Reuters

Australia social media ban set to take effect, sparking a global crackdown

SYDNEY, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Australia is set to become the first country to implement a minimum age for social media use on Wednesday, with platforms like Instagram, TikTok and YouTube forced to block ...
iaea.org

The Atom and the Algorithm: Nuclear Energy and AI are Converging to Shape the Future

Distinguished delegates, colleagues and friends, Writers and futurists have long echoed Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s idea that “the future arrives too fast…and in the wrong order.” Today, we know, the ...
New York Post

‘Set of jets’ surrounding 3I/ATLAS could be used ‘for navigation of a spacecraft’ — as second interstellar object is spotted in the sky

3I/ATLAS is surrounded by “a complex jet structure,” new images show, sparking fresh speculation that the Manhattan-sized interstellar object could be an artificial alien craft. The images, captured ...
Futurism

Nine Reasons This Scientist Is Suspicious the Object Screaming Past the Sun Is a City-Sized Alien Spacecraft

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has argued at length that 3I/ATLAS — the third-ever interstellar object ever detected, currently screaming through the solar system at incredible speed — could be an ...
New York Post

Manhattan-sized space object 3I/ATLAS has grown a tail — a possible sign of alien ‘maneuver’: Harvard scientist

New images reveal the Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has started to sport a tail, indicating that it could possibly be a “maneuvering” alien craft, one Harvard scientist suggested. After ...
Reuters

IBM says conventional AMD chips can run quantum computing error correction algorithm

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab said on Friday it can run a key quantum computing error correction algorithm on commonly available chips ...
Phys.org

Google claims its latest quantum algorithm can outperform supercomputers on a real-world task

Researchers from Google Quantum AI report that their quantum processor, Willow, ran an algorithm for a quantum computer that solved a complex physics problem thousands of times faster than the world's ...
Popular Mechanics

Astronomers Just Found Something That Weighs a Million Suns—and Is Completely Invisible

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Gravitational lensing is one of ...
The New York Times

NCAA will not implement ‘5-for-5’ eligibility rules anytime soon, internal memo says

Current NCAA eligibility rules will remain in place for the rest of this academic year as well as the 2026-27 academic year. Kirby Lee / Imagn Images A possible change in college eligibility rules to ...
Live Science

Google's breakthrough 'Quantum Echoes' algorithm pushes us closer to useful quantum computing — running 13,000 times faster than on a supercomputer

The new quantum computing algorithm, called "Quantum Echoes," is the first that can be independently verified by running it on another quantum computer. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
IFLScience

"Alien Mothership" Hypothesis About To Have Key Test As Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Hits Solar Conjunction And Perihelion

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
IEEE

A Lighter and Faster One-Stage Algorithm for Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

Abstract: Remote sensing (RS) image processing and analysis face significant challenges due to varying object scales and complex backgrounds. Existing detection algorithms often suffer from high ...