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Entertainment
Box Office: ‘Clayface’ Counting $3.5M+ In U.S. Thursday Previews
EXCLUSIVE: Peter Safran and James Gunn’s DC entree into lower budget genre movies, Clayface, is off to a solid start in previews tonight with an estimated $3.5M, if not...
‘Wildwood’ Director Hopes People “See The Danger” In GenAI
As Laika debuts its latest stop-motion animation, Travis Knight is standing firmly against generative AI. The Wildwood director and Laika CEO explained that GenAI “is antithetical to everything that...
Gemini for Business Adds Brand, Marketing and Finance Tools
Google has added a set of business tools to the Gemini app, and small business owners are the target. According to BestMediaInfo, the company announced the update on October...
Humanoid Robots Head to the Factory Floor at AGCO
AGCO and Agility Robotics have signed a commercial agreement to pilot humanoid robots at AGCO’s Hesston, Kansas, plant. The companies announced the deal on October 20, 2026. The pilot...
Entrepreneurship
Gemini for Business Adds Brand, Marketing and Finance Tools
Entrepreneurship
Humanoid Robots Head to the Factory Floor at AGCO
Entrepreneurship
AI Customer Service Rules: NYC Proposes a Human Off-Ramp
Fashion
‘You Can See Everything’: Theranos whistleblower says Elizabeth Holmes is ‘still lying’
A former research engineer who worked closely with Elizabeth Holmes at Theranos says “You Can See Everything” doesn’t show, well, everything. You may remember Tyler Shultz from HBO’s “The...
Here’s what we know about the man who allegedly bugged an OpenAI conference room in San Francisco
Build a continuous audio recorder. Develop speech-triggered recording. Add Wi-Fi connectivity. Encrypt memory card.These are some of the prompts an engineer arrested by federal authorities last week is accused...
Discovery+ now costs up to $11.99 a month as Skydance takes over
Exactly a week after the new Skydance corporation — the product of the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger — was officially formed, Hollywood’s newest media giant is already raising streaming...
‘Human vs. Robot’ cage match was a hit. State says event was illegal, but organizers aren’t concerned
A human defeated two of the three robots he faced in a cage fight recently held in San Francisco.The humans behind that fight could face a battle of their...
Gossip
Curator Catherine Nichols’s Lyon Biennale Turns the City’s Trading Past Into a Poetic Framework
Catherine Nichols. Photo: Atdhe Mulla In the opening speech for the 2026 Lyon Biennale of contemporary art, artistic director Isabelle Bertolotti said she appointed curator Catherine Nichols for her...
Paris Makes Room for Plant-Based Eating, the French Way
Plants are popping up all over Paris. Alongside the greening of the city, turning streets into parks, roundabouts into miniature forests and parking spaces into native plant walkways, Parisian...
Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton Call for A.I. Safeguards. Enterprise Buyers Can Help Enforce Them.
Yoshua Bengio was among 400 scientists who signed an open letter calling for international A.I. safety standards. That level of coordination will take time, but major banks, health systems...
72 Hours of Art in Cincinnati
Seen in the abstract, Cincinnati sprawls. In reality, the city's downtown is very walkable, and even the sights farther out from the city center are a relatively short drive...
Health
Fans React as Megyn Kelly Revives Book Excerpt Amid Nancy Guthrie Disappearance
Fans are speaking out after Megyn Kelly revisited a childhood story from Savannah Guthrie's book while Savannah's mother, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing.In a February 17 Instagram clip from "The...
Bayer Expands Litigation Liability With New $7.25B Roundup Proposal
Bayer said Tuesday that its Monsanto unit has proposed a new $7.25 billion settlement to resolve US lawsuits claiming its Roundup weedkiller caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma, expanding the company's total...
The $8.8 Trillion Problem AI Can’t Solve: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Corporate AI spending topped $252 billion in 2024. Yet 95% of generative AI pilots deliver no measurable return on investment. The technology works. The people don't.What's missing? It's emotional...
GOP Rep. Warns Cuban Regime Not To ‘Continue Defying’ Trump: ‘Will Annihilate You In a Matter Of Seconds’
Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez warned the Cuban regime not to "continue defying" the Trump administration because it "won't last long" if they get on its "bad side.""The Cuban regime...
Innovation
Google Changes EU Spam Policy to Avert Antitrust Fine
Google is loosening one of its search spam rules in Europe, giving publishers a little breathing room while easing some of the heat from its antitrust fight with EU...
French Publishers Challenge Google AI Search Over Content Licensing – TechRepublic
French publishers have escalated their dispute with Google over AI search, asking France’s competition watchdog to decide whether AI Overviews and AI Mode require separate licensing negotiations. The Alliance...
OnePlus 16 May Skip the US and Europe: What Buyers Need to Know
OnePlus may be preparing its next flagship phone. But for many buyers, the biggest question isn’t what’s inside it. It’s whether they’ll be able to buy it through official...
ColorOS Replacing OxygenOS on OnePlus Phones: What Users Lose
Eligible existing OnePlus phones will be offered an optional upgrade from OxygenOS to ColorOS 17. Android Authority reported that the transition is expected after the official release of ColorOS...
News
Meta hit with $25-billion penalty for misleading Facebook users about data privacy
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was ordered by a New Mexico judge on Wednesday to pay $25 billion for misleading users about how it collects and safeguards user...
Indonesia’s central bank keeps main rate unchanged but hikes deposit facility rate, to cut RRR
Published Wed, Oct 21, 2026 · 03:23 PM — Updated Wed, Oct 21, 2026 · 03:41 PM[JAKARTA] Indonesia’s central bank kept its main policy rate unchanged on Wednesday (Oct 21)...
Taobao deepens Singapore presence with US$14.9 million marketing push
[HONG KONG] Chinese e-commerce giant Taobao is ramping up its presence in Singapore amid fierce market competition. It has boosted its Singles’ Day marketing spend in the Republic by...
Australia central banker sees signs of labour market easing
Published Mon, Oct 19, 2026 · 03:15 PM[SYDNEY] A senior Australian central banker flagged on Monday (Oct 19) signs that the labour market was loosening faster than expected, but...
Politics
Cops discover California schoolgirl shooting plotters’ secret list of targets — as likely motive revealed
Two teenage girls plotted to shoot up a Riverside County high school and penned a list of exactly who they'd kill, police revealed. Source link
Conn. gets salty over pizza list snub — while America’s best slice goes to a classic
There’s mushroom for improvement. Connecticut’s desperate attempts to make people think they are the pizza capital of the nation — which included a laughable taxpayer-funded ad blitz — have...
Disgraced 49ers owner Jed York comes out of hiding at NFL owners meetings
NEW YORK – Jed York wasted no time returning to NFL business. On the first day he was eligible to resume his duties following a six-game suspension, the 49ers’...
NYC prosecutors slam ex-DOB commish Eric Ulrich as a ‘compromised politician’ who’d do anything for cash as trial kicks off
Ex-New York City Buildings Commisher Eric Ulrich was a “compromised politician” so desperate for cash that he accepted bribes — including $10,000 Mets season tickets — so his inner...
Rams’ kicking curse strikes again as new kicker Blake Grupe gets hurt
At this point, somebody might want to check whether the Los Angeles Rams’ special teams unit was built on an ancient burial ground. Because whatever curse has been haunting...
Exclusive | Abdul El-Sayed remains close to terror-linked mother despite best efforts to hide her from campaign
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has carefully curated a family narrative for the campaign trail that erases his terror group-linked birth mother for his white stepmom — even...
Special Edition
Box Office: ‘Clayface’ Counting $3.5M+ In U.S. Thursday Previews
EXCLUSIVE: Peter Safran and James Gunn’s DC entree into lower budget genre movies, Clayface, is off to a solid start in previews tonight with an estimated $3.5M, if not...
‘Wildwood’ Director Hopes People “See The Danger” In GenAI
As Laika debuts its latest stop-motion animation, Travis Knight is standing firmly against generative AI. The Wildwood director and Laika CEO explained that GenAI “is antithetical to everything that...
Alex Roe, Jack Topalian & Shakira Barrera Starring In Feature ‘The Ride’, Told From Perspective Of A ‘76 Plymouth
EXCLUSIVE: Slava Denisov’s short film The Ride is getting the feature treatment with Alex Roe (The 5th Wave), Jack Topalian (Euphoria), and Shakira Barrera (GLOW) on board to star....
Greater Manchester TV Festival Unveils Dates, Venue & Waye Garvie Chair
The UK’s biggest TV Festival has revealed the dates it will officially launch in Greater Manchester for the first time, with Sony international productions boss Wayne Garvie aboard as...
Trending Today
Sheriffs Say Greg Abbott Is Lying About Their Endorsements
Also listed in the indictment were Lucas’s daughters Theresa Lucas-Lamb and Lisa Lucas-Burke, who is currently running for Portsmouth City Council. The DOJ manual prohibits federal prosecutors from timing...
Texas’s 5 Biggest Counties Blow Early Voting Records Out of the Water
Texas’s five biggest counties smashed voter turnout records on the state’s first day of early voting in the midterm elections.Harris, Dallas, Bexar, Travis, and Tarrant counties all eclipsed early...
DOJ Admits List of Noncitizen Voters Is Faulty as It Begins Arrests
Eleven people with lawful permanent resident status were arrested in California Monday for alleged voter fraud. Hours later, First Assistant Attorney for California Bill Essayli admitted that they may...
Democrats: Embrace Incivility!
In recent weeks, I’ve been fortunate enough to observe two competing visions for Democratic senators should they retake the upper chamber in next month’s midterm elections. On the one...
