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Under the right conditions, liquid crystals condense into astonishing structures, spontaneously generating filaments and flattened discs that can transport material from one place to another, much like complex biological systems. The insight may lead to self-assembling materials, new ways to model cellular activity and more.
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PayPay and Alipay+ announced an extended partnership at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2024, to increasing merchant coverage across Japan. PayPay, Japan’s leading QR payment operator, and AliPay+, Ant International’s mobile payment method that helps merchants reach shoppers in Asia, will now connect over three million local merchants to the global payment ecosystem. The extended partnership... Read more » Read more ›
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"Challengers" screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes breaks down his latest film with director Luca Guadagnino, which adapts William S. Burroughs' "Queer." Read more ›
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Qualcomm's interest in acquiring Intel is cooling due to the complexity of the deal, Intel's debt, and regulatory hurdles. However, according to Bloomberg, Qualcomm may still explore acquiring certain divisions of Intel to expand into markets like PCs and networking. Tom's Hardware reports: [T]he proposed acquisition faced significant obstacles, including Intel's $50 billion debt, dropping CPU market share, and its struggling semiconductor manufacturing unit, an area where Qualcomm lacks expertise.... Read more ›
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"With DOGE coming out, people are absolutely looking to drive more economies of scale and more efficiency," Workday's CEO said on Tuesday. Read more ›
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Mike Manalac has worked in the tech hubs of San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and now Chicago. Here are his thoughts on each place and why one stood out. Read more ›
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Yesterday, we saw a 10-second clip on Reddit showing the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra with its flat design and slightly rounded corners. Now, we are looking at more images of the Galaxy S25 Ultra coming from the same source via Reddit user GamingMK and Android Authority. The images show us the bottom of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, having a USB-C port flanked by an S-Pen slot, speaker, microphone, and... Read more ›
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The CDC lowered the age for the pneumonia vaccination from 65 to 50 and recommended an extra COVID shot to some people. Here's everything to know. Read more ›
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The next round of cards joining Pokémon TCG Pocket have leaked ahead of December's events. Read more Read more ›
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The US gave Ukraine permission to hit Russia with long-range missiles, as it had long wanted. But the delay meant Russia was able to prepare. Read more ›
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Daring Capital, a UK impact investor network, has invested €1.2 million in purpose-driven startups during its first year. Launched in August 2023 by Jem Stein, the company has prioritised support for female founders, who received 95% of the capital, and 76% to Black and Racially minoritised founders. The investment aims to back overlooked entrepreneurs building ... Read more ›
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"You don't have to keep a human being alive, which means you can be a lot faster and you can move a lot more quickly," Andreessen told Joe Rogan. Read more ›
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Some federal workers are worried, some are optimistic, and most are considering their other career options, said 10 who spoke with BI. Read more ›
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Thara Moise was criticized by her boss for her unusual out-of-office emails. She believes her creativity was being stifled. Read more ›
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AI labs racing to surpass human intelligence have become the subject of reports that challenges are getting between their models and their mission. Read more ›
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Nintendo's Switch might be nipping at its heels, but PlayStation 2 continues to hold the record as the best-selling console of all time - with Sony now confirming the machine has shifted a whopping 160m units since launching all the way back in March 2000. Read more Read more ›
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Get your holiday reading (and gifting) in order with early Black Friday deals on books. Find Gregory Maguire's "Wicked" for just $10 at Walmart. Read more ›
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In an era of dwindling glaciers, Southern Patagonia has managed to hold on to a surprising amount of its ice. But, a new study suggests that this protective effect might be pushed up against its limits soon. Read more ›
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Dairy cows typically rest for 10 or more hours a day, so a dry, clean, and comfortable place -- such as a freestall -- to lie down and rest is essential for their health, well-being, and production performance. One key factor in whether stalls are comfortable for cows is the ease with which they can get up and down, so it is common on farms for staff to watch for... Read more ›
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Researchers recently collaborated on a novel, highly specific strategy to treat type 1 diabetes (T1D) using a tagged beta cell transplant in tandem with localized immune protection provided by specialized immune cells also tagged with a complementary but inert targeting molecule. Read more ›
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Physical reservoir computing (PRC) utilizing synaptic devices shows significant promise for edge AI. Researchers from the Tokyo University of Science have introduced a novel self-powered dye-sensitized solar cell-based device that mimics human synaptic behavior for efficient edge AI processing, inspired by the eye's afterimage phenomenon. The device has light intensity-controllable time constants, helping it achieve high performance during time-series data processing and motion recognition tasks. This work. Read more ›
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Resembling a seahorse, as its name implies from the Greek words 'hippos' (horse) and 'kampus' (sea monster), the hippocampus is a brain region crucial for memory formation. But until recently, scientists have not been able to link memory formation to distinct molecular signals. Now, a team of scientists likely opened this black box. Read more ›
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Weight-loss and diabetes drug tirzepatide can reduce the risk of death or worsening heart failure for patients with obesity and heart failure with preserved pump function, new research reveals. Read more ›
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Archaeologists have collected data which indicates the presence of a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility. Discovered in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary (CTWS), the largest inland wetland in Belize, the team dated the construction of these fisheries to the Late Archaic period (cal. 2000-1900 BCE), pre-dating Amazonian examples by a thousand years or more. Read more ›
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A new study warns that current plans to achieve zero emissions on the grid by 2050 vastly underestimate the required investments in generation and transmission infrastructure. The reason: these plans do not account for climate change's impacts on water resources. Specifically, changes in water availability caused by climate change could decrease hydropower generation by up to 23% by the year 2050, while electricity demand could increase by 2%. Read more ›
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Infants whose mothers regularly use language to describe what their child is thinking or feeling, have higher levels of the hormone oxytocin, finds a new study. Read more ›
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An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar explosion ever observed. Read more ›
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