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Studying gene expression in a cancer patient's cells can help clinical biologists understand the cancer's origin and predict the success of different treatments. But cells are complex and contain many layers, so how the biologist conducts measurements affects which data they can obtain. For instance, measuring proteins in a cell could yield different information about the effects of cancer than measuring gene expression or cell morphology.

Google just announced that Gemini will soon be able to take care of some multi-step tasks on your phone, like ordering food or hailing a car, starting first with the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S26 phones. It all sounds a bit like features Apple announced for Siri way back at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference - before Apple delayed those planned features in March 2025 and which still aren't released. Onstage, Sameer Samat, Google's president of Android, showed off a demo of how Gemini's new agentic features would work to help wrangle a pizza dinner order from his busy family group chat. Samat asks Ge … Read the full story at The Verge.

At Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked, Google announced Scam Detection updates for calls and its Messages app. more…

Two heads are better than one in the latest images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which reveal new detail in a mysterious, little-studied nebula surrounding a dying star. Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull, inspiring its nickname, the "Exposed Cranium" nebula. Webb captured its unusual features in both near- and mid-infrared light.

When you toss a coin, you put it into a higher-energy state until it falls back down again. It can then end up in one of two possible states: heads or tails. No matter which state the coin was in before, after the toss both outcomes are equally likely. A team at TU Wien has analyzed a quantum system that also has two equivalent ground states. By supplying energy through ion bombardment, this state can be changed.

People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness

Katie McQue / The Guardian: New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: some police officers testify that Meta's AI is sending a flood of “junk” CSAM reports that are draining resources and slowing cases  —  Officers say flood of low-quality reports is draining resources and slowing cases amid New Mexico lawsuit

Besides Gemini automation, Google today announced the latest Circle to Search features for the Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10. more…

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Google launches task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26, enabling it to autonomously navigate apps like Uber and DoorDash  —  Gemini's in the driver's seat. … Google's Gemini AI is getting one step closer to being more like an actual assistant.

Emma Colton / Fox News: Source: Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI will sign White House's initiative to build their own electricity supply for AI data centers  —  Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle and OpenAI will sign agreement to build their own electricity supply for AI data centers

Android is officially rolling out one of its most significant AI upgrades yet, launching alongside the new Samsung Galaxy S26 Series and Google Pixel 10 lineup. The update brings deeper intelligence to visual search, introduces hands-free task automation through Gemini, and strengthens scam protection – all designed to make Android devices more proactive, helpful, and […] The post Google brings a trio of cool AI-powered tricks to Galaxy S26 and Pixel phones appeared first on Digital Trends.

Google unveiled a new batch of Android updates, including more Gemini-powered tools and improved scam detection features at Samsung’s Galaxy S26 launch on Wednesday. A new feature in the Gemini app will let users hand off multi-step tasks, like ordering a rideshare or building a grocery cart. The feature, which will first arrive in beta, runs in the background while users perform other tasks. Gemini's progress can be monitored live via notifications, so users can see what it's doing and jump in at any time. Google Google says this feature will initially be limited to certain food, grocery or rideshare apps. It will be available first on select devices, including the Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10, in the US and Korea. Android is also getting an upgrade for Circle to Search, enabling it to search for multiple objects seen on screen at once. One implementation of this is full-outfit searches using "find the look." Once the app has found

The findings may help explain why this group has such exceptional memory.

With ProducerAI joining Google Labs, Google is combining music generation, album art, and AI video creation into a single prompt-driven workflow aimed at aspiring music producers. The post Google’s latest AI tool wants you to think you’re a music producer appeared first on Digital Trends.

Windows 11 26H2 is shaping up as a quick enablement update, adding new Copilot experiences, File Explorer cleanups, and optional Sysmon security tools. The post Microsoft to Showcase AI in Windows 11 26H2 Taskbar, File Explorer appeared first on TechRepublic.

Scientists have zeroed in on a critical weak spot behind a rare but devastating brain autoimmune disorder often known as “Brain on Fire.” The disease strikes when the immune system attacks NMDA receptors—key molecules involved in memory and thinking—leading to psychiatric symptoms, seizures, and even death.

Richard Axel resigned from his post co-leading Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute over his long ties to Jeffrey Epstein

Sometimes the 'S' word slips through even the best media training Is it OK to say "slop" again? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella took to the stage on the London leg of the company's AI tour and said the words that many an IT pro has uttered when faced with a Copilot rollout: "Nobody wants anything that is sloppy in terms of AI creation."…

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Image taken from the YouTube video created by the authors (see below). A system developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo lets people collaborate with groups of robots to create works of art inspired by music. The new technology features multiple wheeled robots about the size of soccer balls that trail coloured light as […]

For years, the "last mile" of digital transformation has been littered with forgotten PDFs and ignored training manuals.  Organizations spend millions on sophisticated software like SAP or Salesforce, only for employees to struggle with basic navigation. Now, as the era of agentic AI arrives, companies face a double-edged sword: they must teach human employees to collaborate with AI, while simultaneously teaching AI agents to navigate the labyrinthine interfaces of the modern enterprise. One idea that seems to be gaining momentum among AI-forward businesses: using screen recordings and tutorials/walkthroughs of someone performing an enterprise task — be it creating a new ticket or processing an invoice — and training AI to replicate the flow based on the screen capture. Just this week, a startup called Standard Intelligence went viral on X showing an early demo of open-ended version of this for the physical and digital world. But the truth is, there are already

AMD and Meta's blockbuster deal could see the company signing away 10% of shares in the business to Meta. We examine why AMD is keen to secure AI hardware orders, and explore Meta's AI compute strategy.

What does it take to make AI that can pass as human? Try massive clusters of supercomputers. To build human-like intelligence, computer scientists think big. However, for neuroscientists who want to understand how real brains work, today's AI only goes so far, as it replaces one deeply complicated system (the brain) with another (AI). How, then, do we figure out the inner workings of the biological brain? To answer this question, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Assistant Professor Benjamin Cowley is thinking small.

Nano Banana might creep into Google Maps, according to a new insight report. The image generation model appears to be in testing in the Google Maps app, offering to reimagine “your favorite” places. more…

Quantum computers need special materials called topological superconductors—but they’ve been notoriously difficult to create. Researchers have now shown they can trigger this exotic state by subtly adjusting the mix of tellurium and selenium in ultra-thin films. That tiny chemical tweak changes how electrons interact, effectively turning a quantum phase “dial” until the ideal state appears. The result is a more practical path toward building stable, next-generation quantum devices.

If you want to excel in the robotics field, these programming languages can get you there. Read more: What programming languages do you need for a career in robotics?

Reporting from AGBT in Orlando, Julianna LeMieux reviews key announcements including Ultima’s UG 200 launch, Stellaromics’ Pyxa 3D platform debut, Illumina’s multiomics expansion, and Complete Genomics’ acquisition. The post Omics in Orlando: A Video Report from AGBT, Day One appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

A dual-phase silicon carbide ceramic reinforced with boron nitride nanosheets achieves 94.5% greater strength while absorbing radar waves for stealth applications.

Wayve says it's confident all cars will one day be autonomous, as it announced more than a £1bn in additional investment.

A new nanostructure gas sensor uses safe blue LED light to distinguish hydrogen, ammonia, and ethanol with 56x better sensitivity and minimal power consumption.

Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a complex network of filaments of cosmic gas in unprecedented detail. This rich dataset will allow astronomers to probe the lives of stars in the most extreme region of our galaxy, next to the supermassive black hole at its center.

The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,000 qubits, but the technical challenges to building such a machine remain numerous

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe updates Firefly to add Quick Cut, a new AI tool to edit footage and B-roll to create a first draft of the final video based on user prompts  —  The video editor in Adobe Firefly is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage and B-roll to create a first draft of the final video based on user instructions.

Quick Cut aims to help you spend less time staring at a blank editing timeline. | Image: Adobe Adobe is launching a new Firefly tool that helps video editors to focus on storytelling by creating a first cut to refine and build around. The Quick Cut feature is launching in beta today for Firefly's video editor, allowing users to automatically assemble clips together based on text prompts and simple creator inputs. "Quick Cut empowers creators to upload their own b-roll or generate new footage and instantly turn it into a structured first cut. Goodbye empty timeline. Hello momentum," Adobe's head of product marketing for creators, Mike Polner, said in the announcement. "It's a fast way to get from 'I have clips' to 'I have an edit I ca … Read the full story at The Verge.

Adobe is rolling out Quick Cut in beta today, a new Firefly feature that uses AI to automatically assemble multiple uploaded or generated clips into a structured first edit. Here are the details. more…

The Pentagon has given AI lab Anthropic a deadline to lift safety restrictions on its Claude AI model for military use, risking a £160m contract.

Nvidia's annual surveys revealed that healthcare and telecom companies are aggressively deploying AI to lower operational costs and ramp up output.

AMD's 6GW Meta deal yields "inference receipts," a $300 price target, and a new stock floor. Why experts are bullish on the AI supercycle. Latest Ratings for AMD View More Analyst Ratings for AMD View the Latest Analyst Ratings Importance Rank:  1 read more

In a pioneering effort to bridge the gap between digital medicine and geriatric mental health, a recent longitudinal cohort study has yielded a groundbreaking interpretable machine learning model capable of predicting incident depression in elderly Chinese patients suffering from gastrointestinal or chronic liver diseases. This work, poised to transform clinical approaches and preventive strategies, delves […]

Chris Stokel-Walker / New Scientist: A study finds GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash deployed tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war game scenarios, and never surrendered  —  Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

William Shaw / Bloomberg: Deutsche Bank partners with Google Cloud to build agentic AI to monitor 1TB of daily communications and 40+ channels for market abuse and data loss prevention  —  Deutsche Bank AG and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are looking to agentic artificial intelligence to help bolster trading surveillance …

BreezeBio, a startup founded a decade ago to develop new delivery technologies for genetic medicines, has raised $60 million to start clinical trials of its first program, it announced Wednesday. The therapy is meant to ...

SambaNova says its SN50 AI accelerator platform is about five times faster and three times more efficient than Nvidia's B200. In addition, the company signs a pact with Intel to offer Xeon-based AI systems to enterprises and governments.

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is one of the best high volume stocks to invest in now. On February 23, Wells Fargo lowered its price target for Amazon.com from $305 to $304 while keeping an Overweight rating. This sentiment was posted as the firm identified compute capacity as the critical factor for success, as AI demand outpaces […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) is one of the best high volume stocks to invest in now. On February 24, Evercore ISI raised its price target for AMD to $358 from $328 with an Outperform rating. This decision was made as the firm increased estimates to reflect a new partnership with Meta.  Evercore ISI considers […]

Users of social media - where the marketing campaign has been launched - say it is out of keeping with Gucci's reputation for luxury.

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: A top US export control official says Nvidia has yet to sell any H200 chips to China, two months after President Trump's decision to allow AI chip shipments  —  Nvidia Corp. has yet to sell any of its H200 chips to China two months after President Donald Trump's decision to allow shipments …

A new steering-based control method enhances autonomous robot tracking accuracy in open environments, crucial for safety in chemical processing facilities.

Singapore (SDX) Feb 25, 2026 Small satellites have become attractive for space missions because they offer low cost and flexibility, but their growth has been limited by the lack of compact, efficient propulsion systems that work well in the vacuum of space. In orbit, spacecraft can only change their motion through reaction force, and traditional chemical rockets produce thrust by burning fuel to generate high temperature g

Artificial intelligence detectors are increasingly used to check the veracity of content online. We ran more than 1,000 tests and found several strengths and plenty of weaknesses.

Nano-ferric oxide in solar desalination ponds improves thermal efficiency and freshwater yield, as shown in a recent study in Scientific Reports.

Advanced Micro Devices just locked in its second massive AI chip supply agreement. This time, the buyer is

Author(s): Charles DayTwo investigations underscore the role of orbital instabilities in accounting for the diversity of planetary systems. [Physics 19, 27] Published Tue Feb 24, 2026

Charged helium nanodroplets stored in an ion trap for a full minute, 10,000x longer than before, open breakthrough possibilities in nanocalorimetry and nanoscale research.

A flexible foam sensor built from silver selenide detects temperature and pressure simultaneously, enabling a robotic gripper to identify nine different materials with 96% accuracy.

Jim Cramer calls Citrini's AI "Intelligence Crisis" science fiction as Goldman Sachs pivots to "HALO" assets. A deep dive in software crash. Importance Rank:  2 read more

Xiaomi is doubling down on its five-year plan for core technologies including chips, artificial intelligence and operating systems, aiming to position itself as a deep-tech player amid China’s self-reliance push, while peers such as Li Auto and Xpeng accelerate moves into humanoid robotics. Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of the Beijing-based smartphone and electric vehicle giant, on Tuesday said private technology firms must deepen investment in core technologies and speed up the...

South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung marked Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s state visit with an AI-generated video animating their shared past as factory workers, before the two men embraced as heads of state. Lula arrived in Seoul on Sunday for a three-day trip – his first to South Korea in 21 years – with the two countries agreeing at a summit on Monday to elevate ties to a strategic partnership. The 11-second clip, posted to Lee’s social media account on Monday, begins with...

Atom-level understanding of how the surface electronic properties of a magnetic semimetal can be tuned could guide its use in advanced technologies like spintronics and catalysis.

Unveiling Life’s Dawn: The Revolutionary Nanozymes Hypothesis Reshaping Our Understanding of Earth’s Origin of Life For decades, the enigma surrounding life’s emergence from inert chemicals on early Earth has fascinated scientists, yet the process remains shrouded in mystery. While myriad hypotheses have been posited—from the Metabolism-first world and Zinc world to the RNA and Lipid […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming healthcare and medical education. From enhancing diagnostic accuracy and clinical decision-making to enabling virtual simulations and personalized learning, AI technologies are becoming embedded in the daily practice of clinicians and trainees.

Cathie Wood pushed back against Citrini Research's warning of an AI-driven economic downturn, arguing that artificial intelligence will instead fuel productivity, GDP growth and lower inflation, even as ARK Invest doubled down on DoorDash shares despite its recent earnings miss. Importance Rank:  1 read more

If you’re looking to get a dog but have reservations about all the poop, pee, and chewed shoes that you’ll have to deal with, then how about getting a robot one instead? Unitree has brought the idea a step closer with the launch on Tuesday of the impressive-looking As2 quadruped. The Chinese robotics giant already […] The post Meet As2, a robot dog that runs on batteries not belly rubs appeared first on Digital Trends.

Hundreds of AI-generated Chinese-language YouTube videos have been targeting Singapore and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong as part of an ongoing disinformation campaign. Seven in 10 videos attack Wong specifically, fabricating narratives about his leadership role being under threat and spreading conspiracy theories about political infighting in Singapore. The videos have racked up millions of views since surfacing late last year, though experts suggested that bot traffic or automation could be...

Financial Times: London-based self-driving startup Wayve raised a $1.2B Series D at an $8.6B post-money valuation, with Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and Nissan among investors  —  Self-driving group valued at $8.6bn as it gears up to launch robotaxi service in London this year

The London-based company is building a system that uses artificial intelligence to power autonomous vehicles.

Chandra's X-ray Space Telescope, with some help from the Hubble, spotted a young Sun-like star about 120 light-years away with a powerful stellar wind. It's carving out its astrosphere, a bubble of relatively hot gas that's pushing into the surrounding, much cooler, interstellar medium. This is the same process our Sun went through 5 billion years ago when it created the heliosphere.

Pentagon gives Anthropic until Friday to remove military restrictions on Claude AI model or face contract termination and Defense Production Act.

The next big thing for phones after foldables?

According to a new filing with the European Union, Apple has acquired the assets of invrs.io and hired its founder, who is the only employee. Here are the details. more…

Protect the robot, sacrifice the human opinion  I've been watching AWS explain away outages for the better part of a decade. And this is hard!…

JWST observed Uranus for nearly a full rotation, charting the planet's upper atmosphere and magnetic environment for the first time.

In the horticultural world, some vines are especially grabby. As they grow, the woody tendrils can wrap around obstacles with enough force to pull down fences and trees. Inspired by vines’ twisty tenacity, engineers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a robotic gripper that can snake around and lift a variety of objects and…

Researchers at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CEB) have found a new way to organize molecules inside living cells, opening possibilities for more controlled and efficient biomanufacturing. The team has published a paper in Nature Communications demonstrating that engineered RNA molecules can self-assemble into membraneless organelles inside Escherichia coli (E. coli).

A new study has revealed how tiny imperfections and vibrations inside a promising quantum material could be used to control an unusual quantum effect, opening new possibilities for smaller, faster, and more efficient energy-harvesting devices.

Meta signs a potential $100 billion AI chip deal with AMD, securing up to 6 gigawatts of capacity as it diversifies beyond Nvidia. The post $100B Deal: Meta’s AI Chip Pact With AMD Could Shake Up Tech Industry appeared first on TechRepublic.

Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) refers to spinal cord compression from arthritis in the neck and is the leading cause of spinal cord dysfunction in older adults. CSM is a chronic, progressive condition that can cause neck pain, muscle weakness, difficulty walking and other debilitating symptoms. While the diagnosis is sometimes clear, often the diagnosis can take years because symptoms aren't recognized until the later stages, and by then, treatment options are limited.

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Researchers at the University of Tuebingen, working with an international team, have developed an artificial intelligence that designs entirely new, sometimes unusual, experiments in quantum physics and presents them in a way that is easily understandable for researchers. This includes experimental setups that humans might never have considered. The new AI doesn't just create a single design proposal; instead, it writes computer code that generates a whole series of physical experiments, that is, groups of experiments with similar outputs. The study has been published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.

At the 2026 World Ag Expo in Tulare, one of the most talked-about innovations isn’t a new tractor or chemical — it’s a laser. Paul Mikesell, founder and CEO of ... Read More The post From Backyard Prototype to Global Ag Tech: Carbon Robotics’ LaserWeeder Revolution appeared first on AgNet West.

Author(s): Luke D. Smith, Farhan T. Chowdhury, Jonas Glatthard, and Daniel R. KattnigWhile spin-correlated radical pairs have shown promise for molecular-scale quantum technologies, core questions remain about how they function as a chemical compass for magnetosensing. Conventional thinking suggests that unavoidable interradical interactions and uncontrolled dissipation should degrade magnetic field sensitivity. However, this theory work shows that interradical motion in biophysical settings can push magnetometry close to the Cramér-Rao bound and increase precision to subdegree levels. Even more remarkably, environmental complexity and spin-spin interactions can the fraction of usable information encoded in the spin dynamics, rather than degrading coherence. [Phys. Rev. Applied 25, 024074] Published Tue Feb 24, 2026

Author(s): Isabelle Y. Phinney, Andrew Zimmerman, Zeyu Hao, Patrick J. Ledwith, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Philip KimMagnetotransport and electric field both tunes and probes the band structure of twisted quadrilayer graphene while simultaneously measuring the superconducting properties of the system. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086501] Published Tue Feb 24, 2026

Author(s): Israel Osmond, Lewis J. Conway, Mikhail A. Kuzovnikov, Callum Stevens, Tomas Marqueño, Hannah A. Shuttleworth, Andrew Huxley, Chris J. Pickard, Graeme J. Ackland, Ross T. Howie, and Miriam Peña-AlvarezThe first direct demonstration that hydrogen content alone drives the superconductor-to-insulator transition in A15-type lanthanum hydride provides a benchmark for tunable high-T c superconductivity at reduced pressures. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086102] Published Tue Feb 24, 2026

Google sent out an AI-generated news alert that included the N-word, according to reporting by Deadline. The push notification featured a link to a story by The Hollywood Reporter regarding an incident at the recent BAFTA Film Awards. The word appeared in the notification under the link. This was first spotted by Instagram user Danny Price, who accompanied a screengrab with a caption reading "what an interesting Black History Month this has turned out to be." Google has since apologized and said that it has "removed the offensive notification" and is "working to prevent this from happening again." This story follows the aforementioned BAFTA incident, in which an audience member with Tourette syndrome shouted the N-word when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo took to the stage to present an award. Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson, who made the comment, said he was "deeply mortified if anyone considers my involuntary tics to be intention

Nvidia stock could be the most watched name during the week with Q4 earnings Wednesday and a chance to boost the beaten-down tech sector. Latest Ratings for NVDA View More Analyst Ratings for NVDA View the Latest Analyst Ratings Importance Rank:  1 read more

Google is expanding its US data center presence with a new AI hub in Minnesota, powered by clean energy and innovative grid solutions. Importance Rank:  1 read more

In a remarkable advance poised to reshape the landscape of photonics and silicon-based optoelectronics, a collaboration of researchers led by Professor Dries Van Thourhout at Ghent University – imec, Belgium, has unveiled an innovative class of nano-ridge surface-emitting lasers (NRSELs) directly epitaxially grown on standard 300 mm silicon wafers. This breakthrough, documented in the prestigious […]

In a groundbreaking advancement poised to redefine the future of adaptive materials, researchers from an international consortium led by the University of Birmingham have unveiled a new class of metamaterials whose mechanical properties shift dynamically in response to loading speed. This novel discovery originates from an intriguing phenomenon observed in everyday rice grains: when compressed […]