Archives — August 2026

A very low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet may provide stronger metabolic benefits for people with obesity than either a Mediterranean diet or a low-fat diet, according to a clinical trial published August 27 in the Cell Press journal Cell Metabolism. After four to five months on a ketogenic (or "Keto") diet, about half of the participants with obesity and prediabetes no longer met the criteria for prediabetes. "We know weight loss can improve metabolic health in people who are obese," says Samuel Klein, the study's corresponding author at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. "Our data suggest that if you have high liver fat content and prediabetes, reducing carbohydrate intake can have important therapeutic effects on metabolism beyond just weight loss alone. "

My “final” Lufthansa A340-600 flight from Frankfurt to Washington in business class greatly exceeded my expectations thanks to the excellent service and superb new “Project FOX” soft product onboard. My “long way home” was all about this flight…one final flight on the Lufthansa A340-600, which is set to be retired on October 25, 2026 after nearly 23 years in service. I’ve flown on this aircraft before, but it has been a very long time and I also wanted to check out FOX, the name Lufthansa has given to its refreshed soft product in business class.

For Kristians Kārkliņš, walking more than 26,000 kilometres around the world is about more than entering the record books. The Latvian long-distance walker says every step is also helping him manage his mental health, and he hopes the journey can help others struggling with theirs. Read more: Saskatchewan motorcyclist tackling 75-hour ride across Canada for men’s mental health

Kathleen Korpela wished she were more prepared for her father's diagnosis. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kathleen Korpela, founder of Living Goldenwell. The following has been edited for length and clarity. My father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in his early 70s, when I was in my mid-30s with a 4-year-old and a baby, getting ready to go back to work after maternity leave. It was around eight years from my father's diagnosis until his passing in October 2024. I learned how little support and resources there are for adult children stepping into supporting aging parents, and really how woefully unprepared people are for the eldercare phase. So I founded Living Goldenwell in 2025 and created the Caregiving from the Middle program to provide comprehensive support, education, and guidance to women stepping into eldercare. It was extremely challenging to navigate the transition from adult child to effectively parenting my parent. It was definitely a challenge to navigate that dual role identity without losing myself. Here's what I learned.

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Thunder Bay forester argues fuel buildup, not just climate change, is driving Canada's fire risk Forest fire season in Canada is coming to a close. Slowly. It will soon be replaced with the long and cold “forget about forest fire season” season that extends until late June of the following year.

Skip to Main ContentAccessibility HelpMenuCBC GemCBC ListenSearchQuick LinksNewsSportsRadioMusicListen LiveTVWatchnewsTop StoriesLocalClimateWorldCanadaPoliticsIndigenousBusinessThe NationalHealthEntertainmentScienceCBC News InvestigatesDisability LifeGo PublicAbout CBC NewsBeing Black in CanadaVideoSports club hosts Scarborough charity match for Nepal flood relief | CBC.ca LoadedSports club hosts Scarborough charity match for Nepal flood reliefAugust 29|Duration 2:09August 29NewsDuration 2:09closed captionWith thousands missing after catastrophic flooding in Nepal, a non-profit sports club hosted a charity match in Scarborough to raise funds for relief efforts. CBC's Naama Weingarten was at the game and spoke to players, some of whom have family or friends who are still missing. Related StoriesB. C.

Chief correspondent and co-author of VC Insider Bryan Johnson with his new dog, Katara, at a longevity event in San Francisco this week.

Alianza host Atlético Nacional for Matchday 8 of the Liga Dimayor Group Stage, a clash in which the Verdolagas must take all three points to climb the standings, where they sit eight points behind th...

AI-generated videos are threatening actors, influencers, and livestreamers in China, with some productions already replacing human performers. Since ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 launched, digital performers can produce better videos faster and cheaper than humans. In Q1 2026, about 128,000 short dramas were published in China, three times the total for all of 2025. Ninety-five percent were AI-generated, according to the China Netcasting Services Association. The industry employs 690,000 people directly, and 15 million list livestreaming as their primary job. This video (via Hubei Daily) shows an example. There are also more realistic videos. One minute of AI video now costs just $90 to $120, about ten percent of what production with human actors used to cost, Tsinghua University professor Shen Yang told the Financial Times. Some performers are being forced to "distil" their voice and likeness into AI tools before getting fired. AI-related labor disputes have also risen over the past two to three years, lawyers say. With Seedance 2.5 and Wan 3.0, AI video quality has jumped again.

Nintendo and Sony spent the early nineties arguing over a Super NES compact disc attachment that never reached store shelves. Throaty Mumbo read that history and aimed lower, at the original front-loading NES, a console with no disc hardware and an expansion port that sat unused on the bottom of millions of gray boxes. His project page calls the result NESCD-001, an unofficial homemade compact disc add-on built for fun and documented in a build video plus a public GitHub repo. His finished unit is a gray 3D printed slab that fits under the console in the same way as the old Famicom Disk System did. A white disk tray with glossy red lettering faces forward, accompanied by an eject button and volume knob. Inside, there’s a conventional 40-pin IDE compact disk drive (the Pacific Digital Mach 52, as seen in the movie), a custom circuit board, a PCM5102 converter, and an RP2350B microcontroller that communicates with both the drive and an Everdrive N8 Pro flash cartridge. The printable shell files and sticker art for that board layout are available in the same source as the board layout itself.

Marvell Technology stock just dropped 10.3% in regular trading, even though the latest quarter delivered exactly what many long term investors say they want. Revenue hit a record US$2.74b, with data center sales doing most of the heavy lifting, and non GAAP operating margin reached 36.6%. Coming into this print, the stock had already climbed 32.6% over the past month and carried a rich P/E multiple. Today’s selloff is the market’s snap judgment on that valuation. The bigger story is whether Marvell’s raised multi year revenue and margin targets justify staying focused on the long game. Is Marvell Technology now genuinely cheap after a 10.3% drop, or just an expensive stock that came back to earth? Compare the rich P/E, DCF gap and one off gain impact in the valuation analysis for Marvell Technology. Q2 2027 Earnings Summary Revenue, Q2 2027 vs. Q2 2026: US$2,739.3m vs. US$2,006.1m (up about 36.5%) Net Income, Q2 2027 vs. Q2 2026: US$308.0m vs. US$194.8m (up about 58.2%) Basic EPS, Q2 2027 vs. Q2 2026: US$0.34 vs. US$0.23 (up about 52.0%) Non GAAP Operating Margin, Q2 2027 vs.

WorldThe death toll from a Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv, the war's deadliest attack so far this year, rose to 38 with four people still missing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media Sunday. Almost constant air raids in Ukrainian capital have now reached their 3rd dayThe Associated Press · Posted: Aug 29, 2026 8:18 AM EDT | Last Updated: August 30Listen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Firefighters work at the site of a Russian drone strike in Kyiv on Saturday, as Russia's attacks on Ukraine continue. (Oleksandr Gusev/Reuters)The death toll from a Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv, the war's deadliest attack so far this year, rose to 38 with four people still missing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media Sunday. The strike on Friday night on the warehouse — an ammunition storage facility, according to Ukrainian officials — sparked massive explosions and fires that swept through dozens of nearby homes and buildings.

Canada's Sophia Jensen won the first world title of her career on Saturday at the 2026 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships in Poznań, Poland. Chelsea, Que., native claims world title in women's C1 500m finalCBC Sports · Posted: Aug 29, 2026 11:48 AM EDT | Last Updated: August 29Listen to this articleEstimated 1 minuteThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Canada's Sophia Jensen, shown in this August 2024 file photo, won gold on Saturday at the 2026 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships in Poznań, Poland. (AP)Canada's Sophia Jensen won the first world title of her career on Saturday at the 2026 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships in Poznań, Poland. The 24-year-old from Chelsea, Que., finished first in the women's C1 500-metre final, clocking a time of two minutes 0.78 seconds to claim the gold medal. Agnes Anna Kiss of Hungary won silver in 2:02.80, with bronze going to Belarusian Alena Nazdrova (2:04.80).

Take part in [LYS] World Record, a world record attempt to create the largest human fleur-de-lis. Conceived by Sergio Florez, a former patient of Shriners Children’s, this unique charitable event invites you to spend the afternoon with your loved ones and take part in this XXL fleur-de-lis! Join us on the Pie-IX Esplanade of the Olympic Park on August 29, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., to help form the fleur-de-lis and enjoy a free concert presented by Mixbus, featuring performances by Gaëlle, Waahli, Colin Léo, La Mantisse, Muhoza and Gaba Collectif.

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University of Haifa researchers built a 4-meter boat from about 1,600 reeds and successfully sailed it off the Carmel coast near the remains of a submerged Neolithic settlementResearchers at the University of Haifa set out to test one possible answer by building a full-size reed boat using materials and techniques that would have been available during the Neolithic period, then sailing it off Israel’s Carmel coast. The 4-meter-long vessel, constructed from about 1,600 reeds, was recently launched at Neve Yam beach, directly opposite the submerged remains of a settlement dating to roughly the same period. Shay Niv paddles the reed boat built as part of his experimental research (Video: Amir Yorman)Over the past four decades, archaeologists have discovered dozens of Neolithic settlement sites along the Carmel coast, stretching from Haifa to Ma’agan Michael. The sites, researched by University of Haifa archaeologist Prof. Ehud Galili, date from roughly 10,000 to 7,000 years ago and now lie between 2 and 12 meters below sea level. They were submerged as sea levels rose following the end of the last Ice Age.

'Thank you to the Dupuis family for organizing another fantastic Sap Run! To everyone who participated, volunteered and supported the event' The North Bay Regional Health Centre Foundation is benefiting from the popular Maple Hill Sap Run.

Despite building an increasingly screen-focused world, tech billionaires and executives are keeping their own children away from the tech they helped create. As far back as 2010, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs told a New York Times reporter his kids had never used an iPad and that “we limit how much technology our kids use at home.”

MANTECH's promotion of Brandy Durham to SVP and Chief Technology Officer [1] caps a deliberate C-suite restructuring that adds a Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Digital Officer, and Chief Cyber Officer in a single wave [1][1]. The moves position MANTECH as an AI-first, cyber-forward defense IT contractor at a moment when the global cybersecurity market is forecast to grow from $194,944M in 2024 to $337,758M by 2029 at an 11.6% CAGR [2]. With 47.8% of cybersecurity decision makers expecting modest budget increases in the next 12 months [3], the timing of this leadership buildout is deliberate. Durham's elevation from Chief Data and AI Officer to SVP/CTO [1][1]

The observatory’s analysis of real-world incidents involving AI models flagged by businesses and individuals found that reported cases almost doubled from June to July, reaching a new high. The Loss of Control Observatory monitors reports posted by AI users on the social media platform X and defines a loss-of-control incident as a case with clear evidence suggesting scheming or scheming-related behavior.