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May 12, 2026, 01:55 PM - 6 min read
Care is, at its core, a deeply human activity, not just a series of programmable tasks. It relies on relationships, trust and mutual understanding. Robots may support these processes, but they cannot replace them.
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May 8, 2026, 04:31 PM - 6 min read
Negative dwell time is not an artefact. However paradoxical it may seem, it has a directly measurable effect on the atomic cloud that the photon traverses. And it reminds us that there are still lands to discover on the odyssey that is quantum research.
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May 7, 2026, 12:38 PM - 7 min read
Security experts have expressed concern that AI researchers in nations such as China, Russia, Iran and North Korea might soon create powerful AI models and use them to threaten or attack other countries, or to create chaos in those countries’ economies.
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May 6, 2026, 05:02 PM - 7 min read
The recent proliferation of generative AI tools across society has a significant impact on teaching and learning. It has caused schools to make decisions about restricting or allowing the use of these tools. The US-based ISTE proposes standards that engage students as empowered learners, computational thinkers, innovative designers and digital citizens.
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May 4, 2026, 04:20 PM - 8 min read
The reason for the consumer electronics supply crunch has to do with the nature of the chip market: its concentration and high costs and how it responds to boom-and-bust cycles.
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May 3, 2026, 02:05 PM - 10 min read
Synthetic biology has not yet delivered a world of fully programmable organisms solving global challenges. But it has changed expectations, both within science and beyond, about what might be possible in biological design.
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May 1, 2026, 01:27 PM - 6 min read
The UK’s digital roads strategy entails much more than smart motorways. Even after the hiatus on building new smart motorways in England, there is still a growing ecosystem of digital and data-driven technologies embedded across the UK road network. These include roadside sensors to monitor traffic flow, cameras to detect incidents and infrastructure that communicates with control centres.
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April 30, 2026, 04:22 PM - 7 min read
The two tech giants join Atlassian, Block, WiseTech Global and Oracle, who have all made similar announcements this year, each evoking AI without outright blaming it.
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April 26, 2026, 12:38 PM - 7 min read
Advanced AI-based hacking tools make ransomwareaccessible to many more criminals and politically motivated hacktivists. Andaround one-quarter of breaches still result in ransom payments. For criminalssheltered by their governments, only the digital infrastructure is at risk ofbeing taken down by western law enforcement.
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April 20, 2026, 01:22 PM - 5 min read
The study suggests that our eyes descend from a worm-like ancestor that was roaming the oceans 600 million years ago. The same also applies to all bilateral animals, meaning animals whose bodies can be divided into roughly mirror-image left and right halves.
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April 19, 2026, 01:43 PM - 7 min read
Young people used AI to try on different identities, process real-life relationships, and re-author difficult real-life scenarios. Some people created “clones” of themselves, with superpowers or self-affirmingversions of themselves.
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April 15, 2026, 03:33 PM - 7 min read
If AI companionship becomes widespread enough to influence those norms, popular ideas about what makes a good partner may prioritise availability and responsiveness, displacing other aspects of love and affection.
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