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The Next Copper Rush Could Be Powered by Microbes
A new US policy paper puts biomining in the spotlight. Microorganisms already help extract metals, and researchers want to extend that work to more ores and discarded electronics.
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Prostate Cancer’s DNA Scars Reveal Clues to Its Most Dangerous Behaviour
Researchers have examined 959 prostate tumour genomes to trace the processes damaging their DNA. The findings could help future risk prediction, but they are not a new clinical test.
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Digit 5 Wants to Bring Humanoid Robots Out From Behind the Barrier
Agility’s new humanoid is designed to carry heavier loads and work near people. Its biggest challenge is proving that useful, safe collaboration survives the disorder of a real warehouse.
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Apple Is Giving iPhone Photos a Way to Prove Where They Came From
Apple Reference Image creates a verifiable record of what a camera captured. It could make altered pictures easier to challenge, while leaving the truth of the scene open to scrutiny.
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Nvidia’s Next AI Advantage Is Getting More From Every Watt
Nvidia and Lambda report 24% more AI output within the same power budget. The result points to a different way to expand computing capacity: manage electricity more intelligently.
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AI’s Next Building Boom Starts With the Power Supply
SB Energy’s latest fundraising plan highlights a less glamorous part of the AI race: building the electricity supply and data centres together. The money is important. Delivering working infrastructure is the harder test.
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Brain Scans Reveal a Dopamine Clue in Long COVID’s Brain Fog
A small human imaging study has linked long COVID symptoms with changes in a dopamine-related brain marker. It offers a research direction, with important limits on what a scan can prove.
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Europe Is Waking Up to the Risk of Renting Its AI Future
Christine Lagarde’s latest warning pushes AI dependence into the economic debate. Europe’s challenge is to build real alternatives while retaining the benefits of working with the rest of the world.
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Fusion’s Next Leap Could Start With Two Supercomputers an Ocean Apart
British and American fusion researchers plan to connect their AI computing efforts. The goal is to build models that learn across different experiments, giving the pursuit of fusion power a stronger scientific foundation.
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Alienware’s 560Hz OLED Makes Speed the New Gaming Obsession
Alienware’s upcoming 560Hz OLED aims straight at competitive players. Its specification is striking, but the real story is the balance between display speed and the frames a PC can actually deliver.
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Nvidia’s Quantum Computing Push Is Really a Software Power Play
Nvidia is expanding CUDA-Q into the difficult business of making quantum computers reliable. The immediate advance is in the tools researchers use, with much bigger ambitions behind it.
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SpaceX’s 700th Falcon Mission Shows the Power of Flying Again
A Falcon booster’s 29th flight helped complete the launches for SES’s O3b mPOWER constellation. The milestone shows how SpaceX’s repeated flights support businesses far beyond Starlink.