On an early morning car ride from Tashkent to Samarkand after a performance in 1983, the Uzbek pop singer Nasiba Abdullaeva tuned in to an Afghan radio station by accident and found herself entranced by a song that was playing. “From its first notes, the song fascinated me, and I fell in love with it,” Abdullaeva recalled. She asked the driver to pull over so she could quickly memorise the lines. “I didn’t have a pen and paper, so I just asked everyone to be silent.” Abdullaeva turned that track, originally by Afghan artist Aziz Ghaznawi, into a cover that…
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Before the Padres’ season came to an end with Friday’s shutout loss in Los Angeles, San Diego provided a pair of injury updates. Ha-Seong Kim and Joe Musgrove both underwent their previously announced surgeries this week. Dennis Lin of the Athletic tweeted that Kim had a labrum repair on his right shoulder on Friday, while Musgrove’s Tommy John surgery was performed on Friday.Kim’s status will be one of the bigger stories of the offseason. The Padres haven’t provided a timetable for the infielder’s return. It’s not clear how much of next season, if any, he’ll be sidelined. The surgery comes at a…
Leaders from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang to JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon have hailed AI as the technology driving the next industrial revolution. And while AI can lead to business impact and productivity gains, it can also be “unreal and dystopian,” one Apple Intelligence user discovered.On Thursday, Nick Spreen, an app developer based in New York, posted that Apple Intelligence summarized a breakup text from his now ex-girlfriend. The summary simply read, “No longer in a relationship; wants belongings from the apartment.”Credit: Nick Spreen/X Spreen told Ars Technica that the actual texts were more personal than the AI summary and that the…
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital was hit by Hurricane Milton earlier this weekDirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Wire/Alamy A children’s hospital that lost access to water in the wake of Hurricane Milton is now using a device that can collect drinking water directly from the air, in a test of how such atmospheric water harvesting systems could be used to respond to disasters. “When a hospital has both water and power you’re good,” says David Stuckenberg at Genesis Systems, the Florida-based company that designed the apparatus. The system uses absorbent materials called metal organic frameworks to concentrate moisture from air pumped…
Former President Donald Trump on Friday repeatedly called for using the death penalty against migrants who kill U.S. citizens and law enforcement officers.”I’m hereby calling for the death penalty for any migrant who kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada.The former president made the same remark during his rally in Aurora, Colorado, earlier in the day.Trump has also previously called for using the death penalty against human and drug traffickers.A Trump campaign spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday night.The comment comes as the…
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is en route to assess how NASA’s 2022 DART mission impacted the asteroid Dimorphos. DART smashed into the asteroid at a little over 6 kilometers per second, sending out a cloud of debris and slowing it slightly. Hera’s detailed post-collision survey aims to tell us just how efficient the kinetic impact was. This will inform the design of planetary defense missions, should we need to defend Earth from an asteroid threat.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Hera lifted off from Cape Canaveral on 7 October and is now on a journey, via a flyby…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The UK economy grew 0.2 per cent in August following two months of stagnation, helped by broad-based expansions in services, manufacturing and construction. Friday’s figure, in line with economists’ forecasts, came after zero growth in June and July but marked a slowdown from the start of the year. Services output grew 0.1 per cent in August, production was up 0.5 per cent and construction expanded 0.4 per cent, the Office for National Statistics said.Ashley Webb, economist at consultancy Capital Economics, said the…
Various polls have been all over the place for weeks. It’s difficult to keep up with the changes. And yet, according to one pollster, Trump has maintained a slight edge over Kamala Harris for five straight weeks. Rasmussen Reports is a respected polling outfit and they’re following this race as close as any other. The Washington Examiner reports: Trump maintains 2-point lead for fifth straight week In a sign that all of Vice President Kamala Harris’s efforts to bust open the 2024 election have failed, Rasmussen Reports said on Thursday that former President Donald Trump has maintained a 2-point lead…
Sabrina Carpenter’s latest concert moment has taken the internet by storm after a hilarious interaction with a fan went viral.Since launching her “Short n’ Sweet” Tour on September 23, 2024, the former Disney Channel star has dazzled audiences with bold, flirty outfits that push the envelope. The pop star’s stylist, Jared Ellner, appears to have purposefully curated these eye-catching looks to reflect and celebrate Carpenter’s playful, feminine persona throughout the tour.During a recent performance of her “Short n’ Sweet” tour, Sabrina Carpenter yelled for a fan to “get down,” only to quickly realize the fan had bad knees, prompting laughter…
CEASEFIRE “INDESPENSIBLE” Israeli forces since late September have escalated operations against Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, as the war against Hezbollah’s ally, Palestinian militants Hamas, continues in the Gaza Strip. “Only a few miles away from Cyprus, we have a war. We have a difficult situation,” Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides said as he opened the summit. Known as MED9, the grouping also brought together leaders from Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia and Croatia, along with the king of Jordan, Abdullah II, for the one-day meeting in the city of Paphos. Christodoulides said MED9 called for an end to hostilities in…