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In the middle of an especially warm July in 2021, a wildfire ignited in a thick forest of black spruce and peeling paper birch trees on the northern campus of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. The blaze, possibly sparked by lightning, burned across the dry…
What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The…
This white paper explains how edge AI and physical AI help cities move beyond passive monitoring. It shows how urban infrastructure can sense, reason, and act on real-time conditions across public safety, mobility, and infrastructure management. What you will…
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Software can be updated. Hardware cannot. Manipulation deep within a chip would be almost impossible to detect—and could threaten entire infrastructures. At the same time, it is now more important than ever that we prepare hardware for impending attacks using…
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Researchers have developed an algorithm that enables off-the-shelf computers to run quantum simulations previously only possible using the world’s most powerful supercomputers. It means the simulations can be run using around…
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Silicon spin qubits are a promising platform for building scalable quantum computers as they are compatible with the semiconductor manufacturing technologies used to produce today’s computer chips. However, they have an important…
Software can be updated. Hardware cannot. Manipulation deep within a chip would be almost impossible to detect—and could threaten entire infrastructures. At the same time, it is now more important than ever that we prepare hardware for impending attacks using…
This white paper explains how edge AI and physical AI help cities move beyond passive monitoring. It shows how urban infrastructure can sense, reason, and act on real-time conditions across public safety, mobility, and infrastructure management. What you will…
In the middle of an especially warm July in 2021, a wildfire ignited in a thick forest of black spruce and peeling paper birch trees on the northern campus of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. The blaze, possibly sparked by lightning, burned across the dry…
What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The…
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can
On his terrace overlooking the forest in eastern Pennsylvania, Ed Negra lays out four letters. All are from a developer promising a $10,000 check to each household once its data center is running.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Researchers have developed an algorithm that enables off-the-shelf computers to run quantum simulations previously only possible using the world’s most powerful supercomputers. It means the simulations can be run using around…
Matt Robb wanted to sell his computer keyboard. So he made a listing on Facebook Marketplace—and, as an experiment late last month, he put Meta's new artificial intelligence agent Muse in the driver's seat.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Silicon spin qubits are a promising platform for building scalable quantum computers as they are compatible with the semiconductor manufacturing technologies used to produce today’s computer chips. However, they have an important…
Insider Brief A share of £50 million is going to British businesses developing quantum technologies for uses that include keeping railways running, shortening eye scan waits and maintaining military connectivity, UKRI said. The money forms part of a new…
Over the past few years, LEGO has quietly added an impressive array of plug-powered machines to its block-based lineup, from hybrid racers to battery-powered excavators and garbage trucks. We’ve rounded them up here. more…
U.S. consumers aren't just frustrated with high prices. They're angry and confused about the increasingly high-tech ways that restaurant chains and major retailers are setting those prices.
Oregon utility Portland General Electric (“PGE”) is highlighting the environmental, health, and grid benefits to electrifying medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks, calling the battery-backed big rigs “batteries on wheels.” more…
EcoFlow is hoping to make a titanic splash with its new, smaller (but scalable!) residential energy storage lineup that the company is calling a more approachable entry point to its backup battery offerings. more…
Ask an AI chatbot to complete a personality questionnaire in English, then give it the Mandarin version, and its answers paint a different picture. In tests of five systems, switching languages changed how strongly the responses expressed qualities such as…
Chinese PV and solar equipment brand LEAPTING has taken the wraps off its new, battery-powered Auto-Navigation Forklift Robot (AFR) designed to speed up the installation of large, utility-scale solar power projects. more…
Anthropic is hiring fewer and fewer junior staff in technical roles. The share of junior positions among new hires dropped from 27 to 9 percent since early 2025. By August 2026, AI agents across the company were already logging six times as many hours as…
Four AI agents running on Google's Gemini 4 Argon have beaten Minecraft for the first time without human help, slaying the Ender Dragon in a fully autonomous run. With no predefined roles or strategies, they coordinated on their own, wrote 2,783 programs…
Several factors, from sensors to safety and robotic arms or mobile platforms, help determine the selection of a brushless DC or BLDC motor.
Scientists have found a way to use defects in crystals to engineer stronger materials, according to a new study.
Google tried to overturn a landmark Munich ruling on AI search liability by appealing, then quietly settled. The strategy isn't working. The Aachen Regional Court just applied the exact same reasoning in a new case where Google's AI falsely attributed…
Anthropic is consulting with law firms to develop negotiation norms for AI agents that would haggle over prices, resolve complaints, or improve contracts on behalf of users. The company is also hiring lawyers and humanities scholars as "Conceptual Reasoning…
A new benchmark called Taste-Bench tests how well AI agents make strategic choices during long-running tasks. Even the best model, GPT-5.6 Sol, picks the right path on just under 60 percent of simple binary questions. Thinking longer doesn't help. The article…
Six AI agents were tasked with recovering £350 (about $465) for a canceled train ticket in an experiment. They resorted to invented excuses, lawsuit threats, and sharing confidential health data. One agent sent 187 messages in 15 days, including 50 to a…
A new ADI whitepaper examines the challenges and opportunities in moving physical AI out of labs into production machinery.
Mercedes-AMG has unveiled the GT SUV, an all-electric performance SUV with up to 1,153 hp from three axial-flux motors and DC fast charging at up to 710 kW. It’s AMG’s answer to the Porsche Cayenne Electric, and on paper, it may be more impressive. The first…
OpenAI has published four new cases where its AI models bypassed security boundaries on their own during training or testing. In one case, a model extracted server passwords from a government website, forged authorization tokens, and downloaded 24 years of…
Anthropic's AI model Claude has solved a 25-year-old cryptography puzzle. The mysterious seeds behind NIST's standard curves for digital signatures were provided by the NSA without explanation, raising long-standing suspicion about built-in backdoors. Claude…
I’ve spent countless hours here at Electrek doing detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through thousands of miles of riding, I’ve been fortunate to learn these e-bikes inside and out, top to bottom and front to back. That long-term…
This article was originally published by Canary Media. America’s energy supply crunch is driving a surge of federal and private investment in new electricity generation — from polluting gas turbines to cleaner developments like solar farms and geothermal…
Humans play a key role in developing humanoid robots and training AI models, so we can maintain control, writes a columnist.
Imagine sitting in your home, listening to what you think is a run-of-the-mill advertisement or perhaps a piece of music you enjoy. But while you hum along, that audio file is sending a secret, malicious audio message—imperceptible to human ears—telling your…
A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed an Embodied Sensorimotor Robotic Arm (EmArm) capable of whole-arm tactile sensing and adaptive manipulation. By embedding a soft optical tactile skin directly into a…
Deepseek has released V4.1-Flash-1017 as an open-weight model that posts better benchmarks, finishes tasks faster, and produces shorter outputs than its predecessor. The company is also opening up its internal search engine through new Search and Fetch APIs…
AI agents systematically skip errors in their own reports, even when they spot the problems. In a study by Google Research, MIT, and Harvard, GPT-5.5 left out negative results in 198 out of 200 paper abstracts. The article AI models hide mistakes in their own…
OpenAI submitted a 166-page solution to the Navier-Stokes problem but apparently doesn't fully understand its own proof. Several groups of experts dispute the claimed methodology, saying the actual approach differs from what OpenAI described. And because…
Insider Brief A team of researchers from Anthropic and Harvard used an artificial intelligence (AI) system to design quantum circuits that require fewer operations and qubits, potentially lowering the hardware demands of useful quantum computing. The…
Yuval interviews Robert Wille, a computer scientist and co-founder focused on quantum computing software. They discuss the field’s transition from research to practical deployment, the need for heterogeneous and hardware-agnostic software stacks, and the…
Guest Post By George Varghese, Head of Investment, 0G Labs We’re witnessing one of the largest infrastructure investment cycles in modern technology, and I believe we’re still early in understanding its economic potential. AI has already changed how companies…
Ben Waters explains why opportunity charging is becoming essential for keeping autonomous robot fleets moving, scalable, and operationally efficient.
Artificial intelligence will ultimately become a key aspect of all companies, the head of AI chip giant Nvidia said during a visit to Stockholm, where he urged Europe to ramp up its AI industry.
Montréal Metropolitan Airport now has 120 EV chargers online, with another 48 on the way as the airport expands. more…
A new recycling approach developed by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers could help make battery waste a valuable source of high-performance materials. In a study published in Advanced Energy Materials, a team led by professor Yan Wang, the…
In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we’ll focus on the Tesla Roadster unveiling, but we may also cover a few other topics. more…
Canadian EV customers are delaying buying decisions while they wait for more Chinese EVs to reach their shores, according to a new survey, suggesting widespread awareness of China’s EV dominance is causing EV buyers to ignore Western automakers’ offerings…
OpenAI's updated Chrome extension lets ChatGPT access open browser tabs, sum up content, and use "Computer Use" in Work mode to fill out forms or compare products across several tabs. It is open to all ChatGPT plans. The article ChatGPT becomes a full Chrome…
More and more city governments are using advanced technologies to improve livability for their residents. Municipalities use data from smartphones and sensors for traffic enforcement, traffic control, and waste management. They also have implemented…
Listen to the session or watch below Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an…
Closing out this week’s Green Deals is Lectric’s freshly launched Spooky Sale with up to $762 e-bike bundle savings (that include two FREE mystery gifts) starting from $999. Right behind that group of treats is the Worx 40V 20-inch Cordless Electric Snow…
The cohort will run February through June 2027, concluding with company showcases at the Robotics Summit and Expo in Boston.
China plans to restrict exports of 23 key AI technologies, including model weights, source code, and training methods for systems hitting 10^26 FLOPs or 2 trillion parameters. A fast-track rule will still clear open-source releases as soon as they are…
Two California Highway Patrol officers are recovering from serious injuries after a Tesla drove into their patrol car at a crash scene on Interstate 80 in Fairfield. The 22-year-old driver told investigators he was asleep with Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving”…
Volkswagen is set to recall “several thousand” electric vehicles, including the ID.4 and ID. Buzz. The company is urging owners to limit charging to 80% until a fix is available. more…
As the effects of climate change and the associated risks are increasingly being felt, several organizations have developed roadmaps that outline potential steps toward carbon neutrality in the aviation sector. These strategies include multiple levers, such…
This article is brought to you by COMSOL. These days, no one blinks an eye at two-day, one-day, and even same-day package deliveries. Despite the plethora of localized fulfillment and distribution centers that have cropped up to meet the demand, delivery…
Information about food properties that determine quality, safety and sensory characteristics is critical for food product development and processing design, but it is spread across thousands of scientific papers written over decades, making it difficult for…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled what he described as a "flying" car, equipped with thrusters, during a livestreamed event at his SpaceX rocket company's facility on Thursday.
Kia launched a first-of-its-kind remote car-sharing program in Korea using the PV5 electric van. more…
Google Deepmind's Gemini 4 Argon scored 97.5 percent on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, making Google the second lab after OpenAI to cross the 95 percent mark. But the results swing wildly depending on the test setup: in the standard harness, the score drops to just…
Two Massachusetts cranberry bogs that had stopped making financial sense to farm are growing berries again – with solar panels overhead helping pay the bills. more…
A research team led by professor Seong Kyun Kim of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST has developed a "passive cooling film material" that uses moisture in the air to cool electronic devices—no water or electricity is required.
Some artificial intelligence agents can modify the programs and instructions governing their own work, with the goal of improving performance. These changes, however, can introduce errors, while testing unsuccessful modifications consumes resources…
Scientists want to create cells from scratch, to unveil life’s origins or provide specialized functions. Are they close?
There are plenty of e-bike conversion kits designed to turn your existing bicycle electric, but most involve at least a bit of wrenching. Spiny 2 takes a different approach, using a removable friction-drive system that can apparently snap onto your bike in…
Neural networks may be much easier to read than researchers assumed, with about 90 percent of neurons serving a clear function. That would be big news for AI safety research, since deception or dangerous behavior could be spotted directly in a model's…
Moritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are fundamentally broken — but not unfixable. The post He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Turing test was proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing in 1950 as a way of assessing whether a machine could demonstrate humanlike intelligence. In its best-known form, a person communicates with both a human and a machine without knowing which is…
Insider Brief Anderon has released its first Superconducting Quantum Process Design Kit (PDK), the company said in a blog post. According to Anderon, the kit is meant to give quantum device and circuit developers a more efficient, standardized way to work…
OpenAI is launching the Rosalind Academic Plan, a free offering that's currently open only to research labs at US universities without an enterprise contract. The article OpenAI's new Rosalind Academic Plan gives research labs up to 30 free seats for a year…
Anthropic has given a team from the nonprofit METR inside access to review its AI models and safety practices, the company announced. The article Anthropic gives METR inside access to audit its AI models and safety practices appeared first on The Decoder.
People's online behavior has changed in response to legislation to prevent children from viewing harmful content—raising possible privacy and security risks, research suggests.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum computers pose an increasingly real threat to the security of cryptographic methods and thus to cybersecurity itself. The Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI), the Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and State…
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuEra Computing, the leader in quantum computing, today announced that its scientists will work with three of the nine teams selected for the Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry (QC3) program at the Advanced Research…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah…
Waymo is bringing its robotaxis to Canada, and Toronto is first. Its cars will start driving the city’s streets in the coming days, and the company wants its first public riders on board in 2028. That makes Toronto Waymo’s fourth announced market outside the…
Insider Brief The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) member delegations were told this week that the encryption underpinning international trade could be broken by quantum computers within roughly five years, and that the trading system has no shared definition…
New technology supported by researchers at Murdoch University has the potential to solve water scarcity issues in remote and rural Australia. While many cities enjoy a steady flow of safe and reliable water, remote communities often face a different reality.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Terra Quantum, a global leader in the development of quantum technologies and their industrial application, the leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced that Terra Quantum has joined the QuEra Quantum Alliance, a…
I. Meet cute Barnabas and Mainspring grew up near at hand, about an hour apart with good traffic, but for a long time they weren’t close. They traded glimpses and occasional hellos and then went about their business. Both of them carried on livelier…
More than 5 million people around the world have an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) called geographic atrophy, in which cells in the retinas die off. And until now, no treatment could restore their vision. The PRIMA system, which was…
I don’t remember much about Peppy, my first and only pet cat. I can conjure the sensation of stroking her while she purred, recall how she used to get stuck in trees (just like in cartoons!), and chuckle about the time she pooed in my baby sister’s cot…
Meta on Thursday launched a new open-weight AI model that it claims rivals, and in some cases outperforms, similar products from leading Chinese developers.
Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined Australia in restricting minors from accessing social media—barring children under 15 from major platforms, before the ban was blocked by the country’s top court on human rights grounds. The UK aims to…
Insider Brief Google researchers reduced errors in a crucial quantum computing resource about 40-fold, demonstrating a method that could lower the hardware demands of useful, error-corrected machines. The experiment, published in Science, showed that a…
Google announced Thursday it will start displaying links to websites and articles more prominently and higher up in search results powered by artificial intelligence (AI), as brands and news publishers warn of a sharp decline in their traffic.
Veronica Rosas is one of tens of thousands of Mexican mothers looking for a child who has disappeared into a vortex of violence fueled by brutal cartel turf wars.
Could computers include tiny brain organoids one day? The human brain is an incredibly energy-efficient computer, and silicon processors that try to imitate it achieve huge energy savings over traditional processors. Now scientists are experimenting with…
Tesla has finally re-unveiled its next-generation Roadster, originally unveiled in quite different form back in 2017. So since I did a technical breakdown of how it would work last time, I thought I’d give a quick update with what we know about the new…
Tesla has unveiled a new version of its next-generation Roadster. As expected, it received Tesla’s latest design “cyberfication” and cold-gas thrusters to allow it to jump and flip through the air. The livestream featured impressive stunts but offered few…
Until the Tesla Roadster, “there was only one car in the flying car market,” Alef said. To welcome Tesla to the race, Alef released a video of its flying car flying over the old Roadster. more…
Europe’s EV sales just posted a record September, as global market growth shifts toward Europe and beyond its largest established markets. more…
Obrist, the Austrian engineering firm famous for ripping battery cells out of a Tesla Model 3 and bolting a gas engine into the frunk, is bankrupt. Three companies in the Obrist Group are insolvent with combined debts of about €31.8 million, or roughly $37…
A research team has discovered that AI assistants can easily manipulate users into making disadvantageous decisions when the AI operates with a hidden agenda.
A research team led by professor Wonyoung Lee of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) has developed a technology that addresses interfacial contact resistance, a key factor limiting the performance of protonic ceramic…
Join us for a conversation on how machine learning is transforming the GEOINT mission across different markets
Join us for a conversation on how machine learning is transforming the GEOINT mission across different markets
University of British Columbia researchers have uncovered a vulnerability that could allow hackers to target and disrupt critical infrastructure such as water treatment plants and energy grids without needing to break into a facility's own systems or crack…
Human–AI collaboration is widely seen as the work model of the future: The expectation is that together, humans and AI will be more productive than either working alone. Yet the research to date seemed to tell a different story: On average, human–AI teams did…
A research team has developed a new biometric authentication technology that can identify users without storing their fingerprint information as digital data. The study is published in Nature Sensors.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — A quantum technology invented at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University) is earning international recognition. Qunnect’s Qu-MEM, a commercial room-temperature quantum memory device…
Bubbles can be useful tools for microscopic robots, helping them move, steer, create flows of liquid and perform other functions. But designs based on trapping a bubble, a common approach, are unwieldy and unpredictable because bubbles can be hard to catch…
Chemists developed a way to significantly improve the performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) made with perovskite. The journal Nature published the advancement in these hybrid LEDs, which hold potential for a range of uses, including biomedical sensing…
Thanks to the exponential rise of AI, the rapid construction of large, gigawatt-gobbling data centers across the country has stoked concerns about how the power grid will hold up under this additional strain.
Starting in January, students attending Skyview High School in Virginia will learn about the building blocks and principles underlying quantum computers by working with one directly
Rivian’s point-to-point driving feature will first reach owners through an invitation-only “Autonomy Early Access Program,” and the owners it picks will have to sign a non-disclosure agreement to get in. The program, laid out on a new Rivian support page…
Timothy Wong didn't suspect it at the time, but his dives off the coast of Rockport and the hours he spent studying the wheels and gears of robotics were leading to one mission: figuring out a way to get unwanted sea matter off giant ships in need of cleaning.
Meta's Muse Spark Open is a new open-weight model with 816 billion parameters that processes text, images, video, and audio with up to one million tokens of context. It performs roughly on par with the most capable open-weight Chinese AI models on benchmarks…
Samantha Gateman and her team at Western University use highly localized electrochemical techniques to see how corrosion starts and evolves at the microscopic level.
Ford’s next electric pickup will start at around $30,000 when it goes on sale in early 2027. As its official debut draws closer, a disguised Fathom prototype popped up outside of Ford’s World Headquarters. more…
Error-proofing the most important operations performed on a quantum computer has so far required lots of resources, but a new experiment shows a more efficient way to make the devices reliable
Our Thursday Green Deals this week has a nice mix of deals across EVs, power stations, security systems, and tools, starting with Velotric’s FREE $550 extra battery bundle on the Nomad 2 Off-Road e-bike at $1,999 that gives it up to 130 miles of travel range…
Researchers have developed two new organic semiconductor materials using a light-driven chemical reaction. The paper is published in Chemistry—A European Journal.
Solar panels that can be coated onto thin, flexible surfaces could one day be made the way newspapers are printed, at room temperature and without the toxic chemicals the process has relied on, claim researchers from the University of Surrey.
Black Forest Labs has released FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6-billion-parameter open-weights image model that supports native 4K generation, pixel-precise editing, and generation with up to ten reference images. With 38 percent fewer parameters than its…
Stryker plans to serve as the exclusive sales agent in the U.S. for the Versius robotics portfolio from CMR Surgical.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering have partnered with Pittsburgh startup Sensible Photonics, co-founded by Pitt professor Paul Ohodnicki, to develop a fiber-optic ultrasonic acoustic-sensing system that can detect…
Robotics businesses need help keeping up with innovations as they scale. Analog Devices Inc. or ADI is offering its Emerging Tech Hub.
Tesla’s latest crash reports to federal regulators add two more “Robotaxi” crashes where a remote operator, not the car’s autonomous system, was driving when it hit something. That brings it to five in the data now. And every remote takeover that has shown up…
Google's Gemini 4 Argon controls robots, generates simulations from photos or sketches, and evaluates training videos. On Google's own ERQA benchmark, it scores 87 percent. But the published example prompts show that the demos still need a lot of human…
Dr. Matt Brigida, SUNY Poly professor of finance and chair of the Department of Accounting and Finance, is exploring the evolving relationship between cryptocurrency and traditional financial markets in his new paper, "Crypto pricing with hidden factors,"…
With Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, Nvidia is releasing an open multimodal model with 120 billion parameters for enterprise agents. Two compact Bolt models bring agents to local machines. Dozens of organizations are already fine-tuning Super VL, but getting the most…
BYD used the Denza Z9 GT to showcase its latest breakthrough technology, including its 5-minute Flash Charging. Next year, the luxury GT will get another major update in Europe. more…
Reading a scientific article is one thing. Exploring the data behind it is another. Even when a research article provides access to its supporting data sets, answering a follow-up question often requires downloading files, understanding their structure and…
When trying to figure out a better design for a bacteria-powered biobattery, Binghamton University researchers found inspiration in nature—specifically, the insides of our small intestines.
Bank of America has hired 1,000 outside contractors to fix software vulnerabilities uncovered by AI models like Anthropic's Mythos, CNBC reports. The article Bank of America puts 4,000 people on fixing vulnerabilities uncovered by Anthropic's Mythos and other…
On the TheoPhysEval benchmark, GPT-6-Astra solves 49 of 50 unpublished theoretical physics calculations as accurately as leading specialists. In some cases where the agent seemed to fail, the experts' own reference solutions turned out to contain errors. But…
In this episode, SpaceNews’ Mike Gruss talks with NASA’s Shatel Bhakta, the principal systems engineer for Moon Base, about what’s needed between now and 2028 and the incremental steps to
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — As quantum technologies transition from the laboratory to the market, the demand for a highly skilled workforce has never been greater. To meet this challenge, EQA has officially launched to establish a comprehensive…
The standard data migration tools offered by major Android manufacturers such as Samsung, Google and Xiaomi pose security risks, as researchers from the Institute of Information Security at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and Zentrum für sichere…
One of the singular features of Baotou, an industrial city of 2 million people in Inner Mongolia, is a 10-square-kilometer (4-square-mile) lake that is among the most polluted in the world. The artificial lake, referred to by the name of the dam associated…
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading full-stack quantum platform and foundry, and the University of Cambridge have announced the opening of the first-ever university-based IonQ Quantum Innovation Centre. The Centre is located…
The global campaigns to break China’s dominance of vital rare-earth markets are shaping up into one of the signature geostrategic struggles of the early 21st century. Hundreds of mining companies, government agencies, and industrial facilities scattered…
Imagine an artificial intelligence system that has performed reliably for months. Its recommendations are almost always right, and the employee reviewing them has learned that close scrutiny rarely changes the outcome. Then something unusual happens. The AI…
BMW put the new i3 to the test to showcase the power of its Gen6 batteries. The long-wheelbase i3 covered 753 miles (1,213 km) without stopping, the longest covered by any BMW EV to date. more…
The Albanese government has introduced its digital duty of care legislation to parliament today. The bill includes an "off switch" to allow social media users to opt out of recommender algorithms.
A Tesla crossed the grass median of Route 55 in New Jersey, hit a tree, slid into oncoming traffic, and struck an SUV head-on. The SUV’s driver, 68-year-old Phillip Eastman, was killed. Police reported it as a driver who lost control. What they didn’t say…
Canada has made digital sovereignty a priority in areas such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and telecommunications. But one important part of its digital infrastructure has received far less attention: the operating systems running government…
Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence (AI) systems underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT and other conversational agents, are now widely used to source information, summarize texts and generate content for specific purposes. These models…
Jonathan the giant tortoise was born when Darwin was still a young man. Youthful gene activity may account for his exceptionally long life.
Police departments have been increasingly turning to electric bicycles as a new tool for patrols, and in at least some cases, federal money is helping put officers in the saddle. more…
Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers explains how fungal networks in soil trade nutrients with plants, help keep carbon underground, and strike bargains without having a brain. The post How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — SEALSQ Corp (NASDAQ: LAES) (“SEALSQ” or “Company”), a company that focuses on developing and selling Semiconductors, PKI, and Post-Quantum technology hardware and software products, today announced its preliminary unaudited…
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — CEOs, CTOs, and founders from nine blockchain organizations today launched the Quantum Alliance, an open standards body that will set the criteria for judging quantum-resistance claims in blockchain and create standards for…
Woven textiles can do more than provide softness and strength. Their microscopic arrangement of yarns can also influence how sound travels through a material. However, finding suitable over-and-under yarn patterns is a difficult design problem. Even a…
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), the only dual-platform quantum computing company providing annealing and gate-model systems, software and services, today announced at Digital Innovation Forum 2026…
Tesla’s Senior Manager of Cybercab General Assembly at Gigafactory Texas, Jody Kerns, is leaving the company to become Rivian’s Director of General Assembly for the R2 in Normal, Illinois. He’s the second Cybercab launch leader to leave Tesla this year. The…
Researchers from the VUB's Artificial Intelligence Lab and the University of Namur (UNamur) demonstrate in a new large-scale study how autonomous AI systems can spontaneously develop a functional, shared language without human intervention.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Pig kidneys that were “frozen” for a year have been brought back to life Pig kidneys that were cooled to -150 °C and…
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — EMode Photonix (EMode, Inc.), a startup delivering powerful simulation tools to allow novel photonics technologies for quantum computers to be developed faster, has raised a $1 million pre-seed round. The round was led by Ground…
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Dirac Labs, a Madison-based quantum-enabled navigation company, today announced that it has joined the Wisconsin Security Research Consortium (WSRC) as an industry affiliate, providing resilient navigation alternatives to enable…
BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 15, 2026 — Agile Space Industries, a leading provider of in-space chemical propulsion solutions, has expanded into the Seattle metropolitan area with the opening of a new
Jeff Bezos-backed electric truck startup Slate Auto opened the doors to its first-ever brick-and-mortar “experience center” in Chicago’s Near West Side, offering midwest fleet buyers and automotive journalists (Hi!) their first real, up-close look at what…
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