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EXCLUSIVE: Manny Montana (Ironheart, Good Girls) has joined the Season 5 cast of Paramount+’s Tulsa King in a recurring role. He will play Gilberto Torres, a gangster with a strong presence, though he doesn’t have to advertise it. Through his network in the streets, nothing goes on in New York without him knowing about it. […]

While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smart phone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said that product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.

Pups that carry your shopping are one thing – but what about the mechanical canines being bought up in the US by ICE? Or the mutant mutts due to be developed by a startup called Warhound? Have you ever wanted to hang out with a dog with no fur, no face and a chip in its shoulder? If so, I suggest you head to San Francisco, where a startup called Dimensional has been paying people $20 (£15) an hour to walk four-legged robot dogs. This isn’t because the dogs need the exercise – it is because the company needs the training data. As reported in the New York Times, the goal is to develop “operating systems that can integrate with AI agents so the machines can act more independently”. What exactly will these machines do when they can act more independently? The founder of Dimensional insists they will help people. They might carry groceries home, for example, which is certainly something my tiny chihuahua-mix is incapable of. Continue reading...

X is introducing a new version of its web app that it says is much faster than before, and it's now rolling out the updated app "one country at a time" for signed-in users. "Open a profile on X.com over a slow connection," principal engineer Yagiz Nizipli said in a blog post about the changes. […]

City A.M. reported on 6 October that the share of UK firms spending on public relations and management consultants fell to 4.2% in September, even as overall business spending rose 3.1% year on year and spending on AI services increased rapidly. For Omar Hamdi, chief executive of London-listed Pathos Communications plc, those figures are less a death notice for […] This story continues at The Next Web

In a state of post-election bliss, John Nicely drove his daily school bus route on Wednesday morning through the tiny town of Perry, Ohio, a few miles south of Lake Erie. “So, when are you taking down the signs, Mr. Nicely?” his students asked him as they filed inside, “because you kicked butt, buddy.” They […]

The British writer-director, featured on the 2026 U.K. BAFTA Breakthrough list, supported by Netflix, also tells THR how "I always feel I have two audiences" and about his vision for "sign language cinema."

Social media is awash with claims iron deficiency can be identified in the mirror by dark circles, breaking hair and dry skin. But is ‘ferritin face’ real? Madeleine Finlay tells Ian Sample why so many of us struggle to keep our iron levels up, how we can actually diagnose low iron and the best way to correct a deficiency, with help from Hal Drakesmith, a professor of iron biology at Oxford University, and advice from Dr Sue Pavord, a consultant haematologist at Oxford university hospitals and associate senior lecturer in clinical medicine at St Edmund Hall ‘Ferritin face’: are social media claims about iron deficiency fact – or fiction? Support the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Continue reading...

With increasing research on the interplay between genetics and environmental risk factors in the early stages of celiac disease, the need to harmonize scientific terms and concepts in this field has increased. In an effort led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the Mayo Clinic, 22 scientists from seven countries have published a review on the stages of early celiac disease. The paper is published in Gut.

The veteran travel writer turns his eye for detail on his northern neighbour and its people Paul Theroux’s arrival in Canada doesn’t go well. An immigration officer called Sweeney finds a small pocketknife in his car and fines him $500 for failing to declare a weapon. “I’m going to make you famous,” he angrily tells her, stumping up. Maybe he will, with this book. Canadians are reputed to be polite and easygoing, “slaves to their courtesy”, but the country has changed enormously in recent years. Will Theroux find it stuffed with Sweeney-ites? Luckily the answer is no. He issues a warning that, after 11 previous travel books, this may be his last; global overtourism appals him and so does much travel writing. But he shares Jack Kerouac’s delight in being on the road, and from his home in Massachusetts it’s just a four-hour drive to the border. His purpose is less to check out “the strangers next door” than to visit the village of Yamaska, in Quebec. It was there that a Frenchman called Antoine Theroux settled in the 17th century; a dozen or more Theroux families still live there; one local street is called Rue Theroux. The author isn’t only made welcome but presented with a certificate of honour by the local mayor. He repays the honour with a long chapter of family history. Continue reading...

The new stage will use LED assets picked up from former Pixomondo stages in Vancouver and the Sony VFX firm's LED stage Dark Slope acquired from Pinewood Studios Toronto.

The 14-year-old Brit discusses owing his music taste to onscreen dad Jordan Firstman, shooting with queer performers and why a failed 'Harry Potter' audition was the best thing that ever happened to him.

The Samsung Galaxy Fit3, launched in February 2024, is due for a successor. Rumors claim the Galaxy Fit4 will arrive this year, with recent leaks revealing its design and key features. There's no word from Samsung about the Galaxy Fit4's launch; however, it has published the Galaxy Fit4 Manager app on the Galaxy Store, and the screenshots in the listing hint at NFC support. One screenshot in the listing, attached below, shows a "Wallet" option in the app's menu. It's obscure and behind the bottom navigation bar. This suggests the Galaxy Fit4 may let users make payments with credit/debit...

Taiwanese audiences are consuming entertainment across film, television, music, publishing and gaming, creating opportunities for cross-platform IP development, according to research presented by the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) at Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei on Friday. At the “Exclusive Insights Report: Taiwan Cross-Platform Audience Data × AI Application Evaluation” session, TAICCA research […]

MacRumors has confirmed that the A18 chip in Apple's new HomeView smart home hub is paired with 8GB of RAM. This is not very surprising given the A18 chip also has 8GB of RAM in all iPhone 16 models and the MacBook Neo, but Apple does not list this information in the HomeView's tech specs, so it is worth documenting. Related Roundup: Apple HomeView Buyer's Guide: HomeView (Buy Now) Related Forum: HomePod, HomeView, CarPlay – Home & Auto Tech This article, "Apple's New HomeView Smart Home Hub: Here's How Much RAM It Has" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

The startup Aina bets you won’t need to rely on your phone to control virtual assistants. It’s making a smart ring that lets you control the actions of your autonomous agents with one tap.

From chainmail-wearing pop stars to high-fashion catwalks, the spirit of the middle ages is erupting into the zeitgeist Medieval knights used to joust on warhorses with wooden lances, but this week in east London, two men jousted on Lime bikes with PVC pipes. This contemporary spin on a medieval spectacle is just one example of the spirit of the middle ages erupting into the zeitgeist. As part of Frieze art fair, the artist Corbin Shaw staged a show called Feast of Fools. The “‘anti-Frieze” Frieze show took inspiration from a medieval festival where, as Shaw put it to GQ, “the peasant class could insult the rich”. In the video for Troye Sivan’s latest song, Party, the Australian pop star postures as a medieval knight. Continue reading...

While traditional cybersecurity focuses on servers and networks, modern cyber threats have now shifted to everyday conversational channels, such as videoconferencing, instant messaging and voice calls.

A week before the midterm elections, Vice President JD Vance hosted a town hall in Texas with Fox News host Jesse Watters. It was a friendly event with a friendly audience in what should have been a friendly state, and maybe that's why Vance couldn't help himself. When a college student earnestly asked how the […]

The Stranger Things alum—who’s headed to Middle-earth for season three of The Rings of Power—tells us about his rockstar style icons, the Vecna hand in his suitcase, and why he copied Dev Hynes’s skinny jeans as a teen.

Davis returns as Professor Flitwick, the only original cast member from the Harry Potter films to star in HBO’s new series, as a new flagship store opens amid protests over author JK Rowling’s gender‑identity comments

Of course an Italian chef would rather be sacked than make this. Defending our food against such blasphemy makes us feel like better people Luca Cesari is a food historian and author of The History of Pizza You may have smiled at the news a few days ago: the Italian chef Davide Tamburella was sacked by a Brisbane restaurant after refusing to put pineapple on a pizza. Never mind that Queensland grows almost all of Australia’s pineapples. Tamburella would not give way to his customers or his boss, insisting that the combination was an insult to Italian culture. Strange as it may sound, he is not the first. In 2017, Maurizio Landi, a chef from Bologna, was sacked by a bistro near Lyon after resisting pressure to cook his pasta for longer and to serve spaghetti bolognese, a dish that does not exist in his home town. For anyone who doesn’t know, Bologna is the only city in the world where ragù is eaten solely with tagliatelle, and putting it on spaghetti borders on an outrage. Luca Cesari is a food historian and the author of The History of Pizza Continue reading...