Author: Rahul M

TORONTO — Measles cases in Canada have far surpassed those in the United States as health officials in Alberta, a western province that has become a hot spot for the outbreak, have urged the premier to declare a public health emergency to stave off infections. Canada’s public health agency has recorded about 4,200 measles cases this year, more than three times as many as the 1,300 cases recorded in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The CDC has also ranked Canada among the top 10 countries with the highest number of measles cases. It is…

In that same Entertainment Weekly interview, which was conducted back in April 2025, Zach Cregger explained that “Weapons” owes a considerable debt to Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 epic “Magnolia,” which boasted an all-star cast and helped coronate Anderson as one of the best American directors. Still, that doesn’t give audiences much to go on, which is exactly what Cregger was hoping for. “Weapons” is, as far as we know without seeing the movie, about a bunch of kids who disappear from their homes in the middle of the night and all happen to be in local teacher Justine Grandy’s (Julia…

In one of the most extreme environments on Earth—the Large Hadron Collider—normal electronics fail almost instantly. But engineers at Columbia University have created custom microchips that not only survive the collider’s intense radiation but play a pivotal role in unlocking the secrets of the universe. These chips digitize the electrical whispers of particle collisions, helping […]

Harvard engineers have built a chip-thin metasurface that replaces entire quantum optical setups. New research reveals that metasurfaces can act as powerful building blocks for quantum optical networks This breakthrough could replace bulky components like waveguides, mirrors, and beam splitters with a single flat device Researchers used graph theory to design and control the complex […]

Deepfakes are no longer just about swapped faces—they now include fully fabricated scenes, voices, and settings. To fight back, UC Riverside researchers and Google have teamed up to create UNITE, a cutting-edge AI system that can detect deepfake videos even when no faces are visible. Unlike older tools that rely on facial cues, UNITE analyzes […]

Trade organizations across the games industry and gamers are speaking out against censorship campaigns taking place across Steam and Itch.io in an effort to help developers who have been unfairly impacted. The push against adult content is being driven by Australian conservative group Collective Shout, whose pressuring of payment processors has forced platforms to mass deindex NSFW content. In the wake of these delistings, which remove games from search, developers are scrambling to understand if their games have been impacted and why.On platforms like Bluesky, users are compiling lists of “censored artists” with NSFW pieces and unsearchable Itch pages, whether…

A few weeks ago, I watched a small team of artificial intelligence agents spend roughly 10 minutes trying to hack into my brand new vibe-coded website.The AI agents, developed by startup RunSybil, worked together to probe my poor site to identify weak spots. An orchestrator agent, called Sybil, oversees several more specialized agents all powered by a combination of custom language models and off-the-shelf APIs.Whereas conventional vulnerability scanners probe for specific known problems, Sybil is able to operate at a higher level, using artificial intuition to figure out weaknesses. It might, for example, work out that a guest user has…

Former India batting coach Sanjay Bangar has predicted that pacer Anshul Kamboj is likely to be left out of India’s playing XI for the final Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy against England, starting July 31 at The Oval. India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir recently confirmed that all fast bowlers in the squad are fit, which could make it challenging for Kamboj to retain his spot. Kamboj made his Test debut in the previous match at Manchester but picked up only one wicket. His pace and match readiness drew criticism, with many pointing out that he may have been rushed into…

A 49-year-old journalist and author living in Bengaluru lost Rs 55 lakh in 73 days after fraudsters who offered him high-paying jobs tricked him into transferring money in the name of registration fees, processing charges, and Goods and Services Tax, the police said on Wednesday. According to the cyber police, who have registered a case and are investigating, the resident of Kasavanahalli in Bengaluru filed a complaint on Tuesday stating that he had registered on Naukri.com and received a call asking him to register on the Indeed job portal. The fraudsters used spoofed numbers and email addresses, including indeed1008@ybl, punkajs.indeed@gmail.com,…

An exercise carried out by the Special Investigation Team to excavate remains of bodies allegedly buried around the temple town of Dharmasthala failed to make headway for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, officials said, even as the DGP-rank officer heading the SIT was made eligible for central deputation. On Wednesday, the SIT dug up four locations identified by the whistleblower in the case, a former sanitation worker. He stated in a complaint filed earlier this month that he had been forced by his superiors to bury bodies of alleged sexual assault and murder victims in the forests surrounding the…