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Greenland is capped with a vast ice sheet that spans 1.7 million square kilometers (656,000 square miles) and measures more than 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) at its thickest point. Below all this ice lies a landscape human eyes have never seen directly. But a newly developed method for mapping this hidden bedrock has produced the most detailed and accurate view of it yet. The new map reveals an expansive network of valleys carved into the surface beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. Many of the features formed well before most of the ice above them existed, offering new context for the…

Taylor Swift fans, the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards are yours. The pop powerhouse received the inaugural Artist Director Honors on Sunday night, becoming the most-awarded artist in VMA history. Previously, she was tied with Beyoncé for the title, with 30 VMAs each. The new award, which is meant to recognize artists “whose work behind the camera has expanded the possibilities of music video and advanced the art of visual storytelling,” brought her total to 31. “I got to start making music videos and being a part of music videos 20 years ago,” Swift said in her speech, adding that…

Nordrhein-Westfalens Ministerpräsident Hendrik Wüst (CDU) gilt als Reservekanzler, doch im eigenen Bundesland schrumpft vor den Landtagswahlen in Nordrhein-Westfalen im April 2027 der Vorsprung vor der AfD. Mit einer Reise in die Türkei betritt er Wüst in diesen Tagen außenpolitisches Parkett. Rasmus Buchsteiner ordnet ein, was hinter der Mission steckt und wie Wüst seine bundespolitischen Ambitionen kalkuliert. Am Rande der UN-Generalversammlung in New York kommt es zu einem überraschenden Aufeinandertreffen zwischen Außenminister Johann Wadephul und seinem russischen Amtskollegen Sergej Lawrow. Hans von der Burchard schildert die Minuten und analysiert, warum der Ruf nach mehr Diplomatie an russischer Härte abprallt. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview…

Ed Miliband will tell campaigners and party members who raised the plight of Palestinians they were right that Labour’s approach had not been enough, saying he was heeding the calls of millions of people by imposing sanctions on Israeli settlements.The foreign secretary will tell the Labour party conference that the government will take more explicitly progressive foreign policy positions under Andy Burnham, and that the UK will be a leader among like-minded countries in a new age of diplomacy.He will say there is a “fundamental and wider lesson from Israel and Palestine about how we have changed our approach as…

After more than a decade building a caller ID business serving over 500 million users, Truecaller is now taking the scam intelligence it gathered along the way to the open web, with no app or sign-in required. The Swedish company on Sunday launched Scam Checker, a new web and Android service that lets users paste in a suspicious phone number, link, or message to find out if it’s fraudulent. To work, the service surfaces related reports from Truecaller’s community, ScamFeed. However, more detailed information about a phone number, including the name associated with it, remains available only through Truecaller’s existing…

Google Research has introduced an AI video co-director for long-form video generation. The suite of 4 agentic frameworks turns short clips into coherent, minutes-long stories. It targets identity drift and cascading errors, the 2 failures that break most multi-shot AI video pipelines today. Why Long AI Videos Fall Apart Diffusion models render high-fidelity clips in seconds. Stitching those clips into a story is harder. Most agentic pipelines chain modules with independent, handcrafted prompts. That causes semantic drift, where attire or scenery shifts between shots. It also causes cascading failures, where one bad upstream asset corrupts every later shot. Google team…

In brief Morgan Stanley has joined the NEXTPredict summit in New York as a strategic partner and will lead a panel on institutional capital. Its analyst on the session covers U.S. gaming, lodging and leisure, the desk that also covers sportsbooks. Around 90% of prediction market turnover is sports, according to the summit’s co-founder, and the sector’s valuations assume that changes. Institutional interest in prediction markets has not been in doubt for a while. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon told CBS in April that the bank was weighing an entry, while describing most of the activity as closer to gambling than investing…

Today’s business titans have become some of the most controversial figures in U.S. politics. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, and others are at the center of growing concerns about the impact of social media and artificial intelligence on the nation. These figures, who only a few years ago were celebrated as pioneers of technological innovation and credited with strengthening the economic position of the United States, are now viewed in a markedly different light. In August, a CNBC and Generation Lab poll found that more younger Americans don’t trust AI leaders than have confidence in them. These…

France’s far-right National Rally (RN) party and its allies have secured a record 14 seats in the rightwing-dominated Senate in elections, effectively quadrupling its number in the 348-seat chamber just months before a presidential poll.RN presidential candidate Marine Le Pen called the results an “historic victory” after they were announced on Sunday. “The results ‌have exceeded our expectations,” she said.It was the first time the ⁠party had cleared the 10-seat threshold to be able to form a Senate caucus.Local elected officials vote for new senators for half the upper chamber every three years, each to serve a six-year term.The far-right…

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 145, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I’m happy to be done traveling for a bit, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)This week, I flew to San Francisco to try out Meta’s new hardware, including the impressive Meta VR Glasses. Along the way, I’ve been listening to Joanna Stern’s interview with Mark Zuckerberg, watching this interview with new Apple CEO John Ternus, revisiting Steve Jobs’ “Antennagate” press conference Q&A, playing games on my Steam Deck using the…