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By modelling measurement as a continuous stochastic process, this work offers a compelling alternative to discontinuous collapse processes Quantum space collapse (Courtesy: iStock/Floriana) Quantum mechanics has two seemingly competing rules. Firstly, a system evolving without measurement follows a continuous, deterministic evolution governed by the Schrödinger equation, with dynamics determined by a Hamiltonian. Secondly, when a measurement occurs, the wavefunction collapses, producing a sudden, discontinuous change that is not derived from a Hamiltonian. Several approaches attempt to reconcile these behaviours, including the Copenhagen interpretation (which does not explain the mechanism of collapse), decoherence theory (which does not provide a single definite outcome),…

Pure Telecom, Ireland’s high-speed broadband and telecoms provider, has announced the results of new research from its Connected Lives 2026 study, which reveals that Irish adults spend an estimated €1.95 billion on streaming subscriptions each year. The research also found that the average Irish streamer now watches 2 hours and 58 minutes of streamed content every day, up from 2 hours and 22 minutes last year. Over the course of a year, this equates to approximately 45 days of watching streamed video content. The research, carried out by Censuswide on behalf of Pure Telecom, surveyed 1,000 employees in the Republic…

Ever looking to underline its space-faring pedigree, Omega has again joined forces with Swatch to release another limited-edition MoonSwatch featuring Omega’s proprietary 18K Moonshine Gold alloy.But whereas previous special versions had only a sliver of the shiny stuff, this new model doesn’t hold back, featuring a dial, hands, crown, and pushers all made from Omega’s 18K Moonshine Gold alloy, with a combined weight of 11 grams.Called the Mission to the Moon 1969, the watch commemorates the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 21, 1969. It’s limited, rather appropriately, to 1,969 numbered pieces and comes with a black-and-gold version of Swatch’s…

Analysis from Omdia’s new report AI Regulation: Analysis of Global Policies and Regulatory Frameworks alongside separate regional case study reports covering the Americas, Asia & Oceania, and Europe reveals that effective enforcement mechanisms will be essential to the credibility and success of AI regulatory frameworks.Under the EU AI Act, organizations can face fines of up to €35 million ($41 million) or 7% of their global annual turnover. South Korea’s AI Basic Act allows fines of up to KRW30 million (approximately $20,000) for non-compliance.Seven challenges shaping AI regulationOmdia has identified seven key AI regulation challenges that regulatory frameworks must address (Figure…

Score smoothing facilitates manifold recovery In the real world, complex data like high-resolution images live in high-dimensional pixel spaces rather than a simple 1-D world. The vast majority of that space, however, is just random noise that is meaningless to the human eye. Only a small fraction of the data points in that space correspond to recognizable images, and they live in what’s called the data manifold (like a sheet tucked inside a larger space). The shape and location of the data manifold are not known by the model in advance. Thus, image generation can be considered as a task…

If you’re running Apache Solr for search, now is a great time to migrate to Amazon OpenSearch Service. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless offers a modern, managed destination that greatly reduces operational overhead. Migration Assistant for Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Apache Solr sources from versions 6.x through 9.x. Migration Assistant now includes an AI assistant that you can drive from your preferred AI tools. The assistant walks you through the migration, providing a detailed report with timelines, blockers, schema and query translation. In this post, you will learn why now is the time to take advantage of the ease of operations…

The model includes a reasoning-effort setting that developers can adjust from 0.2 to 0.99. Thinking Machines said the setting allows users to balance performance against the number of generated tokens. In the company’s testing, Inkling matched Nemotron 3 Ultra’s Terminal Bench 2.1 score while generating about one-third as many tokens. Developers can fine-tune Inkling through Tinker using context lengths of 64,000 or 256,000 tokens and test it through the Inkling Playground. The model is available through APIs from Together AI, Fireworks, Modal, Databricks, and Baseten. It is also supported by inference software, including SGLang, vLLM, TokenSpeed, llama.cpp, and Hugging Face…

UK financial regulators began directly overseeing four major cloud and technology providers on July 13, 2026, after years of concern that a failure at one widely used supplier could spread across banks, insurers, and financial markets. The Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority, and Financial Conduct Authority are now overseeing specified services from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Oracle. Banks remain responsible for their own outsourcing, operational resilience, due diligence, risk management, and contingency planning. Regulators target shared cloud dependencies The four designated entities are Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, Google Cloud EMEA Limited, Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited,…

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of content-scraping AI, antisocial media, inflation, and other hurdles. There’s been so much focus on Volkswagen’s drastic plans to close factories and lay off employees, and rightfully so, but that overshadowed some actually pretty cool, uplifting news from the company. In a company report on its first-half-of-year sales, the group’s 4.1 million sales were not a bright spot overall (down 6% year over year), but the company was was happy to…

CSL Group is buying IoTM Solutions to consolidate multi-carrier SIM and eSIM management for enterprise IoT estates.IoTM Solutions is a cloud-native connectivity management vendor whose platform unifies SIM lifecycle operations, eSIM profile handling, usage reporting, support workflows, and API access across multiple operators. Financial terms of the deal remain undisclosed.Dan Amir, CEO and Co-Founder of IoTM Solutions, said: “IoTM was created to remove the complexity of managing IoT connectivity across multiple operators, platforms, and countries. Joining CSL Group allows us to bring that capability to a larger global customer base, supported by CSL’s managed connectivity services and rSIM resilience.“Together, we…