Engineers at UNSW Sydney and Monash have developed an innovative way of sending hidden information that’s hard to intercept. Using a phenomenon known as “negative luminescence,” the system works by making signals blend perfectly into the…
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New 'negative light' technology hides data transfers in plain sight
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Hisense Unpacks 2026 U7 and U6 TVs With MiniLEDs and Quantum Dots
Hisense has unveiled its MiniLED TV range for 2026, including the U6 and U7 Series, which offer full-array local dimming and quantum dot color.
The U7 and U6 are the step-down models from the RGB MiniLED UR8, which Hisense announced at CES…
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Macbook Air’s storage drive shows impressive speed gain, even beating the MacBook Pro
The MacBook Air has always been the sensible choice — great battery, light enough to forget it’s in your bag. What it’s never been is the one that makes MacBook Pro owners feel slightly embarrassed. Until now, apparently.
When
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Zoox starts mapping Dallas and Phoenix for its robotaxis
Zoox is now mapping the streets of Dallas, Texas, and Phoenix, Arizona, as a precursor to testing its autonomous vehicles in the two Sun Belt cities.
The company said on Monday that it had sent a small number of its Toyota Highlander SUVs to…
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The usability imperative for securing digital asset devices
“As you develop these things, you’re a victim of your own development speed,” says Fadell, who developed Ledger Stax, a signing device for securing digital assets, and is now a board member at digital asset security firm Ledger. “If you…
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The Download: murky AI surveillance laws, and the White House cracks down on defiant labs
Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. More than a decade after Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s collection of bulk metadata from the phones of Americans, the US is still navigating a gap between what ordinary people think and what…
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Europe's low-carbon fuel bet: Pipelines could reshape costs from Spain to North Africa
In a new study, researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) compare the production costs of 21 different low-carbon fuel technologies across the globe. Their analysis shows that location-specific factors, including both resource availability…
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Finding the Genetic Changes that Matter with Genomic Maps
Advances in genetic technologies have enabled researchers to find regions of the genome that are linked to disease, but it has sometimes been difficult to identify the exact changes within those regions that…
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Man builds functional typewriter out of Legos
Lego kits have become impressively intricate over the years, but the company…
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Behind the feed: New research explores how social media algorithms shape our digital lives
Every time you scroll, like, or share on a social media platform, an algorithm is watching, learning, and deciding what you see next. But how many of us stop to think about what’s actually driving those decisions and what’s at stake when we don’t?
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