2,000-year-old painting of two Egyptian brothers to travel abroad for first time after restoration

Two brothers from ancient Egypt are finally getting ready to see the world, nearly 2,000 years after their portraits were painted. The Tondo of the Two Brothers, a rare circular artwork showing two yo...

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Kraft rolls out ‘Pocket Parm’ charms to sprinkle cheese wherever you go

Kraft is giving cheese lovers a new way to accessorize, and it might just be the grate-est addition to their bags. The brand has introduced Pocket Parm, a miniature grated-cheese shaker that doubles a...

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Google cracks the internet up by revealing what the back of an emoji looks like

Google’s new designs are turning heads, quite literally. The tech company has offered a cheeky answer to a question most people probably never considered: what would the back of a smiley face look lik...

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Cyberattack hits hundreds of French supermarkets, triggering fires & spoiling tons of food

French supermarkets have found themselves in a costly meltdown after hackers reportedly turned refrigeration systems against the very food they were meant to preserve. A cyberattack spanning October 1...

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MrBeast’s original logo sketch that took only 10 minutes could rake in over $20,000

A sketch that took just 10 minutes to draw could soon be worth more than $20,000. The original pencil drawing behind MrBeast’s familiar big-cat logo is heading to auction. Created in 2018, the artwork...

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LEGO acknowledges some new minifigure heads are cracking, and builders can replace them

Two new LEGO characters are having trouble keeping their heads together. The company has acknowledged a quality issue affecting some custom Patrick Star and Gingy minifigure heads after collectors beg...

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Gromit finally gets a voice after 37 years to ‘break his silence’—and he sounds like Martin Freeman

Gromit has spent 37 years saying almost everything with an eyebrow. Now, the famously silent half of Wallace & Gromit is finally getting something close to a voice, with Martin Freeman narrating Grand...

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Anthropic’s Claude constructs first complete map of the sky in UV light

Image: data from GALEX and Swift-UVOT (NASA), FIMS/SPEAR (KASI), TD-1 (ESRO), Planck and Gaia (ESA) / AnthropicAstronomers have already mapped the sky in radio waves, infrared, visible light, and X-ra...

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Anthropic’s Claude constructs first complete map of the sky in UV light

Image: data from GALEX and Swift-UVOT (NASA), FIMS/SPEAR (KASI), TD-1 (ESRO), Planck and Gaia (ESA) / AnthropicAstronomers have already mapped the sky in radio waves, infrared, visible light, and X-ra...

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Hershey carves new Reese’s Pumpkins packaging after being sued for missing jack-o’-lantern faces

Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins are getting a little less trick than treat about their faces, or lack of them.Hershey has updated the seasonal candy’s packaging with the disclaimer “Carving not on actu...

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Instagram’s music glitch turns Creed’s ‘Higher’ into the unofficial soundtrack of Stories

Instagram’s music recommendations have been taking users higher than expected, and Creed apparently had nothing to do with it. For months, people adding music to their Instagram Stories kept encounter...

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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ unleashes a massive popcorn bucket almost as wild as the monster itself

Godzilla Minus Zero is giving movie snacks a kaiju-sized upgrade. Ahead of the film’s November release, theaters are rolling out a full-body Godzilla popcorn bucket that stands nearly 20 inches tall.T...

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‘Ted Lasso’ releases Trent Crimm’s ‘The Richmond Way’ book chapter for free

The Richmond Way has finally found its way onto an actual bookshelf. Apple has released a free excerpt of Trent Crimm’s fictional Ted Lasso book, letting fans read—or hear—a little more from AFC Richm...

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SpaceX buys more wireless spectrum to turn Starlink into major US carrier

SpaceX is moving Starlink closer to becoming the kind of mobile network it once merely complemented from orbit. The company has agreed to acquire a nationwide portfolio of low-band wireless spectrum i...

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New Balance quietly nods to Steve Jobs with his iconic gray 992 moment

15 years after Steve Jobs’ death, one of his most recognizable wardrobe staples is back in the spotlight. New Balance appears to have recreated the Apple co-founder’s familiar iPad-era pose for its la...

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AI video of dead road-rage victim leads court to throw out killer’s sentence

A dead man appeared to speak for himself in an Arizona courtroom last year. Now, that attempt to give a road-rage victim a voice through artificial intelligence has helped undo the sentence imposed on...

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Golden nude statue of Trump sitting on man’s shoulders stands in European Parliament building

Donald Trump has been given the gold treatment at the European Parliament, though not in the most flattering sense. Danish artist Jens Galschiøt’s The Orange Plague places a nude, gilded version of th...

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Jaguar answers years of ‘Copy Nothing’ rebrand ridicule with all-electric Type 01

Jaguar finally has a car to put behind the controversy. Nearly two years after its “Copy Nothing” rebrand became a social-media punching bag and drew accusations that the British marque had gone “woke...

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Nobel Prize honors scientists who turned light into a switch for brain cells

A protein that once helped pond algae swim toward light has ended up illuminating the human brain. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, a...

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‘RemoveMacAI’ gives Apple Intelligence features a kill switch to free up 12GB of disk space

With Apple Intelligence now built into macOS, one developer has created a way for users to clear it out almost entirely.RemoveMacAI is an unofficial, open-source command-line utility that disables App...

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Google 2026 travel trends say to book holidays now as cheaper fare windows move earlier

Holiday travelers may want to stop waiting for the perfect airfare drop. Google’s latest analysis of five years of flight data suggests several of the cheapest booking windows are sliding earlier in 2...

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Elon Musk cautions Tesla robotaxis struggle to spot small animals at night

Tesla’s robotaxis are staying up a little later, but Elon Musk says one surprisingly small obstacle is keeping them from becoming full-fledged night owls: pets. As Tesla extended its Austin robotaxi s...

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Sam Altman questions accuracy of Andrew Garfield’s portrayal in OpenAI film ‘Artificial’

Sam Altman has already met his cinematic double, sort of. After seeing Andrew Garfield portray him in Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming film Artificial, the OpenAI CEO says the actor got the physical details...

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Balenciaga brings SEGA nostalgia and Sonic the Hedgehog into fashion

Balenciaga is pressing start on a new SEGA collaboration, and Sonic the Hedgehog is getting plenty of screen time. The limited-edition collection brings the gaming company’s visual history into Balenc...

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Dyson Unearths Hair Tool Makeovers Inspired By The World’s Rarest Mineral - DesignTAXI.com

Dyson is mining gemstone inspiration for its latest beauty drop. The new ‘Plum and Copper’ finish brings rich metallic tones to its hair tools, taking cues from ultra-rare Kyawthuite.

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Nike is releasing a jewelry collection inspired by its signature Swoosh

Nike is giving the Swoosh somewhere new to shine. After decades spent across sneakers, jerseys and just about every corner of sportswear, the familiar check is being recast in sterling silver for Nike...

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Apple’s new CEO John Ternus makes design a ‘major priority’ in his leadership strategy

John Ternus has been running Apple for barely a month, but he is already putting a noticeably different stamp on the job. Since taking over as CEO on September 1, the longtime hardware executive has r...

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Wikipedia owner says OpenAI-linked ‘rogue’ agents made unauthorized edits and may have caused outage

Wikipedia has long been one of the internet’s most useful sources. Now, some of those systems appear to have returned the favor in a rather less welcome way. The Wikimedia Foundation says AI agents it...

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Elon Musk plans to rename SpaceXAI as ‘SpaceXSI’ following Trump’s Super Intelligence push

Elon Musk appears ready to give one of his companies another identity update that comes straight out of Washington’s new vocabulary. The SpaceX CEO said on Sunday that SpaceXAI will be renamed “SpaceX...

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Trump assembles ‘Super Intelligence Force’ to oversee America’s AI future

Donald Trump is giving Washington’s AI policy both a new name and a new command center. On October 4, the president announced the formation of the “Super Intelligence Force,” or SIF, a federal task fo...

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