Speech sounds like it is made of words, but that impression has more to do with what’s in our heads than with what comes out of our mouths. In natural speech, there are no clear acoustic boundaries separating words; we pause about as many times within words as we do between them. This is especially…
Business laptops are typically dull computers foisted on employees en masse. But higher-end enterprise workstation notebooks sometimes get an interesting enough blend of power and features to appeal to enthusiasts. HP’s ZBook Ultra G1a is a nice example. It’s easy to see it as another gray boring-book for spendy business types, until you notice a…
Adam Hyde has abruptly pulled out of a scheduled performance at a major racing day event just 24 hours after the gig was announced. The Peking Duk musician, who performs solo under the name Keli Holiday, was set to perform at the Royal Randwick’s Championships Day on April 4. But The Australian Turf Club confirmed…
The state government’s goal is to nudge farmers towards chemical-free practices that also increase incomes. “To promote natural farming, the state government has announced a comprehensive and visionary action plan. Under this, 250,000 farmers are being connected to natural farming,” he said. Under the National Mission on Natural Farming, the central government…
Feb 11, 2026, 04:26 PM ET Arsenal and Chelsea remain interested in signing Atlético Madrid striker Julián Álvarez, while Liverpool star Mohamed Salah has given his agent the green light to open talks with Al Ittihad. Join us for the latest transfer news and rumors from around the globe. Transfers home page | Men’s winter…
Olympic officials had told Vladyslav Heraskevych that the helmet, featuring images of Ukrainian athletes killed in the war with Russia, violated the Games’ ban on political speech.
Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe may amuse readers to Feedback by emailing feedback@newscientist.com Raining cats and dogs A new unit of measurement has dropped – and in this case the slang verb is doubly appropriate. Reader Alan Baker came across…
When enterprises fine-tune LLMs for new tasks, they risk breaking everything the models already know. This forces companies to maintain separate models for every skill. Researchers at MIT, the Improbable AI Lab and ETH Zurich have developed a new technique that enables large language models to learn new skills and knowledge without forgetting their past…
12 February 2026 James Van Der Beek soll Berichten zufolge vor seinem Tod an seinen Memoiren gearbeitet haben. James Van Der Beek Der Schauspieler, der vor allem durch seine Rolle als Dawson Leery in der erfolgreichen TV-Serie ‘Dawson’s Creek’ bekannt wurde, starb am Mittwoch (11. Februar), nachdem bei ihm bereits im August 2023 Darmkrebs im…
In Milan, the hub of the Winter Games, the atmosphere seems subdued, while dozens of miles away enthusiastic crowds pack the small towns hosting mountain events.
