News archive — October 21, 2026
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One-Quarter of Data Centers Are Located in Water-Stressed Areas, Study Shows
And it could get much worse.ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
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12 days of nerd-friendly Advent calendars — from rubber ducks to Funko Pops
Chocolates are all well and good, but these days there are plenty of Advent calendars that hide something a little exciting — or unexpected — behind their little cardboard doors. F
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The 3-in-1 Alloop Wearable Could Replace Both Your Wellness Wristband and Ring
The Alloop Trio also comes with a personal AI health agent.
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Leanne Manas: ‘It’s absolutely frightening’
Leanne Manas has disputed viral claims that she quit SABC 2’s Morning Live. The breakfast TV show anchor made headlines this week over a TikTok account’s unverified claims.
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Clayface Rotten Tomatoes Score: How Does It Compare To Superman And Supergirl?
Critics have weighed in on Clayface, so let's see how the body horror film's Rotten Tomatoes score stacks up to the other DCU movies, Superman and Supergirl.
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US Supreme Court allows gender-affirming care for trans people in federal prisons
The U.S. Supreme Court on April 9, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s emergency req
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Airbnb Hosts Are Furious They Can No Longer Make Guests Do Their Chores
Some hosts are threatening to strike, while others are plotting ways around Airbnb’s new restrictions. Guests, meanwhile, are celebrating.
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Mass Effect and Dragon Age studio BioWare killed by its new corporate overlords
A couple of weeks back, a consortium of new owners—including the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, a private equity company, and Professional Son-In-Law Jared Kushner’s
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Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Thursday, Oct. 22, #1229
Need a Connections hint today? Get a hint for each color group in NYT Connections No. 1,229 on Thursday, Oct. 22, then all four answers.
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Higgins and Lisowski knocked out of NI Open
John Higgins and reigning champion Jack Lisowski become the latest big names to fall at the Northern Ireland Open, but home favourite Jordan Brown progresses to the third round.
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Texas Instruments reports Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $6.06B, above $5.93B est., net income up 78% YoY to $2.43B, and forecasts $5.8B-$6.3B in Q4, vs. $5.73B est. (Ian King/Bloomberg)
Ian King / Bloomberg: Texas Instruments reports Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $6.06B, above $5.93B est., net income up 78% YoY to $2.43B, and forecasts $5.8B-$6.3B in Q4, vs. $5.73B est
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to lift halt on Big Bend border wall
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to let it resume building a border wall through Texas's Big Bend region
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Save $56 on the SanDisk 1TB Extreme Portable SSD
Amazon has knocked $56 off the 1TB SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD, bringing it down to $243 from its $299 RRP. That’s a 19% discount relative to the recommended retail price, and it’
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Tropical Storm Vance has formed in the Pacific Ocean
Tropical Storm Vance has formed in the Pacific Ocean
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New Hilton Pay With Points App Feature: Why You Should (Probably) Skip It
Hilton Honors has announced a new way for members to redeem their points directly toward the cost of on-property spending at check-out, exclusively for elite members through the ap
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Today’s NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Thursday, Oct. 22, #1951
Need a Wordle hint today? Get spoiler-free hints for NYT Wordle No. 1,951 on Thursday, Oct. 22, then the answer, plus yesterday’s word.
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A Complete Guide To The K/DA Couture Collection In Riftbound
The Riftbound K/DA Couture Collection has been revealed, and we have all the details you need to secure your collection. This will be a very popular drop, so it's no surprise to se
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Tiny Caribbean island of Nevis to restore Alexander Hamilton museum with US funds
St. Kitts and Nevis has received a financial boost in honor of one of its most famous sons, Alexander Hamilton, who went on to become a founding father of the United States and Ame
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Is the United States interfering in Brazil’s high-stakes presidential election?
On October 19, Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court gave U.S. tech giant Meta 24 hours to prove it is treating the Brazilian presidential candidates equally, following allegations fro
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Will AI data centers impact the U.S. midterm election?
AI Data centers are an integral part of the AI revolution. While these massive facilities power AI model calculations, they are also producing anxiety among the public and voters.&
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Vivek Ramaswamy’s Appalling Campaign Ad
The Republican candidate for governor of Ohio has drawn condemnation from the right and the left for casually dismissing his opponent’s account of being raped as a child.
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Oregon school shooting renews focus on U.S. gun violence
Police in Bend, Oregon, are investigating how a suspect got the gun and ammunition he used during an Oct. 15 shooting at a local elementary school. Three students and a teacher wer
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Next-gen doctors swap scrubs for aprons
A medical school in Washington, D.C. is taking an unconventional approach to medicine. It's bringing its students out of the lab and into the kitchen.The curriculum is designed wit
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Meta fined $25bn for 'lies' over user data privacy
The fine is the largest to date against Facebook's owner, larger than an $18bn deal with California.
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Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worse
Enterprise-sized businesses spend, on average, 28 percent of their software budgets on unwanted upgrades, migrations, and licensing changes. Often, those firms' IT heads think thos
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Pope Leo's doctors say he no longer needs cancer treatment after surgery
Pope Leo XIV will not need further treatment following lung cancer surgery, his doctors said. The pontiff suffered pulmonary adenocarcinoma, which was localized and removed. NBC Ne
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Ukraine sends ground robot to string wire obstacles in open, taking its sappers out of kill zone
(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Stringing wire in the open is one of the deadliest jobs at the front, and Ukraine is handing it to a ro
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COVID Vaccine Skeptic Alex Berenson's Lawsuit over Termination of His Twitter Account Thrown Out
From Berenson v. Gottlieb, decided yesterday by Judges Pierre Leval, Richard Wesley, and Joseph Bianco: Plaintiff-Appellant Alex Berenson … is an independent journalist and
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Angry scenes and protests at Senedd as Reform call for ban on Muslim face coverings
Members of Reform called for Muslim religious face coverings, such as the burka, to be banned.
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Electronic Arts Shuts Down Bioware
Two months after it went private, Electronic Arts alerted employees about some major changes to the business. Among them, it's closing the game studio Bioware. The post Electronic
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Pope Leo won't need more treatment after cancer surgery, doctors say
Pope Leo XIV will not need any further treatment after having lung cancer surgery, his doctors said in a statement.
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The ugliest political ad of 2026 (so far)
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. There are low blows, and then
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Apple and DOJ notify court of impasse over document cutoff in antitrust lawsuit
Apple and the Department of Justice have submitted a joint notice of impasse over how recent Apple’s documents must be to fall within the scope of discovery in their ongoing antitr
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Chinatown Residents Sue to Stop Manhattan Jail’s Late-Night Construction
David Wallach was walking to his Lower East Side apartment on Tuesday around 8 p.m. when he craned his neck up at one of Lower Manhattan’s latest after-hours spectacles. At the cor
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Japan's Onamae Desktop Cloud hacked, up to 27,000 servers affected
Hackers compromised the infrastructure of Onamae Desktop Cloud, a popular provider of VPS services in Japan, and installed malware on up to 26,739 customers' servers. [...]
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Meta hit with $25-billion penalty for misleading Facebook users about data privacy
The penalty in New Mexico stems from a lawsuit about a data privacy scandal that Facebook faced more than eight years ago.
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CD Projekt boss pays tribute to BioWare for helping bring The Witcher to life 20 years ago: 'BioWare has been a massive part of CDPR history'
BioWare was a legendary studio, and its shocking closure today has inspired numerous tributes from fans and fellow game developers alike. One of the most notable came from CD Proje
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James Webb Finds a Tiny World’s Rings Changing in Opposite Ways
James Webb has revealed unexpected changes in Chariklo’s two rings, which appear to be evolving in opposite ways over only a few years. For much of modern astronomy, rings were bel
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On this day in space! Oct. 21, 2008: India launches its 1st mission to the moon with Chandrayaan-1
On Oct. 21, 2008, the Indian Space Research Organization launched its first mission to the moon. The mission was named Chandrayaan-1, and it consisted of both an orbiter and an imp
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AI identifies tumor aging patterns to predict immunotherapy response across multiple cancer types
Even when given the same drug, some patients respond well while others show little or no response. This is particularly true of immunotherapy. A research team at POSTECH (Pohang Un
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Why the humble rabbit might be Australia's worst introduced species
The 19th-century pastoralist Thomas Austin was homesick. He yearned for the pastimes of his home in England—especially rabbit hunting. He asked his family to send him some rabbits.
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Death rates among 25–49-year-olds 42% higher in the North than the South of England, study finds
Death rates among adults ages 25–49 were 42% higher in the North than in the South of England in 2024, compared with 13% higher in 1981, according to research published today in Th
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Not all rattlesnakes are alike: Research suggests personality influences how rattlesnakes use their venom
Imagine encountering a rattlesnake in your backyard or while on a hike. It will most likely "freeze" to avoid attracting attention, but if it feels especially threatened, it may ra
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Ken Russell's The Devils to possess movie theaters for another week
After more than half a century imprisoned on bootleg transfers and censored, low-resolution DVDs, Ken Russell’s The Devils has finally met the masses, and the masses are resp
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32 Serving Platters That Are As Centerpiece-Worthy As the Main Course
Because your beautiful food deserves a beautiful vessel.
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Vanderbilt Health-led team maps gene variants that can cause sudden death
Using an innovative, high-throughput technique, an international collaboration led by Vanderbilt Health researchers has created a “map” of 1,757 genetic variations that can trigger
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STAT+: CMS extends fraud crackdown to New York’s adult day care program
Just one week after being granted the authority to kick providers off of federal health care programs, U.S. health officials are using it on adult day care centers in New York City
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Trump again targets offshore wind, risking deal to speed approvals of new energy projects
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is asking a federal judge to let it reconsider a major federal permit granted for a large offshore
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EA closes legendary RPG studio BioWare following its $55 billion buyout
In a letter to staff on Wednesday, EA announced the closure of BioWare's Edmonton studio, its last, as part of broader cost-cutting layoffs. The storied RPG developer had begun ear
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Modern Warfare 4 players declare 'broken' on DMZ perk that lets you self-revive after full death
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's big extraction mode DMZ has been out for one day, so it's a bit early to make sweeping declarations about balance, but even I'm raising an eyebrow