Saturday night presents a perfect opportunity to spot a “Golden Handle” shining brightly on the moon’s surface. It is a fleeting sight that appears when sunlight catches the peaks of…
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Police in Brazil arrest a suspect over $100M banking hack
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Police in Brazil arrested a suspect in connection with a cyberattack that diverted more than 540 million Brazilian reais (about $100 million) from the country’s banking…
Gravestone depicting 13th century knight unearthed in central Gdańsk
Archaeologists from ArcheoScan have unearthed a rare gravestone depicting a medieval knight during excavations in the centre of Gdańsk, Poland. The site under investigation was once home to a 12th-century…
Angler unexpectedly fishes out a mysterious medieval sword
An angler fishing in the Vistula River in Warsaw has made an unexpected discovery, a medieval sword dating back hundreds of years. The sword, now under the care of the…
Pilot program integrates AI-generated notes with human community notes on X platform
A research agenda for LLM-powered Community Notes. (1) Customized LLMs for note generation; (2) AI ‘co-pilots’ for human writers; (3) AI assistance for human raters; (4) Intelligent note ‘matching’ adapts…
Improving randomness may be the key to more powerful quantum computers
The circuit construction used to prove the paper’s main result. Each block represents a quantum circuit acting on a small patch of the entire system. Credit: Thomas Schuster, Jonas Haferkamp,…
Robotic probe quickly measures semiconductor properties to accelerate solar panel development
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists are striving to discover new semiconductor materials that could boost the efficiency of solar cells and other electronics. But the pace of innovation is bottlenecked…
Playing games with robots makes people see them as more humanlike
Cozmo, a small interactive robot with a vivid, expressive personality. Credit: University of East Anglia The more we interact with robots, the more human we perceive them to become—according to…
Open-source engine enables high-performance data processing for Internet of Things devices
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) announces the open-source release of NebulaStream, a next-generation stream processing engine built for the unique…
3D-printed magnetoelastic smart pen may help diagnose Parkinson’s
A schematic showing the structure of the smart pen used to capture handwriting signals for Parkinson’s diagnostics. Credit: Jun Chen Lab/UCLA Every year, tens of thousands of people with signs…
