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Josh Charles leads Fox comedy as a grumpy heart surgeon in 'Best Medicine' — Static01.nyt.com

Josh Charles leads Fox comedy as a grumpy heart surgeon in 'Best Medicine'

Josh Charles, long known for playing smarmy or blunt characters, is the lead of Fox’s new comedy Best Medicine, an adaptation of the British series Doc Martin. He plays Martin Best, a successful but rude heart surgeon who must relocate from Boston to a small New England town, where

Global Push to Bring A.I. Chatbots Into Schools Prompts Calls for Caution — Static01.nyt.com

Global Push to Bring A.I. Chatbots Into Schools Prompts Calls for Caution

Governments and tech firms are rapidly rolling out generative A.I. chatbots and training programs in schools and universities around the world, prompting both enthusiasm and concern. Companies and governments cited in recent rollouts include Microsoft providing tools to more than 200,000 students and educators in the United Arab

Trump Says U.S. Oil Companies Would Rebuild Venezuela’s Struggling Industry — Static01.nyt.com

Trump Says U.S. Oil Companies Would Rebuild Venezuela’s Struggling Industry

President Trump said the Venezuelan oil industry would “make a lot of money” if the United States supported its recovery, speaking at a news conference confirming the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, who faces U.S. federal drugs and weapons charges. Mr. Trump said U.S. oil companies would “spend

Littler and Van Veen meet in youngest-ever PDC world final at Alexandra Palace — I.guim.co.uk

Littler and Van Veen meet in youngest-ever PDC world final at Alexandra Palace

Luke Littler and Gian van Veen face each other in the PDC World Championship final at Alexandra Palace tonight in what is the youngest world final on record, their combined age 41. Littler is the defending champion and will finish the tournament as world number one. Van Veen has risen

Seven smart-plug tricks to make your home safer, greener and more convenient — Zdnet.com

Seven smart-plug tricks to make your home safer, greener and more convenient

Smart plugs let you control ordinary devices from an app, voice assistant or a schedule, turning dumb devices into smarter, safer and more energy-efficient ones. 1. Deter would-be intruders — Schedule indoor or outdoor lights to come on when you’re away to create the appearance someone is home. You can

Pleistocene ostracod fossils in Qaidam Basin point to ancient East Asian bird flyway — Scx2.b-cdn.net

Pleistocene ostracod fossils in Qaidam Basin point to ancient East Asian bird flyway

A research team led by Associate Professor Wang Yaqiong of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology (NIGPAS), with domestic and international colleagues, has for the first time documented two marine ostracod species in Pleistocene lacustrine deposits of the Qaidam Basin. The fossils were identified as Bicornucythere bisanensis s.l.

BioSentinel CubeSat probes deep-space radiation with yeast; mission continues after three years — Nasa.gov

BioSentinel CubeSat probes deep-space radiation with yeast; mission continues after three years

NASA’s BioSentinel mission uses a small CubeSat laboratory to study how deep-space radiation affects living cells. Built and led by NASA Ames, the six-unit, cereal box-sized spacecraft carries yeast samples and a miniature biotechnology lab called the BioSensor to measure radiation effects beyond Earth’s magnetic shield. BioSentinel launched

Safety Lapses Blamed for Deadly New Year’s Fire at Swiss Bar — Static01.nyt.com

Safety Lapses Blamed for Deadly New Year’s Fire at Swiss Bar

A fire that tore through the Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana on New Year’s Day killed at least 40 people and was likely aggravated by a series of avoidable safety failures, experts and witnesses say. Investigators have not issued a final account, but regional prosecutors said sparklers brought out

JPL Tests Drones in Death Valley to Improve Mars Autonomy — Nasa.gov

JPL Tests Drones in Death Valley to Improve Mars Autonomy

Engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory took three research drones to Death Valley National Park and the Mojave Desert this year to develop and test navigation software meant for Mars. The work, called Extended Robust Aerial Autonomy, is one of 25 projects funded this year by NASA’s Mars

NASA Armstrong builds new subscale aircraft to expand flight research options — Images-assets.nasa.gov

NASA Armstrong builds new subscale aircraft to expand flight research options

NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is building a new subscale aircraft to support increasingly complex flight research and provide a more flexible, cost-effective alternative to crewed missions. The aircraft is being built by Justin Hall, chief pilot at NASA Armstrong’s Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research

Iran warns of swift response after Trump says US is 'locked and loaded' over protests — E3.365dm.com

Iran warns of swift response after Trump says US is 'locked and loaded' over protests

Iran has threatened a "swift, decisive and comprehensive" response if the US intervenes following nationwide unrest that has left at least 10 people dead and prompted dozens of arrests. The warning came after US president Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that "If Iran kills peaceful protesters.

NASA Accelerates Shift to Commercial Satellite Relay Services for Near‑Earth Missions — Nasa.gov

NASA Accelerates Shift to Commercial Satellite Relay Services for Near‑Earth Missions

NASA is rapidly advancing demonstrations of commercial satellite relay services that could replace its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) system for near‑Earth science missions. The agency’s Communications Services Project (CSP), managed by the SCaN program and Glenn Research Center, awarded funded Space Act Agreements in 2022 to

Sprinkles Cupcakes Shuts After Years of Selling Treats From Vending Machines — Static01.nyt.com

Sprinkles Cupcakes Shuts After Years of Selling Treats From Vending Machines

Sprinkles Cupcakes, the specialty chain known for its A.T.M.-style cupcake vending machines, has closed, its co-founder Candace Nelson said on social media. Ms. Nelson wrote that the company’s final day was Dec. 31; she sold the California-based business to private equity firm KarpReilly LLC in 2012

Maduro's rule: economic collapse, brutal repression and political survival — E3.365dm.com

Maduro's rule: economic collapse, brutal repression and political survival

Nicolás Maduro presided over Venezuela's descent from an oil-rich state to economic ruin, a collapse that drove about seven million people to flee the country. His presidency was marked by striking public displays—dancing and boastful rhetoric, including a remark that he was "bigger than Taylor Swift&

Southern Yemeni separatists publish constitution and set out two-year path to referendum — E3.365dm.com

Southern Yemeni separatists publish constitution and set out two-year path to referendum

The Southern Transitional Council (STC) has published a 30-article constitution and said it will hold a referendum on independence after a two-year period, the council's leader Aidarous al Zoubeidi said in a video statement. Zoubeidi said the constitution would be in effect for two years, after which a

Lightweight Browsers Aim to Boost Speed and Focus for Web Work — Blogger.googleusercontent.com

Lightweight Browsers Aim to Boost Speed and Focus for Web Work

As web browsers have grown into all-purpose platforms, many users face slower performance and fragmented workflows caused by feature overload, background services and heavy extensions. Common productivity problems include high CPU and memory usage, excessive tab proliferation, frequent switching between tabs and apps, and reliance on extensions that can hurt

NASA selects Katalyst to raise Swift observatory’s orbit and extend mission life — Nasa.gov

NASA selects Katalyst to raise Swift observatory’s orbit and extend mission life

NASA has awarded Katalyst Space Technologies of Flagstaff, Arizona, a contract to rendezvous with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and raise it to a higher altitude using a robotic servicing spacecraft, extending the mission’s science lifetime. Swift, launched in 2004 to study gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy phenomena, has

Inside BuzzFeed Shopping's Product Vetting and Recommendations — Img.buzzfeed.com

Inside BuzzFeed Shopping's Product Vetting and Recommendations

BuzzFeed Shopping describes itself as service journalism: its writers and editors spend their days testing and vetting products so readers don’t have to. The team fact-checks brand claims and focuses on products that prove useful in real life. The editorial approach centers readers over revenue, favoring authentic recommendations based

NASA Extends Astrobee Program Through Unfunded Partnership with Arkisys — Nasa.gov

NASA Extends Astrobee Program Through Unfunded Partnership with Arkisys

Editor’s note: This article was updated on Sept. 30, 2025, to correct that the signed contract is an unfunded Space Act Agreement. NASA is continuing the Astrobee mission through a collaboration with Arkisys, Inc., of Los Alamitos, California. Arkisys was awarded an unfunded Space Act Agreement to sustain and

Driver charged after crash that killed two of Anthony Joshua's friends — E3.365dm.com

Driver charged after crash that killed two of Anthony Joshua's friends

The driver of a vehicle involved in a crash that killed two passengers and injured boxer Anthony Joshua has been charged, Nigerian police said. Police allege the driver was driving recklessly and without a valid national licence when the black SUV struck a stationary truck on a major road near

Reanalysis of Cassini Data Indicates Titan Likely Has Slushy Interior, Not a Global Ocean — Nasa.gov

Reanalysis of Cassini Data Indicates Titan Likely Has Slushy Interior, Not a Global Ocean

A reanalysis of radio tracking data from NASA’s Cassini mission suggests Saturn’s moon Titan may not host a single global ocean beneath its surface but instead has a layered interior of ice, slush and small pockets of warm water near its rocky core. The new study, led by

Gaia and ground telescopes fix mass and distance of a rogue planet — Scx2.b-cdn.net

Gaia and ground telescopes fix mass and distance of a rogue planet

A team of astronomers has, for the first time, measured both the mass and distance of a free-floating “rogue” planet using microlensing data from ground-based observatories and the space telescope Gaia. The object, catalogued as KMT-2024-BLG-0792 and OGLE-2024-BLG-0516 by separate teams, produced a microlensing event in which the gravity of

Study Says Exemptions, Evasion and Delays Blunted Effect of Trump’s Tariffs — Static01.nyt.com

Study Says Exemptions, Evasion and Delays Blunted Effect of Trump’s Tariffs

President Trump raised U.S. import taxes to levels not seen in a century, and prices rose while some businesses struggled. But a new working paper from economists at Harvard and the University of Chicago finds the overall impact was smaller than many expected. The researchers calculated that the tariff

Supply‑chain breach of Trust Wallet Chrome extension led to $8.5M theft — Blogger.googleusercontent.com

Supply‑chain breach of Trust Wallet Chrome extension led to $8.5M theft

Trust Wallet says a Shai‑Hulud supply‑chain outbreak in November 2025 likely enabled attackers to compromise its Google Chrome extension and steal about $8.5 million in crypto assets. The company reported that leaked developer GitHub secrets exposed its extension source code and the Chrome Web Store API key.

Managers of Crans-Montana Bar Investigated After Deadly Fire — Static01.nyt.com

Managers of Crans-Montana Bar Investigated After Deadly Fire

Swiss authorities have placed two managers of Le Constellation, a bar in Crans-Montana, under criminal investigation after a fire that killed at least 40 people, police said. The probe, opened Friday night by police in the Valais canton, cites suspicions of negligent homicide, negligent bodily harm and causing a fire