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Researchers have experimentally observed a new kind of particle in transition‑metal dichalcogenide bilayers called doubly charged excitons, or quaternions. A single exciton is an electron bound to a hole, and combining an even number of fermions can create a boson with integer spin. In this system, one electron and three holes (or one hole and three electrons) bind together into a stable, doubly charged bosonic complex. Because bosons can occupy the same quantum state, these quaternions could in principle form a Bose-Einstein condensate, a collective phase in which all particles share a single macroscopic wavefunction. For charged bosons, such a…

Shadow AI is considered the next iteration of Shadow IT,  with the big difference being that while developers might use a self-contained, unauthorized tool in their work, the tool itself does not create risk. Shadow AI is particularly troublesome because an unauthorized model can gain access to databases it shouldn’t have and lack the system and organizational context to make correct decisions. Further, Shadow AI almost always involves someone in the organization taking company intellectual property and pasting it into a public tool, leaving the destination and subsequent processing unknown. Part of the problem, according to Broadcom Head of Product…

The FY26 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) underscores the importance of military training to ensure a ready and capable force. The Department of Labor’s 2025 report, America’s Talent Strategy, similarly highlights the need to leverage innovative technologies to develop the next-generation workforce. A consistent theme across these and other strategy documents is that emerging technologies have the potential to transform how people are trained and educated. We explore here the use of extended reality (XR) as a potentially transformative training technology. XR can immerse individuals in virtual environments (virtual reality, or VR) or overlay digital elements onto the real world…

There have been plenty of warnings about job losses due to AI, particularly in the world of IT and in the reduction of entry-level positions. Doom mongers’ claims that AI is going to eradicate all our jobs look to be exaggerated but there is little room for complacency as there are some roles most definitely at risk — and software engineers, in particular, should be looking over their shoulders. Economists Luis Garicano, Jin Li, and Yanhui Wu, report in a new research paper that jobs that can be unbundled — with tasks AI can perform easily separated from those requiring…

Then there’s the cost. Alcor charges $80,000 to store a person’s brain, and around $220,000 to store a whole body. Tomorrow.Bio’s charges are slightly higher. Many people, including Kendziorra himself, opt to cover this cost via a life insurance policy. Perhaps the main reason people don’t opt for cryonic preservation is that we don’t have any way to bring people back. Bedford has been in storage for more than 50 years, Coles for more than a decade. All the scientists I’ve spoken to say the likelihood of reanimating remains like theirs is vanishingly small. The fact that the possibility—however tiny—is above zero…

Maine lawmakers have approved legislation that effectively shuts down online sweepstakes platforms that mimic casino gambling, marking one of the clearest state-level crackdowns yet on the fast-growing sector. Senate Bill 2007 cleared the Legislature on March 26, 2026, after months of committee review and debate. The proposal was submitted by the Department of Public Safety and introduced in the Senate by Sen. Craig Hickman of Kennebec during the 132nd Legislature’s second regular session. Once enacted, the measure makes it explicit under Maine law that operating or promoting online sweepstakes games constitutes unlawful gambling and exposes violators to both civil and…

In August 2025, we introduced AWS User Experience Customization (UXC) capability to tailor user interfaces (UIs) to meet your specific needs and complete your tasks efficiently. With this capability, your account administrator can customize some UI component of AWS Management Console, such as assigning a color to an AWS account for easier identification. Today, we’re announcing additional customization capability in UXC that enables selective display of relevant AWS Regions and services for your team members. By hiding unused Regions and services, you can reduce cognitive load and eliminate unnecessary clicks and scrolling, helping you focus better and work faster. With this launch,…

Posted by Eric Lynch, Product Manager, Android and Dom Elliot, Group Product Manager, Google Play Modern digital security is at a turning point. We are on the threshold of using quantum computers to solve “impossible” problems in drug discovery, materials science, and energy—tasks that even the most powerful classical supercomputers cannot handle. However, the same unique ability to consider different options simultaneously also allows these machines to bypass our current digital locks. This puts the public-key cryptography we’ve relied on for decades at risk, potentially compromising everything from bank transfers to trade secrets. To secure our future, it is vital…

Rinsing off a cleanser takes two seconds and disappears from thought. Where it actually goes – what happens after the drain – is a question most people never ask, and the skincare industry has been quietly fine with that arrangement. The sector does more than $155 billion annually. It also has a documented chemical trail, one that researchers have spent years following from bathroom drains into river sediment, coastal waters, marine mammal tissue. Polar bear livers. Dolphin fat. These aren’t activist talking points or edge cases. Peer-reviewed studies – some from as recently as 2025 – keep finding the same…

Operators running industrial IoT robotic fleets could look to AI developed by MIT and Symbotic that optimises warehouse navigation.Inside massive autonomous distribution centres, hundreds of automated units dart down aisles to collect items and fulfill customer orders. As facility managers add more physical assets to the floor, minor traffic snarls easily escalate into widespread delays.When traditional routing algorithms buckle under the computational weight, operators occasionally have to halt operations for hours to clear the backlog manually. To prevent these bottlenecks, researchers engineered a hybrid framework to orchestrate edge devices. Their approach monitors how congestion forms and adapts by prioritising units…