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ScienceDaily reports:
A microchip about the size of a grain of rice can generate a highly organized “rainbow” of light, a capability that could eventually support faster, higher-capacity 6G communications and extremely precise timing for quantum tech… Continue reading A Tiny ‘Rainbow On a Chip’ Could Help Supercharge 6G Networks
Citrix’s Desktop as a Service (DaaS) product includes a lightweight, hardened second operating system called UniconOS (once called “eLux”) to offer Windows customers a write-protected file system Citrix says is secure against computer viruses and other… Continue reading Citrix Adds a Linux-Powered Escape Hatch For Compromised Windows PCs
A team of researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale engineered yeast to create cookies that were 3D printed out of plastic waste, reports Futurism:
The yeast breaks down the components of plastic compounds and agricultural byproducts like… Continue reading Scientists Turn Plastic Waste Into Edible Cookies
SpaceX is scheduled to launch the Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy rocket, with the launch window opening at 7:26 a.m. EDT (1126 GMT). NASA will carry the launch live on YouTube.
CNN offers this mission overview from NASA Administrator Jared I… Continue reading SpaceX Launching NASA’s Roman Space Telescope to Explore Dark Energy and Habitable Planets
BMW is about to release their most screen-dependent vehicles ever, reports Car and Driver:
Step into the BMW iX3, and you’ll notice something is missing: real buttons. The climate controls are fettered to the center screen, as is nearly every other f… Continue reading BMW Blames Young People For Loss of Real Buttons In New Cars
Google’s AI assistant Gemini crawls your Google apps for “more personalized suggestions,” in a feature they call Personal Intelligence. Now when given permission, an Android/iOS app called Dreambeans “uses Personal Intelligence to connect information f… Continue reading Google’s AI-Powered Lifestyle App ‘Dreambeans’ Now Free in the US
This week Debian voted on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions. The winning proposal? “Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tools” in its projects, documentation, and packaging… Generative AI “is neither exempt from nor … Continue reading Debian Decides: Contributors Can Use Generative AI ‘Responsibly’
Axios reports:
Some of the world’s largest music publishers filed a blockbuster lawsuit against Anthropic late Friday night, alleging “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.”
The suit is the openin… Continue reading Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works
The Los Angeles Times first calls Ridley Scott’s newest movie “a postapocalyptic thriller that trades zombies for pandemics and asks whether hope can outlast catastrophe.” But besides
The Dog Stars, Scott is also working on an adaptation of Robert Lou… Continue reading What’s 88-year-old Ridley Scott Doing Now?
CNN reports that “A one-time snip of a key gene lowered heart-clogging cholesterol by about 50% over an entire year with no adverse effects, scientists have reported.”
The overwhelmingly positive results were found in four people who had taken the hig… Continue reading With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life