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A recent study from the University of Nottingham has unveiled groundbreaking research into fuel-free spacecraft propulsion systems, providing hope for more sustainable space exploration. The study, titled “Modeling and Numerical Optimization of Refractive Surface Patterns for Transmissive Solar Sails,” published in Acta Astronautica, explores a cutting-edge approach to spacecraft propulsion that doesn’t rely on traditional fuel-based methods. By harnessing sunlight …

Roughly one in three adults in the U.S. regularly gets insufficient sleep, driving demand for tools that can monitor, analyze, and enhance rest. Eight Sleep, founded in 2014, offers AI-powered sleep tech products that promise to transform your bed into a preventive health device. The New York-based startup announced Tuesday that it raised a fresh $100 million round from investors …

Virginia Tech A.D. names staggering budget figure Hokies need “to compete near the top”  FootballScoop.com David Teel: Hokies AD Babcock tells board ‘our resources don’t match our expectations’  The Virginian-Pilot Bitter: Hokies AD Whit Babcock Sounds Financial Alarm At BOV Meeting  TechSideline.com Virginia Tech’s Board of Visitors hears about future of athletics  WDBJ7 TSL Podcast 428: Preseason Camp Updates, Whit Babcock Presents To BOV  TechSideline.com …

Big Tech Is Eating Itself in Talent War  The Wall Street Journal Silicon Valley talent keeps getting recycled, so this CEO uses a ‘moneyball’ approach for uncovering hidden AI geniuses in the new era  Fortune Big Tech’s talent grab risks undermining Silicon Valley’s startup engine: WSJ  Seeking Alpha Why Tech Giants Are Spending $100 Million Per Year on Just One Kind of Employee  Investopedia …

California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters  Hacker News California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S., as tech falters: ‘It’s brutal out there’  San Francisco Chronicle California unemployment rate worst in the nation, according to state data  KRON4 Bay Area and California bounce back with July job gains after June loss  The Mercury News California’s Labor Market: …

Henry, a boyish-looking AI researcher, believes there’s about a 50/50 chance that in the next few years AI will become so powerful and sophisticated it will pose an existential threat to all human life. For his day job, he’s trying to prevent this from happening by working for a small safety-focused AI research lab in the Bay Area. He takes …

Bill Gates said GPT tech had peaked with GPT-4 — now GPT-5’s disappointing debut has people talking  Windows Central Introducing GPT-5  OpenAI Women with AI ‘boyfriends’ mourn lost love after ‘cold’ ChatGPT upgrade  Al Jazeera The latest ChatGPT is supposed to be ‘PhD level’ smart. It can’t even label a map  CNN GPT-5 Backlash + Perplexity C.E.O. Aravind Srinivas on the Browser Wars + …

Microsoft has launched an “urgent” external inquiry into allegations Israel’s military surveillance agency has used the company’s technology to facilitate the mass surveillance of Palestinians. The company said on Friday the formal review was in response to a Guardian investigation that revealed how the Unit 8200 spy agency has relied on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to store a vast collection …

This could re-energise the drug pipeline just in time Could AI save us from the antibiotic apocalypse? That’s the hope from new research in which scientists designed novel drugs atom-by-atom to beat two notorious superbugs, including MRSA. Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem, causing the deaths of around five million people a year. Even routine operations could become life-threatening events …

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