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Liberals are catalysts to catastrophe, again

Al Jazeera

Yoav Litvin is an Israeli-American doctor of psychology/neuroscience, a writer and photographer. On September 17, the late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel was suspended after remarks he made about the death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. Days later, he was reinstated following liberal upheaval. In his first appearance back on air, Kimmel read US President Donald Trump's post on Truth Social: "I can't believe ABC fake news gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back." Without missing a beat, Kimmel responded, "You can't believe they gave me my job back. I can't believe we gave you your job back!"


Huge fertility breakthrough as scientists create functional eggs from human SKIN cells: 'A step towards helping many women have their own genetic children'

Daily Mail - Science & tech

The truth about Keith Urban's guitarist'other woman' Maggie Baugh revealed amid Nicole Kidman divorce Top plastic surgeons reveal secrets behind Taylor Swift's'changing' face: 'It is looking very full' Trump dollar coin design released by Treasury... and it's inspired by an iconic political photo Shroud of Turin mystery deepens as surgeon spots hidden detail that points to Jesus' resurrection Hollywood A-listers pay me $50,000 to cure their drug addicted nepo-babies because they can't afford for these secrets to go public I'm no longer sleeping with my husband - and never will again, says MOLLY RYDDELL. I love him, but counted down the moments until he climaxed. Then I couldn't bear it any more and the truth spilled out... so many women feel the same Fans erupt at Taylor Swift's'dig' at Travis Kelce's ex Kayla Nicole in wild The Life of a Showgirl track Taylor, your album should be'Life of a Callgirl'. KENNEDY's appalled take on Swift's new record... and its ultra-vivid sex shout outs for Travis the Sasquatch I was so happy after trying a trendy new cosmetic procedure. But 10 years later I suffered a devastating side effect... the doctor had lied Lori Loughlin's husband Mossimo Giannulli seen with mystery brunette in tiny skirt day after shock split The'middle-class kinks' saving marriages: Wives reveal the eight buzzy sex trends that revived their lagging libidos - including the fantasy husbands are secretly obsessed with I'm a woman with autism... here are the signs you might be masking, even from yourself Cake-faced 90s sitcom star looks unrecognizable as she ditches the heavy eyeshadow for an LA errand run can you guess who?


Emily Blunt and Sag-Aftra join film industry condemnation of 'AI actor' Tilly Norwood

The Guardian

'A character generated by a computer program' 'AI actor' Tilly Norwood in AI Commissioner. 'A character generated by a computer program' 'AI actor' Tilly Norwood in AI Commissioner. Emily Blunt and Sag-Aftra join film industry condemnation of'AI actor' Tilly Norwood US actors' union joins stars in opposition to Norwood, which it says was created'using stolen performances' The controversy around the "AI actor" Tilly Norwood continues to grow, after the actors' union Sag-Aftra condemned the development and said Norwood's creators were "using stolen performances". Sag-Aftra released a statement after the AI "talent studio" Xicoia unveiled its creation at the Zurich film festival, prompting an immediate backlash from actors including Melissa Barrera, Mara Wilson and Ralph Ineson. Sag-Aftra said it believed creativity was, "and should remain, human-centred. The union is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics."



Imelda erupts into hurricane near East Coast as Fujiwhara Effect to save millions from devastation

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Trump dollar coin design released by Treasury... and it's inspired by the most iconic political photo of the century Top plastic surgeons reveal secrets behind Taylor Swift's'changing' face: 'It is looking very full' Fans erupt at Taylor Swift's'dig' at Travis Kelce's ex Kayla Nicole in wild The Life of a Showgirl track Shroud of Turin mystery deepens as surgeon spots hidden detail that points to Jesus' resurrection Hollywood A-listers pay me $50,000 to cure their drug addicted nepo-babies because they can't afford for these secrets to go public I'm no longer sleeping with my husband - and never will again, says MOLLY RYDDELL. I love him, but counted down the moments until he climaxed. Then I couldn't bear it any more and the truth spilled out... so many women feel the same Lori Loughlin's husband Mossimo Giannulli seen with mystery brunette in tiny skirt day after shock split I'm a woman with autism... here are the signs you might be masking, even from yourself I've loved Taylor Swift for years. I was so happy after trying a trendy new cosmetic procedure. But 10 years later I suffered a devastating side effect... the doctor had lied The'middle-class kinks' saving marriages: Wives reveal the eight buzzy sex trends that revived their lagging libidos - including the fantasy husbands are secretly obsessed with Cake-faced 90s sitcom star looks unrecognizable as she ditches the heavy eyeshadow for an LA errand run can you guess who?


Why does misinformation spread faster than truth?

Al Jazeera

The Stream Why does misinformation spread faster than truth? We examine how online misinformation spreads and the efforts to stop it. From bots pushing ready-made talking points, to AI generating information that isn't always reliable, to pages distorting images and bending facts - online misinformation is everywhere. So how can people tell what's real? And is it even possible to build immunity against misinformation in today's digital world?


Deep content-based music recommendation

Neural Information Processing Systems

Automatic music recommendation has become an increasingly relevant problem in recent years, since a lot of music is now sold and consumed digitally. Most recommender systems rely on collaborative filtering. However, this approach suffers from the cold start problem: it fails when no usage data is available, so it is not effective for recommending new and unpopular songs. In this paper, we propose to use a latent factor model for recommendation, and predict the latent factors from music audio when they cannot be obtained from usage data. We compare a traditional approach using a bag-of-words representation of the audio signals with deep convolutional neural networks, and evaluate the predictions quantitatively and qualitatively on the Million Song Dataset. We show that using predicted latent factors produces sensible recommendations, despite the fact that there is a large semantic gap between the characteristics of a song that affect user preference and the corresponding audio signal. We also show that recent advances in deep learning translate very well to the music recommendation setting, with deep convolutional neural networks significantly outperforming the traditional approach.


We Asked Audio Pros to Blind Test Headphones. The Results Were Surprising

WIRED

We Asked Audio Pros to Blind Test Headphones. When it comes to choosing a good pair of headphones, what happens when you take features, design, and brand awareness out of the equation, and leave it all up to the sound? All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. What makes a really great pair of headphones? The basic answer used to be sound quality, but modern headphones offer so much more than just audio chops.


Update your iPhone NOW: Apple releases iOS 26.0.01 with important security fixes - here's how to download it on your device

Daily Mail - Science & tech

The truth about Keith Urban's guitarist'other woman' Maggie Baugh revealed amid Nicole Kidman divorce Top plastic surgeons reveal secrets behind Taylor Swift's'changing' face: 'It is looking very full' Trump dollar coin design released by Treasury... and it's inspired by an iconic political photo Shroud of Turin mystery deepens as surgeon spots hidden detail that points to Jesus' resurrection Hollywood A-listers pay me $50,000 to cure their drug addicted nepo-babies because they can't afford for these secrets to go public I'm no longer sleeping with my husband - and never will again, says MOLLY RYDDELL. I love him, but counted down the moments until he climaxed. Then I couldn't bear it any more and the truth spilled out... so many women feel the same Fans erupt at Taylor Swift's'dig' at Travis Kelce's ex Kayla Nicole in wild The Life of a Showgirl track Taylor, your album should be'Life of a Callgirl'. KENNEDY's appalled take on Swift's new record... and its ultra-vivid sex shout outs for Travis the Sasquatch I was so happy after trying a trendy new cosmetic procedure. But 10 years later I suffered a devastating side effect... the doctor had lied Lori Loughlin's husband Mossimo Giannulli seen with mystery brunette in tiny skirt day after shock split The'middle-class kinks' saving marriages: Wives reveal the eight buzzy sex trends that revived their lagging libidos - including the fantasy husbands are secretly obsessed with I'm a woman with autism... here are the signs you might be masking, even from yourself Cake-faced 90s sitcom star looks unrecognizable as she ditches the heavy eyeshadow for an LA errand run can you guess who?


What a load of rubbish! The 6 most common branded items dumped as litter in the UK, revealed - with Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Walkers the worst offenders

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Taylor, your album should be'Life of a Callgirl'. KENNEDY's appalled take on Swift's new record... and its ultra-vivid sex shout outs for Travis the Sasquatch The truth about Keith Urban's guitarist'other woman' Maggie Baugh revealed amid Nicole Kidman divorce How I look like this at 62. I've lost 5 stone fast, 20 years off my biological age and wear size 8... without weight-loss jabs. My war with Harry & Meghan, by PIERS MORGAN: What really happened, their absurd accusations, the brutal truth about post-royal life... and how I believe their royal racism lies helped kill off woke Shroud of Turin mystery deepens as surgeon spots hidden detail that points to Jesus' resurrection I'm no longer sleeping with my husband - and never will again, says MOLLY RYDDELL. I love him, but counted down the moments until he climaxed. Then I couldn't bear it any more and the truth spilled out... so many women feel the same Fans erupt at Taylor Swift's'dig' at Travis Kelce's ex Kayla Nicole in wild The Life of a Showgirl track Trump dollar coin design released by Treasury... and it's inspired by an iconic political photo The THREE singers Keith Urban's been cosying up to revealed - now Nicole Kidman's on the warpath and has done the thing every estranged husband fears most: ALISON BOSHOFF Lori Loughlin's husband Mossimo Giannulli seen with mystery brunette in tiny skirt day after shock split Trump appears alongside Melania at dinner hosted by JD Vance and Usha after'disappearance' rumors Top plastic surgeons reveal secrets behind Taylor Swift's'changing' face: 'It is looking very full' I'm a woman with autism... here are the signs you might be masking, even from yourself Cake-faced 90s sitcom star looks unrecognizable as she ditches the heavy eyeshadow for an LA errand run can you guess who?