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Tyndall National Institute, based at University College Cork, has been selected as a recipient of a prestigious grant from the John L. Ocampo Endowment Fund, a $100 million global initiative supporting cutting-edge research in radio frequency (RF), microwave, and photonics engineering. The award will support pioneering research projects led by Prof. Dimitra Psychogiou (Tyndall/ University College Cork) and Dr Daniel O’Hare (Tyndall), with a focus on next-generation semiconductor technologies and advanced communication systems. The John L. Ocampo Endowment Fund was established by Susan Ocampo in honour of her late husband, John L. Ocampo, a renowned innovator in the compound semiconductor…

I turned 48 this week, which meant it was time for my annual physical. After the usual battery of questions from my doctor — How much did I drink? Was I exercising? How was I sleeping? — it was my turn to ask a question. I had one prepared: Should I get the shingles vaccine?Dementia cases will keep climbing as the population ages — a projected million new US cases annually by 2060 — but your odds of getting it at any given age have been falling for decades. An 80-year-old today is meaningfully less likely to have dementia than…

As AI reshapes work, education is evolving. Explore five essential skills and shifts helping students build adaptability, judgment, and real-world readiness for an AI-powered future. Ask a hiring manager what they’re looking for today and you’ll hear something that would have sounded unusual two years ago: not a longer list of tools, but a deeper set of human capabilities. New Microsoft research, Preparing Students for the Future of Work, finds that roughly 70% of the skills used in most jobs are expected to change by 2030, AI literacy now appears in job listings around six times more often than a…

Amazon’s Warning Triggered a Surprise Ban on Anthropic’s Fable 5 We covered the launch of Claude Fable 5 here last week. We called it the most capable public AI model ever built, the blueprint for responsible AI at scale, and the strongest public argument yet that safety and capability don’t have to trade off. Then the White House shut it down. Three days after Anthropic launched its most capable AI model, the White House ordered it offline. By 10 p.m. on June 12, Claude Fable 5 was gone, not for a technical failure or market miscalculation, but because Amazon researchers…

Cisco just released new research that reveals AI traffic for enterprise connectivity is set to triple over the next three years, with 50% of that demand concentrated in Wi-Fi. We are witnessing a dangerous disconnect between AI ambition and physical reality. We are moving from a world where humans use the internet to ‘look things up,’ to one where machines use the network to ‘get things done.’ And when AI becomes a physical participant in our factories and logistics hubs, the network is no longer just a data pipe. It is part of the enterprise’s central nervous system. If that…

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that criminals are using couriers to collect money from victims of cryptocurrency investment scams, also known as pig butchering or romance baiting. Such scams usually start with the fraudsters reaching out to their targets via social media, dating sites, and messaging apps, building trust, and then luring victims into fake investment schemes. However, instead of investing their funds, the scammers will steal the money by moving it into accounts under their control. The warning came in the form of a public service announcement published on Monday, in which the law enforcement agency…

Ricoh and Thread AI have deployed an automated facility management platform uniting multimodal AI with digital twin infrastructure.The initiative targets the advancement and automation of facility-management operations within Japan and addresses a known failure point with AI deployments where they often fail to deliver organisation-wide optimisation when they operate in isolation. These disconnected systems also fail when they depend entirely on individual human expertise.Plant environments generate constant streams of hardware telemetry. Sensor and camera data from on-site environments serve as the baseline input. Integrating this raw hardware data with existing operational data lays the foundation for advanced systems. Digital twins…

Samsung UK has announced its Summer Cashback promo campaign – you get up to £300 cashback when buying select Galaxy devices. The promo will run until June 23 – here’s how it works. The promo applies to select phones (SIM-free), tablets, smartwatches and TWS buds. You can see the full list below along with the cashback amount for each device – the Galaxy Z Fold7 gets the maximum £300, all the other devices get less. After completing the purchase, you will have 30 days to claim your cashback – then you should receive a notification as to whether your claim…

New STM measurements show that shear strain decisively shapes flat-band structure across multiple magic angle regimes Shear strain reshapes the flat bands of TBG – Scanning tunneling microscopy reveals that shear strain, not just the twist angle, is the decisive factor engineering flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene. (Courtesy: Wei Li/Tsinghua University) Twisted bilayer graphene has become a key area of research in 2‑dimensional materials. Two graphene sheets are stacked and rotated slightly so their carbon atoms no longer align, creating an interference pattern called a moiré lattice. At specific magic angles (1.1°, 0.55°, 0.37°), the geometry and interlayer coupling…

It can also save users money. Technology analyst Carmi Levy noted that existing pay-per-token monetization models “penalize the use of less than optimally efficient AI solutions.” But DiffusionGemma “could herald a new generation of task-defined, efficient solutions that can enable expanded compute capacity without draining the operations budget,” he said. A contrast to left-to-right processing Built on Google’s Gemma 4 family and its Gemini Diffusion research, DiffusionGemma is a 26B mixture-of-experts (MoE) model designed to maximize text output generation. It essentially shifts how models use hardware, giving processors a larger hunk of work each cycle so it can draft full…