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Image: Freepik Over the past decade, consumer attitudes in the botanical and cannabis space have gone through a radical shift. What used to be all about end-product potency and price point has started to take a back seat to more in-depth questions : where was this grown, what kind of soil was it grown in, was it even tested for any nasties? This growing demand for supply chain transparency actually has some real world implications – not just for your own health but for the planet too. This article breaks down the lowdown on clean cultivation, what the science is…
Large hyperscale data centre projects are very much subject to delays, thanks in part to their advanced construction methods which mean companies involved are having to learn new techniques and adhere to different, higher standards, on the fly. The shortage of skilled labour and materials, plus delayed access to local power and water add to the delays besetting the DC industry. The limits on available capacity and these supply chain constraints mean that new DCs dedicated to run AI workloads are taking much longer to come online than many would like. However, the edge sector has its own solutions to…
Silicon-carbon batteries have been leading phones to eyebrow-raising battery life, and the Realme P4 Power includes one of the biggest batteries we’ve seen in a phone. It’s setting an even higher benchmark with a 10,001mAh battery. By comparison, this is double the capacity we see in more mainstream phones like the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, which includes a 5,000mAh battery.The Realme phone surpasses what we’ve seen in other phones with this type of battery, including the OnePlus 15’s 7,300mAh battery and the RedMagic 11 Pro’s 7,500mAh battery. Phones with batteries of this scale provide up to two days of use…
Wheelchair users with severe disabilities can often navigate tight spaces better than most robotic systems can. A wave of new smart-wheelchair research, including findings presented in Anaheim, Calif., earlier this month, is now testing whether AI-powered systems can, or should, fully close this gap.Christian Mandel—senior researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Bremen, Germany—co-led a research team together with his colleague Serge Autexier that developed prototype sensor-equipped electric wheelchairs designed to navigate a roomful of potential obstacles. The researchers also tested a new safety system that integrated sensor data from the wheelchair and from sensors in…
A silicon metasurface uses polarization of light as a key, allowing different encrypted holographic images to be recovered from the same structure under different illumination conditions. Study: Theoretical Study of Polarization Holographic Encryption via a Nano-Structural Metasurface. Image Credit: metamorworks/Shutterstock.com The study, published in Nanomaterials, describes a theoretical design for a dual-channel holographic encryption system built from silicon nanorods on a SiO2 substrate. Using an improved Gerchberg–Saxton (GS) algorithm and Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulations, the team showed that two separate images could be encoded into a single metasurface and selectively reconstructed with left- or right-circularly polarized light. Saving this for…
Front-end development is shaped, much as it has been for years, by React’s continued dominance. For a long stretch, its chief rival, Angular, was borderline unusable for lean, fast-moving use cases. Yet perceptions are shifting. With the latest releases, Angular has resolved many of its historical weaknesses, and in many respects, the two frameworks now feel closer in capability than at any point in the last decade. Recent State of JavaScript surveys reflect these changing dynamics. React remains the most widely used option, but developer satisfaction has been steadily declining due to a trend often labeled as “React fatigue.” Angular,…
200 students from Secondary schools from across Ireland will come together on March 25th for the third annual ‘Ideas Made Real’ Transition Year final, a national STEM event that highlights the creativity, innovation and problem-solving skills of transition year students as they present projects developed over the course of the academic year. Taking place at the Explorium Science and Sport Centre in Dublin, the event marks the culmination of the Ideas Made Real programme, an initiative by Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) that introduces secondary school students to modern manufacturing, engineering and innovation. Launched in September 2023, the programme blends STEM…
Farm labor shortages are pushing agriculture toward greater automation, especially when it comes to harvesting. But not all crops are easy for machines to handle. Tomatoes, for example, grow in clusters, which means a robot must carefully select ripe fruit while leaving unripe ones untouched. This requires precise control and smart decision-making. To tackle this challenge, Assistant Professor Takuya Fujinaga of Osaka Metropolitan University’s Graduate School of Engineering developed a system that trains robots to assess how easy each tomato is to harvest before attempting to pick it. His approach combines image recognition with statistical analysis to determine the best…
AWS has reached its 20th anniversary! With a steady pace of innovation, AWS has grown to offer over 240 comprehensive cloud services and continues to launch thousands of new features annually for millions of customers. During this time, over 4,700 posts have been published on this blog—more than double the number since Jeff Barr wrote the 10th anniversary post. AWS changed my life Reflecting on what I was doing 20 years ago, I met Jeff in Seoul on March 13, 2006, when he came as the keynote speaker for the Korea NGWeb conference. At that time, Amazon was one of…
In episode 459 of Smashing Security, we dive into a chillingly clever account takeover attempt targeting WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg – involving MFA fatigue, real Apple alerts, a convincing support call, and a phishing page that oh-so-nearly worked. If a famous techie could have this happen to you, can you be sure you’re immune? Plus: would you donate your lifetime medical history to science if you were promised anonymity? We unpack serious concerns around UK Biobank, where “de-identified” data may not be as anonymous as you think — and how surprisingly little information it takes to reveal everything. And! Human-powered…