Gravitational wave detections have provided yet another insight for fundamental physics, with a new detection that helps to bolster the work of both Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.Scientists studied a series of gravitational wave signals with advanced analytical techniques designed to pull faint background wave signals out of a cacophony …
Read More »Google Takes Down Pixel 10's New 'Daily Hub' Feature
Google has removed the Daily Hub feature from the Pixel 10 series just months after its initial public preview. Daily Hub was meant to bring a user’s calendar, Magic Cue, and a handful of personalized suggestions into one place. Each user saw region-specific weather details and an overview of their …
Read More »This Tool Installs Windows 11 on Incompatible Devices, Removes AI Fluff
A free tool is seeing increased adoption among users who want to install Windows 11 on devices that don’t technically meet Microsoft’s official hardware requirements. Called Flyoobe (previously Flyby11), the tool lets users manage the prevalence of AI features such as Copilot, offering a more personalized user experience. On Monday, …
Read More »OpenAI and Broadcom Strike a Deal for a New AI Chip
Though an official announcement has yet to be made, Broadcom and OpenAI look to be collaborating on a new AI chip. The Financial Times reported the deal, which would produce the first AI chip of OpenAI’s own. OpenAI has been looking for ways to diversify its hardware, which is currently …
Read More »Microsoft PowerToys 0.94 Introduces Shortcut Conflict Flags, Sniper‑Like Mouse Control, and More
This week, Microsoft released PowerToys 0.94, a feature-packed utility suite for Windows 11 “power users.” The first big change is a search box inside the Settings menu, allowing users to type inexact search terms. Results appear as suggestions in a flyout menu with the option to open a single option …
Read More »Rectangular Telescope Design Could Offer the Best Way to Find Earth-Like Planets
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already captured some incredible images of our universe, with some game-changing insights to boot. But researchers at New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute believe the observatory would be capable of even more if it had been designed differently. Published Sunday in Frontiers in Astronomy …
Read More »JUICE Spacecraft Successfully Slingshots Around Venus on Track for Jupiter Orbit
The ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), which launched in April 2023, has completed another successful flyby aimed at boosting its speed ahead of a Jupiter orbital insertion sometime in 2031. This latest flyby saw it come close enough to Venus that it had to turn off many of its …
Read More »Astronomers Find Surprise Exoplanet Forming Around Sun-Like Star
It wasn’t so long ago that exoplanets were technically only hypothesized and had never been directly observed. Today, it seems like every other week produces an amazing new observation and an exciting new insight.This week’s breakthrough comes from the Very Large Telescope in Chile, used by a team from Ireland’s …
Read More »Scientists Have Created a Protein Qubit Inside a Living Cell
Quantum technology is a uniquely poor fit for biology. It requires extreme precision and clean environments free of interference, which couldn’t be further from the environment inside a living cell. Scientists have trouble maintaining the state of a qubit inside enormous, shielded quantum devices, but now researchers from the University …
Read More »DeepSeek's New AI Model Reportedly Built for Upcoming Home-Grown Chips in China
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has revealed that China will soon have home-grown “next generation” chips for AI systems, which raises the question of whether the country has achieved a big breakthrough in building its own technology stack. The statement came in a short note on the company’s official WeChat account, where …
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