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Bacterial enzyme strips away blood types to create universal donor blood

NASA uses laser link to beam data 140 million miles across space at 25 Mbps

Solar Fuel Production Just Needs a Change in Direction Photoelectrodes that move electric charge diagonally split water better

Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

World's biggest 3D printer whirs into action. It's hoped giant device will be able to print homes, bridges, boats and wind turbines.

Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO

DARPA unleashes 20-foot autonomous robo-tank with glowing green eyes | It rolls through rough terrain like it's asphalt

Energy-smart bricks keep waste out of landfill

This Artificially Intelligent Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone

Sony’s PlayStation Portal handheld is back in stock at multiple retailers

A new kind of gene-edited pig kidney was just transplanted into a person

New laser tech using Raman spectroscopy detects illegal elephant ivory | Non-destructive laser technology swiftly detects illegal elephant ivory.

Tiny Biosensor Unlocks the Secrets of Sweat

An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary | Synthesia's new technology is impressive but raises big questions about a world where we increasingly can’t tell what’s real

Plato's final resting place revealed using 'bionic eye' | With new technology, researchers decipher 1000 words from the Herculaneum papyri that includes details about Plato’s final resting place.

You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 | Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states

MIT study reveals AI model that can predict future actions of human

MIT's powerful chip offers AI boost, defense against data breach | This new chip will adopt a three-part approach to protect AI devices from data attacks.

Curving Terahertz Signals Around Obstacles For 6G | The first curved THz data link could boost faster data networks beyond 5G

World’s only quantum-gas microscope imaging strontium’s individual atoms | Researchers confirmed that strontium gas is a superfluid, lacking viscosity—a key quantum phase of matter.

GPT-4 can exploit zero-day security vulnerabilities all by itself, a new study finds

400,000 ‘solar balconies’ boost German home energy harvesting capacity | The solar balcony generates only a tenth of the power output of a rooftop solution, but it is portable if the homeowner wishes to relocate.

Hydrogen trains could revolutionize how Americans get around

Meet QDEL, the backlight-less display tech that could replace OLED in premium TVs

Meet QDEL, the backlight-less display tech that could replace OLED in premium TVs

Blaze Star: Huge stellar explosion will be visible from Earth for a week

This electrode material allows 33x more energy storage in wearables | Modified carbon nanotube fiber excels with 33x energy storage, 3.3x strength, and 1.3x conductivity over regular fibers.

Home Assistant’s next era begins now

LED Touchscreen Is Also a PV Charger. Perovskite display tech can read fingerprints and gather health data, too.

Corkscrew polarized infrared laser light induces magnetism in strontium titanate at room temperature

Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track

US conducts world’s first AI-driven vs. human-piloted F-16 dogfight

Breakthrough CO2-fueled generator turns greenhouse gas into electricity | Researchers claim that they were able to capture approximately 1 percent of the inherent energy contained within CO2 gas.

This hopping robot with flailing legs could explore asteroids in the future

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot goes electric | A day after retiring the hydraulic model, Boston Dynamics' CEO discusses the company’s commercial humanoid ambitions

‘World’s 1st’ paintball firing security cam offers teargas pellet upgrade | It’s the world’s first smart paintball security system and the device will create a new standard in active protection at home, the company claims.

Metal waste catalyst forges way to hydrogen production from water | A new method aims to deliver ‘the most promising green pathways for hydrogen production’ via electrolysis of water.

Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk

Child sexual abuse content growing online with AI-made images, report says | Technology

Elon Musk plans to charge new X users to enable posting

The tiny ultrabright laser that can melt steel. Photonic crystals are the key to the brightest semiconductor laser ever.

World’s 1st 60 GHz mmWave to pave way for ultrafast 6G communication | The antenna is built with metamaterials- materials engineered to possess special abilities that they do not have in their natural form.

Pea-sized, battery-free brain implant could cure neurological disorders | Researchers have created a unique brain stimulator called Digitally programmable Over-brain Therapeutic (DOT).

Apple loses top phonemaker spot to Samsung as iPhone shipments drop, IDC says

AI-powered ‘sonar’ on smartglasses tracks gaze and facial expressions

Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools

How scientists traced a mysterious covid case back to six toilets

How new tech is making geothermal energy a more versatile power source. Geothermal has moved beyond being confined to areas with volcanic activity.

Humanoids? No, thanks. Most G7 countries feel uncomfortable with the most advanced robots

Pogo Stick Microcopter Bounces off Floors and Walls