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A study found Seattle hosts roughly nine times more coyotes per area than nearby wild lands in Washington state. Researchers attribute the surge to the abundance of easy food sources in urban environments, which reduces the need for coyotes to hunt as extensively as their rural counterparts.
The national average price for diesel in the United States reached $6.05 per gallon on Friday, according to AAA, marking a more than 60% jump from $3.71 a year earlier. Gasoline also climbed to a national average of $4.29 a gallon, while California diesel prices hit $7.98 a gallon. GasBuddy data confirmed diesel had already exceeded the $6 threshold nationwide.
Samsung released a new commercial for the Galaxy Z Fold 8 starring a man named 'Tim Cook from Palmerston North,' timed to coincide with Apple's iPhone Duo announcement. The ad parodies Apple's cinematic product-launch style, with this Tim Cook declaring 'the future is here,' and includes a jab referencing Apple CEO Tim Cook's recently updated profile picture.
Physicists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden devised a theoretical method that performs a wide range of advanced quantum operations more than a thousand times faster than current techniques. The approach targets the core problem that qubits are extremely fragile and prone to errors from noise, radiation, and heat during lengthy operations. The findings were published in Physical Review Letters.
In a joint interview, new Apple CEO John Ternus and marketing chief Greg Joswiak explained why Apple chose now to launch its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro. Ternus said the device only moved forward once hardware, software and design met Apple's quality bar, while Joswiak criticized rival foldables as feeling cheap and flimsy.
IMDb has introduced a new category of profile pages dedicated to digital creators, marking the first time the film and TV database has formally recognized online content makers alongside traditional actors and filmmakers. The move expands IMDb's scope beyond conventional entertainment credits to include creators who build audiences on digital and social platforms.
OpenJDK's JEP 544 proposes extending HotSpot's existing AOT cache mechanism to store precompiled native code generated during a training run, making it instantly usable when an application starts in production. If workload behavior shifts, the JVM falls back to dynamic JIT compilation to maintain performance, blending AOT and JIT approaches without requiring any code or configuration changes from developers.
Terry Eagle began working part-time at a McDonald's in South London in 1976 and was promoted to manager by age 19. He later became a franchisee, eventually growing his business to six McDonald's restaurants across South London, and celebrated his 50th anniversary with the company this July.
A new open-source project called EterDB extends PostgreSQL with the ability to reverse individual transactions, including updates, deletes, or entire batches, even after they have been committed. It tracks dependencies between reads and writes so that changes relying on a bad transaction are also caught, and it retains an append-only history that allows recovery of data from weeks or months earlier.
Amazon has dropped the price of the 13-inch iPad Air with M2 chip, 256GB storage and cellular connectivity to $885, a $164 discount off its usual price. The listing matches the model's previous all-time low, matching an earlier discount seen on the same configuration.
The author recounts habitually dating and archiving personal projects, from essay ideas to songwriting details like key, tempo, and recording dates, citing a note found from 2022 that resurfaced this practice. The piece argues that capturing such metadata immediately, while memory is fresh, prevents future confusion about when and how creative work was made.
Apple's fall event, the first led by CEO John Ternus, introduced the foldable iPhone Duo and larger iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, but notably skipped a standard non-Pro iPhone 18. Analysts expect Apple to release a cheaper mainline iPhone in a separate spring event, similar to past SE launches. The entry price for new iPhones announced Wednesday rose to $1,199, while the iPhone 17 saw a $100 price hike to $899.