UN says we're going to blow past 1.5º warming, offers a "now what?" answer
Best case is now an overshoot to 1.8º C, accompanied by massive carbon removal.
Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘’independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots
The Eiliko robot toy. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Eiliko, a cute robot charm you can hang on your bag with built-in AI conversations, turned out to be a security nightmare. It told owners that "your secrets are safe with me," but hackers could easily read complete transcripts of everything we told the toy, and that was just the beginning. The Verge and security researcher Sammy Azdoufal spent over a month trying to get in contact with the company, including emails to Energize Lab CEO
Best Microsoft Surface Laptop (2026): Which Models to Buy and Avoid
With pricing in flux and new models available, here’s which Surface Laptop and Surface Pro to buy.
Meta’s Ad Sales Are Suffering Now That Europeans Can Pick Less Personalization
An earnings briefing on Wednesday revealed ad revenue has slowed since the European Union introduced the Less-Personalized Ads models at the beginning of this year.
I Worked for a Whole Day Using Only the iPhone Duo. Here’s How It Went
A portable keyboard and kickstand make it a viable emergency workstation—even if iOS still gets in the way.
They Believe 2020 Was Stolen. They Could Be in Charge of Elections in 2028
A host of election-denying candidates are running for attorney general in states across the country.
Greenlight Family Hub (2026): Finally, a Digital Wall Calendar With a Voice Assistant
After testing multiple models, I’m convinced voice control belongs on the family calendar. Greenlight’s Family Hub shows why.
Hugging Face’s New AI Biology Model Lets You Chat With DNA
The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.
Three things you should know about permafrost
How much do you know about permafrost? Maybe, like me, you’ve been aware that this layer of frozen soil is thawing, that it’s important in the global puzzle of climate change … and that’s about the extent of it. The great news for both of us is that my colleague James Temple just published two…
Making the case for context-aware AI
Enterprise AI can generate recommendations, automate tasks, and help organizations make decisions faster. But without an understanding of how a business actually operates, even powerful models can miss the constraints and relationships that determine whether a decision is the right one. As companies look to move AI from experimentation into everyday operations, the challenge ahead…
This Preamp Costs More Than a Fancy Sports Car
Goldmund’s $240,000 Mimesis Statement is an exercise in extreme Swiss sound engineering—and only one part of a $1.5 million audio setup.
AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind
Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage costs. What happens to data after a model responds? Much of the back-end data that’s generated—from billions of daily prompts, images, and videos—needs…
Erratum for the Research Article “Hafnium oxide interface stabilization for efficient, photothermally stable perovskite solar cells”
Science, Volume 394, Issue 6822, October 2026.
Erratum for the Research Article “Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI”
Science, Volume 394, Issue 6822, October 2026.
The Virtual Biotech: A multi-agent AI framework for therapeutic discovery and development
Science, Volume 394, Issue 6822, October 2026.
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Decoupled self-assembled monolayer and perovskite deposition for efficient flexible solar modules
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Science·2026/10/22·Yeyong Wu, Xikun Zhang, Tiankai Zhang, Guiying Xu, Yunxiu Shen, Chengxin Guo, Qing Miao, Junyuan Ding, Yue Yin, Qinrong Cheng, Wen Liu, Xiaoxiao Wu, Kaiqiang Chen, Wenwen Kou, Zhiyun Cao, Haiyang Chen, Weijie Chen, Yujin Chen, Feng Gao, Yaowen Li, Yongfang Li站内阅读全文
Intron retention regulates STAT2 function and associates with immunotherapy response in lung cancer
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Science·2026/10/22·Ryan P. Englander, Mattia Brugiolo, Maëva Devoucoux, Te-Chia Wu, Mitch Kostich, Nathan K. Leclair, Isha Walawalkar, Hyeon Gu Kang, SungHee Park, Florentina Marches, Mark E. Peeples, Phylip Chen, Jacques Banchereau, Peter Yu, Andrew Salner, Romain Banchereau, Karolina Palucka, Olga Anczuków站内阅读全文
BAK and BAX form a multiprotein complex to drive mtDNA efflux and caspase-independent cell death
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Science·2026/10/22·Shaoyuan Yang, Hyungjin Kim, Guanghong Liao, Na Ta, Ho-Chou Tu, Shriram Ramani, Chih-Yu Chen, Zih-Yu Li, Nobuhiro Tanno, James J. Hsieh, Emily H. Cheng站内阅读全文
Wireless electrocatalytic closed-loop system for drug-free management of diabesity
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Science·2026/10/22·Debasis Maity, Preetam Guha Ray, Peter Buchmann, Ghislaine Charpin-El Hamri, Martin Fussenegger站内阅读全文
In Science Journals
Science, Volume 394, Issue 6822, Page 394-396, October 2026.
Science·2026/10/22·Michael Funk, and Leslie Ferrarelli, Di Jiang, Yevgeniya Nusinovich, Jelena Stajic, Marc S. Lavine, Bianca Lopez, Michael A. Funk, Priscilla N. Kelly, Phil Szuromi, L. Bryan Ray, Sacha Vignieri, Jesse Smith, and Leoma Bere站内阅读全文