Anti‐Astrotropik — Outer space, technology and resistance in the tropics - Wiley Online Library

Nor'easter naming? The nor'easter produced winds that gusted near hurricane force and major coastal damage from the Carolinas to New England. So should the storm have gotten a name? My answers are no and yes. next POINT PLEASANT, NEW JERSEY - SEPTEMBER 26: A flooded road is seen in front of homes during a nor'easter storm where a voluntary evacuation has been issued in the community on September 26, 2026 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill has declared a state of emergency for eight counties as a powerful nor'easter is expected to bring damaging winds, heavy rainfall, coastal flooding and beach erosion beginning Friday night and lasting through the weekend.

Scientists at Monash University have proposed a new global strategy to address a major weakness in biodiversity conservation. Insects are essential to ecosystems, agriculture, and food production, yet conservation efforts across tropical regions often fail to account for them. The international research was led by Dr. Shawan Chowdhury, head of the Global Change Ecology Lab at Monash University's School of Biological Sciences. Published in BioScience, the study brought together experts in tropical ecology from around the world to identify the main barriers to protecting insects and outline practical ways to overcome them.

The laptops offer up to 128 GB unified memory, 1 petaflop FP4 performance and support for local AI agents and 8K video. NVIDIA announced the availability of RTX Spark laptops, which combine RTX graphics with NVIDIA’s AI software platform in Windows PCs. The laptops are designed for content creation, gaming and local AI workloads and will be available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI.

Écoute audio has announced the TH2, second-generation wireless over-ear headphones that combine dual Korg Nutube 6P1 preamp stages with independent DAC cores and discrete Class A/B amplification. Building on the TH1, the new design adds improved tube-stage shielding, quieter hybrid active noise cancellation, eight-band sound tuning, and a modular chassis. The $999 headphones are scheduled for North American availability in November 2026. Écoute audio has announced the TH2, second-generation wireless over-ear headphones that combine dual Korg Nutube 6P1 preamp stages with independent DAC cores and discrete Class A/B amplification. Building on the TH1, the new design adds improved tube-stage shielding, quieter hybrid active noise cancellation, eight-band sound tuning, and a modular chassis. The $999 headphones are scheduled for North American availability in November 2026. The interesting part of the écoute audio proposition remains the decision to build a complete playback system into wireless headphones, with an analog gain stage between digital conversion and the power amplifiers.