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sports.yahoo.com
Kane confirms Bayern extension talks set to starthttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/kane-confirms-bayern-extension-talks-103006900.htmlBayern Munich striker Harry Kane has said he is set to start negotiations to extend his contract with the Bundesliga champions beyond 2027. Bayern have repeatedly said they want to extend Kane's deal at the club, having called the former Spurs striker their "best transfer ever" at the end of last season. 
Aug 18, 2026 10:30 AM
bloomberg.com
Alibaba-Backed Robot Maker LimX Said to Plan Up to $300 Million Hong Kong IPOhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-18/alibaba-backed-robot-maker-limx-said-to-plan-up-to-300-million-hong-kong-ipoLimX Dynamics has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering to raise as much as $300 million, people familiar with the matter said, adding to a wave of Chinese robotics companies lining up to go public.
Aug 18, 2026 10:18 AM
samuel.vvolhejn.com
Show HN: Samuel, a Silly Speech Modelhttps://samuel.vvolhejn.com/My original idea was to make a modern supercharged version of SAM, the old-school text-to-speech. Then I remembered Pink Trombone, one of my favorite creative coding projects. In the end, I decided to just make it a model that mimics speech - it would be easy to make a text-to-speech by chaining an existing TTS with a Samuel filter.The phonetics work quite well for vowels - you can try making a sound and then seeing if the predicted tongue prediction matches where your tongue was. It's less accurate for consonants; it doesn't do plosives or nasals (I tried).How the machine learning works:It's a speech autoencoder in which the decoder is Pink Trombone. A couple of issues: PT is not differentiable, so I use Gumbel softmax to get a differentiable approximation. PT also generates audio sample-by-sample (apparently it's called a "Kelly-Lochbaum vocal tract model"), which would make training extremely slow. To do that, I approximate it using FIR filters that change each 10ms. The fundamental
Aug 18, 2026 10:16 AM
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What will 'top professional' Robertson bring to Spurs?https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/top-professional-robertson-bring-spurs-101311714.htmlFormer Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart believes Andy Robertson can "bring a lot" to Roberto de Zerbi's dressing room this season, despite not being "the player that signed for Liverpool all those years ago". The 32-year-old left-back announced his Anfield departure in April before joining Tottenham on a free transfer in June. "He is going to get that whole new responsibility and freshness at...
Aug 18, 2026 10:13 AM
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❌ Ruled out for the opener, Simeone confirms Julián Álvarez is outhttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ruled-opener-simeone-confirms-juli-101300052.htmlAtlético de Madrid will not be able to count on Julián Álvarez for their competition opener. The Argentine forward’s absence for the clash against Málaga was officially confirmed by Diego Pablo ...
Aug 18, 2026 10:13 AM
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LeBron James asks for Bronny’s advice on new venture before NBA season – ‘Teach me the game’https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/lebron-james-asks-bronny-advice-100524238.htmlLeBron James started his personal YouTube channel at 41 years old and wants his son, Bronny James, to help teach him some aspects of being a content creator. James has been one of the biggest ‘influencers’ in the world because of his 154 million Instagram followers and incredible basketball career.
Aug 18, 2026 10:05 AM
wired.com
The Cop Who Took On Flockhttps://www.wired.com/story/the-cop-who-took-on-flock/After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.
Aug 18, 2026 10:00 AM