparing to display one of the rarest dinosaur fossils ever discovered.
Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro pushes laptop pricing to a new extreme
Prepare to cough up around $14,549 if you want the new touchscreen MacBook Pro to have every upgrade.
Science Center Unveils 200,000-Square-Foot Air and Space Center
The California Science Center unveiled its new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center Wednesday, featuring space shuttle Endeavour displayed vertically in a 20-story launch configuration ahead of the facility’s Nov. 13 public opening. The 200,000-square-foot expansion nearly doubles the Science Center’s exhibit space and includes 100 aerospace artifacts and 100 hands-on exhibits focused on science […]
California Science Center Unveils New Air and Space Center
The California Science Center unveiled its new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center Wednesday, featuring space shuttle Endeavour displayed vertically in a 20-story launch configuration ahead of the facility’s Nov. 13 public opening. The 200,000-square-foot expansion nearly doubles the Science Center’s exhibit space and includes 100 aerospace artifacts and 100 hands-on exhibits focused on science […]
Dueling rallies thrust deep-red Lone Star town into the center of the political universe
Dueling rallies in Lubbock put the Texas Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico on full display as Trump joined the Republican side.
California Science Center Unveils 200,000-Square-Foot Air and Space Center
The California Science Center unveiled its new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center Wednesday, featuring space shuttle Endeavour displayed vertically in a 20-story launch configuration ahead of the facility’s Nov. 13 public opening. The 200,000-square-foot expansion nearly doubles the Science Center’s exhibit space and includes 100 aerospace artifacts and 100 hands-on exhibits focused on science […]
Science Center Unveils 200,000-Square-Foot Air and Space Center
The California Science Center unveiled its new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center Wednesday, featuring space shuttle Endeavour displayed vertically in a 20-story launch configuration ahead of the facility’s Nov. 13 public opening. The 200,000-square-foot expansion nearly doubles the Science Center’s exhibit space and includes 100 aerospace artifacts and 100 hands-on exhibits focused on science […]
Report: Whittingham’s Michigan Future Is Already in Question
Industry sources are already whispering about Michigan's coaching job, one year into the Kyle Whittingham era. #Wolverines
Science Center Unveils 200,000-Square-Foot Air and Space Center
The California Science Center unveiled its new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center Wednesday, featuring space shuttle Endeavour displayed vertically in a 20-story launch configuration ahead of the facility’s Nov. 13 public opening. The 200,000-square-foot expansion nearly doubles the Science Center’s exhibit space and includes 100 aerospace artifacts and 100 hands-on exhibits focused on science […]
Apple reveals pricing for Mac Studio with 512GB of RAM
When Apple announced the new M5 Max and M5 Ultra configurations of the Mac Studio in August, it said a...
Apple announces touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED display
The OLED display is the main draw, but the price is a lot to reckon with.
California pumpkin patch closes after E. coli puts 3 kids in ICU
A popular San Luis Obispo County pumpkin farm has voluntarily closed while health officials investigate five confirmed E. coli infections potentially linked to visits.
Explore The Search For Life At The Children’s Science Explorium
“Life on the Edge” traveling exhibition on display through January 3, 2027
Nintendo joins Best Buy for midnight Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 restock launch
📅 The Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 releases on Thursday, October 27 🚨 Our Zelda Switch 2 restock tracker @mattswider on X will send out an alert when stock appears 😲 Nintendo Store held a surprise restock on October 26 and is holding a midnight launch event on November 5 🙏 Other retailers may be holding back stock for launch day, too Walmart: Zelda Switch 2 console Best Buy: Zelda Switch 2 console GameStop: Zelda Switch 2 console Target: Zelda Switch 2 console Nintendo: Zelda Switch 2 console 🚨 We’re tracking Zelda Switch 2 stock updates. If you’d like to know when more stock arrives, follow Matt Swider on X and turn on notifications. You can also become a free or paid subscriber to The Shortcut to help support our work. 🚨 🚨 Want the Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2? Drop your email for restock alerts before it sells out. ⤵️ Subscribe We’re expecting to see a Zelda 40th anniversary Switch 2 restock tomorrow at major retailers like Walmart, as the console and Pro Controller are set to launch. However, Nintendo has joined Best Buy in announcing a midnight launch event for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on November 5, where limited quantities of the special edition console will be available. There is a catch, though. To attend the in-store event, which will be held on November 4 at Nintendo San Francisco and November 5 at Nintendo New York, a Warp Pipe Pass is required, which means capacity will be limited. If you’re lucky enough to receive a Warp Pipe Pass (they’re currently fully booked), you’ll be able to purchase The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition console, Zelda 40th Anniversary Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller and display stand, the Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 Pro Controller on its own, and the Zelda 40th Anniversary carrying case and screen protector. Purchases will be limited to one “per customer” and will be sold on a “first come, first served basis.” Why you should follow our Zelda Switch 2 restock tracker Obviously, many will be looking to receive the Zelda Switch 2 before November 5, and an instore event isn’t exactly ideal for many. That’s where our exclusive Zelda Switch 2 restock tracker comes in, as we’re providing up-to-the-second US store inventory checks. Those who follow Matt Swider on X and turn on notifications will be the first to know when new stock is live, as you can see in the post below. [ Matt Swider (The Shortcut)@mattswider ](https://x.com/mattswider/status/2114758291322757239?s=20) Zelda Switch 2 console in stock at the Nintendo Store nintendo.com/us/store/produ… 4:37 PM · Oct 26, 2026 · 67K Views 18 Replies · 4 Reposts · 75 Likes We’re strongly expecting retailers like Walmart to have stock on launch day, especially as it’s the largest retailer in the US. Cancellations can also occur in the run up to release, meaning more stock is made available that was previously taken. Thursday and Friday mornings is also when Walmart tends to offer restocks online. We’re predicting other retailers like Target, GameStop and Amazon will also get a new wave of consoles on launch day, and we’ll notify you if and when any Zelda Switch 2 restocks appear. You can trust our restock tracker as we helped over 400,000 people buy Sony’s console when it was in and out of stock for two years. We’ve since made it our goal to help our subscribers purchase hard-to-find items. We’ve done the same with the PS5 30th anniversary edition and many more in-demand products. Up next: Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 Pro Controller restock looks increasingly likely at Nintendo Store Subscribe Adam Vjestica is The Shortcut’s Senior Editor. Formerly TechRadar’s Gaming Hardware Editor, Adam has also worked at Nintendo of Europe as a Content Marketing Editor, where he helped launch the Nintendo Switch. He also runs a retro gaming YouTube channel called Game on, boy! Follow him on X @ItsMrProducts.
Endeavour's Vertical Display to Be Previewed at Science Center
The California Science Center will offer media a first look Wednesday at its new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, where space shuttle Endeavour will be displayed vertically in a launch-ready configuration. The 200,000-square-foot expansion adds 100,000 square feet of exhibit space, nearly doubling the Science Center’s current exhibit area. It features more than 100 […]
Apple CEO John Ternus Teases Touchscreen MacBooks: 12 Final Rumors
In a post on X today, Apple CEO John Ternus shared a short video that shows an Apple logo being projected onto a dark wall against a nighttime city skyline. This teaser comes just a few hours before Apple is expected to announce new MacBook models with touch-enabled OLED displays, so it is very likely in reference to that. Apple invited selected tech reporters and content creators to a "Pro and tell" experience in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. Pacific Time today.
Amazon announced five new Alexa devices, including 16-inch Echo Show
Apple recently launched new HomePod mini speakers and its HomeView smart display, and today it’s Amazon’s turn with five new...
Val Chmerkovskiy and Carrie Ann Inaba have made peace. How the 'Dancing With the Stars' controversy unfolded.
A dispute over a controversial lift in Week 5 sparked a Will Smith-inspired social post, a historic suspension and an apology.
Apple to Open Pre-Orders for Five New Products Today
Apple is set to open pre-orders for five new products on Wednesday, including its first yet-to-be-announced touchscreen MacBook Pro models. Pre-orders will open for the following new products: iPad mini with OLED display and A20 Pro chip iMac with M6 chip 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 chip 14-inch MacBook Pro with OLED touchscreen 16-inch MacBook Pro with OLED touchscreen Pre-orders for the iPad mini, iMac, and M6 MacBook Pro open at 10:10 a.m.
UniverSoul Circus pitches its 70-foot tent in Columbus for 17 shows
No lions or tigers or bears - oh, my! But there are acrobats, 20-foot puppets, fire-breathers and more! UniverSoul Circus comes to town Oct. 29-Nov. 8.
How a lifelong Republican came to lead the data center battle in Ohio
In Ohio, many people are displeased with the state's rapid buildout of data centers. It's a hot issue in the midterms, as political candidates from both parties try to ease voter concerns.
Minnesota becomes battleground as political clashes shape Senate race
Minnesota has become a flashpoint in the political dispute between President Trump and Democrats. Clashes over immigration and recent accusations of voter fraud are spilling into the U.S. Senate race.
Brenda Lucas: Community news for Wednesday, Oct. 28
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Cary business owners push back on NCDOT project proposal: 'Would be devastating'
Dozens of small business owners in Cary are concerned about an $84M NCDOT project that could displace longtime stores near Maynard Road and Chatham Street.
Sand, Lahn call for increasing mental healthcare access, Medicaid oversight in debate
Iowa gubernatorial candidates Rob Sand and Zach Lahn met for their final debate before Nov. 3, 2026 in Cedar Rapids Tuesday.
Palestinian protest leader says movement reshaping US politics
Mahmoud Khalil, who became the face of resistance to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian student activism, believes the movement has succeeded by shifting public perception and encouraging…
Judge weighs whether California can count up to 20,000 disputed ballots
The hearing Tuesday comes as mail-in voting is underway, a week before the Nov. 3 conclusion of midterm elections
Judge weighs whether California can count up to 20,000 disputed ballots
The hearing Tuesday comes as mail-in voting is underway, a week before the Nov. 3 conclusion of midterm elections
Antarctic sea ice loss batters ocean’s freshwater engine
The Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) – a vast layer of fresh water spanning much of the Southern Hemisphere’s ocean – has rapidly reversed its long-term trends in salinity and density, according to new research. The AAIW helps store carbon, supply oxygen and drive global ocean currents.
Behind the science are stories. UCLA students launch LENS journal to tell them
UCLA students launched a new publication Monday that aims to raise awareness about environmental issues through storytelling. Written, edited and peer-reviewed entirely by undergraduate students, LENS: The Journal of Environmental Narratives allows students to display their creative and scholarly environmental work at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
Anderson Cooper on Trump’s latest attack on El-Sayed
President Trump and members of his administration have made a series of disparaging remarks about Muslim Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. CNN’s Anderson Cooper beaks it down.
Judge weighs whether California can count up to 20,000 disputed ballots
The hearing Tuesday comes as mail-in voting is underway, a week before the Nov. 3 conclusion of midterm elections
Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards Raises Sports Gambling Concerns in $14K-a-Month Child Support Dispute
The Minnesota Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards is seeking changes to how part of his child support payments would be managed, citing concerns about sports gambling. According to TMZ’s reporting on court documents, Edwards asked for a trust to receive a portion of the money and a trustee to oversee distributions. The mother of his child, Alexandria […] The post Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards Raises Sports Gambling Concerns in $14K-a-Month Child Support Dispute appeared first on HEAVY.
E. coli outbreak leaves 3 SLO County kids in intensive care, Public Health says
The county is investigating five total cases that may be linked to a popular SLO County farm.
US Health Chief RFK Jr Faces Widespread Rebuke Over His Anti-Arab Remarks
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced widespread rebuke from civil rights groups, healthcare advocates and Democrats on Tuesday over his anti-Arab comments that the Council on American-Islamic Relations cast as "a textbook display of ...
AI refutes 30-year-old mathematical assumption in computer science
A central tenet in computer science has apparently been disproven by OpenAI, a result that will force textbooks to be rewritten if it is confirmed
8x8 Fall Fundraiser Is On View At Art Center
The Falmouth Art Center’s 8x8 Fall Fundraiser and Exhibit will be on display from Wednesday, October 28, through Monday, November 16, in the Landrau-Partan Gallery at the art center.
State Health Plan and Atrium settle dispute. What it means for members’ costs
Atrium joins Duke Health in the plan’s “access tier.”
Atrium Health, State Health Plan resolve dispute over pricing
The N.C. State Health Plan managers made a deal with Atrium Health that brings the Charlotte-based hospital chain into the Plan’s preferred-provider system as an access-tier provider. The two sides reached an agreement late Monday that covers “all current Atrium facilities” for 2027 and beyond, State Treasurer Brad Briner says. Access tier means that co-pays, […]
Atrium Health, State Health Plan resolve dispute over pricing
The N.C. State Health Plan managers made a deal with Atrium Health that brings the Charlotte-based hospital chain into the Plan’s preferred-provider system as an access-tier provider. The two sides reached an agreement late Monday that covers “all current Atrium facilities” for 2027 and beyond, State Treasurer Brad Briner says. Access tier means that co-pays, […]
Explore The Search For Life At The Children’s Science Explorium
“Life on the Edge” traveling exhibition on display through January 3, 2027
Atrium, State Health Plan strike a deal after public fight
The agreement resolves a dispute over health care costs that left thousands of state employees wondering whether they could afford to keep their doctors.
Atlanta business owner's $30,000 water bill dispute helped inspire new city legislation
iPhone 18e Could Get Two Key Upgrades While Keeping 60Hz Display
Apple's upcoming iPhone 18e model will retain a 60Hz display but could gain an upgraded front-facing camera, according to the leaker known as "Digital Chat Station". In a new post on Weibo, the leaker said that the device will feature a 6.12-inch OLED display using low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) technology, the A20 chip, and a single 48-megapixel rear camera. They were less definitive about the front-facing camera, saying it could be upgraded to 24 megapixels.
Acer's Arc G3 Extreme handheld costs $500 less than MSI Claw in US
The Acer Predator Atlas 8 is available in the US with Intel Arc G3 Extreme and an 8-inch 120Hz VRR display. Early tests show 6,607 points in 3DMark Time Spy.
John Goblikon wants to fire his ghostwriter. The problem? He is his ghostwriter
Comedian Dave Rispoli created John Goblikon, a metal-loving goblin who has become a comedy star with a personality all his own.
Brenda Lucas: Community news for Tuesday, Oct. 27
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GHPRD hosts Halloween Carnival
HUNTINGTON — Ritter Park was filled a variety of fictional characters on Oct. 17 as the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District hosted a Halloween Carnival.
Real-life violence encroaches on 'Miami Vice ’85' film set
A caller told New York police that he had been in a verbal dispute with an “unidentified individual” when the man took out a knife.
Opinion | Everything is political, even if you aren’t
It is easy to feel disconnected from politics. Most of us will never set foot behind the closed doors in Washington D.C., so from a distance, politics seems like something irrelevant to ordinary citizens. That distance can make disengagement seem appealing. With another candidate, election, or bill constantly dominating the news, taking an apolitical stance...
Appeals court declines to block California from counting 20,000 disputed ballots
An appeals court has declined to rule on whether California elections officials can count roughly 20,000 ballots that the Justice Department alleges belong to noncitizen voters. Monday's decision sets the
OpenAI Science Discoveries: 3 Claims, ETH, QCD [2026]
OpenAI science discoveries: a claimed ETH disproof, Kakeya proof and QCD existence proof, with academic shepherds. What is verified so far.
More voters are leaving party labels behind, as national politics reshape West Virginia
MORGANTOWN – Christine Riley spent most of her life as a Democrat, following a political affiliation that had been part of her family for generations. But after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the 63-year-old retired 911 dispatcher decided she no longer wanted to belong to either major political party. Riley, a […]
What Is the Relationship Between Doing Good History and Entertainment?
[Cross-posted from The Tattooed Historian’s Dispatch] What exactly are we doing when we communicate history to the public? Most of us would agree that accuracy matters, evidence matters, context matters, historical rigor matters. But we also live in a world where attention matters (and attention spans are dropping at an alarming rate). Subscribe Whether we’re posting on social media, producing videos, hosting podcasts, giving public talks, or designing museum programs, we’re all competing with countless other demands on people’s time. The public doesn’t simply stumble into history anymore. Now, good history has to find people where they already are. This raises a difficult question: Is making history entertaining part of good historical practice, or is it simply what we must do to remain relevant? “Entertainment” is often treated as the opposite of seriousness. But what do we mean when we use the term itself? Does entertainment mean simplifying the historical record? Does it mean telling compelling stories in a lively manner? Is there a difference between being engaging and being entertaining? And who gets to decide where that line is? Share These questions become even more complicated online. Social media platforms reward attention. Algorithms reward engagement (the positive and the negative). Visibility often depends on producing content that people are willing to click, watch, share, and discuss. What happens when those incentives shape the way history is presented? Can historians work within those systems without letting those systems define the work? Are public audiences being served better than ever before, or are platform incentives changing what kinds of history rise to the surface? These are just a few of the issues that I discuss with John R. Heckman in our latest installment of “Historians Off the Cuff.” Feel free to suggest future topics for us to discuss in the comments section below. Hope you are entertained. LOL Civil War Memory is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe
PHOTO COLLECTION: Latination brings color, music, dance to downtown Bakersfield
Bakersfield's annual Latination festival opened Friday with a dazzling blend of dancing and music in celebration of Hispanic-themed art.
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iPhone Duo owners report cracks in Apple’s first foldable handset
Company says small number of devices affected by display glitch after posts appear on Reddit and social media
Apple responds to reports of iPhone Duo's inner display cracking
Over the weekend, a handful of iPhone Duo users reported that their inner display had cracked along the hinge. In...
Apple’s Foldable iPhone Duo Draws Early Complaints of the Screen Cracking
The iPhone Duo, one of Apple Inc.’s biggest new products in years, is drawing a growing number of complaints from customers who say the foldable display cracked after just hours or days of use.
Leland in Lights returns Nov. 21 with new displays, expanded holiday entertainment
Leland in Lights is returning to Founders Park this November with new holiday displays, live entertainment, visits with Santa and an expanded train experience.