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Every black hole hides a question at its center. Einstein's theory predicts that whatever falls in is crushed into a singularity, a point of infinite density where the theory itself breaks down. Most physicists expect quantum gravity to replace that point with something finite. But the center lies hidden behind the horizon. How could we ever learn what is there?

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Jonathan Rose takes us beyond Musk's company to explore two publicly traded stocks he's watching. One has a direct business relationship with an OpenAI-backed brain-interface developer, potentially positioning it to supply an important piece of this emerging technology. The other is a more speculative research-tools company with a very different set of opportunities and risks. The post Beyond Elon Musk’s Neuralink: Two Public Stocks With a Stake in the Brain Race appeared first on InvestorPlace.

Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Sources: as Google prepares to roll out its Gemini 4 Argon, staff are testing a new version internally named Carbon; one staffer says it “feels like Opus 5.5”  —  As Google prepares to roll out its new Gemini 4 ‘Argon’ model to the public, staff inside the company are testing better versions …

While some leaders warn of mass unemployment, Bezos predicts productivity gains could let people work less without sacrificing their ability to support a family.

NASA has taken the next step in the process of developing a new all-glass telescope for the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission, a space observatory designed to detect ripples in space-time called gravitational waves.

DEEP Robotics tested waterproof DR02 humanoid robots directing traffic and helping tourists in Hangzhou, China, raising questions about safety and reliability. The post China Tests Humanoid Robots to Direct Traffic in Heavy Rain appeared first on TechRepublic.

The automaker has been criticized for misleading drivers with the feature’s name. Now it’s renaming it for European regulators.

The European Union’s Digital Markets Act transparency website lists Huxe as Apple’s newest acqui-hire, and at least the fourth AI-related deal disclosed this year. Here are the details. more…

Nikon announced that it had disqualified the winner of its Small World in Motion competition over how A.I. was used in his submission.

A novel nanovesicle-based platform developed at Institute of Science Tokyo can measure hydrostatic pressure by converting pressure-induced molecular changes into fluorescence signals.

Researchers at Shiv Nadar University have developed a dual-path AI framework that combines a residual gated autoencoder with patchwise nearest-neighbor reconstruction to detect and localize visual anomalies without labeled defect examples.

Researchers have developed an AI-driven scheduler that predicts congestion in edge-cloud environments before it happens, cutting response times and protecting critical workloads.

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A systematic review of 21 preclinical studies finds that curcumin and its nanoformulations modulate key cancer signaling pathways and enhance chemotherapy sensitivity in ovarian cancer models, though clinical confirmation remains pending.

Solid tumors are not merely collections of malignant cells but complex ecosystems comprising tumor cells, stromal cells, and the extracellular matrix (ECM).

The original first place video used AI in post-processing. | Image: Dr. Ning Xu Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI." BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr. Ning Xu claimed to show "tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving in the airway of a child with the respiratory condition PCD." Nikon said last week that it was reviewing the video following skepticism online about its authenticity. In a comment on LinkedIn, Dr. Xu admitted to using AI for the video: "An unsupervised neural-network method was subsequently used for AI-assisted post-processing to distinguish and visualize f … Read the full story at The Verge.

Researchers in India report that lanthanum-doped nickel-cobalt layered double hydroxide nanosheets grown hydrothermally achieve a specific capacity of 390.3 mAh/g and 98.56 percent coulombic efficiency, pushing layered double hydroxide electrodes past their usual supercapacitor limits.

With Apple prepping the launch of a monster 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studio, I've found the M5 Max machine on sale for us mortals who don't need absolute power.

Tesla has renamed Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across its European websites, days after Germany said the old name was misleading. The page under the new name is unchanged, and the real obstacle to EU approval is speed rather than branding. Tesla has stopped calling its driver-assistance software Full Self-Driving in Europe. The feature […] This story continues at The Next Web

German regulators called Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" brand name "somewhat misleading."

German regulators called Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" brand name "somewhat misleading."

Perficient has launched an AI suite to help Medicare Advantage plans raise their CMS star ratings, which decide access to more than $13B a year in federal bonus payments. It arrived a day after CMS published 2027 ratings showing fewer plans qualifying, and the consultancy is owned by Swedish buyout group EQT. Perficient has launched […] This story continues at The Next Web

For highly fragile quantum information systems, the ability to store quantum information is vital—but also challenging. Quantum information is transported in particles of light called photons, which often must be temporarily paused (or "stored") while other, slower quantum operations catch up. This storage must be performed on microchips as small as 1 centimeter (0.4 inches)—a distance covered by light in a few trillionths of a second. Storing photons for a microsecond would represent a massive leap forward for the capabilities of quantum chips.

Researchers have introduced Greedy RRT*, a sampling-based motion planner that uses a greedy informed set to shrink the search region and converge to optimal robot paths faster than state-of-the-art methods.

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe after pushback from Germany, whose transport minister will now back its EU-wide approval  —  Tesla has changed the name of its advanced driver assistance system in Europe after pushback from Germany's transportation ministry.

Mannose-modified selenium nanoparticles target GLUT1-high inflammatory synovial cells in osteoarthritis, restoring selenoprotein antioxidant defenses, suppressing glycolysis, and easing pain and cartilage degeneration in mice.

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: Warehouse robotics startup Ultra raised a $12M seed and a $50M Series A, and expands its deal with Physical Intelligence to supply AI software for its robots  —  Finance editor Jeff John Roberts here.  The explosive growth of the robotics industry in recent years is reflected in new technology feats …

An Oxford-developed single-allele chromatin mapping platform called MCCv identifies causal noncoding variants in autoimmune disease and reveals that a neo-CTCF site blocks super-enhancer contacts to silence the tryptophan-sensing gene SESN3.

A study of 414 undergraduates at Arsi University finds 70 percent use generative AI tools like ChatGPT for self-diagnosis and self-medication, with digital literacy and weak health-seeking behavior among the key drivers.

Google's proposed $10M purchase of Spirit Airlines data faces scrutiny from lawmakers and unions over employee records and AI training.

Car technology is making rapid advances, and the car you will drive in 10 years may be very different from the one you're driving today.

Nvidia commits $1 billion over five years to support US science, quantum computing and AI research, expanding its role in the federal Genesis Mission. The post Nvidia’s $1 Billion Research Plan Targets AI, Quantum Computing and Medicine appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google's Gemini Agent can handle tasks across workplace apps, join team conversations, and complete longer assignments. See how it works and what's available. The post Google’s New Gemini Agent Can Handle Work Across Multiple Apps appeared first on TechRepublic.

One of the Pixel Watch 5’s quietly powerful features has landed on the Pixel Watch 4. The AI watch face generator that launched last year is currently rolling out to Pixel Watch 4 models. more…

Many naturally occurring molecules such as menthol or limonene exist in two mirror-image forms, known as enantiomers, that look almost identical but can differ greatly in smell, taste or effect on the body.

Tesla’s driver-assistance package is now called “Tesla Assisted Driving” in Europe. The company’s German website no longer mentions “Full Self-Driving,” and the old address now redirects to a new “Tesla Assisted Driving” page. The rename follows Germany’s Transport Ministry calling the FSD name misleading, and it’s part of a deal that has Berlin backing Tesla’s push for EU-wide approval. more…

Upscale AI’s Token Fabric An AI chip waiting for data is an expensive chip doing nothing. Santa Clara

New research shows that synthetic lipid nanoparticles trigger irregular calcium signals in cells partly through the pain-sensing ion channel TRPA1, with acidic environments amplifying the effect.

Brazilian researchers used guaraná seed extract to synthesize silver nanoparticles that showed diffusion-influenced electrochemical responses to a commercial deltamethrin formulation and concentration-dependent effects on gherkin and coriander seed germination.

University of Glasgow researchers are part of an international collaboration that could lead to a new generation of quantum sensors. The team, which included researchers from the University of Tokyo, University of Glasgow, University of Sheffield and Kobe University, has for the first time used light to read out the magnetic spin of electrons trapped inside a porous crystalline material known as a metal-organic framework (MOF).

Researchers in Cairo have developed a hybrid CNN–BiLSTM deep learning model fed by IoT sensor data that forecasts urban traffic flow with stable accuracy up to 72 hours ahead, outperforming traditional and single deep learning models.

Researchers at the University of Essex and British Telecom have built an AI video auditing system that combines fuzzy logic, dual-stream video transformers and retrieval-augmented language models to segment industrial workflows and generate calibrated, human-readable audit reports.

A new physics-constrained transfer learning framework lets AI retrieval algorithms trained on one weather satellite work accurately on another, improving cloud and precipitation forecasts across China's Fengyun-4 fleet.

A patch the size of a Band-Aid, stuck to your forehead, can now do something no traditional sleep study or fitness tracker can: nudge your brain toward a better night's sleep. William Coon, a sleep scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, has built a wearable device, meant to be used at home, that listens to brain activity and uses neurostimulation and other techniques to manufacture deep, restorative sleep.

Researchers in Florence have built generative diffusion models in which quantum coherence and the intrinsic noise of a real IBM quantum processor enhance, rather than degrade, image generation quality.

A new review synthesizes preclinical and clinical evidence showing that lipid nanoparticle biodistribution, mRNA persistence, and protein expression are distinct outcomes that must be measured separately to design safer, tissue-selective mRNA therapeutics.

Researchers at ETH Zurich and Roche have combined active learning with geometric and self-supervised deep learning to predict C–H borylation regioselectivity in drug-like molecules, correctly identifying borylation sites on all ten prospective test substrates.

Drone Attack on Yandex’s Sasovo Hub For weeks, Russian drones have pounded Ukrainian data centres and telecom offices.

From today, Gemini app users without a paid Google AI plan start losing two of its three models. Free personal accounts move to Gemini Flash-Lite only, according to Google’s Gemini Apps Help page. The change comes three days after Google released Nano Banana 2.1, a new image model built on Gemini 3.6 Flash. Subscribers to […] This story continues at The Next Web

Quantum computers, computer systems that leverage the laws of quantum mechanics, store and process information using qubits (i.e., quantum bits). In many quantum computers, qubits are linked via entanglement, a quantum mechanical effect that connects particles in such a way that their shared state cannot be described as separate, independent states.

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a factorized-gating mixture-of-experts framework that blends regime-specific turbulence specialists to deliver accurate, interpretable predictions across diverse flow regimes.

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Claire chatted to Kushant Patel from Brookhaven National Laboratory about robots that work in scientific facilities, such as particle accelerators. Kushant Patel builds software that helps robots and instruments perceive, map, and move through the physical world. After completing a Master’s in Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo, he spent two years at the University […]

Researchers in India have developed a smartphone-based colorimetric sensor using citrate-capped gold nanoparticles that detects the organophosphate pesticide ethion in water and soil at detection limits below regulatory thresholds.

Researchers in China have built a deep-learning model that fuses CT, MRI, and 3D radiation dose data to predict which nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients will develop life-threatening tissue necrosis after radiotherapy.

Google’s Gemini Agent for Work A manager emails asking for the latest project update as a slide deck.

I used Google Playground to create two games from descriptions alone, but the results showed why making something playable is very different from making a genuinely great game.

The half-yearly update to the Windows operating system gets a host of features for running AI models locally and securely

Eli Tan / New York Times: Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's decision to launch Muse despite safety concerns, after seeing that AI startup Instinct's similar agent product gained traction  —  Meta had delayed releasing Muse, its A.I. agent app, for months over safety concerns.  Then new competition forced Mr. Zuckerberg's hand.

At the start of 2026, Joshua Meier pitched his startup's collaboration with Eli Lilly as just the beginning. Meier's vision of a "year of deployment" has been more than an aspiration, as ...

Nearly a century after physicist Hans Bethe predicted them, scientists have created and directly observed unusual quantum states known as “Bethe strings” in an ultracold gas. By cooling cesium atoms to near absolute zero and trapping them in thousands of tiny one-dimensional tubes, researchers were able to make groups of atoms bind together without ordinary chemical bonds. These strange clusters could contain six or more particles and even collide with one another without falling apart.

A Canadian radio telescope has detected the faint glow of hydrogen from billions of years ago using only its own observations, proving a long-awaited way to map the distant universe can actually work. CHIME can use this hydrogen signal to trace how matter is spread across space and measure how the universe has expanded over time, offering a powerful new way to investigate dark energy.

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich combined physics-based digital shadows with neural-network bias correction, cutting wind turbine fatigue load prediction errors from up to 24 percent to below 5 percent in field tests.

Researchers synthesized copper ferrite nanoparticles using Pemphis acidula leaf extract via a hydrothermal method, achieving high specific capacitance and strong cycling stability for supercapacitor electrodes.

The review examines how engineered nanoparticles and predictive tools, including PK/PD, PBPK, CFD, and AI/ML models, could improve drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s diseases. It also identifies major barriers to clinical use, including low brain accumulation, long-term safety concerns, model validation, and differences between animal and human biology.

Researchers have shown that a pair of vertically arranged electromagnets can levitate and steer a magnetic robot inside a fluid-filled pipe with position errors below 0.1 millimeters, cutting horizontal drift by up to 58 percent compared with a single-electromagnet drive.

The topsides and jackets for two offshore substations (OSS) that will connect the 927 MW Gennaker offshore wind farm to Germany’s onshore grid...

Half of all US consumers use AI services — but only a small fraction pay for them. Google is trying to shift the balance by giving users of its Gemini AI services reasons to become paying customers. Users are certainly reluctant to dip into their pockets. A quarter of US consumers use AI daily, but only 4.5% have an active paid subscription to ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude, according to research from Andreesen Horowitz. The survey found, however, that consumers are extremely engaged and that the top 10% of spenders account for roughly half of all observed spending. Now Google is changing the rules on who can use which Gemini models, limiting what users of its free service and its lowest-priced subscription tier can do. Starting from October 9, those without a paid subscription will

Gemini Agent will handle long-running tasks autonomously in the cloud – all you need to do is give it a goal.

A German phase II trial called TRITICC-2 is testing whether oral trifluridine/tipiracil combined with nanoliposomal irinotecan can improve outcomes for patients whose biliary tract cancer has progressed after first-line chemotherapy.

Google launches Playground, an AI game-building platform that turns text prompts into playable games without coding. Here's how it works and who can use it. The post No Coding Needed: Google’s New AI Tool Builds Games From Your Ideas appeared first on TechRepublic.

Elon Musk plans to expand Grok Bot with routing to rival AI models, including Claude. The move raises questions about user privacy and AI competition. The post Elon Musk Wants Grok Bot to Route Users to Rival AI Models appeared first on TechRepublic.

Researchers have developed a cost-effective conversion that turns a standard epifluorescence microscope into a focus-stabilized TIRF platform achieving sub-10-nanometer DNA-PAINT and (d)STORM imaging.

A quadruped robot scampered more than 26.2 miles of uneven, hilly terrain alongside human runners without needing to be recharged.

A controlled evaluation of eight ambient voice technologies found that 30 to 68 percent of AI-transcribed surgical records contained clinically significant errors, with the most dangerous mistakes concentrated in medication doses and laboratory results.

Researchers combined a genetic algorithm with machine learning price forecasting to cut 643 tonnes of steel from a 15 MW floating wind platform and quantify how volatile steel markets swing project costs by up to 200 million euros per gigawatt.

According to Google, the agent can connect to a company’s enterprise systems, organise workload, access tools and return the completed work to the necessary location. Read more: Google launches workplace AI agent in bid to keep pace with rivals

Researchers in China have built an explainable AI framework that predicts student readiness for Industry 4.0 careers with 98.92 percent accuracy while revealing exactly which skills drive the outcome.

Researchers have built a 564-gene nanopore adaptive sampling panel that detects Parkinson's disease variants, structural rearrangements, and repeat expansions in a single sequencing run, correctly identifying 85 percent of known pathogenic variants.

From AI ethics and online age verification to taking on Big Tech, Proton is building a complete alternative to Google. TechRadar sat down with CEO Andy Yen to discuss AI, government surveillance, and the future of digital privacy.

Researchers at Hefei University of Technology report a vision-based grasping pipeline combining improved object detection, MobileSAM segmentation, and grasp pose estimation that achieved a 98 percent detection rate and 95 percent grasp success rate for collaborative robots in cluttered, unstructured scenes.

Researchers used explainable machine learning to predict and interpret the compressive strength of sustainable SCM-based concrete, finding LightGBM the most reliable model and revealing how cement, water, and slag interactions govern performance.

Microsoft bundled its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions last year, but it only allowed the primary account holder to access the AI benefits. Now, Microsoft is about to let Microsoft 365 Family and Premium subscribers share Copilot and AI usage features, alongside access to Office apps and OneDrive storage, with up to five other people on a plan. In an email to Microsoft 365 Family and Premium subscribers seen by The Verge, Microsoft outlines the changes that are coming to subscription plans over the coming months: AI for everyone on your plan: Share your Copilot benefits and AI usage with othe … Read the full story at The Verge.

The Iowa Neuroscience Institute is primed to make discoveries about humans’ most complex organ — and end debilitating

Last week, a friend running an EdTech platform sent me a message that started with “our video vendor

Hong Kong’s competition watchdog has raided 11 offices and homes over alleged bid-rigging for contracts to supply virtual reality (VR) systems to schools and non-profit organisations, with the deals valued at HK$10 million. The Competition Commission revealed on Friday that it had secured warrants and searched the 11 premises, including those of several IT service and equipment providers, other firms and the residences of several suspects, in an operation the day before codenamed “Lens”. The...

Green-synthesized zinc oxide nanoparticles made from bean husk waste significantly boosted the growth of black nightshade while reducing oxidative stress markers linked to nutrient limitation, pointing to a sustainable new soil amendment.

Researchers have unveiled EEG-UDAF, an unsupervised domain adaptation framework that fuses dual-view frequency features with spatio-temporal modeling to recognize emotions from brainwaves across subjects without labeled data.

Researchers have developed a hybrid particle-filter and neural network framework that predicts lithium-ion battery remaining useful life with 99.41 percent accuracy even across different manufacturing formation protocols.

A new review details how inorganic nanoparticles, from plasmonic silver and gold to doped titanium dioxide and upconversion nanocrystals, are dramatically boosting light-driven photodynamic inactivation of drug-resistant bacteria and fungi.

The White House outlined a $215 million quantum computing competition and $2.4 billion in AI industry commitments as concerns grow over quantum threats to cryptocurrency security.

By driving superconductors with two-picosecond electrical pulses faster than vortices can move, researchers have directly measured the intrinsic depairing current and exposed how gap symmetry shapes the breakdown of superconductivity.

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Researchers have developed a two-step machine-learning method that predicts small-molecule retention times in liquid chromatography for any experimental setup without target-system training data by first predicting conserved retention order and then mapping it to absolute times.

Researchers converted serial cognitive reaction time data into images and used a Transformer-based deep survival model to predict disability progression in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.

Researchers used Lempel-Ziv complexity to show that the blocking events of alpha-hemolysin nanopores are a genuinely stochastic phenomenon whose randomness depends on analyte concentration.

Researchers in India have built a lightweight, attention-guided deep learning model that classifies 33 bacterial species from Gram-stained microscope images with over 96 percent accuracy while running fast enough for point-of-care devices.

In the early history of our solar system, scientists theorize that a Mars-sized object called Theia smashed into the infant Earth, creating the Earth-Moon system. Using Webb, astronomers are studying young star systems to learn more about the early Solar System's evolution.