Landmark Deal Would Officially Add Laser Weapons to US Army Arsenal
They stuffed a real-life ray gun into a 747 to shoot down ballistic missiles and stuck a laser on top of a Humvee to zap roadside bombs. For more than 50 years, the United States…
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Neural Networks Made of Light: Photon Power Drives the Next AI Revolution
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have developed a simpler and potentially more sustainable method for implementing neural networks using optical systems. A new optical system for neural networks has…
Quantum Computers Could Freeze Like Ordinary PCs
A quantum computer’s cooling system keeps its quantum chips at temperatures close to absolute zero. Only under these conditions can the chips exhibit the quantum properties that make quantum computing possible (artistic impression). Credit: B….
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
On March 13, 2025, Hugo Moreno-Mendez arrived at the McLennan County Probation Department in Waco, Texas, expecting a routine probation check-in. Instead, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were waiting to arrest him. According to a…
Anthropic’s AI models accidentally hacked three companies
Anthropic has launched an investigation into what went wrong during a recent test of three models that left a trio of companies accidentally hacked. The company was testing how well Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos…
Harvard Researchers Turn Ordinary Knitting Into Programmable Technology
The researchers made a reconfigurable lampshade with multistable switches that correspond to different colors of light. Credit: Harvard SEAS Researchers developed knitted textiles that can function as switches and count steps. A piece of knitted…
8 Best Password Managers (2026), Tested and Reviewed
The downside of KeePassXC is that it doesn’t have official mobile clients. However, third-party apps are available for iOS and Android. KeePassXC is a fork of KeePass that offers better cross-platform support, but there are…
A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge.
Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search. It sounds like something James Bond would use: a…
Reporter’s notebook: In Dubai’s sun and sand, AI, server farms, and optimism bloom
Other nations recognize the region’s potential and Dubai’s position. The US, for instance, showed interest in currying favor with the UAE by sending a CIA spy to vet the emirate’s top AI firm, paving the…
Quantum Photons Survive a 24-Kilometer Journey Through Chicago’s Busy Internet
Researchers have shown that quantum entanglement can survive a journey through a busy metropolitan fiber network carrying powerful conventional data traffic. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers achieved the first real-world demonstration of quantum entanglement over a busy…