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Democrats Take Control of US Congress As Voters Reject Trump's Republicans

Tuesday, November 3, was Election Day in the United States, and the results are (mostly) in: Democrats are projected to win control of both the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms. The blue wave turned out to be more of a blue tsunami, ending Republican control of Congress for the final two years of President Donald Trump's second term. Democrats flipped seven Republican-held Senate seats in the 2026 midterms, including surprise victories in traditionally Republican strongholds such as Texas, Kansas, and South Carolina. Kansas elected its first Democratic U.S. senator in nearly 100 years (94

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Valve just changed its Steam release rules amid a flood of AI games

Valve is updating its game release rules to try to unclog a backlog of approvals due to a recent flood of new game titles, many created with AI.

Engadget · EN

India’s EloElo nabs $80M from NBCUniversal to bet on the country’s rising microdrama market

StoryTV has more than 33 million monthly active users according to Sensor Tower figures

TechCrunch · EN

Shark Promo Codes for November 2026

Shark makes some seriously powerful vacuums, from handheld vacs to steam mops. Don’t miss $100 off, 10% off, and more limited-time coupons from WIRED.

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Discover exclusive Hostinger promo codes, discounts, and deals on web hosting, cloud plans, and domain registration. Save big on your next Hostinger purchase today.

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Students can get a Hulu plan for $1.99 per month. Get more details on this and other great deals below.

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Columbia Promo Codes: 15% Off | November 2026

Explore current Columbia deals on jackets, outdoor gear, and apparel. Find active Columbia promo codes, student discounts, and free shipping offers to save on your next adventure.

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Explore today’s top DoorDash promo codes for $25 off your first order, free delivery, and 50% off DashPass for students and select users.

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Cat Feeder Ensures Fed Cats

Automatic cat feeders are a dime a dozen, largely because this is an easy problem to solve. Dry cat food is easy for machines to manipulate, and the electronics needed …read more

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As LLMs Devour the Storage Market, Fujifilm Bets on Tape

One of the interesting things about the slow-moving AI apocalypse we seem to be trapped in is watching the knock-on effects reverberate through communities and economies. We’ve seen how — …read more

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Anthropic uses cryptography to verify model outputs without exposing weights

Anthropic has unveiled FlashProve, an open-source cryptographic system designed to verify whether an AI model...

Interesting Engineering · EN

US military could get battlefield speed edge from Raytheon’s new optical processor

Raytheon is developing a new type of processor that could help US military systems recognize...

Interesting Engineering · EN

First full-scale X-BAT combat drone prototype packs 2,000-mile range, vertical flight

Shield AI has completed the first full-scale prototype of its X-BAT autonomous combat aircraft, bringing...

Interesting Engineering · EN

Photonic chip separates three modes of mixed light to reveal hidden details in imaging

Researchers at Stanford University and collaborating institutions have developed a photonic chip that can separate...

Interesting Engineering · EN

Video: Xiaomi’s humanoid robots sort car parts for eight hours in factory demonstration

Xiaomi has released a video showing two humanoid robots sorting automotive components during an eight-hour...

Interesting Engineering · EN

Prosecutors Seek to Drop Charges Against Russian Scientist Accused of Smuggling Frog Embryos

Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard, has argued that she was vindictively prosecuted after her arrest in 2025.

NYT Science · EN

The next global pandemic could be brewing on a mink farm in Utah – and little is being done to stop it | George Monbiot

Mink farms are the perfect petri dishes for deadly flu strains to emerge. Yet officials appear to be protecting business interests over human lives Could this be ground zero? Could it be the spot where the next pandemic begins? It’s certainly a candidate, not least because the chain of events that could trigger a plague far worse than Covid-19 looks like the opening sequence of a disaster movie. A really bad disaster movie, in which the levels of carelessness and turpitude defy belief. A report by the investigative news service ProPublica reveals that bird flu has been raging in a mink farm in

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Why pharma firms are going to Earth’s orbit in search of new cancer drugs

A space capsule 300 miles above us is growing the tiny crystals of a potential cancer drug in microgravity Roughly 300 miles above our heads, three washing machine-sized capsules are orbiting the Earth. Inside one of them, tiny crystals of a potential cancer drug are being grown in the weightlessness of space. The others are testing heat protection materials and navigation systems for when the capsules plunge back through Earth’s atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. Together, they represent a small but significant step towards what some hope will become a lucrative new industry: manufacturing drug

Guardian Science · EN

Trust vows to 'maintain spirit' of nature reserve

Flatford Wildlife Garden is bought by the National Trust after being run by the RSPB for 15 years.

BBC Science · EN

Tiktoker 'super excited' to co-host BBC nature show

Naturewatch, hosted by Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin and Kyle Thomas, is being made in Bristol.

BBC Science · EN

Delhi air quality worsens ahead of Diwali as firework restrictions enter force

On Wednesday morning, Delhi's air quality index reading stood at 377, in the "very poor" category.

BBC Science · EN