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For most iPhone owners the better buy is the AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case at $149, because it brings noise cancellation, IP57 durability and Apple’s newest software features to an open-fit earbud for $100 less than the AirPods Pro 3. The AirPods Pro 3 at $249 still win on noise cancellation, battery life, bass and health features, and the gap matters less than it looks once the Pro 3 is discounted, since Memeburn’s calculation shows the Pro 3 become the cheaper source of noise-cancelled listening time at any price below about $238. The choice comes down to whether you can wear silicone ear tips comfortably and how far below $249 the AirPods Pro 3 are selling on the day you buy. ModelUS list priceBest forAirPods 5$129The lowest price with noise cancellationAirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case$149Most buyers who dislike ear tipsAirPods Pro 3$249Travel, long listening and fitnessAirPods 5 vs AirPods Pro 3 Specs Compared Best Choice Apple AirPods 5 4.3/5OverviewACTIVE NOISE CANCELLATIONHEAR THE WORLD AROUND YOUNEW SIRI AIThe figures below come from Apple’s AirPods comparison page and its AirPods Pro 3 tech specs.

AcknowledgementsWe thank Yukiko Banzai, Yuko Ishiyama, Asami Ogawa, and Yingda Xiao of the University of Tokyo for their assistance with animal experiments and laboratory work. We are grateful to Yuriko Sakamaki of the Ochanomizu Research Facility, Institute of Science Tokyo, for her technical support with electron microscopy sample preparation and imaging. FundingThis work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan [grant Nos. 24K19023 to S. B. and 22K08174 to H. T.]; Sakakibara Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Research Program 2023 (to S. B.); Japan Foundation for Applied Enzymology (to S. B.). I. K. was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and by the Japan Agency for Medical Research, Development (JP20ek0210152, JP18gm6210010, JP20ek0210141, JP20ek0109440, JP20ek0109487, JP17gm0810013, JP18km0405209, JP21ek0109543, JP21ek0109569, JP21tm0724601, JP22ama121016, JP22ek0210172, JP22ek0210167, JP22bm1123011). Author informationAuthor notesThese authors contributed equally: Satoshi Bujo, Takayuki Fujiwara, Masayuki Kubota.

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Initial reactions and ObservationsBayern played a near perfect match today, and preserved enough players for the big game against Arsenal. Maarten Vandevoordt produced 11 saves today, the highest number of saves in a single match so far in the Bundesliga. Luis Diaz was electric today. He got the hat-trick his performance deserved. Kane and Olise were potent up front as well. That’s all, folks. Thanks a bunch for staying with us. The big one is up next: a home match against Arsenal. Bayern did beat them 1-0 before but that was under much different circumstances. Can the Bavarians win it? Maybe, but we’ll have to find out in a few days. Speak to you all in a bit.90+4’ — Full time!90+3’ — Urbig saves twice to deny Leipzig.90+2’ — Goal. Bayern somehow lets one in.90’ — Boey shoots weakly at Vandevoordt. Three minutes of stoppage time added on.86’ — Brajan Gruda fires wide. It’s not Leipzig’s night.82’ — Seiwald’s shot is a weak one, straight at Urbig again.78’ — Leipzig register their first shot on target in the entire match. Urbig saved it easily.77’ — Sacha Boey replaces Kim Min-jae.75’ — Olise and Gnabry miss sitters one after another.69’ — TOR!

SportsPublished: October 17, 2026 at 2:34p.m. EDTMaple Leafs centre John Tavares (91) lies on the ice after an awkward collision with Buffalo Sabres counterpart Josh Norris (9) in Toronto on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette The Maple Leafs will have to get used to life minus another key piece. The club announced Saturday before facing the New York Islanders that John Tavares is out week-to-week with a lower-body injury. Toronto added that the timeline designation means the veteran centre could miss up to six weeks. Tavares has two goals and five assists in seven games this season. The 36-year-old was involved in an awkward collision with Buffalo Sabres opposite Josh Norris in Thursday’s 5-4 overtime loss at Scotiabank Arena. Norris was bumped by Maple Leafs forward Nick Paul in the defensive zone before sliding into Tavares, who crumpled to the ice and stayed down before being helped to the locker room. Toronto was already dealing with the loss of veteran shutdown defenceman Chris Tanev. The 36-year-old remains out week-to-week with an upper-body injury suffered in last Saturday’s 6-3 road victory over the Colorado Avalanche.

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TorontoPublished: October 17, 2026 at 2:31p.m. EDTThe next Lotto Max draw is on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026. The largest lottery prize ever offered in Canada is still up for grabs after there were no winners for Friday’s Lotto Max draw. The winning numbers were 01, 11, 13, 36, 41, 43, 51. The next draw for the $90 million Lotto Max will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 20. The jackpot is unchanged, as $90 million is the cap. While no one claimed the jackpot on Friday, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation said four Maxmillion tickets worth $1 million each were sold in Ontario. Fourteen other tickets won $100,000 each, including seven in the Greater Toronto Area. Tuesday’s draw will also feature 20 Maxmillions prizes worth $1 million each and at least 90 Maxplus prizes worth $100,000 each. How to set CP24 as your preferred source on GoogleHow to set CTV News as your preferred source on Google

Patients who wore noise-canceling headphones during minimally invasive gynecological surgery were significantly less likely to experience postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), suggest findings from a randomized clinical trial presented at the Anesthesiology 2026 annual meeting.

A remaster of cult 2004 RPG Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines may be in the works. In a post on the r/GamingLeaksAndRumours subreddit, a user wrote: "I can confirm that it is in the works. NOT a Remake, but a Remaster, with some caveats. That's all I can say".

Grad-CAM autopsy at an amplitude of 4.0. (a) Q2_bright_hit: D1-3 S-shaped, detected. (b) Q2c_bright_mis: D1-1 extreme drift, missed. Columns: input, Grad-CAM map, and CAM difference (injected minus clean). Inputs are shown as the detector sees them: the three ON panels side by side, with frequency running vertically; white lines mark panel boundaries and the green line the injection’s starting channel. -- [astro-ph. IM] [astro-ph. IM] Radio technosignature searches rely on machine learning detectors to shrink the candidate pool before a human looks at it.

“Beyond Detecting Cancer Recurrence: Can Whole-Genome Sequencing-Based ctDNA Monitoring Help Personalize Adjuvant Treatment? An exciting new study published in The Oncologist highlights the clinical potential of Signatera Genome, a whole-genome sequencing (WGS)-based, tumor-informed circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) assay, not only for detecting molecular residual disease (MRD), but also for potentially informing adjuvant treatment decisions.

British ColumbiaPolice have arrested one woman and are searching for two more suspects after three separate unprovoked stranger attacks happened in Vancouver on Thursday. Separate, unprovoked attacks happened in different areas of city on ThursdayMichelle Gomez · CBC News · Posted: Oct 17, 2026 2:24 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 17Listen to this articleEstimated 3 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. Screengrabs from video shared by the police show the suspect in Thursday's second stranger attack, left, which happened in East Vancouver; and augmented footage of the suspect in the third incident, right, which took place downtown around 6 p.m. PT. (Vancouver Police Department)Police in Vancouver have arrested one woman and are still searching for two other suspects after three separate stranger attacks happened in different areas of the city on Thursday. "In all three of these incidents the victims did nothing wrong," said Const. Megan Lui with the Vancouver Police Department (VPD). The first attack happened shortly after 6 a.m.

Milky Way’s first microblazar candidate sits 12,000 light-years away, offering a rare ground-level lab for studying relativistic jetsA black hole 12,000 light-years away is firing a jet of plasma almost directly toward Earth. At that distance, no known or expected danger to Earth has been identified by the researchers or the institutions involved. What astronomers have actually found is rarer and more interesting than a threat. Researchers have identified IRAS 18293-0941 as a compelling candidate for the Milky Way’s first microblazar, a class of object that gives astrophysicists a close-up laboratory for studying some of the most violent physics in the galaxy. What Astronomers FoundThe discovery centers on a binary system whose black hole expels plasma jets at close to three-quarters the speed of light, pointed almost directly toward Earth. The system pairs a hot, massive star with a black hole that completes a full orbit roughly every 11.38 days. Material drawn from the companion star feeds the black hole, and some of that matter gets expelled outward as opposing jets traveling at approximately three-quarters the speed of light. Terminology matters here.

A man caught speeding by BC Highway Patrol (BCHP) has had his muscle car impounded for the second time. The driver blamed his Dodge Challenger Hemi R/T for getting two excessive speed impounds from BCHP – in two different parts of BC.

Published: October 17, 2026 at 2:22p.m. EDTThe Detroit Red Wings have placed defenceman Jacob Bernard-Docker on waivers, according to Postmedia’s Bruce Garrioch. The 26-year-old battled an upper-body injury and was activated from injured reserve last week. He has yet to play a game at the NHL level this season. Bernard-Docker had one goal and five points in 63 games with Detroit last season while averaging 14:49 of ice time per game. A native of Banff, Alta., Bernard-Docker was selected No. 26 overall in the 2018 NHL Draft by the Ottawa Senators. He spent parts of five seasons in the nation’s capital before joining the Buffalo Sabres via trade in March of 2025. Bernard-Docker then signed as a free agent with the Red Wings later that summer. He is currently on a two-year deal that runs through 2027-28 and pays him $1.6 million annually. He has seven goals and 29 points in 207 career NHL regular season games spread out over six seasons.

A habitable earth-sized world orbiting a free floating Gas giant -- Grok via Astrobiology.com [Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics] Liquid water is considered essential for life. Surprisingly, however, stable conditions that are conducive to life could exist far from any sun.

Eugénie Lacroix, a Quebec woman diagnosed with breast cancer at 46 years old, is urging the province to expand access to earlier screening as advocates call for changes to a program that currently targets women aged 50 to 74. Now living with stage 4 breast cancer, Lacroix hopes sharing her experience will push Quebec’s next government to act on recommendations to extend organized screening to younger women.

Fraction of planetesimal interactions that resulted in a capture (left) or a temporary capture (right) for planetesimals of different sizes (R) and stars with different separations. Each point represents anywhere from 10,000-100,000 simulations. The single case results were also obtained with REBOUND using the same set-up for direct comparison. The grey dotted line represents the theoretical amount of captures for the single case derived by Grishin et al. (2019). -- [astro-ph. EP] [astro-ph. EP] Planet formation requires growth over 12 orders of magnitude in size, from micron-sized dust grains to fully formed planets.

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Forests that stood on Mozambique's coast thousands of years ago now lie beneath shallow seas, and they have become fish-filled "peat reefs" with marine life comparable to coral reefs, researchers report in Scientific Reports. A team from the Bazaruto Center for Scientific Studies (BCSS) Ocean Observatory, led by Mario Lebrato, documented the submerged peat in the Bazaruto Archipelago in the Western Indian Ocean. BCSS, founded in 2017, describes itself as Africa's first permanent ocean observatory. Working with universities and institutions in the U. K., U. S. and Canada, the team believes it has carried out the first ecological study of peat reefs anywhere in the tropics. Old forests, new seafloorRadiocarbon dating shows the peat formed between about 300 and 5,000 years ago, and chemical analysis indicates it came mostly from coastal land plants and trees. Some samples contain up to 40% organic carbon by dry weight. Lebrato said the coastline has very little natural hard seabed, mostly shifting sand. As rising seas expose the old peat layers, they create rare solid habitat where marine life can settle, hide and feed.

Students and other protesters gathered outside the Ministry of Education in Tirana on Saturday as anti-government demonstrations entered their fifth consecutive day. The protests, which have spread to cities across Albania, intensified after high school and university students joined a broader movement calling for Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama's resignation over allegations of corruption.

The Red Wings have been carrying nine defensemen through the early going this season, something that’s largely unsustainable.  They’ve taken a step toward reducing that surplus as Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reports (Twitter link) that blueliner Jacob Bernard-Docker has been placed on waivers. The 26-year-old joined Detroit in the 2025 offseason, inking a one-year, $875K contract in the hopes that a fresh start could eventually give him a more permanent place in the lineup.  Last year, that was largely the case.  Bernard-Docker played in 63 games (compared to just 40 the year before between two different teams) and while he only put up five points offensively, he logged nearly 15 minutes per game of ice time while chipping in with 87 blocked shots and 66 hits.  That performance was good enough for the Red Wings to sign him to a new two-year, $3.2MM deal back in March.