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India Evacuates Tens of Thousands as Cyclone Arnab Approaches

27 October 2026 at 11:09
The storm, Arnab, is forecast to make landfall Wednesday on the country’s eastern coast and then cut inland and head north toward Nepal.

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Boats docked in a harbor in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, as Cyclone Arnab approached the area on Tuesday.

Sterling Anderson doesn’t think humanoid robots should be building cars

27 October 2026 at 11:00
GM product chief Sterling Anderson
Sterling Anderson, General Motors’ chief product officer, delivers a speech during the brand's annual technology event in New York on October 21st, 2026. Photo: Charly Triballeau / AFP via Getty Images | AFP via Getty Images

At a splashy event in New York City last week, General Motors unveiled its new tech roadmap centered on AI-driven vehicle development, advanced battery tech, high-powered car computers, and autonomous driving.

Some of this was old news: We already knew the automaker was developing hands-free, eyes-off driving automation and had been prototyping new battery chemistries. In a sense, the real purpose of the event was to showcase how all these pieces fit together. With its new "intelligence-defined vehicle" paradigm, GM is banking on artificial intelligence, centralized computing, and virtualized engineering to cut vehicle development timelines …

Read the full story at The Verge.

The Surprise Tossups

27 October 2026 at 10:49
We look at how gerrymandering shapes the midterm elections.

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Campaign signs outside an early voting site in North Carolina this week.
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