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Physicists at Peking University have uncovered a new way to confine light far beyond conventional limits — without relying on metals and their inherent energy dissipation. By formulating the singular dispersion equation, the team discovered narwhal-shaped wavefunctions that trap light at deep-subwavelength volumes in purely dielectric materials. The advance, dubbed singulonics, could pave the way for ultra-efficient photonic chips, new quantum technologies, and imaging tools with unprecedented resolution.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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In a sea of smart glasses I can’t see why you’d choose one with no camera, slow AI, and several other faults over anything else. Read more ›
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Google has shut down the Tenor API, breaking GIF pickers in services that still relied on it and forcing platforms such as X to migrate elsewhere. 9to5Google notes that the library itself remains available at Tenor.com and "integrations within Google products are also still active, including Gboard, Google Messages, and more." From the report: The Tenor API has been rejecting new API sign-ups in January of this year, but existing... Read more ›
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The prompt I typed was short. “Based on everything you know about me, describe my personality. Be detailed. Don’t flatter me.” I expected the usual ChatGPT shape — a careful profile heavy on words like “thoughtful” and “curious,” soft on anything that would actually sting. That was not what I got. A note before I ... Read more Read more ›
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Just when you think popcorn buckets can't level up any more, along comes this sinister creation. Read more ›
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Commodore announced its $499 Callback 8020 flip phone a couple of weeks ago, and apparently people didn't like the price. So now the device has gone up for pre-order as promised, but it starts at $399. That's some magic trick - making the product 20% cheaper before even launching it. Part of this is explained by the fact that the $399 price includes "eco-validated" RAM and storage, which means they're... Read more ›
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The Corvette ZR1X is a powerful midengined hypercar that broke another record at the Pikes Peak Hillclimb in Colorado. Here's what happened. Read more ›
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The LG C-Series has long been the default OLED recommendation for buyers seeking premium picture quality, strong gaming performance and dependable all-round value. The LG C6H OLED Evo AI doesn't reinvent the formula, but it introduces enough meaningful refinements in brightness, processing and usability to feel like the first genuinely significant C-Series upgrade in years. Read more ›
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Anthropic today introduced Claude Sonnet 5, a more affordable model that narrows the gap between Sonnet and Opus. Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 5 is its most agentic Sonnet model to date, able to make plans, use tools like browsers and terminals, and run autonomously. Opus models have better agentic capabilities, but they're more expensive than Sonnet models. Sonnet 5's performance is similar to Opus 4.8, and it has improved over... Read more ›
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One small charger for your laptop, phone, and tablet — the Baseus EnerFill 70W is now $24.99, down from $39.99. Read more ›
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Astell & Kern realises we can’t all afford one of its lovely digital audio players. So it’s trying to bring a little of the A&K magic to your humble smartphone… Read more ›
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Schneider Electric, a French energy management and power equipment company, said Tuesday that it agreed to buy Cognite Holding B.V, a Norwegian startup that develops AI agents, apps and models to solve complex industrial data problems. The transaction, an all-cash deal valued at $3.1 billion, ... Read more ›
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If you haven't had enough 4th of July deals from other hardware stores, your local Lowe's has also got some good discounts ready for you to check out. Read more ›
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Anthropic trained its newest Sonnet model to excel at agentic tasks, which have been causing a headache for the company's enterprise customers and power users. Read more ›
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The Federal Trade Commission fined Amazon $2.25 million to settle claims that the company failed to help customers who fell victim to identity theft, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In its complaint, the FTC accuses Amazon of refusing to provide customers with information about purchases made with fraudulent accounts, in violation of the Fair Credit […] Read more ›
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A violent anti-migrant propaganda movie titled Citizen Vigilante was a smash hit on Apple and Amazon over the weekend, and the online right is celebrating. The film, directed by a man frequently described as the world’s worst director and starring disgraced actor Armie Hammer, blew up after Elon Musk began promoting it on X. It […] Read more ›
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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Apple’s appeal in a case dealing with App Store fees. Read more ›
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Anthropic released Claude Science on Tuesday, a new desktop application to assist biologists with research by writing code, literature reviews and research reports, drawing on databases of biology research and biology-focused AI models. Anthropic has also decided to start running its own drug ... Read more ›
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The California-based startup enters a crowded headphone market with a $399 chiseled-aluminum gamble. Read more ›
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Scientists found that one tiny genetic change can completely alter how a coronavirus behaves in different species. Comparing SARS-CoV-2 with a closely related bat-only virus, they showed that a single amino-acid difference affects whether the immune system fights back or gets suppressed. This may help explain how some animal viruses make the leap to humans and become far more dangerous. Read more ›
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A study of nearly 300 people across northern Britain found that vitamin D levels often stay low all year in groups most at risk. Surprisingly, summer sunshine did not significantly boost vitamin D levels among older adults or people from minoritized ethnic backgrounds. Read more ›
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A groundbreaking superconducting X-ray spectrometer has begun operation at BESSY II, giving Europe its first TES-based system and boosting photon detection efficiency by up to 1,000 times. The advance enables scientists to explore atomically thin materials, nanostructures, and ultra-dilute samples with remarkable speed and sensitivity. Read more ›
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A new study suggests early humans were using fire in South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave as far back as 1.79 million years ago. Researchers found burned bones deep inside the cave, where natural wildfires could not have reached, indicating that fire was likely carried in and maintained by human ancestors. The discovery pushes back the timeline for fire use and reveals surprisingly sophisticated behavior long before humans could create fire on... Read more ›
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A hidden population of South African leopards has revealed a remarkable evolutionary story. Researchers analyzing entire leopard genomes discovered that the Cape Floristic Region’s leopards are not only much smaller than most African leopards, but also genetically distinct after being isolated for roughly 20,000 years. Surprisingly, despite their small population, they have retained much of their genetic diversity. Read more ›
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Scientists have uncovered a surprising new twist in what happens when cells die. As dying cells break apart, they leave behind tiny “footprints of death” packed with newly discovered particles that help guide the immune system to clean up the remains. But researchers found that influenza viruses can exploit this process, hiding inside these microscopic packages and potentially using them to spread to nearby cells. Read more ›
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Scientists have discovered a tiny group of neurons in an ancient brain region that acts like a built-in focus filter, helping the brain ignore distractions and zero in on what matters most. When researchers temporarily switched off these neurons in mice, the animals became unusually distractible—similar to what is seen in ADHD—but regained normal focus as soon as the neurons were reactivated. Read more ›
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What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness could arise in many different forms of life, even in beings built from radically different materials than those found on Earth. Drawing on the vastness of the universe and the likely existence of countless alien civilizations, they suggest it would be surprisingly Earth-centric to assume that only Earth-like biology can support conscious... Read more ›
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A Pacific-wide tsunami triggered by a magnitude 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake gave scientists their first detailed satellite view of a major tsunami in motion. The observations revealed unexpected wave behavior and helped uncover a larger earthquake rupture than earlier models predicted. Read more ›
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Osteopenia is a common but often overlooked condition that causes bones to become less dense and more fragile. Because it develops silently, many people only discover they have it after a fracture or bone scan. Aging, menopause, poor diet, and inactivity can all contribute to bone loss. Fortunately, exercise, adequate calcium and vitamin D, and other healthy habits can slow or even partially reverse the decline. Read more ›
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