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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 5, 2026, 03:13 PM - 6 min read
Posthumous digital avatars are created from the digital traces left behind by dead people during their lifetime. Built through a combination of AI, machine learning and advanced data analysis, these avatars can recreate the physical and psychological likeness, personality and even memories of the deceased. But the advent of posthumous avatars raises significant ethical issues.
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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 29, 2026, 01:18 PM - 6 min read
Debates over the existence of extraterrestrials date back to the earliest Indigenous and western thought. The tools generating the evidence within western science, however, have changed — from the philosophical and theological arguments of the Ancient Greeks to the development of increasingly sophisticated telescopes and space travel and exploration.
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April 28, 2026, 12:48 PM - 8 min read
It is undeniable that causal-aware AI systems have the potential to accelerate drug discovery, optimise personalised treatment recommendations, and even offer novel mechanistic solutions across the breadth of biomedical science and medicine.
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April 27, 2026, 03:15 PM - 6 min read
By analysing observations of where landslides have occurred in past storms, alongside the underlying environmental conditions that increase landslide susceptibility.
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