Measuring the shape of light waves, known as wavefront sensing, is crucial in many optical applications, and researchers continually seek more accurate and robust methods. Magdalena Łukowicz, Aleksandra K. Korzeniewska, and Kamil Kalinowski,…
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iOS 26: Your iPhone Will Get These Eight New Emoji Next Year
Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15, and while the update didn’t include any new emoji, a future iOS 26 update will bring eight new emoji to your iPhone. The Unicode Consortium approved eight emoji in September as part of Unicode 17.0. That…
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Browser wars, a hallmark of the late 1990s tech world, are back with a vengeance—thanks to AI
The early days of the internet saw intense competition between graphical web browsers: Netscape Navigator faced off against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. No sooner had Explorer won that conflict than a new war for marketshare erupted between…
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Stylish beat-’em-ups, platformers and RPGs, and other new indie games worth checking out
Welcome to our latest roundup of what’s going on in the indie game space. Some gorgeous new games arrived this week, and we’ve got some demos and reveals from upcoming projects to take a look at.
Later this month, Lorelai and the Laser Eyes…
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Please stop chasing GPU overclocks before you undervolt
If there’s anything to know about PC enthusiasts, it’s that we love large numbers: high voltage, high clock speeds, and high framerates. GPU overclocking was chief among the tweaks that many users would first turn to in order to squeeze as much
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Sephia Achieves Sub-One-Laser-Per-Neuron Efficiency With Scalable Optical Neuromorphic Computing Architecture
The pursuit of energy-efficient computing increasingly focuses on mimicking the human brain, leading researchers to explore spiking neural networks. Matěj Hejda, Aishwarya Natarajan, Chaerin Hong, and colleagues at Hewlett Packard…
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Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows Gains Gmail Integration and Office File Support
Microsoft is rolling out a major update for its Copilot app on Windows, giving users more powerful productivity tools directly within chat. The upgraded AI assistant can now generate documents, connect with Gmail and Outlook, and export text…
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 vs. Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold: We compared the two, and here’s the verdict
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The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold officially went on sale this week, and it already faces stiff competition from the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7. While Google isn’t bringing a…
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How to Turn Off or Reduce AI in Google Apps and Services
Google’s added AI to the core of most of its products — whether you wanted it or not. Search, Gmail, Docs — it’s everywhere. And although some of these Gemini-powered features are smart, helpful or clever, not everyone wants them and may be…
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Neuralink’s breakthrough lets patient control robot with thoughts
Neuralink has claimed to have achieved a new milestone in brain-computer interface technology, with an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient successfully controlling a robotic arm using only his thoughts.
In a recent demonstration…
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