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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies. And they understand how certain stars form the comparatively smaller stellar mass black holes once they reach …

As 1950 began, Paramount Pictures launched an innovative and grand word-of-mouth campaign for Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard by hosting a series of screenings for Hollywood icons and insiders. Before one such screening, MGM head Louis B. Mayer hosted a dinner party for Wilder, star Gloria Swanson, and others, before they all decamped to a screening room to watch the film. …

Evo 2025, the biggest fighting game tournament in North America, starts this weekend. If you tune into one of the nine different Evo Twitch channels, you’ll see some of the top players in the world compete in fighting game staples like Street Fighter and Tekken and newer games like Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves and Rivals of Aether II. …

A new leak reveals that Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S25 FE will be pretty familiar on the whole, but with a weird shuffle in its battery and charging specs. Leaker @MysteryLupin took to Twitter/X earlier today to reveal a fairly complete list of the core Galaxy S25 FE specs, and there aren’t many surprises. Like its predecessor, the Galaxy S25 FE …

A series of job posts by Sony Interactive Entertainment sparked widespread speculation over the weekend that it was planning multiformat ports of major franchises, but respected insider Shinobi602 has moved to temper expectations by stating they’re related to small-scale titles and live service games. While a lot of people have speculated that major Sony franchises such as Horizon Zero Dawn …

Scientists have achieved the lowest quantum computing error rate ever recorded — an important step in solving the fundamental challenges on the way to practical, utility-scale quantum computers. In research published June 12 in the journal APS Physical Review Letters, the scientists demonstrated a quantum error rate of 0.000015%, which equates to one error per 6.7 million operations. This achievement …

Robots that Grow by Consuming Other Robots – YouTube Watch On Scientists have created a prototype robot that can grow, heal and improve itself by integrating material from its environment or by “consuming” other robots. It’s a big step forward in developing robot autonomy, the researchers say. The researchers coined the term “robot metabolism” to describe the process that enables …

The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it focused on the fact that a relatively small and unknown company said it had built a chatbot that rivaled the performance of those from the world’s most famous AI companies, but using a fraction of the computer …