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Adrienne Murray meets the team using technology to preserve a historic warship in Sweden.
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Trump memecoin ethics fight still controls CLARITY Act vote after law enforcement opposition cracks
The CLARITY Act’s two biggest obstacles are moving in opposite directions this week. Law enforcement opposition is softening, while the ethics fight over crypto conflicts of interest is sharpening. Before this week, forecasters and prediction markets already had CLARITY at a coin flip of becoming law in 2026. The core blockers were floor time, an…
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Researchers Find Quantum Machine Learning Models Lag Behind Classical Counterparts
A thorough comparison of quantum and classical machine learning models has been undertaken by Chuanming Yu from Hebei Normal University, and colleagues at Kyushu University and the University of Luxembourg. The study compares seven model pairs across both supervised and reinforcement learning tasks. Findings reveal the evaluated quantum machine learning models do not currently exceed…
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Dayton Residence, Silicon Valley, California house
Dayton Residence in Silicon Valley, CA July 5, 2026 Architect: Mahya Salehi Studio Location: Silicon Valley, California, USA Photos by Adam Potts Ancient History is at the Heart of This Second-Generation Builder’s California Courtyard Casa Mahya Salehi Studio brings Middle Eastern courtyard archetype to a compact Silicon Valley lot When a second-generation California contractor and his…
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Nothing ends software updates for Phone (1)
Nothing has officially ended software support for its original Phone (1) following one last software update. In a post this week, Nothing confirmed that the July 2026 update marks the end of the Phone (1)’s lifecycle, with software updates finished. Nothing promised three major Android updates and four years of security updates. Phone (1) debuted…
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MEPs to debate EU AI cybersecurity strategy
The AI cybersecurity strategy is expected to support EU countries and companies facing AI-related cyber risks. Members of the European Parliament are set to question the European Commission on its latest AI and cybersecurity proposals, including a new AI cybersecurity strategy expected to be unveiled on 7 July. According to the European Parliament’s plenary newsletter,…
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Why Reactive SRE will Always be Expensive
Most engineering leadership teams are grappling with the fact that reliability costs too much, teams are burnt out, and they feel something has to change. Typically, teams resort to optimization: smarter alerting, faster runbooks, better dashboards, and more training. Teams invest heavily, see modest gains, and then end up right back where they started when…
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Humanoid says KinetIQ Ascend reinforcement learning approaches human-level dexterity
Arm drift after long reinforcement training caused by action prefix drift. Source: Humanoid Robotic manipulation is making progress with artificial intelligence. London-based Humanoid last week introduced KinetIQ Ascend, its reinforcement learning, or RL, approach designed to reach 99.9% manipulation reliability at human speed and beyond. “The humanoid race is becoming a question of scale, and…
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For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides
This was where the field had been stuck for some time. Researchers before Adamala had figured out different ways to feed and grow synthetic cells and to replicate their DNA. But cell division is a different beast. A typical cell reorganizes its cytoskeleton — a network of protein fibers that provide structural support — to…
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Ethereum Foundation Details Clear Signing Standards to Fight Phishing
The Ethereum Foundation has laid out new security standards for crypto wallets designed to make transaction approvals much clearer for users and protect them from common phishing attacks. The initiative introduces ‘clear signing,’ a system that replaces confusing hexadecimal code with human-readable summaries of what a transaction actually does before a user approves it. The…
