What time is it

2022 - 10 - 30

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KILLINAN END – Third successive final which requires more playing ... (Nenagh Guardian)

The 1959 All-Ireland hurling final between Waterford and Kilkenny stood in splendid isolation for more than half a century. It had been the first hurling ...

It compensated for what was not a great Thurles performance and might have sent to Blues home with a renewed sense of hope ahead of the replay. Yes, it was not a replay in the strict sense – there was no draw, and it was a different competition. In 1992, Thurles Sarsfields scored the last three points to level the game with a young Toomevara team in the County final. Whatever happened between draw and replay in that year Moneygall showed little sense that they had taken a hit from that late intervention to whip the Dan Breen cup from their grasp. This too finished level in only the second drawn final in nearly half a century with a late late goal saving Kilruane from impending defeat. It had been the first hurling final in 25 years to end in a draw, and not until 2013, when Clare and Cork ended level, was another replay necessary.

Robotaxis Are More Than a Decade Away, Says Luminar's CEO ... (TIME)

TIME 100 Next honoree and Luminar Technologies CEO Austin Russell discusses the state of the industry, driver safety, and Elon Musk.

But the question is, what’s the right path to be able to get there and to be able to see the technology through? [Facebook Pivoted to the Metaverse](https://time.com/6225617/facebook-metaverse-anniversary-vr/?utm_source=roundup&utm_campaign=20221028). When you have a human driving you only need to have the system take over when the human makes a mistake, but it’s not that frequent. Everything that we do ultimately all ties back to that big picture all around saving lives, and saving people time. I think that this is going to be one of the most impactful things that we could do from a societal standpoint. It takes a lot more than a great technology to build a great business at the end of the day. And the reality is that people have been thinking about it the other way around and trying to skip over steps when the capability just isn’t there. It can sometimes reduce the severity of the collision, but preventing it altogether is another story. The reality is that cars, including even the most advanced Teslas, the vast majority of the time will not come to a safe stop for an unknown object, or person, or whatever it is in front of you if you’re traveling at a reasonable speed. Not that it can’t exist —it can and ultimately will—but there was this assumption that it was going to all be solved in a couple of years. Everyone had said that by 2021, we’re gonna welcome our robot overlords, and they’re gonna be driving us around everywhere, and car ownership will be a thing of the past. That problem was just massively complex, and I saw that people were just dramatically underestimating the significance of that challenge by at least an order of magnitude—realistically, multiple orders of magnitude.

2022 F1 Mexico Grand Prix – How to watch, start time & more (Motorsport.com, Edition: Global)

Red Bull's Max Verstappen will start the race from pole position, but with Mercedes duo George Russell and Lewis Hamilton right behind him.

With Red Bull at the top, Ferrari losing its edge, and Mercedes still in recovery, hopes of a two- or three-way battle for 2023 look increasingly slim No Mexican driver since has had the potential to win their home grand prix, but Sergio Perez aims to change that - as OLEG KARPOV discovers. The 2022 Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix takes place this Sunday on October 30.

A birdwatching trip back in time: 'What pre-mammal New Zealand ... (The Guardian)

On the Otago Peninsula, kākā chatter, ancient lizards hatch their eggs, and baby kiwis fatten up to fighting weight in a predator-free sanctuary.

“It’s the same thing as the Australian parrots are facing; we’ve cut down the big trees with the holes they need.” “But he found them and we’ve been managing them carefully since.” “They were probably the first tuatara to hatch successfully on the mainland South Island for four to 600 years,” says Davies-Colley. “We’ve had them eat possum poison, drown in water tanks that people have left open, and eat cat poo and get toxoplasmosis.” I stumble on a flock of these bold and sociable birds in a fury of activity: chattering, clattering and clawing their way down the branches of a longsuffering tree. “People probably thought he was nuts,” says Davies-Colley. An “incursion” in 2015 saw a pack of search dogs brought in to locate the killer stoats, which they did. “Tūī,” he says. Aotearoa’s third-largest island “would be the biggest island to have been made predator-free in the world,” says Davies-Colley. “Can I hear what?” I reply. “See that wobbling leaf?” he says. “What was that?” I say.

Tory MP who backed cutting abortion time limit named minister for ... (The Guardian)

Caulfield, the MP for Lewes, was previously an officer of the all-party parliamentary “pro-life” group and voted against legalising abortion in Northern Ireland ...

“The vast majority of women want the right to choose,” she added. The charity said it was “profoundly disappointing” the prime minister did not think “a better choice for minister for women would be an MP willing to speak up for the one in three women who will have an abortion”. We hope Maria Caulfield will keep her personal opinions on the issue of abortion to herself.”

When it comes to the switching hour, the time is now (The Irish Times)

Pricewatch: One of the few weapons consumers have in the face of rising prices is the ability to take their business elsewhere.

Misplaced loyalty: Many of us have a sense of loyalty to the companies we are with – whether that is a bank, a health insurance providers, an energy company or a supermarket. But when it comes to many other areas, they almost feel a sense of shame about asking for a discount or seeking the best possible value for money. When it came to average savings, those who have switched their mortgage provider cited an annual saving of €1,094, while for a switched current account the annual savings was put at €98, with credit card switchers saving €112. Capitalflow research found that 85 per cent of adults have switched car insurance at least once, with 55 per cent having done it in the last couple of years. The pollsters also asked respondents why they did and did not switch and what their experience of switching was like. People who have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the phone when it comes to most services simply can’t be stopped when it comes to car insurance. Not only is it the one product we love to switch, we love to boast about it. The top three things people consider when deciding to switch or stick are “better deals, a seamless switching process, and a loyalty or rewards programme”. While it would be easy to be mystified as to why more people don’t switch, the answers are both clear and understandable. The Daft report was based on an analysis of more than 150 mortgage holders who sought a switch and save report from the company, coupled with a survey of more than 250 mortgage holders. Over the course of the summer we kept saying that if people moved from the dearest companies to the cheapest they could see their bills fall by €1,000 or more. That is not to say there is no point in switching energy provider if you are out of contract.

Scientists Just Discovered an Entirely New Way of Measuring Time (ScienceAlert)

Marking the passage of time in a world of ticking clocks and swinging pendulums is a simple case of counting the seconds between 'then' and 'now'.

Needless to say, physicists have amassed a significant amount of information about the way electrons move about when nudged into a Rydberg state. Just like actual waves in a pond, having more than one Rydberg wave packet rippling about in a space creates interference, resulting in unique patterns of ripples. It'd be like measuring an unknown sprinter's race against a number of competitors running at set speeds. In fact, lasers are routinely used to tickle electrons into higher energy states for a variety of uses. Puffed-up with lasers instead of air, these atoms contain electrons in extremely high energy states, orbiting far from the nucleus. A stopwatch simply isn't going to cut it for some scenarios.