My dog used to chase people on a bike a lot. It got so bad I had to take his bike away.
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Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters). It performs strongly in software engineering and professional...
Published: 08/10/2026
https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview
Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's small, fast model for high-volume, cost-sensitive work such as summarization, subagents, and browser use. It succeeds Claude Haiku 4.5 with stronger coding, computer use, and...
Published: 07/10/2026
https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5
Nano Banana 2.1 (Gemini Nano Banana 2.1) is Google's image generation and editing model on the Flash tier, succeeding Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro. It improves product recontextualization,...
Published: 06/10/2026
https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-nano-banana-2.1
Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total. It is designed for general-purpose reasoning, coding, agentic and tool-use systems,...
Published: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:05:56 GMT
Auto Router (Beta) is a task-aware router from OpenRouter. It classifies each request, then routes it the <a href="/rankings#task-spend">most popular model</a> for that task based on aggregate spend, filtered by your...
Published: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:59:25 GMT
What sounds more terrifying than a part-cockroach, part-robot cyborg? Definitely one that can also breathe underwater. Yet, this is exactly what researchers have just created, except they are replacing āterrifyingā with āuseful.ā Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore and Waseda University in Japan have created a soft, flexible diving suit for cyborg cockroaches. The suits are equipped with miniature oxygen generators that allow the cockroaches to survive for up to thre...
Source: newatlas.com ā¢ Published: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:03:00 GMT
Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered robotics through her Tulsa, Okla., middle schoolās First Lego League team, and she fell in love with the field, she says. Downs participated in the international robotics program from 2014 to 2016. Watching PBS specials on NASA Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity , and seeing the live broadcast of the Curiosity rover launch in 2011, inspired the teen to dream of a care...
Source: spectrum.ieee.org ā¢ Published: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:01 +0000
Homegrown catnip plants have proven to be as effective as DEET for repelling mosquitoes in rural Uganda. Presented at an international science conference in Florence, Italy, a collaborative team of Welsh and Ugandan researchers believe they’ve found a lower cost solution to mosquito control that can reduce reliance on malaria medication, which the parasite is […] The post Homegrown Catnip Lotion Proves to Be An Effective Mosquito Repellent in Rural Uganda appeared first on Good News ...
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Published: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:30:00 +0000
Episode Description: Greece just launched the worldās first satellite constellation built specifically for wildfire detection. It can spot a fire measuring only a few feet across, a huge improvement on conventional satellites, which start flagging fires when they’re already the size of a cruise ship. Ten solutions this week with Arielle and Karissa, including the […] The post Podcast Transcript July 17th, 2026ā Wildfire satellites, Seine city cooling, and parenting securely attached ...
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Published: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:30:46 +0000
A drug, that has previously been shown to be safe and tolerated by humans, reduces multiple disease-linked features of Alzheimerās in a lab model of the disease, say neuroscientists in London. The team from Kingās College has developed an approach that targets a key protein to tackle several features of Alzheimerās disease at the same […] The post Drug May Repair DNA at Earliest Stages of Alzheimerās ā And itās Already Passed Safety Trials appeared first on Good News Network .
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Published: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:51:00 +0000
Our partner Rob Brezsny, whose latest book is Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Robās Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: […] The post Your Weekly Horoscope ā āFree Will Astrologyā by Rob Brezsny appeared first on Good News Network .
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Published: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:00:45 +0000
58 years ago today, the Intel Corporation was founded in Mountain View, California. One of the largest manufacturers of computer hardware, Intel was a key component of the rise of Silicon Valley as a high-tech center, as well as a pioneer of random access memory and microprocessors. It was one of the first companies listed […] The post Good News in History, July 18 appeared first on Good News Network .
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Published: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000