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A surprising two-year clinical trial found that fish oil supplements successfully delivered omega-3s to the brain but failed to improve memory or protect against Alzheimer's-related brain shrinkage. Researchers suspect that getting these nutrients through a healthy diet may offer benefits that supplements alone cannot provide.

Author(s): Michael SchirberA new hint of topological superconductivity has been identified in an iron-based superconductor. [Physics 19, s134] Published Thu Oct 22, 2026

Author(s): Vernon BargerIf the 220 PeV KM3NeT neutrino is a two-body decay line from a long-lived dark-matter bound state, its energy fixes the relic mass, its flux the lifetime, and the lifetime the mass of the mediator that lets the relic decay: 10¹⁴ to 10¹⁶ GeV, the Majorana-mass window of unified models. Future events will test this reading against a flaring astrophysical source. [APS Open Sci. 1, 000180] Published Thu Oct 22, 2026

Author(s): Wenyao Liu et al.Edge-mediated nonlocal transport measurements in thin Fe(Te,Se) devices reveal a robust conductance plateau governed by spontaneous magnetic ordering. [Phys. Rev. X 16, 041022] Published Thu Oct 22, 2026

HD Hyundai is accelerating its push into the North American market by joining hands with Kiewit, the largest construction and engineering company in the United States, to directly build a shipyard in the country.HD Hyundai said it signed an agreement with Kiewit in Houston on Oct. 22 local time to e

Associated Press: US Treasury proposes rules tightening restrictions on US investments in areas including AI and supercomputing in China, Russia, and other “countries of concern”  —  The U.S. Treasury Department proposed a rule Thursday to crack down on American high-tech investments such as supercomputing …

Getty Images filed for Chapter 11 as part of a debt restructuring. The filing follows a failed Shutterstock merger and growing competition from AI-generated imagery.

If you wanted a Nobel Prize, you would do well to study neutrinos. To date, the Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded five times to research related to neutrino detection and discovery. This year, Francis Halzen earned the Nobel "for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin."

Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune: a16z rebrands a16z Crypto as a16z Frontier and expands the fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies  —  In 2018, Andreessen Horowitz made a splash in the venture capital world by launching a spin-off dedicated to digital assets called a16z Crypto.

What, exactly, is a plant made of? Scientists have a good understanding of the essential nutrients plants need to grow. But what plants need and what they contain are not necessarily the same.

Chinese humanoid robot makers are accelerating efforts to gain a foothold in Korea, moving beyond dance performances and showroom displays to factory trials and other commercial applications as Seoul beefs up investment in physical artificial intelligence (AI). A string of Chinese robotics companies have flexed their muscles or announced projects in the country this year, including Hong Kong-listed Ubtech, startup Anyverse Dynamics, Shanghai-based Agibot and leading robot maker Unitree. “China’s new generation of robot companies has global DNA and naturally looks overseas, and Korea is one of the most important markets in Asia-Pacific,” said Ethan Qi, an associate director covering robotics at Counterpoint Research. The absence of locally built humanoids available at scale has created an opening for Chinese suppliers, he added. Early footprint Representatives of Galaxy Robot Park, a robot-themed entertainment venue in Seoul, agreed to buy Ubtech’s lifelike U1 model after attending its

A joint research team fabricated a two-dimensional structure that exhibits properties of both the honeycomb and Kagome lattices using organic molecules. They discovered that edge states specific to topological materials (states that exist only at the edges and are distinct from those in the interior) appear in this structure. The team included researchers from NIMS, Toyota Kosen (National Institute of Technology, Toyota College), Saga University, Nara Women's University, Kiel University (Germany) and other institutions.

Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model, called Canva Craft, uses a two-stage architecture that allows it to plan a design before generating an image, allowing for "greater precision, consistency and control," according to an announcement on Thursday. Canva Craft can generate images at up to 2K resolution and in more than 30 aspect ratios. In addition to generating social media posts and marketing content, it's also supposed to create realistic scenes, digital art, environmental imagery, and more. The model's two-stage sy … Read the full story at The Verge.

Canva launches Craft, its first AI image generation model, with 2K resolution, improved text rendering, 30 aspect ratios, and design-focused training.

New research started with a special material that behaves unusually when it's extremely cold—135 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (minus 93 degrees Celsius), close to the most frigid temperature ever recorded in Antarctica—and showed that the unusual behavior could be extended to well above room temperature—up to about 135 F (57 degrees Celsius), close to the highest heat ever measured in Death Valley, California.

With the speed at which AI is progressing, it’s only a matter of time before we start getting AI companions akin to what we used to see in movies like R2-D2, Wall-E, or Baymax. Now, Singapore-based OKA Technology has unveiled Mori, a cute little AI companion that looks less like a conventional home robot and […]

Nvidia DSX POD Building an AI data center usually means months of cabling, piping and testing on site.

Einride Tests Nvidia Alpamayo Nvidia’s newest driving model will ride along in Einride’s trucks without touching the controls.

A One-Positron Quantum Cyclotron Loading one antimatter particle into the trap takes up to 11 hours. Once it

A great photo often needs a little extra work before it is ready to share. However, you do

The Vera Rubin Observatory's Commissioning Camera operated for about 7 weeks in 2024, before the observatory released its well-known first look images. It's an engineering camera, and its job was to test the VRO's equipment and procedures. Now, the VRO has released the ComCam's image of the Seagull nebula. It's a pretty stunning image for an engineering camera.

Humanoid robots, intelligent machines and powerful supercomputers take centre stage at Nvidia's Berlin event. CEO Jensen Huang predicted a thriving AI economy in Europe.

Contact centers are adding AI agents without the infrastructure to govern them. A new benchmark reveals the scale of the problem. Continue reading...

RFD4-Proteina is an open model based on Nvidia’s NVIDIA BioNeMo™ artificial intelligence (AI) platform for chemistry and biology that combines programmable protein design with search capabilities. RFD4-Proteina generates targeted protein designs, enabling scientists and agents to search and refine those designs using molecular inputs, constraints, and scoring objectives. The post Nvidia, UW Institute for Protein Design Unveil Open-Source Protein Design AI Model appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news sites, like The Verge - but legal experts say these changes aren't enough to address their concerns. "This does nothing to restrict the 'associated with your products or services' [language] that would let Meta scrape entire sites," James Grimmelmann, a professor of digital and information law at Cornell Law School, tells Nieman Lab. Initially, Meta's new terms for business accounts appeared to give the company permission to train its AI on news sites. The terms, which go into effect October 30th, stated that Meta "may use any … Read the full story at The Verge.

Besides coming to Android Auto this week, Personal Intelligence in the Gemini app is also expanding its Google Maps integration. more…

OpenAI used nearly 2,000 AI agents to analyze mouse brain-cell data in 32 minutes, uncovering possible links to neurological diseases for further study. The post OpenAI Ran Nearly 2,000 AI Agents on Brain Data: What They Found in 32 Minutes appeared first on TechRepublic.

Explore Google Chrome's features, Gemini AI, Auto Browse, security settings, privacy controls, and Chrome Enterprise tools in this complete cheat sheet. The post Google Chrome Cheat Sheet: Features, Gemini AI, Security, and More appeared first on TechRepublic.

SMBH jets are driven by thick, hot accretion disks with powerful magnetic fields. But there's a bit of a paradox. Some SMBH produce jets, even though they appear to have thin, cold accretion disks. New research has solved this paradox, showing that disks can be truncated into an outer cold disk and an inner hot disk.

Maria Diaz / ZDNET: Amazon rebrands Kindle Unlimited as Kindle+ and expands access to audiobooks, including titles narrated by AI  —  Unlike narrated audiobooks from Audible and other providers, the audiobooks created with Virtual Voice in Kindle+ will instead be narrated by AI.  —  ZDNET's key takeaways

Security researchers found more than 6,800 Meta Muse AI share links in public DNS records, exposing sensitive data. Meta paused the sharing feature.

Drug development requires evidence integration across biological scales and modalities, but relevant tools are fragmented. We introduce the Virtual Biotech, an organization of artificial intelligence (AI) agents modeled on a drug-development company, ...

Teams led by physicist used “BootLoops” software to produce 36 papers in weeks on everything from linguistics to health policy

Last month, leading executives of artificial intelligence (AI) companies warned the United Nations Security Council about the risks of losing human control over this rapidly advancing technology. Their recommendations focused heavily on safeguards, ...

Advances in biological artificial intelligence (AI) have brought biosecurity to the center of public debate, and the US Congress is now considering the Biosecurity Modernization and Innovation Act (1). Yet this debate, like biosecurity more broadly, remains focused largely on human health and overlooks the importance of pathogens that affect crops and livestock. The United States and governments worldwide should prioritize crop and livestock protection by minimizing the likelihood of deliberate pathogen attacks and making the targets less vulnerable to harm.

Although whole numbers and fractions are processed differently in the brain, when you compare their values, a single "mental map" akin to a number line lights up.

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman. | Getty Images For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest examples of where their technology will improve lives. Now "it is finally here," Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge. The company claims to have developed an AI-powered tool it says can diagnose conditions up to four times more accurately than human doctors. The findings, published Thursday in one of the world's most prestigious journals, Science, are based on tests pitting Microsoft's AI system against human physicians on a series of scenarios drawn from medical case reports and emergency department data. Microsoft compiled the cases into its own benchmark, S … Read the full story at The Verge.

A 71-year-old man was fatally hit by a Tesla operating in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode while crossing I-80 in Vallejo, CA around 2:30 AM on Thursday, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The California Highway Patrol's statement to media outlets says it reviewed video of the accident from the Tesla's dashcam, which "showed the Tesla's brakes being applied as the vehicle steered to the left in an effort to avoid the pedestrian […] Despite these evasive actions, the right front portion of the Tesla struck the individual." According to the Chronicle, authorities believe at least one other vehicle struck the pedestrian after the Tesla, but othe … Read the full story at The Verge.

Ever since quantum mechanics first described particles, like electrons, as rippling waves, researchers have wondered if those waves could be trapped in place. Writing today in Science a century later, a team of Columbia University researchers reports waves of electrons becoming trapped for the first time in a metal called Pd₅AlI₂.

Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing  —  Formic, a physical AI commercialization platform, raised $50 million in financing, CEO Saman Farid tells Axios exclusively.

Theory says that during some SMBH mergers, the merger remnant receives a recoil kick from gravitational waves. Instead of sitting placidly in the galactic center, these recoiled SMBH are sent on a pendulum-like motion, back and forth through the galactic center. New research has found statistical evidence supporting their existence.

A MoO3 film supported by TiO2 nanopillars produced a 265% electrical response to 10 ppm ammonia at 300 °C and remained reversible across 2–40 ppm in laboratory tests.

In this Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope, we visit a turbulent cauldron of star formation to see what is brewing inside dense clumps of gas. This is a star-forming region named LHA 120-N 159, or simply N159, located 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way galaxy. This image spans about 230 light-years across.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope continues to reveal hidden parts of the cosmos with its advanced suite of infrared instruments. In a newly released image, Webb revealed many stars previously hidden by the dust clouds of NGC 7129, a stellar nursery about 3,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cepheus. The image is already improving our understanding of how new stars are born and evolve with time.

Nvidia has launched Minerva, AI operations software that combines data from GPUs, networks, storage and workloads to spot failing parts in large AI data centres early. It groups alerts into single incidents and has an AI assistant. IREN uses it, and Lambda, IBM and Tesla plan to. Nvidia has launched Minerva, software that watches over […] This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk threatens legal action over Alex Gibney's documentary, which uses an AI-generated likeness and faces disputes over Starlink and the 2024 US election.

Tesla Full Self-Driving (Supervised) showed a record attach rate at delivery for new vehicles in the third quarter of 2026. 75 percent of new vehicle deliveries in North America included a subscription to FSD software, up from 55 percent in the prior quarter, a 20-percentage-point sequential gain in the company’s most mature market. Tesla Q3 […] The post Tesla buyers are buying for Full Self-Driving and not for the car, data shows appeared first on TESLARATI.

The force exerted by a gas usually results from many atoms or molecules at once. But scientists isolated the force of a lone particle.

Unresponsive ICU patients in a new Columbia study were able to raise and lower the frequency of a beeping tone with their minds, via noninvasive EEG electrodes that recorded and translated their brain waves.

Rocket Drew / The Information: Atlanta-based Tractian, which uses AI and sensors to predict machine failures and recommend maintenance, raised a $130M Series D at a $1.4B valuation  —  Tractian, a 7-year-old physical AI startup based in Atlanta, Georgia, has raised $130 million at a valuation of $1.4 billion in a Series D funding round led by Sapphire Ventures.

Unlike narrated audiobooks from Audible and other providers, the audiobooks created with Virtual Voice in Kindle+ will instead be narrated by AI.

By analyzing data on around 100,000 quasars, or extremely luminous galactic nuclei, researchers at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) have found statistical evidence that some supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are ejected from their positions after forming. The relationship now identified in the data was predicted 10 years ago by members of the same research group, Peter Raffai and Zsolt Frei, together with Zoltán Haiman.

AI adoption in medicine is accelerating: More than 12,000 primary care clinicians have enrolled in Canada Health Infoway's national AI scribe program, about 5,000 Ontario physicians use AI scribes and roughly one in five Canadian physicians now use AI tools. Almost 60% report a cut in administrative time.

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Warp Sciences, founded by ex-OpenAI product chief Kevin Weil to speed up AI drug development, emerges from stealth with $215M at an $865M post-money valuation  —  Kevin Weil, the former OpenAI executive who led the ChatGPT maker's AI-for-science efforts, is launching a new startup aimed …

As we get closer to autonomous, AI-driven medical care becoming a reality, regulators are racing to catch up. The FDA in August released a discussion paper with ideas about how ...

Zurich-based Enact Intelligence has emerged from stealth with a $30M pre-seed round from redalpine, Notion Capital and firstminute capital. It builds robots that sense force and touch through their motors, not only cameras. Founder Manuel Yves Galliker previously led software for 1X’s NEO humanoid. Enact Intelligence, a Zurich startup building robots that can feel force […] This story continues at The Next Web

Prices for the social media giant's 5-year credit default swaps are reaching all-time highs as investors signal growing credit concerns.

Prices for the social media giant's 5-year credit default swaps are reaching all-time highs as investors signal growing credit concerns.

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A preclinical magnetic nanoparticle system co-delivered paclitaxel and psoralen, improving activity against paclitaxel-resistant triple-negative breast cancer cells and tumors in mice.

China's Unitree unveils the H2-X humanoid robot with kung fu moves and rescue demonstrations, but questions remain about its autonomy, safety and endurance. The post China’s Unitree Shows Off H2-X Robot With Kung Fu Moves and Rescue Skills appeared first on TechRepublic.

Technion researchers have presented evidence for the existence of solar-storm-like outbursts near supermassive black holes, which can be a million times larger than the sun or more. The phenomenon was discovered in the vicinity of the black hole in the galaxy NGC 3783, and the researchers' findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Scientific estimates show that there should be between about 100 million and 1 billion stellar-mass black holes in the Milky Way. But they aren't easy to locate. They're not like supermassive black holes (SMBH) at the centers of galaxies. Those are usually easy to spot for different reasons.

John Koetsier / Forbes: Maxinsights, which creates training data for robots using first-person footage from cameras worn by 5,000+ contractors, raised a $30M seed led by Peak XV  —  This voice experience is generated by AI.  Learn more. … Investors put $47.4 billion into physical AI in the first half of 2026 …

An international team of scientists from the University of Sheffield and the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, led by a postdoctoral research fellow from the University of Newcastle, Australia, has discovered that solar jets called spicules, which are 6–8 Mm long, take the form of warped, denser plasma sheets like pleated drapery.

Google Universal Cart tracks price drops, surfaces promo codes and uses Google Wallet to match your best credit card rewards before checkout.

Humanoid robots aren’t ready to juice up the massive, 240-tonne electric haul trucks Fortescue is putting to work in Australia’s punishing Pilbara. Instead, the company is using specially modified and massively powerful automotive assembly-line robots from KUKA to wrangle the massive cables needed to deliver a mind-bending 6 MW of power to its trucks’ batteries. more…

Devices that link human minds to computers are progressing rapidly. Already, these brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are allowing patients with severe paralysis to communicate, use digital devices or control smart homes with their brains.

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Microsoft says a China-aligned hacking group used AI agents to breach ConnectWise’s Cloud Backup service, opening a route into customers’ Microsoft 365 accounts. Microsoft Threat Intelligence published its findings on Storm-0940 on October 21. ConnectWise disclosed the breach in a security advisory on October 16, the same day security firm Huntress published its initial account […] This story continues at The Next Web

Step one in convincing people to live with robots with cameras on their faces? Disguise them as cute home decor.

Unlike classical physics, quantum mechanics generally cannot tell us exactly what will happen in an individual event. Instead, it predicts the probabilities of different outcomes. As one of the theory's early pioneers, Erwin Schrödinger played a key role in debates about what this randomness really means. However, part of his contribution has stayed hidden for more than 80 years.

John Reynolds / Tech.eu: Enact, which develops full-stack tech for general-purpose robots, emerges from stealth with a $30M pre-seed from Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch, Yann LeCun, and more  —  Enact Intelligence is building the underlying tech for general purpose robots.  —  Swiss robotics startup Enact Intelligence …

Scientists have discovered why common marmosets have unusually small, smooth brains despite starting development much like other primates. The secret lies in subtle changes to brain-building cells that slow neuron production, revealing new clues about how the large, folded human brain evolved.

Elon Musk said AI could rapidly replace some computer-based work, while skilled trades may remain in demand longer. ILO research suggests most exposed jobs will be transformed rather than eliminated

Nvidia is sending ‘love calls’ to Samsung Electro-Mechanics and LG Innotek, following Korean semiconductor companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The artificial intelligence (AI) alliance front led by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jensen Huang appears to be expanding from memory semicon

A 12-patient retrospective series found that floating-docked da Vinci SP repair completed all totally extraperitoneal inguinal hernia procedures without conversion, major complications or early recurrence.

How much evidence should the FDA require before it authorizes a generative AI-enabled medical device? The question was a point of contention among healthcare lobbying organizations and tech companies, who weighed in as the FDA ...

NeuroXT Inc announced that NEXT-Cue, its AI-based Software as a Medical Device supporting prognostic assessment in patients with mild cognitive impairment, has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a Class II medical device. NEXT-Cue integrates brain MRI images, demographic data and cognitive assessment results to provide supplementary information intended to […] The post NeuroXT earns FDA clearance for AI brain scan analyzer for Alzheimer’s appeared first on Longevity.Technology.

Older Americans are embracing Meta’s Muse for everyday tasks and companionship—even as experts warn about the AI agent’s privacy risks.

Agility Robotics will use Nvidia’s IGX Thor modules as the only onboard computer in Digit 5, the next version of its humanoid robot. The company announced the deal on Thursday. Nvidia will be the exclusive supplier of onboard compute for the version that goes on general sale. Agility expects early access to Digit 5 to […] This story continues at The Next Web

Deepening “symbiosis” with artificial intelligence model start-up DeepSeek is helping Chinese tech champion Huawei Technologies catch up with Nvidia’s chip hardware and software ecosystem in a scenario that could mean Jensen Huang’s “nightmare is starting to come true”, according to a new report. DeepSeek’s latest software releases, on top of its increased experimentation with Huawei’s powerful Ascend 950PR chips, reveal that the technological gap with the US is closing, as the two firms...

Researchers fed fusion data to a new chip to see whether it could spot signs that superhot plasma is about to go haywire

Tesla needs to build between 10,000 and 20,000 Optimus humanoid robots so they can learn to perform tasks through practice, Elon Musk said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call on 21 October. Tesla has only recently started production on a new Optimus line in Fremont, California. “In order for Optimus to get the training data […] This story continues at The Next Web

Researchers developed a rapid, one-pot method that used sunlight and a commercial vincristine formulation to form gold nanoparticles within five minutes without separate reducing or stabilizing agents. The particles retained vincristine’s antiproliferative activity against Colo-205 colon cancer cells and showed greater DPPH radical scavenging than free vincristine at several tested concentrations, while questions about drug photostability, release, stability, and in vivo performance remain.

Google is bringing conversational Gemini navigation to Apple CarPlay, allowing drivers to ask multi-step questions about routes and destinations, but Personal Intelligence remains unconfirmed. The post Gemini Comes to Google Maps on Apple CarPlay: What Works appeared first on TechRepublic.

Figure AI's Figure 03 humanoid robot reportedly walked 348 miles in nine days. Here's what the endurance test reveals about robot reliability. The post Figure AI’s Humanoid Robot Walks 348 Miles in Just 9 Days appeared first on TechRepublic.

Laboratory irradiation of gold nanorod suspensions showed that temperature rise varied approximately linearly with laser power and increased with particle concentration, without demonstrating cellular or clinical effects.

A Prussian blue-coated manganese-curcumin nanozyme film combined with near-infrared light reduced inflammation, bacterial burden and residual wound area in infected diabetic wounds in mice.

The Eiliko robot toy. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Eiliko, a cute robot charm you can hang on your bag with built-in AI conversations, turned out to be a security nightmare. It told owners that "your secrets are safe with me," but hackers could easily read complete transcripts of everything we told the toy, and that was just the beginning. The Verge and security researcher Sammy Azdoufal spent over a month trying to get in contact with the company, including emails to Energize Lab CEO and founder Shaw Yeung. Nobody would answer our questions. Now, the company is finally breaking its silence, though its response leaves something to be desired. View Link "We have confirmed the core issues ide … Read the full story at The Verge.

Tesla’s profit fell 43% in the third quarter as it spent heavily on AI, robots and self-driving cars. Net income came in at $787 million, down from $1.37 billion a year earlier, according to Tesla’s third-quarter update, published on Wednesday. Revenue was flat at $28.05 billion. The same update says Tesla has started building its […] This story continues at The Next Web

Microsoft Edge Canary is testing a new switch for disabling on-device AI features, giving users more control while leaving one important question unanswered: exactly what does it turn off?

Google's new Gemini tools help small businesses manage marketing and finances, but privacy protections differ across personal and enterprise accounts. The post Google’s New Gemini Tools Promise Less Busywork — but What About Your Business Data? appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google’s TPUs now serve AI in production at Meta, through new open-source engines that run PyTorch models natively on the chips.