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The Laser That Once Filled a Lab Now Fits on a Tiny Chip
Placed on a 1 CHF coin for scale, EPFL’s photonic chip shows how a laser architecture once confined to table-top systems can be shrunk to the millimeter scale. Credit: Zheru Qiu/EPFL Scientists have finally packed…
All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology
Europe is done with American Big Tech. Well, sort of. Since the start of President Donald Trump’s chaotic second administration last year, concerned governments and companies across the continent have accelerated plans to end their…
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the…
WWDC: Did Apple make the AI grade this year?
Hard, hard work Apple’s teams have evidently worked incredibly hard to come this far, and execs did introduce truly impressive new AI features focused on what customers and developers actually need. The company also played…
Revolutionary Night Vision: Ultra-Thin Filters Transform Everyday Eyewear
TMOS researchers have created a lightweight infrared filter for eyewear that enables vision in both infrared and visible light, enhancing night-time safety and convenience. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Researchers have developed a groundbreaking thin infrared filter for…
Scientists Are Building Electronics That Stretch Like Human Skin and Learn Like a Brain
Neuromorphic devices are brain-inspired computing systems that, when integrated into soft and stretchable materials, power advanced applications like wearable AI, bioelectronic skins, and smart textiles. Credit: By Tianda Fu, Ruizhe Yang, Max Weires, Junyi Yin,…
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
Meta has been quietly stashing dormant face recognition code on more than 50 million phones, WIRED reported this week, tucked inside the companion app that pairs with its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses. If activated,…
Why Apple may be winning again
It came from the future News this week is that incoming CEO John Ternus has made some tough decisions around Apple’s approach to spatial computing, terminating development of Vision Pro (even as leaked images of a black model emerge)…
Mass Spectrometry Breakthrough Detects Billions of Molecules at Once
The new MultiQ-IT prototype can cool, trap, filter, and redirect over a billion ions simultaneously, dramatically improving dynamic range and signal-to-noise. Credit: Lori Chertoff/The Rockefeller University A new prototype takes mass spectrometry from analyzing a…