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Amazon has launched early Black Friday discounts on official Apple accessories, including AirTag 2 at $17.50 each, discounted Magic Mouse models in black and white, the 2026 Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, and Apple Pencil USB-C. The sale also covers up to 40% off iPhone 18 Pro cases, alongside bigger deals on AirPods Pro 3, M5 MacBook Air, and Apple Watch Ultra 4.
Michigan voters approved Proposal 2 with 81 percent support, barring political donations from utilities, state contractors above $250,000, and their top employees, lobbyists and immediate family. DTE Energy and Consumers Energy filed a lawsuit last Thursday arguing the measure violates their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome 2, a successor to its AlphaGenome genome-prediction model, trained on more than 100 million individual cell profiles across 68 tissues. The model predicts how genetic variants affect specific cell types and states rather than cells broadly, and DeepMind says it identifies nearly twice as many expression-changing variants as its prior best model.
At CoRL 2026, GENTO introduced a new dexterous robotic hand with 21 degrees of freedom. Separately, NVIDIA unveiled its GR00T 2 platform, with demonstrations run on a TIANJI Marvin Pro system.
Ontario International Airport evacuated a plane and part of Terminal 2 Sunday night after a passenger overheard someone say 'bomb' and 'explosion.' Police detained the speaker, who explained they were playing Call of Duty and describing gameplay to a friend over FaceTime. A security sweep found no explosives, and the flight later departed with all passengers, including the detained person.
Roku devices, including the top-tier Ultra, don't require HDMI 2.1 ports since they top out at 60Hz refresh rates and work fine over HDMI 2.0. However, some TVs restrict HDR formats like Dolby Vision to specific HDMI ports, or require users to manually enable 'enhanced' settings in TV menus to unlock full capability on a given port.
9to5Mac's daily podcast episode for November 10, 2026 rounds up the outlet's reporting on the iOS 27.2.1 update and rumors surrounding a feature referred to as HomeView. The episode is distributed through standard podcast platforms including Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play.
Researchers studying rice and the stink bug Nezara viridula found that insect saliva deposited during feeding contains a small signalling molecule, 2′,3′-cNMP, produced by salivary effector proteins. They identified a plant RNA-binding protein, NVR1, that senses this molecule and used CRISPR knockouts and overexpression lines in rice and Nicotiana benthamiana, alongside related GRP7/GRP8 genes, to probe how plants detect insect attack at the molecular level.
Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome 2, an upgraded AI model that predicts how non-coding DNA sequences affect gene activity across hundreds of specific human and mouse cell types. Using the model, researchers reproduced key findings about an inflammatory bowel disease gene variant, work that originally took immunologist James Lee's team at the Francis Crick Institute about 18 months of lab experiments, in roughly 30 minutes. The release follows DeepMind's earlier AlphaGenome Atlas, which mapped predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes but lacked cell-type specificity.
Sony will add Death Stranding 2: On the Beach and Atomfall to the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog starting November 17, available to Extra and Premium subscribers. Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii follows on November 24 for subscribers in the US, UK and Japan.
SpaceX has unveiled the Starlink Mini 2, a satellite internet terminal that adds a detachable 71Wh battery pack offering up to 4.5 hours of connectivity, along with Wi-Fi 6 support and an IP67 water/dust rating. Preorders are open to select U.S. customers for $999, including a year of Roam Unlimited service, with shipments expected mid-December.
Apple has released iOS 27.2, bringing a new Suggested Actions feature to Messages that recommends calendar events, reminders or notes based on conversation context. The update also brings iPhone and iPad profile selection to the Apple TV app, extends FaceTime's Dual Capture dual-camera feature to Group FaceTime calls, and adds new smart lock controls to the Home app, including a 'Lock After Closing' option.