The talk around AI typically revolves around productivity at work, or some kind of annoying AI slop. But a new Wall Street Journal report points to a more relatable use case. People are starting to use AI at home to get rid of the boring…
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Releasing a Spider Outside Seems Like the Nice Thing to Do… but It’s Often a Very Bad Idea
A spider on the wall usually sets off the same little drama. A glass comes down, a piece of paper slides underneath, and someone carries the animal to the yard as if they are correcting a mistake. It feels gentler than a shoe, and it feels…
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Gold nanopillar waveguide boosts quantum sensing with boron nitride spin defects
A nanostructured waveguide architecture merges three enhancement mechanisms on a single chip to overcome the low optical output of boron vacancy spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride. Alumina-coated gold nanopillars concentrate electromagnetic…
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Nature Robots secures €4 million seed funding to scale software for autonomous farming
Nature Robots, a technology company founded in Osnabrück in 2022 and a spin-off of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), has closed a seed financing round totaling €4 million. Participants in the round include…
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Researchers find training gaps impacting maritime cybersecurity readiness
Whether it’s a fire or a flood, a ship’s crew can only rely on itself and its training in emergencies at sea. The same is true for crews facing digital threats on oil tankers, cargo ships, and other commercial vessels.
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Local conservationists sustain research on threatened heron amid Myanmar instability
Community-led bird surveys have confirmed that one of the world’s most threatened bird species, the white-bellied heron, still survives in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state. As few as 50 mature white-bellied herons (Ardea insignis) are thought…
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Starcloud raises $170 million Series Ato build data centers in space
Starcloud’s latest funding round values the space compute company at $1.1 billion, making it one of the fastest startups to reach unicorn status after graduating from Y Combinator.
The company’s Series A, which closed 17 months after its…
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Farthest, fastest and most diverse: 6 major records the Artemis II astronauts will smash as NASA returns to the moon
After repeated delays, NASA is finally ready to launch its much-anticipated Artemis II mission, which will send humans back to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
The Artemis II crew includes commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor…
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Ripples in spacetime and the universe's most controversial number
Douglas Adams told us the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42. If only cosmology were so straightforward. Astronomers have been arguing for years about a number every bit as fundamental, and they still can’t agree on it.
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Starcloud achieves unicorn status with $170 million raise for orbital data centers
Starcloud has raised $170 million to accelerate development of its next-generation spacecraft, reaching a $1.1 billion valuation as it awaits permission to deploy an 88,000-strong orbital data center network.
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