Companies akin Hoto and Fanttik have elevated the scheme and functionality of tools akin electric screwdrivers, but Arrowmax wants to create them smarter by adding a camera and AI that activity together to eliminate the test and error of finding the exact category and size of bit you need. It’s convenient, but additionally helpful, as choosing the incorrect size could possibly depart you alongside a stripped screw and a much harder repair.

Arrowmax is making the Arrowspace S1 accessible through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, but the business has already successfully crowdfunded another products. You can preorder the screwdriver by itself for about $79, but its functionality and usefulness is expanded by bundling it alongside the S1 astute bit case that bumps the preorder cost to about $129. Full retailing pricing volition be higher, and the S1 isn’t expected to container until April 2027 at the earliest.

On the base of the S1 is a small camera alongside an LED ray that’s used to grasp an depiction of a screw head. To justify the screwdriver’s AI example has the finest imaginable depiction to activity with, next to the camera is a “precision communication probe” that extends and rests on the exterior of the screw to justify the camera is continually at the ideal concentration distance.

Once the AI processes the photo, the category and size of bit you need volition be displayed through a connected mobile app. Based on the identified screw, the screwdriver volition additionally automatically choose a harmless torque environment to decrease the hazard of damaging the fastener. To preserve you the difficulty of having to discover the exact bit that’s needed, the optional S1 Smart Case has a gathering of 52 alloy bits alongside an LED next to all one that lights up so the one you need is uncomplicated to spot.

The Arrowspace S1 features a 600mAh rechargeable power division the business claims delivers adequate power to run for up to 90 minutes, or tighten or loosen complete 900 screws. That achievement volition change if you rotate off the automatic torque adjustments and addition it yourself. The remaining accusation is displayed on the screwdriver’s OLED display which additionally shows the current torque environment and which direction it’s set to rotate.

OpenAI is activating imaginative enhancements, a characteristic that allows its promotion scheme to automatically alter ads according to the conversation they appear in, by default for new and existing ChatGPT Ads campaigns starting Friday, Oct. 30, according to OpenAI’s assistance page.

With this environment on, the promotion scheme can alter the copy of an ad to fit the conversation it appears in and choose which pages on the advertiser’s website the ad volition straightforward users to following clicking the ad. These variations of the identical ad can run without the need for all one to be reviewed or approved by the advertiser, and Ads Manager doesn’t display a preview for all type of the ad.

Any opt-outs saved at either the document flat or run flat remain intact.

What Creative Enhancements Can Change

OpenAI’s ad scheme may rewrite headlines and descriptions or compose new ones, translate ad content into another language, resize images to fit the ad format, and optimize the destination URL to dispatch group to a applicable leaf on the advertiser’s website.

To create the variations, the scheme relies on the topic matter of the conversation or the user’s interests, what exists (the advertisement), and what is on the landing leaf of the advertisement. It may create versions onward of period or create them during a conversation.

On September 16th, OpenAI introduced the AI-powered content customization feature in an optional characteristic set-up process. This was defined by OpenAI as adjusting current titles and descriptions to equivalent the conversation stream and translating the promotion copy into the preferred tongue of the user. The Creative Enhancements Page additionally includes another adjustments to the ad including content and translations, as fine as resizing images and changing destination URLs. As of October 30th, this leaf does not define how these options connect to the former September option.

According to an October 21st engineering post by OpenAI that SEJ covered final week, the business already writes a concise intro for all ad. These introductions be separately from the advertisers’ title, description, destination nexus and call-to-action. Unless you opt out of imaginative enhancements, you can have your title, clarification and destination nexus modified to fit the conversation.

Account And Campaign Controls

Advertisers may opt out of imaginative enhancements by changing the settings at any period through Ads Manager (Manage settings). Account-level settings are used as the default, during campaign-level settings obtain precedence complete those settings.

The assistance page, as of October 30th, describes enhancements as one setting. It does not depict additional options to authority text, translations, images, or destination URLs.

Landing Pages, Tracking, And Reporting

OpenAI’s ad innovation guide tells advertisers to add tracking parameters, specified as UTM tags, immediately to all ad’s destination URL. Its ChatGPT Ads basics page says fixed parameters added that way persist on ad clicks. Ads Manager additionally lets advertisers append landing leaf query parameters at the campaign, ad group, and ad levels, alongside parameters on the ad URL taking precedence, according to the Measure Results page.

The Creative Enhancements leaf indicates that the scheme may modify the destination URL to straightforward users to a applicable leaf on the advertiser’s website. As of October 30th, this leaf does not conversation how tracking parameters are passed onward whenever the destination is changed, or whether advertisers have the capability to exclude certain pages.

Ads Manager provides reporting for campaigns, ad groups and ads. Neither the Measure Results leaf nor the imaginative enhancements leaf as of October 30th item a particular study that volition display you all enhanced type individually. On the imaginative enhancements page, OpenAI states:

“Changes complete period do not, on their own, established the consequence of imaginative enhancements.”

Multi-Image Ads Enter Open Beta

OpenAI introduced a multi-image format in Ads Manager on Oct. 26 as an open beta. Advertisers choose Multiple images under Ad format, and the choice is accessible for norm campaigns alongside Reach, Clicks, or Conversions objectives. Single-image ads are motionless available.

A multi-image promotion utilizes 4-6 quadrate format images (aspect proportion of 1:1). Each one volition nexus to an identical destination URL. Currently, Learn additional is the lone call to act (CTA) that can be applied to these types of advertisements.

SEJ reported OpenAI’s Oct. 5 notice of a distinct test for ocular ads displayed during generating an depiction inside ChatGPT. The ad innovation guide and imaginative enhancements page, the two of which were reviewed on October 30th, provision no sign if imaginative enhancements are applicable to multi-image ads.

Why This Matters

With imaginative enhancements on, the ad that a individual views may differ from the one you created. Additionally, you volition not see all of the distinct versions of the ads previous to them running. Since the scheme uses your ad and landing leaf as its base, pricing, promotions, merchandise data and preparedness on your landing leaf must be current.

Check anywhere you set up your analytics for the changes to the destination URL, since what happens to your tracking parameters isn’t item indicated by the imaginative enhancements page. Verify that ChatGPT clicks continue to contain your UTM tags and district on pages which are satisfactory to obtain paid traffic.

On iOS, according to the ad innovation guide published by OpenAI (the business rearward ChatGPT), using Share to copy the nexus allows users to admission the complete URL of an ad because of the fact that ChatGPT’s in-app browser lone shows the hostname.

Looking Ahead

OpenAI describes Ads Manager as a beta and plans to add additional metrics, reporting views, and insights complete time. You can alter the imaginative enhancements environment whenever you like, so turning it off for now motionless leaves you liberated to try it later.

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I pulled downward the extendable ladder covered in cobwebs and powder and watched deceased woodlice rotate downward the steps onto the new carpet in our bedroom.

With a profound breath, I willed myself to go up into the attic — a location I hated to go — to recover our family's suitcases and duffel bags. We were heading rear to Canada, and it was period to commencement packing.

When we had moved to England seven months earlier, I never imagined returning so soon.

At first, moving to the UK felt akin it could be a expansive adventure

Packing up a life in Canada and starting a new one in England had been a herculean endeavor, but I had been enthusiastic to do it.

For two years foremost up to our move to the UK, my husband, two kids (ages 7 and 10), and I had been settled in Alberta, Canada.

As much as we enjoyed it, I ached for a new adventure; item different. I didn't awareness particularly connected to our community, and our day-to-day lives had felt monotonous for a while.

Some of our lone reprieves as occupied young parents were monthlong summer holidays spent alongside my husband's family in the bucolic British countryside.

We enjoyed these trips so much and looked onward to them for weeks, from preparedness excursions to castles and museums to researching the finest local restaurants and pubs.

When we arrived, we loved taking day trips to nearby locales and dining seafood and chips by the seaside. I started wondering if living in England would be fair as fun and breathtaking as these monthlong stints. Maybe it'd additionally fulfill our longing for adventure.

Although moving meant leaving my extended family in Canada behind, the idea of our kids spending the remainder of their childhoods alongside my husband's family nearby felt akin the correct next step.

My in-laws additionally seemed enthusiastic concerning the arrangement, as they offered to assistance pay for my visa use to live in England permanently.

My (more skeptical) hubby decided he'd continue operating his endeavor in Canada following we moved, occasionally commuting rear all few weeks during operating remotely from the UK in between.

After six months of figuring out several logistics and filling out paperwork, we boarded our flights.

Not lengthy following the move, actuality began to descend in

We arrived in the UK in September 2025, lugging dense duffel bags, suitcases, and backpacks, emotion exhausted, sweaty, and weary from a much-delayed flight.

We were prepared to be in our new home. Home, however, did not yet exist.

For the archetypal week, we stayed at my husband's grandparents' place, which was vacant during they were on holiday. We spent it navigating sleepless nights, trying to get complete jet lag, and dealing alongside horrible colds.

From there, we bumped about to three distinct Airbnbs and holiday accommodations. My hubby returned to Canada for a three-week activity stint during I earnestly tried to discover us a location to live.

Securing a rental was additional challenging than anticipated, and it felt improbable that a landlord would endorse our application. My hubby was motionless earning Canadian income, we had no local credit history, and we had two kids — yet we were trying to rent a smaller (read: additional affordable) home.

After six weeks and additional than 20 distinct applications, we eventually had a landlord concur to rent us a beautiful, newly renovated historic cottage that couldn't be additional picturesque.

It was, however, at the extremely top of our budget. We knew we were heading into a precarious situation, but we could no longer oversee to keep staying in holiday rentals.

We signed a six-month lease alongside the assistance of my in-laws, who loaned us the deposit and acted as guarantors, and moved.

We faced additional and additional challenges as we settled into our new home

Our new rent ate up so much of my husband's pay that we couldn't live the way we had hoped.

There wasn't area in our prosperity for the fun things we'd dreamed concerning doing whenever we moved here, akin overnight stays in nearby towns and small trips to another parts of Europe.

And as a Canadian living in the British countryside, I increasingly felt akin an outsider who would never completely be accepted.

My accent betrayed me all period I spoke, prompting locals to assume I was on holiday notwithstanding my residential status. Giving the complete clarification of why I remaining Canada to live in the UK felt so exhausting that I started to fair let them accept I was on vacation.

When I'd imagined my existence here, I pictured being surrounded by a close-knit community of allies and family. Instead, I mostly felt solitary in a new location during my husband, who understood the local culture, spent weeks at a period operating in the nation we'd remaining behind.

On top of that, we realized how challenging it can be to go from seeing loved ones a few times a twelvemonth to living near by and having additional common interactions.

Being near my husband's family didn't go as fine as I'd hoped; instead, it seemed to guide to a sequence of disagreements and misunderstandings.

In small than a year, living permanently in the UK no longer felt value it

Although I hated the idea of "giving up" following all of the period and attempt we had put into the move, building our aspiration life current no longer felt possible, and we returned to Canada following small than a year.

Looking back, I acknowledge excitement clouded my judgement concerning how viable this institution really was, but I pushed forward, believing that moving was the resolution to my loneliness, restlessness, and deficiency of community. It was not.

We hadn't correctly prepared for what existence in a new nation power bring, and we didn't accomplish our goal of blending global families.

I acknowledge now that our move was a misguided attempt to awareness liberated and unburdened. Now, we're trying to repair the financial damage from it during figuring out what's next.

Any performer volition inform you that they'd be fortunate to perform a character lengthy adequate — and iconic adequate — to rotate into cherished by generations of fans worldwide.

Patrick Stewart had two.

The acting legend, who died on October 28, 2026, at the age of 86, played Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the captain of the USS Enterprise in the "Star Trek" franchise, for 36 years. He played the character from the premiere of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in 1987 through three seasons of "Star Trek: Picard," which concluded in 2023.

Of course, that's not the lone character Stewart volition be remembered for.

In 2000, Stewart was mold as Professor Charles Xavier, aka Professor X, the kind, yet complicated, telepathic leader of the X-Men. He went on to perform Xavier eight additional times in the X-Men series. He reprised the function for what volition now be the final period in "Avengers: Doomsday," which is set for publish in December.

In supplement to Picard and Xavier, Stewart was a prolific theater performer and was knighted by the Queen in 2010 for his services to drama. He was a Shakespeare devotee, as a associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 to 1982. He additionally kept many of us sane during the epidemic by study one of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets a day and posting them on Instagram.

Here's a appearance rear at his 60-year career, onstage and on screen.

A Reddit post this duration reported the Search Console Page indexing study had not been updated since Oct. 16. The individual afterward stated that another properties, including established sites, were experiencing issues as well.

John Mueller responded from Google stating it didn’t create awareness for Google to comment on the refresh date of all sole study all the time. In addition, Mueller suggested that “this is why we put dates in there.” Mueller afterward explained that indexing changes volition appear in the Performance study first. He additional went on to say Google prioritizes faster updates in areas they accept volition be most beneficial. Roger Montti wrote up the exchange on Oct. 27.

An old date on that study tells you how current the study is. On its own, it doesn’t inform you whether Google indexed or dropped any pages. URL Inspection shows Google’s reported indicator position for particular URLs, and the Performance study shows recorded hunt action for the dates it covers.

Google has provided data on how these checks activity through their assistance pages and community comments concerning delays in delayed 2025 and additionally this summer. As of Oct. 29, the Page indexing study is listed alongside “No latest issues” in Google’s Data anomalies in Search Console leaf (which keeps a document of known data issues).

Earlier Delays, Late 2025 And Summer 2026

Page indexing data cut weeks rearward in delayed 2025, and Google acknowledged the postpone publicly. On Nov. 28, a person asked Mueller on Bluesky whether Google was “only updating leaf indexing reports” formerly a month, adding, “I’ve been trying to validate several fixes, and I haven’t seen a leaf indexing update in 11 days.”

Mueller replied inside the hour, “I’ll inspect alongside the team.” The next day, he posted:

“Sorry! Looking at our data, the indicator safety data is older than what we’d regard normal :-/ (this is normally fair reporting, and not connected to genuine indexing). I don’t have any data on whenever it’ll capture rear up for now, but I’ll update current as I comprehend more.”

Google Search Central afterward posted on LinkedIn:

“We’re currently experiencing longer than customary delays in the Search Console Index Coverage report. This lone affects reporting, not crawling, indexing, or ranking of websites.”

The notice stated Google would update the article formerly the matter was resolved. On Dec. 1, Mueller posted in the Bluesky thread that “We did an authoritative confirmation” and included a LinkedIn link. I covered that notice the identical day, whenever Google’s screenshot showed data final updated Nov. 18.

On Dec. 12, the identical person stated the final update they saw for the indexation reports was Nov. 21. Mueller answered, “I don’t have an update, sorry. Both the leaf indexing and the achievement reports are currently delayed former what we’d regard normal.”

Six days later, the person posted, “Looks akin the indexation reports have eventually caught up.” Mueller responded, “I fair got a bunch of error emails for my sites too :). Sorry it took so long!”

The study cut rearward in June. On June 30, a person asked Mueller why the Page indexing report’s data motionless lone went up to June 11 and whenever it would capture up. He replied on July 1:

“Sorry for the delay. We’re operating on getting this rear up to speed, but I don’t have an ETA fair yet.”

The identical day, another person stated they had been having the identical matter alongside the links study not updating lately and the final period the study did update was the final date of Page indexing data, and wanted to cognize if this was perchance connected. Mueller answered, “I don’t think they’re connected (at smallest we track them separately). I think the links study mostly fair doesn’t update as often, but it power be that the identical bottleneck is involved.”

In mid-July another users replied saying the matter continued to happen for them. On July 23 the person from the June 30 article came rear to say the study was motionless lone current to July 9. In the delayed 2025 and summer threads Mueller additionally did not provision a date for whenever the data would capture up.

What Mueller Said About The Missing June Data

On Sept. 11, a person posted on Bluesky that they were seeing an matter throughout all their Search Console properties and asked, “The data was there yesterday?” Mueller replied that it was apt connected to the data postpone in June, explaining that “there fair isn’t any data for that period” and that the Page indexing study hadn’t been updated. He additionally added:

“We don’t back-fill indexing data. I’ll inspect w/the squad whenever they’re rear from holidays to be sure.”

As of Oct. 29, that thread shows no follow-up from him. The toggle doesn’t resolve whether June’s data was never collected or was collected and isn’t shown, since the user’s article suggested the data had been apparent the day before.

His declaration was concerning Page indexing data. Search Console has restored missing data in another study this year.

What Google’s Documentation Says About Delays

Google’s assistance page, About Search Console data, says, “You can see final updated dates on most reports.” It additionally notes that there may be a postpone between whenever numbers are calculated and whenever location owners can see them, adding, “Normally, however, collected data have to be accessible in 2-3 days.”

That direction doesn’t define a refresh agenda for the Page indexing report, and, as of Oct. 29, the report’s own help page doesn’t provision one either. It does say, “Validation typically takes up to concerning two weeks, but in several cases can obtain much longer, so delight be patient.”

The validation evaluation describes Google rechecking the URLs you fixed. It doesn’t inform you whenever the study volition update.

The data anomalies leaf explains that it “records known issues in the final 3-16 months that power power your data.” Its 2026 entries shield logging errors in the Performance, Discover, and Generative AI reports, as fine as the end of FAQ affluent results in May. One admission notes, “A logging error prevented Search Console from accurately reporting impressions from May 13, 2025 until April 27, 2026.”

An Aug. 21 update to the admission on missing Generative AI study data for Aug. 13 to 17 reads, “Missing data for this duration has been restored.” Another admission says Feb. 28 and March 1 are missing from bulk data exports for several properties, adding, “This data won’t be recovered.”

Why This Matters

In a study to leadership, a Page indexing diagram can’t established what happened following the latest date it covers. Fresh dates alongside the identical totals display that the totals didn’t change. They don’t display whether idiosyncratic URLs kept their status.

The report’s example catalog won’t resolve that either. Its assistance leaf says the catalog “does not necessarily display all URLs alongside that issue, and is constricted to 1,000 rows.” For the URLs that matter, Google says URL Inspection “provides data concerning Google’s indexed type of a particular page” and lets you test whether a URL power be indexable.

The tool’s assistance leaf says that indexed outcome “is not a live test” and reflects the most lately indexed type of the page. The live test checks whether Google can admission the leaf now. Asked whether a valid live outcome method the leaf volition be indexed, the identical assistance leaf answers “No” and says, “There is no conclusive test that can justify whether your leaf volition be included in the Google index.”

The Performance report volition display clicks and impressions of your hunt results inside the period example displayed by the report, and Mueller says that’s anywhere indexing changes display up first. The URL Inspection tool’s assistance leaf states that a “URL is on Google” outcome “is not guaranteed to be there” in hunt results; therefore, getting no impressions in the Performance study does not average the leaf is not indexed. Mueller’s reply to the inquiry asked on Dec. 12 additionally indicated that the Performance study was delayed at that item too; thus, its date needs the identical caution.

When comparing data inside trend reports, create certain to export alongside dates. Compare the two the date range and the amount of entries. Also, verify whether the diagram ended at an old date; whether the chart is displaying former quantities on newly reported dates; or whether several intervals were missed. Mueller stated in September that Google doesn’t back-fill indexing data, and Mueller additional mentioned that he would ask his squad concerning back-fill, hence exporting these trends should continue.

Google’s Page indexing assistance leaf says, “Values shown as either ~ or – in the study (not available/not a number) volition be zeros in the downloaded data.” As peruse on Oct. 29, the leaf doesn’t say how a reporting postpone appears in an export. A screenshot saved alongside all export shows which values the study displayed as ~ or -.

Open Questions

The anomalies leaf says that “if we alter our data aggregation methods or there is a logging error, you power see a dip or bump in your chart.” It doesn’t explain what qualifies a reporting postpone for an entry. Whether the squad inspect Mueller mentioned in September changed his back-fill answer is additionally open.

The Reddit thread reflects what its posters saw. It doesn’t established whether the postpone reported this duration has ended or how many properties it reached.

Looking Ahead

Next period you dispatch a report, appearance at the last-updated date of the Page indexing study and add that to the chart. This volition display how current the data in the diagram is. A newer update date indicates new data was added so we should difference those new numbers alongside the former dated reports.

More Resources:

• Why Your Pages Are Stuck In Crawled-Currently Not Indexed & What To Do About It
• Get Started With GSC Queries In BigQuery
• Deindexing Reports Keep Coming, Google Sees Nothing Unusual

Featured Image: Tetiana Yurchenko/Shutterstock. Source: Google.

Last year, my husband, Michael, and I bought a sailboat to live on full-time.

At the time, we were preparing to move from our residence near Louisville, Kentucky, to Santa Barbara, California, anywhere I'd lived for a few years following college.

As enthusiastic as we were to move to a new state, we weren't prepared for the higher disbursal of rent, and paying $2,500 a duration for a location we wouldn't equal own was a difficult pill to swallow for two Midwesterners.

We knew we couldn't oversee to buy a home yet, but motionless wanted a item we could own outright. I figured there had to be an substitute option.

After several thought, I remembered I had earlier met a figure of group in Santa Barbara who lived aboard boats, and wondered if that would be feasible for us.

My hubby and I had all been on a fistful of sailing trips, and as lifelong outdoorspeople, exploring by sea was appealing, equal although we knew nearly nothing concerning the logistics.

Once the idea was planted, we couldn't ideate doing item else.

So far, the cognition has been complete of ups and downs

After deciding to obtain this leap, we saved up and consumed all publish and YouTube conduit concerning sailing. We equal fastened a sailing cleat to the arm of an old chair, and we used that to custom our knots.

In September 2025, we bought a 1975 sailboat outright for $40,000 in San Francisco and sailed it downward the shoreline the dawn the document were signed.

Our 43-foot container is a beautiful activity of craftsmanship, featuring a well-preserved wooden inner alongside two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, and a desk. But unfortunately, the container came alongside an overwhelming amount of activity from the start.

The former owner had remaining us fairly a disorder to spotless up, leaving all drawer stuffed alongside old kitchenware and junk. Plus, it needed work, akin replacing the rotting chief sheet, updating the navigation systems, and cleaning out a mildewed freshwater container — things we've gradually fixed one at a time.

The archetypal night aboard the boat, we lay in bed and idea to ourselves, "What have we done?" We hung up a horseshoe — a fortunate family heirloom that had watched complete my dad's entrance for 20 years — expecting it motionless had several fortune remaining to contribute us.

Although we've loved living on a container so far, we were amazed it wasn't additional affordable than living on land. Our stumble fee, concerning $1,500 a month, at the marina anywhere we're normally docked, is cheaper than any studio apartment in the area, but we create up the difference in the care that comes alongside owning a container from 1975.

There's a saying among container owners that BOAT stands for "Bust Out Another Thousand" — item we didn't study until we lived aboard. Boat parts aren't cheap, and item tagged "marine" comes alongside a hefty cost tag.

Luckily, we've been capable to preserve a lot of prosperity by doing the labor ourselves — whether that's resealing the windows, installing solar, or replacing motor parts. Michael is a awesome engineer, mechanic, and all-around helpful guy, and I'm fair alongside a wrench.

Despite the financial challenges of living on board, we've developed a regular that has made this location awareness akin home.

Most weekday mornings commencement alongside espresso from the device we squeezed onto our constricted oppose space. We beverage it in the cockpit during the remainder of the marina is woken up by the noisy roars of sea lions.

After work, we akin to bicycle about town and sometimes presenter dinner parties that end alongside observing the sunset rearward the hundreds of sailboat masts.

On the weekends, we've been capable to use the container to examine the California coast. We group up on a Friday, sail out to a quiescent anchor, and expend a few days hiking, swimming, and observing dolphins from the deck.

A twelvemonth living aboard has tested us, but it's additionally brought us closer

After a twelvemonth on the boat, we rely ourselves additional and additional as sailors, and the sweetest part has been observing us blossom as a team.

Even although it can be challenging sharing a area alongside person who is never additional than 10 feet from you, the top adventure has been navigating this new manner and learning curve together.

Sure, we young female having a ample flat area to stretch, a galley big adequate for two, and a toilet that doesn't odor akin rotten seawater.

Some days, our 43 feet feels larger than life, filled alongside possibilities and adventure, but another times it feels akin we're living in a extremely costly closet.

Even on those claustrophobic, leak-dodging, seaweed-scented days, neither one of us would commerce it. Not yet, anyway. We've been capable to examine the Channel Islands, observer amazing coastal wildlife, and study the skills that arrive alongside living on the water: study the weather, trimming sails, and surfing.

Eventually, we desire children, and we can't image raising them aboard. But for now, we're exactly anywhere we desire to be.

There's a narrow opening in existence whenever you can uproot everything for item this impractical, and we're position correct in the center of it.

This narrative is according to an discussion alongside Carol Colborn, 77, a former scholarly from Mesa, Arizona. It has been edited for dimension and clarity.

My husband, William, and I wed in 2008 whenever I was 60, and he was 65.

We the two former and went on an amazing adventure together: RV-ing complete period throughout North America for eight years.

We drove to all province in the US, all province in Mexico, and all province in Canada. Then we traveled the world, visiting 29 countries in total.

The trips stopped following William was diagnosed alongside Alzheimer's disease in 2018, so we're glad we built so many blessed memories on the road.

He'd shown symptoms of the illness, mostly forgetfulness. I gave him a buying catalog of three items written in ample print, and he'd arrive rear alongside two.

We had a ritual: he'd bring me a mug of herbal tea while we watched TV in the evening. It made me calm and peaceful and helped me sleep better. He'd done it all day since our wedding and, whenever he forgot the archetypal time, I was distraught.

William had mild cognitive impairment for the archetypal four years, which progressed into moderately serious Alzheimer's.

He needed 24/7 support, and I was his full-time caregiver. He stayed in bed a lot of the time, but I gave him his medication, three meals a day, and baths.

I had chemotherapy for lung cancer

His movement was limited, but we motionless did our evening walks former four houses. It was his chief exercise.

Things were comparatively manageable until July 2025, whenever I was diagnosed alongside lung cancer. I had operation in September and was in the hospital for four days.

My female and William's female stepped up to attention for him, but it was a impermanent institution since they lived in another states.

I began chemotherapy and had to juggle my husband's health needs alongside my own. It was incredibly stressful.

"How can I obtain attention of him during taking attention of myself?" I asked myself. We considered assisted living, but we couldn't withstand the idea of leaving our own home.

One of our biggest expenditures was transport. William gave up driving lengthy ago, and I'd never driven. It meant we'd expend about $500 a duration on Uber rides to get to things akin his doctors' appointments and my malignancy procedures.

We were paying between $30 and $40 a trip. It got to the item anywhere we stayed residence most of the period since we couldn't oversee the cost.

It was exhausting trying to navigate the Medicare system

The walls closed in on us. We didn't go to bulk or socialize alongside our friends. Things akin date night at a eatery were out of the question.

It was exhausting trying to navigate the Medicare system. It felt as if I was fighting for all advantage and getting nowhere. Every day was a challenge.

Earlier this year, I saw an ad on Facebook for Ez Health, a liberated or low-cost assistance that deals alongside Medicare on your behalf. It explained how national law passed in January 2024, called Community Health Integration, aims to keep group who desire to remain in their own homes as lengthy as possible.

The program supports carers akin me. We were appointed a health advocate, known as a guide, who helped me through the qualification process.

We abruptly got many of the benefits I'd been struggling for, including eight hours a week of respite care. We additionally had admission to medicinal professionals who came to your home, specified as a bodily therapist, a palliative nurse, a dentist, and a phlebotomist.

Dining out again has strengthened our marriage

Our transport is subsidized. The guide introduced us to a local paratransit assistance that expenses $3 per ride. It has saved us as much as $400 a month. Best of all, it's opened up our world.

We use it not lone for market buying and health appointments — I'm having care therapy for my malignancy now — but additionally for date nights. Dining out again is transformative and has strengthened our marriage.

These days, fairly than William's caregiver, I mention to myself as his "present companion," as I steer him through his afterward years.

By Jonathan Small | edited by Dan Bova | Oct 30, 2026

When you think of vintage desserts, assorted ingredients suspended in Jell-O power arrive to mind. But a Chicago inn serves one 1893 formula that volition be a lot additional acquainted to today's tastes: the brownie.

The Palmer House hotel, which is motionless open today, developed the first-ever brownie in its galley as part of the preparations for the World's Columbian Exposition, or Chicago's 1893 World's Fair. The decadent dessert was inspired by a Gilded Age socialite's quest for a treat that could be effortlessly transported.

As a brownie enthusiast, I wanted to try this legendary formula on a sojourn to the inn final twelvemonth — and I discovered the dessert was affluent in the two former and chocolate.

By Jonathan Small | edited by Dan Bova | Oct 30, 2026

Google’s third-quarter earnings call reports its strongest year-over-year query growth in five years, explaining that AI Mode is creating additional searches. Google additionally laid out its scheme to additional passage distant from traditional Search toward a additional agentic, task-driven experience.

Strongest Query Growth In Five Years

The Q3 earnings call highlighted powerful hunt query growth and the important function AI Mode played in driving it. The business described its year-over-year query growth as its strongest in five years, including additional searches alongside business intent, tying it to double-digit growth in Search promotion revenue.

Yet the earnings call made it apparent that there’s a gap between the query growth and Search promotion revenue: AI Mode is driving additional queries, but those interactions create small promotion revenue.

The takeaway:

Google is reporting the strongest hunt query growth in five years but the web ecosystem is seeing the lowest levels of referrals from Google. The earnings call confirms what hunt marketers and location owners already cognize and the fact that query growth is at all period highs volition no doubt sting.

Sundar Pichai crowed:

“Search has powerful momentum. Our AI investments are driving risen use and general query growth, including business queries. In fact, our year‑over‑year query growth charge is the highest it’s been in the final five years.

…Let’s rotate to Search, which is bringing the benefits of AI to additional group than any another merchandise in the world. Just akin our change to mobile complete a decade ago, we are focused on
building the finest Search person experience, followed by monetization.”

Philipp Schindler, SVP and CBO, at Google boasted of growth, including alongside AI Mode, but additionally explained that prosperity toggle rates (foreign toggle aka FX) was the logic for a slowdown in promotion growth. He additionally conceded AI Mode was monetizing at a lesser rate.

Schindler explained

“In Q3, Search grew 12% year‑over‑year to $63 billion, and whenever you appearance at the alter in growth charge from Q2 to Q3, there were a few drivers here.”

First, there was FX. It was the sole largest controller of Search deceleration related to Q2.

…it’s value noting that the powerful growth in AI Mode queries had an effect since of the lesser monetization we were seeing in AI Mode. To be clear, we awareness extremely fine concerning our trajectory here. Our ad experiments have shown promising results and we’re now scaling ads inside the two AI Overviews and AI Mode to additional users and additional queries; including, as I mentioned, global markets and multiturn ads in the U.S.”

Anat Ashkenazi, SVP and CFO, Alphabet and Google additionally boasted concerning elevated query growth:

“We’re in a distinctive stance to be capable to monetize our AI investments throughout many products that attain billions of users and enterprises. Our AI investments in Search are driving our highest query growth in fractional a decade.”

Google Is Transforming Search To A Task-Completion Engine

Another hunt trend that was called out was the transformation of Search into a task-based experience. CEO Sundar Pichai described AI agents as a new phase in Search’s evolution, enabling Google to fulfill needs that were earlier not imaginable alongside traditional Search.

The agentic transformation of Search is item that volition be connected throughout Search, Gemini, Chrome, Android, and Workspace. Pichai viewed this passage as an chance to develop what Search can do but unfortunately he stated nothing concerning what consequence this transformation may have on the web ecosystem.

Pichai explained how Search is transforming:

“One area I’m enthusiastic concerning is assisting group get things done, be it booking reservations, filling in forms, scheduling appointments, or making purchases. …People already put their rely in Google to get things done in their regular lives; and our guidance current remains an crucial differentiator.

…As a next step, we’re bringing these features to Search. And also, of course, to our milliard users on the Gemini app. People are already using the Gemini app to do additional than ask questions; they’re using it to do things, including complex, multi‑step agentic queries. Our Gemini 4 sequence has been a really big stage onward current and has already been handling these complex tasks really well.”

See also: Google Reveals How AI Search Is Reshaping What Users Query

AI Agents Are The Unifying Layer

Pichai additionally returned to the theme of AI agents as a “unifying layer” throughout all of their products.

He explained:

“Agents volition run as a unifying tier throughout our products, so you’ll see us broaden these agentic experiences beyond Search and the Gemini app to Chrome, Android and our Workspace products as well.

…just akin a few years ago, being capable to merge AI conversation use cases in Search allowed group to ask additional and do additional in Search, which is what is playing out in our usage.

I think agents would, again, be an chance to develop the types of problems we resolve for our users.

I think group continually underestimate all the components you need to provision these complex experiences for users. And Search on the exterior looks simple, but there’s bonzer profound levels of funding and things we have built complete time, akin Knowledge Graph being an example.

And so our understanding of the world, et cetera.

So, I think I’m enthusiastic concerning agents, and I would perspective it as a new frontier, which brings in a new set of use cases to Search, and so we are enthusiastic to activity through that.”

Google’s Q3 earnings call makes it apparent that traditional Search is increasingly going distant in favor of of a additional task-based orientation. SEOs conversation concerning Answer Engine Optimization but Google’s not curious in providing answers. The forthcoming of Search is concerning assisting users complete tasks, alongside Search being the starting item and another Google merchandise at the another end.

Google aims to use AI agents throughout its products to provision group additional reasons to remain inside Google’s ecosystem. That’s beautiful bad news for SEOs and location owners since there is nothing in that circumstance that speaks toward sending additional referrals to the open web.

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