Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary Researchers from Singapore and Japan present a blueprint for arranging “hopfions”—three-dimensional, knotted topological textures in light—into ordered lattices that repeat…
Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has closed a further $863 million funding round with contributions from Nvidia, Google, Breakthrough Energy Ventures (Bill Gates), and nearly two dozen other investors. The…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary This Slashdot post summarises recent advances in wave (blue) energy after a decade of research, centred on a…
Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video – and Is This Just the Beginning? Summary Blogger Andy Baio analysed Will Smith’s recent concert clip and suggests the footage may have…
Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What’s the Government’s Strategy? Summary Intel amended its CHIPS Act funding agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce to remove earlier project milestones and received…
Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary Five indie bands have removed their music from Spotify in protest after news that Spotify founder Daniel Ek…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary Slashdot highlights a BBC investigation and user reports that for months tens of thousands of Facebook and Instagram accounts…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato says Universal Music Group (UMG) has been issuing a flood of…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A wave of false reports of active shooters targeted about a dozen US universities as students returned to campus.…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers in Japan asked 28 women to apply a specific rose-scented oil to their clothing daily for a…
