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Zoom enterprise customers will now be able to see “proof of human” badges to verify that people appearing on video calls are real, after a global rollout of biometric identity technology from World. On Sunday, the Sam Altman-backed project announced that World ID for Zoom is now available in the Zoom Marketplace. The system compares an image captured by the company’s iris-scanning Orb, a live selfie and the participant’s video feed before displaying a Human Badge visible to other meeting participants. World first announced its Zoom integration in April, when it was undergoing limited beta testing with VanEck Funds. The feature is now available globally to Zoom enterprise customers. World also named Bain Capital, Pantera Capital and other financial firms as initial design partners for its broader identity verification technology. The rollout follows incidents involving AI-generated impersonation. In 2024, an employee at engineering firm Arup transferred about $25 million after scammers impersonated executives during a video conference.

From the tiniest microbes in the human gut to giant whales in the ocean, biodiversity is the sum of all life on the planet. It's another word for nature. And because nature is like a team, every player has a job. When various species from trees to animals work together, they regulate weather, maintain soil health, purify water and support food production. These benefits are known as ecosystem services and they underpin human wellbeing.

The 2026 Mississippi State Fair comes to a closeCrowds gathered at the Jackson State Fair Sunday to enjoy rides, food, and a sense of community for one last time before the festival closes for the yearJACKSON, Miss. —Cars filled the parking lot, from early in the day and until late at night, as people came together for one last chance to experience the Mississippi State Fair. "I think, so far, it's the culture," local Jackson native Gabrielle Johnson said. "The culture of Jackson, this is beautiful to see it all come together as a community and be here to celebrate the State Fair. It's just amazing to me. "Chris Tankesly shared his thoughts on the fair's atmosphere. "The Jackson Fair has caught a bad rep in the past, but we feel 100% safe. The food is great, it's very well organized, it's just a great family time," he said. Attendance at the fairgrounds increased this year compared to last. Deputy Director of ther Mississippi Fairgrounds Justin Nipper said that on Sunday, they were only 2,000 patrons away from surpassing last year's totals. A mark, he said, could be reach in an hour, and he attributed that increase to the community's trust in the event.

We’re sharing this article early to provide faster access to peer-reviewed, accepted research. It is citable and carries a permanent DOI. This version is subject to further edits and will be replaced automatically by the final Version of Record. All legal disclaimers apply. AbstractHow macrophages fine-tune their appetite to fulfil their clearance role is incompletely understood. Phagocytosis exacerbates cytoplasmic crowding, but whether macrophages can sense this increase and use it to regulate their phagocytic capacity has never been investigated. Here, we test the hypothesis that phagosomes exert a strain on the nucleus, which in turn responds to the intracellular mechanical inputs influencing macrophage appetite. Combining genetic manipulation and live in vivo imaging, we show that engulfed apoptotic bodies indent and deform the nucleus of Drosophila embryonic macrophages, and that phagocytosis increases Lamin B levels. Importantly, we show that silencing Lamin B or components of the LINC complex negatively regulates apoptotic body engulfment in vivo.

Paul T. Summers1,2, Alexander A. Robel2, Rebecca H. Jackson1, Michalea D. King3, Jason M. Amundson4 & … Justin C. Burton5 We’re sharing this article early to provide faster access to peer-reviewed, accepted research. It is citable and carries a permanent DOI. This version is subject to further edits and will be replaced automatically by the final Version of Record. All legal disclaimers apply.

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-3666-39521, Yuki Hyodo1, Ichiro Kurakazu1, Taisuke Uchida1, Ryota Hirose1, Masanari Kuwahara1, Takumi Kita1, Koki Kato1, Li Ziyang1, Gai Eto1 & … Yasuharu Nakashima1 We’re sharing this article early to provide faster access to peer-reviewed, accepted research. It is citable and carries a permanent DOI. This version is subject to further edits and will be replaced automatically by the final Version of Record. All legal disclaimers apply.

Mural honours the forgotten force behind The Beatles8 hours agoNaj ModakNorth WestCourtesy of the Phillips FamilyLord Woodbine was known for promoting The Beatles during their early daysA mural celebrating a musician who has been described as the "forgotten sixth Beatle" is set to be unveiled later by the community he helped to shape. The artwork in Liverpool's Toxteth area honours Lord Woodbine, a mentor to The Beatles and an icon of the city's Caribbean community. The Trinidadian calypsonian, steelpan player and promoter became an influential figure in Liverpool's Caribbean music scene and played a role in the Fab Four's early years. His daughter Carol Phillips said: "We hope it [the mural] will be a catalyst for the celebration and visibility of the Liverpool 8 [district] music scene and the contributions musicians like my Dad made. "Mandela8The mural is part of a series celebrating community role models and local heroes from Liverpool's Caribbean and black communitiesLord Woodbine, whose real name was Harold Adolphus Phillips, arrived in England in 1948 as a member of the Windrush generation after serving in the Royal Air Force.

With nearly $1 billion in projected "new money" in FY28, the Educational Retirement Board hopes to get a piece of the pie, too.

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. – Throughout September, Northern Indiana Public Service Company LLC (NIPSCO) and Indiana‑based NiSource employees rolled up their sleeves to support local nonprofits as part of the company’s 16th annual Charity of Choice campaign, an employee‑led tradition focused on service in the communities where employees live and work. Employees served as Charity of Choice Champions, organizing and leading volunteer events that ranged from outdoor clean‑ups and facility refreshes to home building and supporting events in our communities. In total, 259 employees participated for 36 volunteer events, contributing approximately 980 hours of service with volunteers supporting 35 organizations across NIPSCO’s northern Indiana service area.

If you are planning to line up at a retail store to buy the highly anticipated iPhone Duo on its official release day, you might want to reconsider your strategy. Employees working at Apple stores have reportedly been instructed to warn people against coming in for walk-in purchases. The internal message is clear: if you do not have a pre-order secured, you will probably leave empty-handed. Retail workers discourage customers from showing up without an order

Newswise — Fish rely on signals from the brain and other organs to balance food intake with their energy needs. One such signal, melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH), was first discovered in salmon and has since been studied across vertebrates. In mammals, MCH generally promotes eating, but studies in fish have produced mixed results: its associated gene appears to respond differently to feeding and fasting in different species. Siberian sturgeon are widely farmed for meat and caviar, yet little was known about their pmch genes, where those genes are active, or how they respond when food becomes available or scarce. A study (DOI: 10.48130/jai-0026-0004) published in Journal of Applied Ichthyology on 30 July 2026 by Zhiqiong Li's & Ni Tang's team, Chengdu Agricultural College, reports two pmch forms whose expression patterns suggest possible roles in appetite regulation and liver energy metabolism. The researchers first isolated and sequenced two pmch transcripts, named pmcha and pmchb, from Siberian sturgeon. Their sequences encode precursor proteins of 179 and 158 amino acids, respectively.

WASHINGTON — In the race to become Montana's next U. S. Senator, Republican Kurt Alme, Independent Seth Bodnar, Democrat Alani Bankhead and Libertarian Kyle Austin are gunning for the seat held by two term Republican U. S. Senator Steve Daines. The landscape of the race completely changed after U. S. Sen. Daines withdrew his name from the ballot and consolidated support around Alme. After months of rumors and pressure for either Bodnar or Bankhead to withdraw, the four-candidate race is set. Austin says he completely opposes data center construction in Montana. "They belong in the ocean, out of sight out of mind, where they have the water to cool themselves they can have the energy that they need out there and the day they get out of control we could just sink them in the ocean," said Austin. Meantime Alme says data center and AI companies should disclose their costs and community impacts, and supports the Ratepayer Protection Act.

Published: October 18, 2026 at 9:25p.m. EDTTORONTO – Toronto developer Matt Young originally planned to sell condos in the first phase of a major housing development along St. Clair Avenue East in Scarborough. Now, those homes will be rentals. “It made more financial sense as a rental,” Young, president and CEO of Republic Developments, told CTV News. “There’s a disconnect between the price that someone is able or willing to pay today and the cost to build.”How to set CTV News as your preferred source on GoogleDeveloper Amir Ismailzadeh is also focusing on rentals, including a five-unit property nearing completion in North York. He says many families who want to own a home are struggling to save enough for a down payment, even when they have well-paying jobs. “But in the meantime, they really need somewhere to live,” Ismailzadeh told CTV News from inside one of the units. “And because we are building these rentals in neighbourhoods where they are family oriented, these are becoming good options for them to rent until they do buy,” he said, adding that three of the five units have already been leased with five more in the pipeline.

For a team that was labelled a "super team" coming into the season, the Rams have looked more like a super disappointment through six weeks. Kellen Forrest dives into another painful loss for L.A. and more in his Week 6 takeaways.

If you’re looking for hints and answers for Strands for Monday, October 19, 2026, read on—I’ll share some clues and tips, and finally the solution to the puzzle with the theme “It’s all Greek to me.”For an easy way to come back to our Strands hints every day, bookmark this page. You can also find our past hints there as well, in case you want to know what you missed in a previous puzzle. (If you play Wordle or Connections, check out our hints for those games, too.) Below, I’ll give you some oblique hints at today’s Strands answers. And farther down the page, I’ll reveal the spangram and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Hint for the spangram in today’s Strands puzzleA word that could go before “creature” to refer to something imaginary, like a griffin. Hint for the theme words in today’s Strands puzzleFigures in Greek storytelling. BEWARE: Spoilers follow for today’s Strands puzzle! We’re about to give away the answers to today’s Strands puzzle. What is the spangram in today’s Strands? Today’s spangram is MYTHOLOGICAL. What are the theme words in today’s Strands? The theme words today are DRYAD, SATYR, NYMPH, DEITY, FURIES, MUSES, FATES.

The team behind Zakura wants every swap through NEAR Intents to get its own key, so a refund address left on NEAR’s public chain can’t expose a user’s wider payment history.

Is an industrial revolution taking place in London?1 hour agoAnna O'Neill, London, SouthwarkandClifford Thompson, LondonBBCEngineer Rafe Dignan never thought he would find a manufacturing job in LondonFrom the late 1700s until the mid 20th Century, London was an industrial powerhouse. British-made goods dominated world trade: factories making clothing and furniture coughed out smoke and created the infamous London 'pea-soup' smog. By the 1950s, London was at the heart of car manufacturing, with Ford in Dagenham employing 40,000 people at its sprawling plant in the East End. These days Ford has downsized, and the capital's factories have been replaced by a thriving service industry of finance, technology and hospitality. But the opening of two large new factories in Southwark is creating a buzz around the return of industry to the heart of London. "At the moment we're making a cover for a jet engine," says Eoghan MacLeod, a computer numerically controlled machinist (CNC) working alongside a futuristic-looking cubicle full of busy machinery cutting metal.

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A Friday the 13th prequel series produced by A24? Halloween has come early for gorefest fans. Linda Cardellini plays small-town single mother Pam Voorhees, who takes her son Jason (Callum Vinson) to summer camp where she works as a cook. But one day Jason drowns in the lake. Fast forward a year, and Pam is grieving but clings to a shred of hope as her son’s body still hasn’t been found. When two cops knock on her door to tell her they have discovered Jason’s remains, things take a huge turn – and it turns out there’s more to her and Jason’s story than meets the eye … It has all the jump-scare beats of a classic 70s slasher movie and Cardellini gets stuck in – blood, guts and all. Hollie RichardsonJamie’s 20 Minute Meals8pm, Channel 4 A cheesy quiche with smoky ham and a punch of mustard, and chicken breasts flambéed in a brandy and onion sauce are the two main courses knocked up by chef Jamie Oliver in real time in this week’s episode. And to wash it all down: a prosecco and pomegranate spritz. HRClickbait Clinic With Stacey Dooley8.30pm, BBC One

The first high-riding member of the AMG GT family is here with three fully electric powertrain options and fake engine noises Mercedes-AMG is working on several new V8 models, but at the same time, it's been developing this: the new GT SUV, its first-ever electric SUV. While it could easily be dismissed as just another absurdly powerful family hauler, the brand says it has real sports-car DNA and offers much more than insane straight-line performance.