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Cannes Film Festival 2026 Opens With Park Chan-wook Leading the Jury

EntertainmentMay 13, 2026

Cannes Film Festival 2026 Opens With Park Chan-wook Leading the Jury

The 79th Cannes Film Festival is officially under way along the French Riviera, with Korean director Park Chan-wook presiding over a jury that includes Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgard and Ruth Negga. Twenty-one films will compete for the Palme d'Or before the festival closes on May 23, with strong opening-day buzz around Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of "Die, My Love" and Wes Anderson's "The Phoenician Scheme."

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SpaceX Files Confidentially for $75 Billion IPO at $1.75 Trillion Valuation

FinanceMay 13, 2026

SpaceX Files Confidentially for $75 Billion IPO at $1.75 Trillion Valuation

Elon Musk's SpaceX has filed confidential paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public as soon as June, in what would be the largest initial public offering in history. Bankers say the rocket and satellite-internet giant is targeting a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion, bolstered by its all-stock merger with Musk's AI startup xAI earlier this year.

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France Arrests Tunisian Man Accused of Plotting Attack on the Louvre

WorldMay 13, 2026

France Arrests Tunisian Man Accused of Plotting Attack on the Louvre

French anti-terror prosecutors have charged a 27-year-old Tunisian man with planning a jihadist-inspired attack on the Louvre museum and members of the Jewish community in Paris. Investigators say his phone contained weapons photos, ISIS propaganda, and ChatGPT searches asking how to build a bomb.

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4,500-Year-Old Pots in Poland Hold the Region's Oldest Trace of Beer

ScienceMay 12, 2026

4,500-Year-Old Pots in Poland Hold the Region's Oldest Trace of Beer

Scientists analyzing pottery from Bell Beaker–era sites at Supraśl and Skrzeszew in Poland have detected chemical residues of fermented alcohol roughly 4,500 years old. Published in Archaeometry, the work pushes the documented chemistry of beer-like drinks in northeastern Poland back to the second half of the third millennium BCE.

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Google Previews Android 17 and Deeper Gemini AI at 'Android Show: I/O Edition'

TechMay 12, 2026

Google Previews Android 17 and Deeper Gemini AI at 'Android Show: I/O Edition'

Google staged its annual 'Android Show: I/O Edition' on May 12, 2026, a week ahead of the main Google I/O developer conference. The livestream previewed Android 17, expanded Gemini AI integration across phones, tablets, and Android XR headsets, and new accessibility and on-device intelligence features.

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HBO Max Renews 'Harry Potter' TV Series for a Second Season Before Its Premiere

EntertainmentMay 12, 2026

HBO Max Renews 'Harry Potter' TV Series for a Second Season Before Its Premiere

HBO Max has formally greenlit a second season of its highly anticipated Harry Potter television series ahead of its Christmas 2026 debut. The streamer's confidence in the long-form adaptation, which will dedicate each season to one of J.K. Rowling's seven novels, signals that the platform expects 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' to become a flagship franchise.

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Pharma Giant Roche to Acquire AI Diagnostics Pioneer PathAI in Sweeping Health Deal

FinanceMay 12, 2026

Pharma Giant Roche to Acquire AI Diagnostics Pioneer PathAI in Sweeping Health Deal

Swiss pharmaceutical leader Roche has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PathAI, a Boston-based company developing artificial-intelligence tools for cancer pathology. The deal, announced on May 7, 2026, would embed PathAI's machine-learning models inside Roche's global pathology and drug-development pipeline at a moment when AI-driven diagnostics are reshaping how tumors are classified and treated.

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Lost Temple of Egypt's Pharaoh Apries Rises Again Beneath Ancient Memphis

WorldMay 12, 2026

Lost Temple of Egypt's Pharaoh Apries Rises Again Beneath Ancient Memphis

An Egyptian-Chinese archaeological mission at Mit Rahina has uncovered a limestone building tied to the long-lost temple of Pharaoh Apries, with cartouches bearing his royal name carved into the walls. The find anchors one of Egypt's missing royal monuments to its ancient capital, Memphis, and includes five headless sphinxes, hieroglyphic blocks dedicated to the god Ptah, and pottery and coins from later periods.

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SpaceX CRS-34 to Carry First Wooden Bone Scaffold to Space Station for Osteoporosis Research

SpaceMay 11, 2026

SpaceX CRS-34 to Carry First Wooden Bone Scaffold to Space Station for Osteoporosis Research

NASA and SpaceX are set to launch the 34th Commercial Resupply Services mission on Tuesday, May 12, sending about 6,500 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station — including a bone scaffold derived from wood that could open new treatment routes for osteoporosis, an experiment on charged particles that disrupt power grids, and equipment to study how astronauts' red blood cells and spleens change in microgravity.

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Giant Squid Detected Off Western Australia for First Time in 25 Years Using Environmental DNA

ScienceMay 11, 2026

Giant Squid Detected Off Western Australia for First Time in 25 Years Using Environmental DNA

Curtin University and CSIRO researchers have detected genetic traces of the elusive giant squid Architeuthis dux in deep-sea canyons off Ningaloo Reef, the first record of the species in Western Australian waters in more than two decades and the northernmost in the eastern Indian Ocean. The eDNA survey, published this week in Environmental DNA, also catalogued 226 species across 11 major animal groups, several of them new to science.

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iOS 27 Will Let iPhone Users Choose Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT to Power Siri and Apple Intelligence

TechMay 11, 2026

iOS 27 Will Let iPhone Users Choose Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT to Power Siri and Apple Intelligence

Apple is preparing a system called Extensions for iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27 that will let users select third-party AI providers — including Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini — to power Siri, Writing Tools and Image Playground. The shift marks a dramatic departure from Apple's traditional single-stack model and is expected to be unveiled formally at WWDC in June.

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Senate Holds Cloture Vote on Kevin Warsh to Replace Powell as Federal Reserve Chair

FinanceMay 11, 2026

Senate Holds Cloture Vote on Kevin Warsh to Replace Powell as Federal Reserve Chair

The full U.S. Senate began its confirmation process on May 11 for Kevin Warsh, President Trump's pick to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve Board when Powell's term ends on May 15. The cloture vote follows a starkly partisan 13-11 committee endorsement and would put a long-time critic of low interest rates and quantitative easing at the head of the world's most powerful central bank.

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Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Freed on Bail and Rushed to Tehran Hospital

WorldMay 11, 2026

Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Freed on Bail and Rushed to Tehran Hospital

Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was released on bail on May 10 and transferred from Zanjan to a hospital in Tehran for urgent specialist treatment after suffering two suspected heart attacks in custody. Her family and foundation say she must not return to prison, where she still has 18 years left to serve.

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Naked Mole-Rat Longevity Gene Transferred Into Mice Extends Their Lifespan

ScienceMay 11, 2026

Naked Mole-Rat Longevity Gene Transferred Into Mice Extends Their Lifespan

A University of Rochester team has transplanted the naked mole-rat's hyaluronan synthase 2 gene into laboratory mice, lifting their levels of high-molecular-weight hyaluronic acid, lowering inflammation and tumour incidence and lengthening their median lifespan by about 4.4 percent. Published in Nature, the experiment is the first to show that a longevity adaptation can be functionally exported from one mammalian species to another.

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China Unveils Hanyuan-2, the World's First Dual-Core Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer

TechMay 11, 2026

China Unveils Hanyuan-2, the World's First Dual-Core Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer

Researchers at CAS Cold Atom Technology in Wuhan have unveiled Hanyuan-2, which they describe as the world's first dual-core neutral-atom quantum computer. The system pairs 100 rubidium-85 atoms with 100 rubidium-87 atoms to create a 200-qubit machine, runs the two cores either in parallel or in a 'main core plus auxiliary core' fault-tolerance configuration, and draws under 7 kilowatts of power without dilution-refrigerator cooling.

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Kevin Hart Survives a Live Netflix Roast as The Rock, Tom Brady and Katt Williams Pile On

EntertainmentMay 11, 2026

Kevin Hart Survives a Live Netflix Roast as The Rock, Tom Brady and Katt Williams Pile On

Hosted by Shane Gillis and broadcast live from The Kia Forum in Inglewood on May 10, Netflix's three-hour 'Roast of Kevin Hart' delivered the streamer's biggest comedy live-event of the year. The dais included Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Tom Brady, Katt Williams, Sheryl Underwood and an unannounced cameo from Eddie Murphy, and the special closed Netflix Is A Joke Fest 2026.

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Crypto Exchange Bullish to Buy Equiniti in $4.2 Billion Bet on Tokenized Stocks

FinanceMay 11, 2026

Crypto Exchange Bullish to Buy Equiniti in $4.2 Billion Bet on Tokenized Stocks

Bullish, the crypto exchange led by former NYSE president Tom Farley, has agreed to acquire the share-registry giant Equiniti from private equity firm Siris Capital for $4.2 billion. The combination, announced May 5 and now clearing initial review, would create what Bullish calls 'the global transfer agent for tokenized securities' — a piece of plumbing the firm believes will sit at the heart of any future on-chain stock market.

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Hidden Antarctic Threat Could Push Sea Levels Up Faster Than Models Predicted

WorldMay 11, 2026

Hidden Antarctic Threat Could Push Sea Levels Up Faster Than Models Predicted

A study published in Nature Geoscience this week shows that warm, salty water has been quietly intruding beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet through a previously unmapped network of submarine troughs, melting the ice from below at rates models did not anticipate. The lead author warns that current sea-level forecasts for 2100 may be too conservative by 15 to 25 centimeters.

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Tiny Wasp From a Museum Drawer Is Named After David Attenborough on His 100th Birthday

ScienceMay 11, 2026

Tiny Wasp From a Museum Drawer Is Named After David Attenborough on His 100th Birthday

Scientists at London's Natural History Museum have named a previously undescribed parasitoid wasp Attenboroughnculus tau in honor of Sir David Attenborough, who turned 100 on May 8, 2026. The 3.5-millimeter insect, originally collected in Chile in 1983, had sat unnoticed in a museum drawer for four decades — a reminder of how much undiscovered biodiversity lies hidden in scientific collections.

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Scientists Send Unhackable Quantum Keys Across 120 Kilometers of Optical Fiber

ScienceMay 11, 2026

Scientists Send Unhackable Quantum Keys Across 120 Kilometers of Optical Fiber

A German-Chinese team has demonstrated stable quantum key distribution over 120 kilometers of standard telecom fiber using a single telecom-band quantum dot, generating about 15 secure bits per second for more than six hours without manual adjustment. The result, published in Nature Photonics, is a major step toward a real-world quantum internet built on the optical fiber already in the ground.

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Google Unleashes Gemini 3.1 Ultra With a 2-Million-Token Brain That Can Watch Movies Whole

TechMay 11, 2026

Google Unleashes Gemini 3.1 Ultra With a 2-Million-Token Brain That Can Watch Movies Whole

Google has released Gemini 3.1 Ultra, its largest and most capable AI model of the year, with a native 2-million-token context window and a built-in sandbox that lets the model write, run, and test code in the middle of a conversation. The model handles text, images, audio, and video in a single pass, eliminating the transcription step that has slowed every previous multimodal system.

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Wall Street's IPO Window Swings Wide Open as Q1 2026 Becomes Strongest in Five Years

FinanceMay 11, 2026

Wall Street's IPO Window Swings Wide Open as Q1 2026 Becomes Strongest in Five Years

Twenty-two traditional initial public offerings raised more than $9.4 billion in the first three months of 2026, the best opening quarter for US listings in half a decade. Bankers say the pipeline now stretches across industrials, healthcare, and technology, and predict the full year could see between 200 and 230 IPOs — a level not seen since the 2021 boom.

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Hantavirus-Stricken Cruise Ship Finally Docks in Tenerife as 94 Passengers Are Evacuated

WorldMay 11, 2026

Hantavirus-Stricken Cruise Ship Finally Docks in Tenerife as 94 Passengers Are Evacuated

The Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius, locked at sea for weeks after an Andes virus outbreak killed three people, reached the Port of Granadilla in Tenerife at dawn on Sunday. Spain coordinated the disembarkation of 94 passengers from 19 countries under heavy biosafety protocols, with the WHO director-general on site to oversee the operation.

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Hiker in Norway Discovers 1,500-Year-Old Gold Sword Scabbard Beneath a Fallen Tree

ScienceMay 10, 2026

Hiker in Norway Discovers 1,500-Year-Old Gold Sword Scabbard Beneath a Fallen Tree

A walker out for a stroll in Sandnes, Norway, noticed something glinting in the soil under the roots of a long-fallen tree and unearthed a 6th-century gold sword-scabbard fitting. Archaeologists say the rare Migration Period artifact, only the 18th of its kind ever found in Northern Europe, points to a powerful warrior elite once based at nearby Hove.

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