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Madison Beer has a new lease on love. The pop singer and songwriter is a few weeks away from the release of her third studio album, Locket, scheduled for Jan. 16. The record pulls from a swell of emotions that emerged when she reached the end of an intense relationship. Beer previewed the album with “Bittersweet,” sharing a music video starring The Summer I Turned Pretty actor Sean Kaufman. In the clip, Kaufman hands Beer all the remnants of their relationship in a box and slams the door in her face. As she’s walking home, a parade breaks out full of people congratulating…

To try to determine the probability of those name repetitions being a coincidence, Cary checked two databases of Chinese names and consulted with Yi Fuxian, a professor of Chinese demography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The name Qiu Daibing—or 邱代兵 in Chinese characters—turned out to be a relatively unlikely name to show up twice just by chance, he says. The surname 邱 alone, Yi confirmed to WIRED, represents just 0.27 percent of Chinese names, and in combination with the specific 代兵 given name would represent a far smaller percentage.The name Yu Yang (余洋 in Chinese characters) is more common. But…

new video loaded: The Battle for Warner Bros. DiscoveryNicole Sperling, a Times reporter who covers Hollywood and the streaming revolution, breaks down the competing bids from Netflix and Paramount to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.By Nicole Sperling, Edward Vega, Laura Salaberry, Jon Hazell and Chris OrrDecember 9, 2025 Source link

new video loaded: The Conflict Over Nigeria’s Returned TreasuresWestern museums are returning the Benin Bronzes — priceless items looted during colonialism — to Nigeria, but political infighting has jeopardized the ability to display and maintain the masterpieces. Our reporter, Alex Marshall, traveled to Nigeria to see some of the Bronzes.By Alex Marshall, Stephen Tayo, Nikolay Nikolov and Christina ThornellDecember 9, 2025 Source link

Even in the face of vast fields of flowers, local bumblebees may face the sting of competition when people bring their honeybees to the floral feast. When beekeepers truck their hives to a mass-blossoming event in upland Ireland to forage for nectar, local wild bees end up smaller than usual and focus on foraging for their young, researchers report December 10 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. This could mean they’ve been bumped over by the human-raised bees, potentially stressing an important pollinator. Sign up for our newsletter We summarize the week’s scientific breakthroughs every Thursday. The…

Netflix has revealed that Lupin Part 4 will premiere in fall 2026. Omar Sy will reprise his role as the gentleman thief Assane Diop in the fourth season. He will be joined in the cast by Ludivine Sagnier, Antoine Gouy, Soufiane Guerrab, Shirine Boutella, Théo Christine, and Laïka Blanc-Francard. In Part 3, Assane (Sy) steals the Black Pearl, earns the support of the French public, fakes his own death, and saves his estranged mother’s life. That’s all before realizing the only way he can ensure a safe and quiet life for his wife, son, mother and best friend is to…

There is no shortage of AI benchmarks in the market today, with popular options like Humanity's Last Exam (HLE), ARC-AGI-2 and GDPval, among numerous others.AI agents excel at solving abstract math problems and passing PhD-level exams that most benchmarks are based on, but Databricks has a question for the enterprise: Can they actually handle the document-heavy work most enterprises need them to do?The answer, according to new research from the data and AI platform company, is sobering. Even the best-performing AI agents achieve less than 45% accuracy on tasks that mirror real enterprise workloads, exposing a critical gap between academic…

Both sides have decided to continue the fighting, as the Thai navy launches an operation to expel Cambodian troops.Thailand and Cambodia have traded blame for renewed clashes along their disputed border and pledged to continue the fighting, as the death toll climbs in the latest outbreak of hostilities between the neighbours.Cambodia’s Ministry of National Defence said on Tuesday nine civilians had been killed and 20 injured since Monday, while the Thai military said two more deaths meant that three soldiers had been killed and 29 wounded on its side since clashes resumed.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listRenewed fighting…

new video loaded: Love Letters From a Chinese JailThe torn pieces of paper by Gao Zhen, a renowned artist jailed in China, show family portraits, memories of New York and expressions of faith. To his wife, they are love letters.By Shawn Paik and Andrea VerdelliDecember 8, 2025 Source link