Apple Inc. is plotting its artificial intelligence comeback with an ambitious slate of new devices, including robots, a lifelike version of Siri, a smart speaker with a display and home-security cameras.
A tabletop robot that serves as a virtual companion, targeted for 2027, is the centerpiece of the AI strategy, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The smart speaker with a display, meanwhile, is slated to arrive next year, part of a push into entry-level smart-home products.
Durham made the worst possible start against Middlesex as Emilio Gay – who made an unbeaten 119 against Kent in their previous game – was bowled for a duck by Toby Roland-Jones’ second ball.
But Will Rhodes (63) added 141 with Lees, who carried his bat through the innings, collecting two sixes and 14 fours, while Bedingham raced to his century from just 65 deliveries and Colin Ackermann weighed in with 53 off 27.
After losing an early wicket in reply, Robson and Josh de Caires put on 120 for Middlesex, with de Caires caught behind from a reverse sweep for 63 after bringing up his 50 from 38 balls.
But Robson found more reliable support from Jack Davies (61), adding 114 in tandem, and from needing 170 off 20 overs, they brought the target down to just 41 from six.
It was fitting that Robson hit the winning runs, whipping Cody Yusuf away for four as they eclipsed Worcestershire’s 380-4 to beat Leicestershire in 2018.
“It’s probably one of my better innings for the club. Whenever you’re chasing that many, you can’t afford for much to go wrong – even on that sort of pitch with a quick outfield. It was a great effort,” he said.
“If I was an objective viewer, I don’t think I’d have been putting my money on us.”
The record list A run chase is 399 by Queensland against Tasmania at Sydney in October 2014.
Hulu is moving ahead with a limited series starring Lindsay Lohan, with Shailene Woodley set to join her.
The streamer has picked up Count My Lies, which is based on a novel by Sophie Stava and comes from former This Is Us showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. The show has been in development since April, with Lohan attached from the start. Woodley is a new addition; both will be executive producers in addition to starring.
The pickup comes on the heels of Freakier Friday, with Lohan reprising her role from 2003’s Freaky Friday, scoring a strong opening weekend at the box office. Woodley, meanwhile, adds a second Hulu series to her resumé after joining season two of Paradise.
The logline for Count My Lies reads, “When compulsive liar Sloane Caraway (Woodley) fibs her way into a nanny position for the gorgeous and charismatic Violet (Lohan) and Jay Lockhart, it seems she’s finally landed her dream job. But little does Sloane know, she’s just entered a household brimming with secrets that are about to explode — with potentially catastrophic consequences for all.”
Stava’s debut novel was a Good Morning America Book Club pick earlier this year. It was published by Scout Press, and imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Disney’s 20th Television, where Aptaker and Berger have an overall deal, is producing Count My Lies. The pair are adapting the novel and will executive producing via their Walk-Up Company. Lohan, Woodley and Walk-Up Company’s also exec produce; Stava is a producer.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s Engagement Ring For Georgina Rodriguez Blows Everyone’s Mind- “OMG Look at That Stone” originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
Cristiano Ronaldo is officially engaged to Georgina Rodríguez. The couple has been together for nine years, and Ronaldo proposed with a big diamond ring that left fans amazed at the size of the stone.
Their story goes way back. While Cristiano was still playing for Real Madrid, Georgina worked as a sales assistant at a Gucci store in Madrid. After dating privately for a while, the couple made their first public appearance together in 2016. Now, they are engaged.
Georgina shared a photo of the wedding ring on social media, and the size of the diamond blew fans’ minds. Some called it exaggerated, others joked about it, but most comments were congratulating the couple.
On the other hand, some people are commenting that “they know how it ends,” suggesting that after marrying Ronaldo, Georgina might file for divorce and take half of his fortune. Cristiano’s net worth is estimated at around $1 billion.
Concerns like these aren’t rare in the sports world. Over the years, several star athletes — from Michael Jordan to Tiger Woods — have faced expensive settlements after high-profile breakups. In some cases, divorces have cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Some commentaries even asked “X” artificial intelligence Grok if it can predict a divorce soon.
It’s not clear if Ronaldo and Georgina have any prenuptial agreement in place, and neither has addressed the speculation directly. For now, the focus seems to be on the celebrations rather than contracts.
The couple has four children together, while Cristiano’s eldest, Cristiano Ronaldo Jr., was born before the two met.
The rivalry between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi fans will never end. Even when Ronaldo announces his engagement to Georgina, fans find a way to turn it into another chapter of the endless “Who is the GOAT?” debate.
Lionel Messi has been married to his longtime partner Antonella Roccuzzo since 2017, but the couple has been together since 2008. Just like Cristiano, the gap between the start of their relationship and the wedding — assuming Ronaldo and Georgina marry in 2026 — would be nine years.
This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Aug 11, 2025, where it first appeared.
As much as Eddie Howe would love to be able to call upon Isak, the Newcastle head coach said it was “clear at the moment that we can’t involve him in the group”.
Isak remains determined to leave Newcastle and join Liverpool.
But Newcastle have stood firm, rejecting a £110m bid from the champions earlier this month.
Should that come as a surprise?
After all, what sort of message would it send to sell Isak to Liverpool?
What precedent could it set for other Newcastle players given that Isak still has three years left on his contract?
How would Newcastle even go about finding a worthy replacement, particularly so late in the window?
But could Isak really be reintegrated one day?
This situation is a “complicated mix of employer/employee relations and the specificity of sport” in the words of Dan Chapman, the partner and head of employment and sports teams at Leathes Prior.
“Contractually Newcastle are likely to be well within their rights to insist that Isak trains away from the first team and are absolutely entitled to hold him to his contract and reject any advances from Liverpool,” the lawyer said.
“However, balanced against that is a compelling commercial reality which is that he is a very expensive player to be paying if not involved with the first team – and if they refuse to sell him this window and do not play him, his market value will only diminish.
“For that reason, we often see that the so-called player power will be perceived to win out in the end, though Newcastle will be trying to ensure that, if they are going to end up selling the player, they absolutely maximise the value they receive.
“They will also want Isak to recognise that if he did end up spending this season as no more than a fringe player, he would be harming his own value and, potentially, entering a World Cup year in less than ideal conditions.
“Though legally Newcastle hold most of the cards here, in practical terms, the player in a situation like this will often believe he also maintains a very strong hand, and how these situations finally play out resembles a very high stakes game of poker.”
ChatGPT-4 Turbo could be practical, scalable, and cost-effective for implementing comprehensive postdeployment monitoring of some AI tools used by radiologists.
Baylor College of Medicine researchers tested automating a version of the large language model (LLM), using data from 37 Radiology Partners practices across the U.S. and looking for performance drift of Aidoc’s deep-learning intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) detection system. The findings were published on August 11 in Academic Radiology.
“Traditional drift detection approaches, which rely on real-time feedback, are often impractical in healthcare settings due to delays in obtaining ground-truth data,” explained corresponding author Mohammad Ghasemi-Rad, MD, and colleagues in the paper. “While recent studies emphasize the importance of regular monitoring and model updates, they offer limited practical guidance for implementation.”
To address the gap, the team measured a HIPAA-compliant Microsoft Azure-hosted version of ChatGPT-4 Turbo’s data extraction performance against a ground-truth dataset of 1,000 noncontrast head CT radiology reports labeled by radiologists as positive or negative ICH.
Analyzing 332,809 head CT examinations between December 2023 and May 2024 — of which AIdoc had identified 13,569 cases as positive for ICH — the LLM correctly identified 120 cases as true positives and 79 as true negatives, the team reported. It noted that ChatGPT-4 Turbo demonstrated high diagnostic accuracy and a 60% concordance rate with radiologist reports.
ChatGPT-4 Turbo yielded a positive predictive value of 1, a negative predictive value of 0.98, an overall accuracy of 0.995, and an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.99, according to the team.
Among the discordant cases, 3.5% represented true ICH findings correctly identified by Aidoc but missed by radiologists, 0.5% were due to extraction errors by ChatGPT, and the remainder were Aidoc overcalls.
Only one false negative occurred — in a report describing an evolving right posterior mixed-density extra-axial fluid collection with a further decrease in the amount of increased density, the study authors noted.
The study also demonstrated that the performance of Aidoc’s ICH detection algorithm varied among CT scanners. Further, Aidoc’s false positive classifications were influenced by scanner manufacturer, midline shift, mass effect, artifacts, and neurologic symptoms, Ghasemi-Rad and colleagues wrote.
Authors highlighted a 2020 survey by the American College of Radiology (ACR) that reported 30% of its members currently use AI in clinical practice, and nearly 50% plan to adopt AI solutions within the next five years. Teleradiology services, which handle high-volume caseload during off-hours, rely heavily on noncontrast head CT scans where AI-based ICH detection may be employed.
Furthermore, the paper suggested that the cost of the LLM monitor would be minimal compared to traditional manual review by radiologists or quality assurance staff.
“Despite the promise of AI, its performance is not static over time,” the authors wrote. “This study underscores the importance of continuous performance monitoring for AI systems in clinical practice. Integration of LLMs offers a scalable solution for evaluating AI performance, ensuring reliable deployment, and enhancing diagnostic workflows.”
Read the complete study here.
A new study suggests that human egg cells may be protected against certain age-driven changes seen across the rest of the body.
The work, published Aug. 6 in the journal Science Advances, didn’t explore how that protection works, but it did highlight a stark difference between the mitochondria — cellular powerhouses — found in adult women’s blood and saliva and those carried in their eggs. Mitochondria carry their own special DNA, and as the body ages, that DNA mutates. But there seems to be an exception to this rule within the mitochondria in human egg cells.
Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) aren’t always harmful, but in some cases, they can cause diseases that affect the body’s ability to make and use energy. These conditions can be life-threatening. There are no approved cures, and treatments typically focus on easing symptoms rather than on correcting the underlying issue. As such, it’s important to understand whether the mitochondria in eggs pick up more mutations as they age, as that could raise the risk of such diseases in children.
This could potentially be a factor to consider in family planning. For instance, if the risk of disease-causing mitochondrial mutations were extremely high in older eggs, it might be an argument for freezing one’s eggs at younger ages, study co-author Barbara Arbeithuber, a research group leader at Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria, told Live Science in an email.
Still, mitochondria are not the only factor to consider in egg quality as it’s known that egg cells decline in other ways as they age. And importantly, this new study “does not directly tell us anything on reproductive interventions, as those were not the focus of our work,” Arbeithuber said.
“It is premature to apply these findings to clinical practice,” said study co-author Kateryna Makova, a professor of biology at Penn State. “Our results should be replicated in a larger number of women and validated in other human populations,” Makova told Live Science in an email.
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Studies suggest that, at older ages, egg cells do pick up new mutations in their chromosomes, the DNA found in the cells’ nucleus. There’s evidence that older oocytes, or egg cells, are less able to repair DNA damage than younger oocytes are. Additionally, pregnancies that occur at maternal ages of 35 and older are associated with a higher rate of chromosomal abnormalities than pregnancies at younger ages. That’s partly due to changes in the eggs that make them more likely to have an abnormal number of chromosomes when they reach maturity.
(Notably, advanced paternal age also drives up the rate of genetic abnormalities in offspring, so sperm cells — not just eggs — also contribute to that mutational burden.)
But while the effect of aging on chromosomal DNA in eggs and sperm is fairly well studied, scientists’ understanding of what happens to the DNA in an egg’s mitochondria as it ages is less clear.
“For human oocytes, previous reports were controversial,” Arbeithuber said. The methods used to analyze DNA in those prior studies weren’t accurate enough to pin down the true rate of mitochondrial mutations. Arbeithuber and her colleagues instead used an approach called duplex sequencing, which has a much lower error rate.
For the study, they recruited 22 women ages 20 to 42 who were undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF). For each participant, they analyzed blood and saliva samples, as well as one to five oocytes. In total, they assessed 80 egg cells across the 22 women.
Across all of the blood, spit and egg samples, the eggs’ mitochondria had 17- to 24-fold fewer mutations than those in the blood and saliva. And that comparatively low rate of mutations stayed steady. The number of mutations seen in blood increased the most across the age groups, followed by saliva, and there was no statistically significant increase in the number of mutations in the eggs.
When the team zoomed in on the few mutations that did appear in the eggs, they found that they were less likely to impact DNA previously tied to diseases than the mutations seen in blood and saliva.
“The good news is that, unlike what happens in other tissues of the body such as blood or saliva … human oocytes do not accumulate more mutations as women age, at least between 20 and 42,” Filippo Zambelli, a lead consultant at the reproductive medicine service TRT Consultancy in Barcelona, Spain, told the Science Media Centre. “This suggests that mtDNA in oocytes is protected against aging and its potential negative impact on cellular function,” said Zambelli, who was not involved in the research.
“Overall, this study is reassuring for people trying to conceive children at later ages, because, although chromosomal abnormalities increase with maternal age, at least they should not expect a higher level of mutations in their mtDNA,” he said. Notably, though, this study included only 22 people, so the results bear confirmation in larger studies, he added.
Prior to the new study, the same researchers had investigated mitochondrial mutations in mice and monkeys. In mice, they observed an increase in mtDNA mutations with age in both egg cells and other body tissues, like muscle. In monkeys, they found that mutations increased in eggs and other tissues until the primates reached about 9 years old — equivalent to roughly 27 years old in human years. At that point, the egg mutation rate plateaued while other body parts accumulated more and more DNA changes.
“It is possible that this is also the case in humans,” Arbeithuber suggested, meaning it may be that eggs accumulate some mitochondrial mutations in earlier life and then stop at a certain point.
Their new study was somewhat limited in that they obtained eggs from people undergoing IVF, so “we were restricted by the age of individuals who consult such a clinic,” she added. In the future, it could be interesting to analyze eggs from younger age groups and across generations, from mothers to children, she said.
At this point, the researchers don’t know how mitochondrial DNA in eggs remains preserved over time while other tissues mutate. “This is an open question,” Arbeithuber said. In their paper, the team proposed that there may be a process that helps to eliminate harmful mutations from the oocyte DNA, but more research will be needed to confirm this idea.
This article is for informational purposes only and is not meant to offer medical advice.
Apple is expected to release iOS 26 next month, and as part of that release, CarPlay is getting an intriguing new feature: video playback. This marks a pretty important milestone for Apple, which has so far resisted offering such a functionality on CarPlay.
With iOS 26, apps will be able to play videos onto the CarPlay screen – of course, only when the car is parked. That sounds awesome, but there’s a pretty significant catch.
Namely, automakers will have to enable support for this feature, it won’t just magically go live. And so, many of them could decide to simply not bother, or might have very late rollouts.
On the other hand, CarPlay in iOS 26 is definitely getting redesigned icons and appearance options, support for widgets, and some updates to Music and Messages – these don’t require any explicit approval from car makers so you’ll see them in September.
A step above CarPlay is CarPlay Ultra, announced back in May with Aston Martin, and expected to also eventually be supported on vehicles from Kia, Hyundai, Porsche, Genesis, Ford, Nissan, Infiniti, Jaguar, and Honda, but shunned by BMW, Mercedes, Volvo, Polestar, Renault, and GM.
Source | Via