Meet Mori, a Cute Robot Mushroom That Doesn’t Really Say (or Do) Anything
You’ve had a long day. You finally get home, fling the door open, plonk on…
Mari Energies down Guangdong
Mari Energies defeated China’s Guangdong team 5-2 in the first Test match at General Ashfaq Ahmed Stadium on Tuesday. Muhammad Mohsin opened the scoring for Mari Energies with a field goal in the tenth minute, giving his side a 1-0 lead. Mari Energies stepped up their attack in the third quarter, scoring three goals in…
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
AI agents left to explore a virtual island without a specific task began inventing challenges of their own. MIT researchers say the behavior bears the hallmarks of play. The researchers put 13 AI agents called Eko, each running on Claude Opus 4.7, alone on a simulated desert island for 30 hours. They describe the experiment…
King Charles’ charity partners with Europe’s biggest halal meat supplier to support mental health care in Pakistan
Asif Rangoonwala CBE and Tariq Sheikh signed the deal for King Charles’ charitable Pakistan mental health care work in Pakistan. — Reporter LONDON: King Charles’ charity, the British Asian Trust, has launched a landmark partnership with the UK and Europe’s biggest halal meat supplier, Tariq Halal Meats, to support its work transforming mental health awareness,…
Late goal lifts Maple Leafs over Rangers
Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO – Troy Stecher scored with 26.3 seconds left in regulation as the Toronto Maple Leafs topped the New York Rangers 5-4 in a back-and-forth affair for their third straight victory Thursday. Brandon Duhaime, with a goal and two assists, Teddy Blueger, Kirill Marchenko and Easton Cowan…
Nasir begins Venus ABC Open title quest
England’s top seed Curtis Malik (L) trains ahead of the Venus ABC Open Squash Championship, which begins at DHA Creek Club on Wednesday. Photo: Express Tribune KARACHI: Pakistan’s experienced squash player Nasir Iqbal will begin his title quest against Canada’s Salah Eltorgman in the men’s singles preliminary round of the Venus ABC Open 2026, which…
Cohere Releases Rerank 5 With Passage-Level Context Focus and Calibrated Scores
Cohere AI has released Rerank 5, a new reranker family in Pro and Fast tiers. Cohere Rerank 5 is a retrieval model that reorders search results before they reach an LLM. It adds 2 developer features: Context Focus, which returns relevant passages inside each document, and calibrated relevance scores. For RAG and agent builders, the…
Pakistan reports fifth polio case of 2026
Female Polio worker administering polio drops to children at Warsak road during anti-polio vaccination campaign in Peshawar on September 9, 2024. — APP 17-month-old infected with virus: NEOC. KP remains most-affected province. NEOC claims polio cases reduced by 99.8%. Pakistan has reported its fifth polio case of 2026, with the latest infection identified in Khyber…
Health care a major election issue as B.C. doctor says he’s hit breaking point
A physician at Lions Gate Hospital says he is seriously considering resigning from the hospital as he has hit a breaking point with the health-care system. Dr. Kevin McLeod posted on social media on Thursday, raising concerns about the current system and calling on the next government to make people in highly paid positions accountable….
Bavuma leads South Africa fightback
South Africa captain Temba Bavuma struck a career-best 179 to lead a determined recovery before the hosts declared their first innings at 425-9 on the third day of the second Test against Australia at Saint George’s Park on Tuesday. Bavuma recorded his fifth Test century in a patient 226-ball knock, while Marco Jansen scored 85…
Mark Zuckerberg’s creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta
During Meta’s earnings call on Wednesday, the company revealed its board had approved a new class of non-voting stock, called Class C common stock. The shares give the holder an ownership stake but no vote on company decisions. This class takes effect in January. Meta says it will use the stock for capital raising, employee…
