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The iPod is back. Here’s what’s driving the revival of the obsolete music player The #iPod hashtag on Instagram currently points to 1.8 million posts, and YouTube overflows with tutorial videos.

“But boy, when you plug them into an iPod, it just sounds great.”

Consumer Reports Names the Most and Least Expensive Supermarkets in America Consumer Reports just dropped a new report naming the most — and least — expensive grocery stores in the U.S. The nonprofit compared prices at major chains in several metro areas, using Walmart as the...

Publix costs 20% more than Walmart? Yikes.

Why Are Chinese EVs So Cheap? Chinese carmakers have lower cost structures, driven by tighter control over their supply chains and a stronger focus on the China market. This puts Western OEMs in a tough spot.

The two largest drivers are vertical integration and significantly lower overheads, which together account for at least three-quarters of the cost advantage for all three OEMs. Subsidies matter, but less than often assumed.

China top court says drivers responsible despite autonomous technology China's top court has issued a ruling confirming humans in cars with assisted driving technology are responsible for their vehicle, setting a nationwide benchmark as Beijing positions itself as a stan...

China setting the world standards.

The driver "is still the one who actually performs the driving tasks and bears the responsibility to ensure driving safety", it added.

Metal tubes stay afloat even after severe damage — opening the door to unsinkable ships Researchers develop unsinkable aluminum tubes that float even when damaged, opening new paths for ships and ocean energy.

The researchers also built a small floating generator powered by water movement. As waves move the raft, mechanical motion converts that energy into electricity. This proof-of-concept shows how the design could help harvest ocean wave or tidal energy.

The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead) | TechCrunch Students are losing some interest in computer science broadly but gaining interest in AI-specific majors and courses.

Chinese universities have leaned hard into AI literacy, treating AI not as a threat but instead as essential infrastructure. Nearly 60% of Chinese students and faculty now use AI tools multiple times daily, and schools like Zhejiang University have made AI coursework mandatory

Did Philadelphia's soda tax have an impact on people’s health? A new study shows the soda tax made a small difference in slowing down weight gain, which researchers argue is still important.

She concluded that soda taxes do have an effect on people’s health, when taking into account the research on similar policies elsewhere, like Seattle, Mexico and the U.K.

Banks seek out new buyers for Oracle data centre loans Rare investment-grade rating helps attract insurers and private credit funds to construction debt

Borrowing costs for newer Oracle-linked data centre projects have widened to 3 to 4.5 percentage points above SOFR — levels that are closer to junk-rated debt.

Local publisher partners with top US university in book deal Kingston-based Ian Randle Publishers (IRP) has entered into a partnership agreement with the renowned Johns Hopkins University in the United States that will see the publication of two new books each ...

IRP exec chairman and publisher Ian Randle highlighted the significance of the McGarry memoir as the first from its more than 400 publications that is not specifically rooted in the Caribbean. This was likely to be the case for most, if not all, new titles to be published out of the partnership.

This Planet Is the Shape of a Lemon. That May Be the Least Weird Thing about It Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a bizarre-looking exoplanet that defies explanation

“I’m open to the possibility that this is an entirely new type of object,” Zhang says.

U.S. Military Plane and JetBlue Flight Nearly Collided Over Caribbean, Radio Traffic Shows The Air Force refueling tanker was flying without its location transponder activated and could not be detected by air traffic control.

The pilot of a JetBlue flight reported on Friday that he narrowly avoided colliding with a U.S. military aircraft over the Caribbean after an Air Force refueling tanker passed in front of the commercial plane without broadcasting its position, according to air traffic control radio communications.

Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri The US State Department will be required to use Times New Roman instead of Calibri for official documents, starting 10 December.

Times New Roman is a serif font, which means it has small lines that stem from the ends of the letters. Calibri is a sans serif font, without those lines, and is considered easier to read on screens, especially for those with vision or reading impairments.

The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century (so far), picked by the world’s top thinkers | BBC Science Focus Magazine We're a quarter of the way into the new century. To mark this milestone, we asked the UK's top minds to highlight some of the game-changing scientific breakthroughs shaping our world since the year 20...

To reflect on the progress so far, we asked some of the world's leading thinkers to spotlight the groundbreaking scientific breakthroughs that have transformed our world since the turn of the millennium.

Swiss voters reject proposed tax on super rich Switzerland on Sunday overwhelmingly rejected a proposed 50% tax on inherited fortunes of 50 million Swiss francs ($62 million) or more, with 78% of votes against the plan, an outcome that even exceed...

The proposal from the youth wing of the leftist Social Democrats, or JUSOs, aimed to fund projects to reduce the impact of climate change. "The super rich inherit billions, we inherit crises,".

Critics of the initiative said it could trigger an exodus of wealthy people from Switzerland.

Intcomex adopts W’land community after Hurricane Melissa Intcomex Jamaica has adopted Cave district, Westmoreland, pledging six months of support for one of the communities hardest hit by Hurricane Melissa. The announcement was made on Thursday at the compa...

“Our commitment goes far beyond distributing relief packages; it’s about restoring dignity, stability, and hope,” said Matthew DeLeon, general manager of Intcomex Jamaica.

Most men should not be screened for prostate cancer, says UK expert body It recommends that only men with a confirmed genetic risk of prostate cancer should be screened for the disease.

The UK National Screening Committee recommends:

no screening programme for all men as it is "likely to cause more harm than good"

no screening for black men due to "uncertainties" around the impact due to a lack of clinical trials in black men

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body A magician in Missouri lost the password to an RFID microchip embedded in his hand and now he can't access the chip.

The denouement of the story: tech friends told him the only way to unlock the chip is to literally “strap on an RFID reader for days to weeks” to his palm and “brute forcing every possible combination.”

*sad trombone noise*

'China was playing chess while the rest of us were playing checkers': Bombshell study finds $200 billion of secret loans to U.S. businesses over 25 years | Fortune Many of the loans from China’s state lenders were routed through shell companies in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Delaware and elsewhere, according to AidData.

For years, Washington has been warning others not to trust loans from Chinese state banks fueling its rise as a superpower. But a new report reveals an ironic twist: The United States is the biggest recipient of all — by far.

Auto loan delinquencies are soaring, with consumers hit by high car prices Auto delinquencies are up more than 50% since 2010, VantageScore says, with cars and their associated costs becoming more expensive.

Overall, Americans are carrying more than $1.66 trillion in auto debt, with borrowers tumbling into “delinquencies and defaults at a pace that exceeds pre-pandemic levels and rivals the years immediately preceding the 2008 economic crisis,”

Experts hail ‘remarkable’ success of electronic implant in restoring sight Sight of 84% of people with form of age-related macular degeneration restored after being fitted with device

To help them to see and write, patients were given augmented reality glasses containing a video camera connected to a small computer, which they attached to their waistband. It included a zoom feature to make text bigger and easier to read.

It’s the Internet, Stupid What caused the global populist wave? Blame the screens.

“The currency of the internet is attention, and you don’t get attention by being sober, reflective, informative, or judicious.”

YouTube Just Ate TV. It’s Only Getting Started In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth. CEO Neal Mohan on his $100 billion vision for YouTube’s future and the disruption it’s left in ...

“Over the past four years, YouTube had paid out more than $100 billion to its creators, artists and media partners.”

screenshot of an email saying: "To the Penn Community: For 285 years, Penn has been anchored and guided by continuous self-improvement, using education as a ladder for opportunity, and advancing discoveries that serve our community, our nation, and the world. Since receiving the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education on October 1, I have sought input from faculty, alumni, trustees, students, staff and others who care deeply about Penn. The goal was to ensure that our response reflected our values and the perspectives of our broad community. Earlier today, I informed the U.S. Department of Education that Penn respectfully declines to sign the proposed Compact. As requested, we also provided focused feedback highlighting areas of existing alignment as well as substantive concerns. At Penn, we are committed to merit-based achievement and accountability. The long-standing partnership between American higher education and the federal government has greatly benefited society and our nation. Shared goals and investment in talent and ideas will turn possibility into progress. I am grateful to the Penn community for your thoughtful input and for what you bring to our University and our missions every day. Sincerely, J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD President University of Pennsylvania"

Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Oklahoma girls’ basketball team returns championship after realizing they lost Scoreboard error gave Academy of Classical Christian Studies team the edge over Apache high school

Another student from Academy said it was a “really good teaching moment” to establish that winning “is not the whole point”.

The AI Ouroboros Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.

OpenAI, on the other hand, is on pace to bring in $12.7 billion this year, expects to lose $9 billion, predicts its losses will swell to $47 billion by 2028, and doesn’t expect to break even until 2029. How can OpenAI plan to spend five times what it brought in?

'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.

She is now three-and-a-half years, "almost an adult," she says, adding that the lioness has become a fearsome hunter capable of killing 40 seals in a single night.

“You have 18 months” The real deadline isn’t when AI outsmarts us — it’s when we stop using our own minds.

“The one-two punch of reading and writing is like the serum we have to take in a superhero comic book to gain the superpower of deep symbolic thinking,” Newport said. “And so I have been ringing this alarm bell that we have to keep taking the serum.”

Hotel prices lead countries to consider skipping COP30 climate summit BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Dozens of countries have yet to secure accommodation at next month's COP30 climate summit in Brazil and some delegates are considering staying away as a shortage of hotels has driv...

COP30 organisers are racing to convert love motels, cruise ships and churches into lodgings for an anticipated 45,000 delegates.

Brazil chose to hold the climate talks at Belem, which typically has 18,000 hotel beds available