New analysis of James Webb Space Telescope observations has identified hundreds of galaxies existing less than a billion years after the Big Bang, many linked to rapidly growing black holes that appear overmassive relative to their hosts.
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Epic Games has announced a four-day game jam where solo creators or small teams build playable titles in Unreal Engine or UEFN. Selected projects can receive development continuation grants of up to $50,000 after the event ends.
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The headline refers to a real 2024 study, but the tunnel is not a shortcut to other stars. It is a channel of million-degree plasma, and it may be one strand of a galaxy-wide hot-gas network.
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Utah's AI sandbox has authorized systems from Doctronic and Nolla Health to review patient data and authorize medications. Initial physician checks give way to retrospective review as safety data accumulates in the ongoing trials.
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Pollen Robotics has launched Microduck, a palm-sized bipedal robot that ships with seven trained moves and a full open-source reinforcement-learning stack so owners can teach it new skills themselves.
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A cell visual with more than 170,000 likes is a reminder that seeing inside the body takes years of structural biology, heavy computing and, lately, machine learning that predicts what cells look like inside.
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Reflect Orbital is preparing to launch its first demonstration satellite later this year to test reflecting sunlight onto specific locations on Earth after dark, aiming for a commercial on-demand service.
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Defense tech firm Anduril has launched EagleEye, a modular AI-driven mixed-reality helmet family that integrates mission command, sensor fusion, and unmanned asset control directly into warfighters’ displays under the Army’s Soldier Borne Mission Command effort
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Eight intermediate certificates from India's eMudhra were built on predictable numbers, one of them simply 4. Browsers and operating systems have moved to distrust them, and about 30,000 certificates may need migration
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Jensen Huang’s AI nation remark in Astana reflects a wider infrastructure push. Kazakhstan already has hundreds of NVIDIA GPUs deployed, while Firebird targets a much larger computing facility for 2027.
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Clone Robotics is pursuing a different approach to humanoid robotics, replacing conventional motor-driven movement with artificial muscles and a human-inspired skeletal structure. Its technology could reshape robotic manipulation, but real-world capabilities and commercial readiness still need independent validation.
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Emergency PHP patches and a possible exposure of Railway credentials underpin the Black October narrative. Official disclosures show serious risks, but do not establish a single attack or a record-breaking 48 hours.
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A memo signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorizes DHS to borrow one military-grade Active Denial System. Where it would be tested, and how it might be used, has not been specified.
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Synthetic video can now fool viewers in controlled tests, and detectors struggle to keep up. Provenance standards like C2PA offer another path, but adoption is uneven and platforms often strip the data.
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Snap Inc. has appointed Academy Award winner Robert Downey Jr. as honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer for SPECS, its spatial computing subsidiary in Santa Monica.
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Disney is bringing dozens of Character.AI employees into its business in a deal worth an estimated $180 million in compensation and retention costs over three years. The entertainment giant is also bidding $20 million for a license to some of the startup’s technology.
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SpaceX is becoming much more than a rocket company. Its latest financial results reveal explosive growth fueled by artificial intelligence, expanding Starlink connectivity and a massive investment in computing infrastructure.
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What happens when engineers build machines designed to fight? Robot combat tournaments deliver spinning weapons, spectacular collisions and last-second comebacks, turning robotics into a sport where a single design decision can separate victory from a smoking wreck.
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Google Playground lets users create playable games with text prompts, no coding required. Discover how AI tools, Claude and Polish creator Tamae are changing game development.
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From a stealth startup in 2022 to a Netflix advisory role, Ben Affleck's AI venture has placed him in the middle of Hollywood's ongoing debate over automation, post-production and creative control.
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Discover how professional football is transforming player health and safety through advanced cloud simulations, processing millions of data points to predict and prevent physical injuries.
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OpenAI is moving beyond conversational AI with Dots, a persistent digital agent designed to research, create and manage work across connected applications. Its promise is greater automation, but reliability, permissions and privacy remain critical questions.
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Grok Bot turns AI from a chat window into a roster of named teammates that keep working after you close your laptop. Here’s how the cloud-computer architecture works, what it can do today, and where it stands in the agent race.
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Meta's keychain AI companion has split opinion, from Tamagotchi nostalgia to surveillance worries. We looked at the early reactions, what supporters see in it, and what Meta still has not told buyers.
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In a Harvard Magazine interview, the Berkman Klein Center's chief AI scientist explains why self-governing AI agents may be hard to switch off and what coexisting with them could involve
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