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How bacteria and self-healing roads could soon fix the UK’s 750,000 potholes

The New, New Transistor. In power electronics, aluminum nitride could overtake two powerhouses that only recently bested silicon.

Meta used copyright to protect its AI model, but argues against the law for everyone else

DNA particles that mimic viruses hold promise as vaccines

RTX CHIMERA new microwave fries drone target during White Sands testing | Throughout a three-week field test, Raytheon's CHIMERA high-powered microwave system managed to fry static targets and track aerial targets flawlessly.

Researchers developed a battery-free sensor that reacts to sound waves, producing vibrational energy to power an electronic device | The novel sensor would not only reduce battery waste but could also power medical devices like cochlear implants or monitor buildings for faults.

Elon Musk Says First Human Patient Has Received Brain Implant

A breakthrough clinical trial using gene therapy has restored hearing to five children born deaf | After six months, the children were able to recognize speech and hold conversations, raising hopes for wider use in the near future.

China creates atomic clock that will run error-free for 7.2 billion years | Using strontium and ultra-stable lasers, the researchers have built an optical clock, the second of its kind in the world.

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says Apple's new App Store changes are a 'new low'

Watch Sierra Space blow up its LIFE habitat in pressure test

1/100th of the cost: CPU startup Tachyum claims that one of its processing units can rival dozens of Nvidia H200 GPUs — with a 99% saving that could turn the AI market on its head if true

DNA From the Ocean’s ‘Twilight Zone’ Could Lead to New Lifesaving Drugs, Scientists Say. Researchers catalogued the genes of more than 300 million groups of marine bacteria, viruses and fungi in hopes that the database could lead to breakthroughs in medicine, energy and agriculture.

AI Needs So Much Power That Old Coal Plants Are Sticking Around

Disney offers an elegant solution to VR’s movement problem | TechCrunch

Satya Nadella says the explicit Taylor Swift AI fakes are ‘alarming and terrible’

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Has Taken Its Final Flight. Originally designed for up to five flights on Mars, Ingenuity performed 72 over three years, until one of its rotor blades was damaged during landing on January 18.

Apple's reluctant, punitive compliance with regulators will burn its political and developer goodwill

First AI-powered handheld medical device to assist physicians in detecting all three common skin cancers: basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma.

Urease-powered nanobots for radionuclide bladder cancer therapy

World's 1st rhino pregnancy via embryo transfer offers hope to save species | Wildlife conservationists hail this groundbreaking achievement and see it as a potential step toward the protection of the critically endangered northern white rhino.

Airborne infection risk plummets in face of metal nanoparticle spray | Silver oxide and copper oxide sprays provide a greater than 99% antiviral activity during a 24-hour period examined in the study.

Computers make mistakes and AI will make things worse — the law must recognize that

Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear for the First Time

WhatsApp may soon offer its own AirDrop-like file sharing feature

Vibrating belt that treats low bone density gets FDA approval | The device is the first of its kind to provide a medication-free treatment option for post-menopausal women that have weakened bones.

Lightweight woven antenna could replace field-deployed dishes | A multi-stable deployable quadrifilar helix antenna with radiation reconfigurability for disaster-prone areas

BT Group Converts Telecom Infrastructure to EV Chargers | The telecom giant says 60,000 curbside cabinets could be adapted

Liquid RAM Flexes for Wearables, Robots, Implants. A non-volatile version could be on its way, too.

Researchers transform polluted water into fuel with urea removal | WPI researchers are turning the tide on water pollution. Their material efficiently removes urea and holds the key to turning it into clean hydrogen fuel.

Urea-powered nanorobots reduce bladder tumors by 90% in mice

Apple’s Testy Developer Relationships Threaten to Hamper Vision Pro

Diodes at Right Angles Double Autofocus Capacity. Canon twists photosensor rules to build new tech from familiar parts.

Apple Vision Pro failed to sell out on launch day

Flying Kites Deliver Container-Size Power Generation. Automated wind-energy system brings portable renewables off-grid.

Researchers develop world's first functioning graphene semiconductor | Breakthrough could eventually lead to terahertz processors

The next generation of nuclear reactors is getting more advanced. Here’s how.

Researchers develop artificial 'power plants' in the form of tiny leaf-shapes to harness energy from the wind and rain.

Samsung’s new Galaxy AI features are only free for a limited time!

Crop Health Sensor Runs on Solar, Microbe Power | Electrical measurements on plant stem enable better water resource monitoring

EU breakthrough laser beams could power nanosatellites in space wirelessly | The research project demonstrated a power output of 20 watts using a fiber-optic laser and aims to increase this to kilowatts in the future.

Researchers use wireless sensor 5 times thinner than hair to map brain | UC San Diego researchers unveil a revolutionary brain monitoring system, enabling high-resolution, wireless recording in deep brain structures for diverse clinical applications.

"Dirt-powered fuel cell" draws near-limitless energy from soil | Paperback-sized device that nestles in soil, harvests power created as microbes break down dirt.

Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell?

Mesh Wearables Meld Micro Sensors and LoRa Smarts. Say goodbye to box-and-strap wearable tech of old.

Daimler Truck Fuels Big Rigs With Hydrogen GenH2’s fuel-cell-powered semi will hit German roads by middle of this year

Biotagging method for animal identification using dissolvable microneedle arrays prepared by customisable moulds

MIT’s New Desalination System Produces Freshwater That Is “Cheaper Than Tap Water”

The innovation that gets an Alzheimer’s drug through the blood-brain barrier. Focused ultrasound is just one strategy researchers are using to get drugs into the brain.

Autophage rocket engine consumes plastic fuselage for fuel