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Weight-loss jab boom brings needles warning for recyclers - Published The boom in injectable weight-loss drugs, such as Mounjaro and Wegovy, is leading to more used needles turning up at recycling centres, putting workers at risk of serious injury and infection, bosses say. At a

There was a lot to digest from Wednesday’s earnings reports from Microsoft and Google, long the No. 2 and 3 players in cloud computing, respectively. But let’s start with the most interesting takeaway: Google’s cloud unit revenues are now within spitting distance of Microsoft’s A

'He could be happier' - why is Estevao becoming Chelsea's forgotten man? - Published The last time Chelsea beat Liverpool, Estevao was the talk of the Premier League. The Brazilian was still in his first couple of months at Stamford Bridge when his name hit the headlines after he

Mix, Don’t Tune: Bilingual Pre-Training Outperforms Hyperparameter Search in Data-Constrained Settings AuthorsPaul Jeha†**, Anastasiia Sedova, Louis Béthune, Skyler Seto, Jes Frellsen†‡, Pierre Ablin‡, Natalie Schluter‡ For most languages of the world, language model pre-training

Family row over George Michael items up for auction - including Faith guitar - Published A family row has broken out over an auction of George Michael memorabilia taking place on Thursday. The guitar played by the singer-songwriter in the Faith music video is one of several items

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'I live with a ghost': Japan's haunted homes attract bargain hunters - Published From the moment Ryua first walked into her rental apartment in Tokyo she believed it to be haunted. "When I visited the place for a viewing there was a man standing there, glaring at me," she says. "

'I live with a ghost': Japan's haunted homes attract bargain hunters - Published From the moment Ryua first walked into her rental apartment in Tokyo she believed it to be haunted. "When I visited the place for a viewing there was a man standing there, glaring at me," she says. "

Sheryl Sandberg says the 32-year-old executive reminds her of Mark Zuckerberg. Josh Payne must now take his startup public at a tumultuous moment for the AI industry.

How to Extract Tables from a PDF with an LLM OpenRouter · To extract tables from a PDF with an LLM, send the PDF to a model that can read files, together with a strict JSON schema that describes one row of the table. The model returns typed rows. Quantities come back as integers,

The Surf Excel-maker expects demand to remain resilient, though persistent inflation and pockets of rural stress remain key challenges for the industry in the coming months. Also Read: Hindustan Unilever to take calibrated price hikes as commodity inflation stays high, says CEO P

How to Prevent Prompt Injection: 13 Attacks, Tested OpenRouter · If your app has a model read documents, emails or web pages, anyone who can write in those can try to give the model instructions. That is prompt injection. The worst case is an agent that uses its tools because a d

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Credit: Lenovo Lenovo Group announced that its annual global innovation event, Tech World, will return to CES 2027 in Las Vegas, taking place at Sphere as part of the keynote program... Keep me signed in Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in information so they do not have

Waymo is dominant in the U.S. and expanding overseas, but it remains immaterial in terms of revenue to parent Alphabet, which is pouring cash into its growth. In Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, the company said its Other Bets segment, which includes Waymo,

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Credit: Advantech Industrial PC maker Advantech has opened its new North American headquarters in Tustin, California, expanding local R&D;, manufacturing and system integration capabilities... Keep me signed in Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in information so they do n

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Microsoft Q1 Results: Cloud business leads earnings beat even as free cash flow falls; Stock rises - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 05:17 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 05:17 IST Microsoft's Free cash flow for the quarter fell 27% from last year to $18.63 billion. The only diffe

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Credit: LG Innotek LG Innotek’s 2026 third-quarter revenue topped KRW6 trillion (approximately US$4.52 billion) for the first time, driven by new mobile-device launches and technology adoption... Keep me signed in Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in information so they d

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For some wealthy Chinese, securing a foreign passport is becoming the ultimate trade-off: giving up their Chinese citizenship. Wealth advisors say a growing number of affluent Chinese are considering renouncing their nationality as Beijing intensifies scrutiny of offshore wealth,

The Scoop Kalshi has hired one of former President Barack Obama’s top advisers, political strategist Eric Schultz, a person familiar with the matter told Semafor — the latest sign of companies anticipating Democratic victories in Tuesday’s midterms. Schultz signed a short-term c

Equinix Inc., one of the world’s biggest data-center companies, said mounting barriers to bringing new projects online will make existing capacity more valuable and potentially strengthen its grip on the market — including pricing.

Alphabet Q3 Results: Here's why the stock fell 10% in extended trading on Wednesday - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 05:01 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 05:01 IST Adding to the concerns is the fact that Alphabet, similar to Meta, turned in a negative free cash flow number this

Search giant admits its ‘AI mode’ has hurt traditional search as sales and profits undershoot expectations

The "Magnificent Seven" doesn't trade as a monolith anymore, challenging investors to be more discerning when picking through the market's biggest stocks rather than viewing them as a single trade. CNBC calculated the rolling 60-day correlation of daily returns for each of the 21

The most-aired ad in the closing stretch of Mississippi's Senate race features a Jeffrey Epstein survivor attacking GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith for voting against releasing files related to the convicted human trafficker. Why it matters: In the past week, Hyde-Smith has been outgun

Democrats will happily tell you how good they feel about retaking the House on Tuesday — just as soon as they stop hyperventilating into a paper bag. Why it matters: They've been burned too many times on Election Day to feel anything more than "nauseously optimistic," as one Hous

Alphabet posted disappointing sales from most of its core businesses in the third quarter, escalating investors’ concerns about the hundreds of billions of dollars that the company is spending on artificial intelligence. Ed Ludlow has more. (Source: Bloomberg)

28th October 2026 In general, LLM performance is incredibly multidimensional. There's no guarantee of a fixed ordering where the model that is best at math is also the model that's best at jokes. Despite that complexity, much of the variation in performance is explained by just a

Software group reports overall revenue rose 19% to $92.3bn in quarter to the end of September

Nasdaq futures fall over 300 points after key results; Fed policy treated as non-event by Wall Street - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 04:46 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 04:49 IST Shares of Google-parent Alphabet fell 10% as it not only missed street expectations on the third

Putin: Russia in ‘close contact’ with ‘genius’ Musk over satellite networks Russian President Vladimir Putin praised SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as a “genius” Wednesday while revealing that Russia has been in contact with the billionaire as the country works to develop a rival satellite