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Caltech researchers have created cold molecules containing the radioactive element radium for the first time, opening a new way to investigate why the universe is made mostly of matter instead of equal parts matter and antimatter. The breakthrough allows scientists to prepare, cool, and precisely study radium-based mo…
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The petition to Sundar Pichai, the CEO, included more than 4,500 signatures and included calls for buyout options Google workers on Thursday delivered a petition calling for layoff protections as tech giants continue to slash their workforces while pouring billions into AI. “Make no mistake: this is a company that is…
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Firefox releases will soon get even closer together – but not ESR ones, which remain annual, with the next one due out soon. The change was announced last week on the dev-platform@mozilla.org mailing list by Mozilla’s director of engineering Sylvestre Ledru: “We are planning to move Firefox Desktop and Android from a…
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The World Cup has been a bonanza for beer in the U.S. Bars in Boston reported needing emergency deliveries to keep taps from running dry on some game days. Fans downed a total of 290,000 stadium beers during the six matches in Philadelphia, FIFA organizers said. But all that frothy foam obscures a cold reality: Beer s…
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A humanoid robot mounted a mechanical horse at a racecourse near Sayram Lake in China’s Xinjiang and performed a horseback archery challenge on July 16. It was a demonstration designed to prove something specific about how robots and external machines can operate as a combined system. The event formed the third stop o…
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On Thursday, Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based AI startup, unveiled the latest version of its Kimi large language model, which promises performance close to Anthropic’s Fable 5—perhaps the most powerful publicly available model today—at a fraction of the cost. Kimi K3, the largest open-weight model ever released, performed…
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Following the reports last week using the Windows Global Device ID (GDID) in tracking a malware operators behavior, here is a comprehensive write-up about what goes into the GDID and how it is used. It’s worth noting that the GDID itself was not used to catch the malware operator, however once a suspect was identified…
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AI is driving unprecedented demand for industrial-scale electricity, water for cooling and physical real estate at a pace the global grid was never designed to handle.
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5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This artist’s concept depicts a near-Earth asteroid with an elongated orbit. A few objects such as these can exhibit significant perturbations in their motion around the Sun and, like the asteroid 1998 SH2, could turn out to be regular com…
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Is your AI paying off? Today, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar published the scorecard she uses for telling whether you are actually getting economic value from AI spend. For years, software success was measured through adoption—seats, active users, and renewals, Friar notes. She argues that AI is different: it must be measured…
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US-based Qnetic is assembling a 200-kilowatt-hour (kWh) flywheel-based energy storage system dubbed Pulsar, as it is also constructing the world’s largest dedicated flywheel test cell at its Technology Center in Shanghai. The systems are aimed at validating the performance, safety, and reliability of flywheel-based en…
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Mykhailo Fedorov, celebrated by many for innovative, tech-driven approach, was sidelined for military old guard Volodomyr Zelenskyy’s abrupt dismissal of Ukraine’s youthful and innovative defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, at precisely the moment Kyiv appeared to be gaining advantages in several spheres of its war wi…
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The UK Home Office has awarded contract extensions worth £28 million to two incumbent tech suppliers of the much-delayed Atlas immigration and asylum system after a legal challenge derailed an earlier procurement process. The Whitehall department in charge of policing, borders, and immigration awarded PA Consulting a…
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Microsoft will end OneDrive synchronization support next month for older versions of Windows 10, leaving users without client updates, fixes, or technical assistance. According to a post on the company's Message Center, OneDrive sync app updates will continue on Windows 10 22H2 until October 10, 2028, but will stop fo…
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Earlier this week, Linux project leader Linus Torvalds told AI haters to fork off, and invited anyone who didn't like his comments to fork the kernel. Well, here you go: linux-0.11-rs, a total reimplementation of the Linux kernel, done in langage de programmation du jour, Rust. No, this isn't really a response to the…
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Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory have developed a faster, computer-assisted method to find protective nanoscale coatings that can stabilize promising but fragile sulfide-based solid-state batteries. It was discovered that an ultrathin, one-nanometer-thick coating of magnesium oxide can stabilize sulfide-…
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Europe can build more chip fabs, subsidize domestic manufacturing, and wrap it all in the language of sovereignty, but it still won't escape its dependence on American cloud providers and software anytime soon, according to Forrester. In its first Global Sovereignty Forecast, the analyst concludes that the race for te…
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Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory A Tide-Fueled Trove of… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Chang…
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Before buying a franchise, ask the right questions about the brand’s track record, financial performance, support system and culture to determine whether it’s the right fit for your goals.
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Almost half of working-age adults in the UK do not save into a pension. Four readers explain why they fear for the future “I am 35 and have essentially nothing saved for my future, which is a huge concern.” Sarah* works in library services in Oxford – full-time at one library and part-time at another. She has saved £5…
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by Shaik Irfan Sadaq, Dakuri Vasudev Srividya, Abhishek Agarwal, Balram Yelamasetti, Samera Saniya, Jamyang Choden Fiber-reinforced polymer composites have attracted considerable attention in engineering applications owing to their high strength-to-weight ratio, corrosion resistance, and tailorable mechanical properti…
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Researchers in the US have developed nanowires made from niobium arsenide, a quantum material that can replace copper because it becomes a better electrical conductor as it gets thinner. Electrical interconnects are tiny wires and connectors that link electronic systems and transistors, and allow them to communicate.…
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Everyone seems to be launching and landing rockets these days. Last week, China joined the club of countries that have launched an orbital mission and brought its booster safely back to Earth, which is just the beginning of public and private ventures in that country aggressively pushing into rocket reuse. Also in Asi…
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Quantum teleportation has moved a step closer to practical use after researchers demonstrated that it can transmit quantum information far more efficiently than direct photon transmission. The study was carried out by a research team at China’s University of Science and Technology. The experiments showed that the tele…
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Europe wasted no time using its landmark Digital Markets Act (DMA) to try to rein in Big Tech. Companies like Apple, Meta, and Google have faced steep fines and orders to modify their business practices since the law came into force in 2024. And the hits keep on coming for Big Tech in Europe. After several months of c…
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Attorneys general from 12 states are suing to block the Paramount-Warner Bros deal they say violates antitrust law A last-ditch effort to block the merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is heading to court as 12 Democratic state attorneys general attempt to stop the $111bn deal they say vio…
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by Atsushi Mihara, Kiminori Yukata, Norihiro Nishida, Tetsuya Seto, Ryuta Iwanaga, Kenzo Fujii, Kazuya Uehara, Yuji Saeki, Junji Ohgi, Shunya Tsuji, Masataka Asagiri, Takashi Sakai Anabolic agents such as parathyroid hormone (PTH) analogs and sclerostin antibody (Scl-Ab) enhance fracture healing through distinct mecha…
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SpaceX's 13th Starship flight test ended at the launchpad after four Raptor engines failed to start, triggering an automatic abort moments before liftoff. Elon Musk's biz ignited the booster's engines at 2245 UTC on July 16, but the automated system aborted the launch. The boss confirmed: "Some of the engines didn't s…
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The most expensive part of a small feature request used to be writing the code. Now it’s usually the meeting about whether or not to write the code. That’s a real shift, and it quietly breaks a lot of engineering instincts. Engineers learn early that most “small asks” aren’t small: they need tests, a rollout plan, som…
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by Yangming Zhang, Baohui Tian, Hufeng Guo Bridge cracks are important indicators of structural deterioration, and accurate crack detection is essential for bridge operation, maintenance, and safety assessment. However, crack detection remains challenging because cracks are often slender, low-contrast, and easily conf…
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by Anum Farooq, Rachael Mason, Valentina Sclafani, Niko Kargas Despite growing recognition of the challenges faced by families of autistic children in the United Kingdom, existing research has largely focused on parental stress and individual burden, with comparatively limited qualitative attention to how caregiving d…
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A humanoid robot demonstrated its cooking skills by preparing traditional Xinjiang dishes during a live culinary show in China. The robot grilled kebabs and skewered meat, carrying out tasks that required precise hand, wrist, and arm coordination as well as careful force control when handling soft, uneven ingredients.…
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The US and Canadian governments recently approved a plan for the transfer of captive beluga whales which have been stranded for years at a closed theme park. Shuttered years ago when the captivity for intelligent marine mammals became too controversial, Ontario’s Marineland still contained 30 beluga whales in need of…
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Built-in batteries put a timebomb inside devices, with especially the calendar aging feature of Li-ion chemistries setting a hard limit on when you’ll have to toss the device or figure out a way to replace the battery somehow. Here the EU’s Battery Regulation policy with the 2027 implementation of the user-serviceable…
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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In 2025, researchers publishing in Nature Medicine found microplastics in human brain tissue at concentrations considerably higher than in the liver or kidneys. The year before, scientists at Columbia and Rutgers counted hundreds of thousands of nanoplastic particles in a single li…
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T-Mobile canceled some longtime subscribers' free-line promotions as part of a forced migration to new rate plans, spurring complaints from customers yesterday. T-Mobile admitted the problem and blamed it on technical errors that it is trying to fix. The forced plan changes were controversial to begin with, particular…