Google Gemini could be built into Siri, as Apple hints at plans to offer more AI assistants on its devices

With the next wave of software updates, Apple will introduce its own AI smarts – known as Apple Intelligence – to iPhone, iPad and Mac, as well as to OpenAIs newly announced ChatGPT model. The decision led to a wave of controversial messages from SpaceX CEO Elon Muskequivalent to a recent outburst surrounding Windows 11’s … Read more

Scientists are discovering more Milky Way-like galaxies in the early universe, expanding our understanding of how galaxies formed

Some of the spiral galaxies studied by the researchers in the study. Credit: Vicki Kuhn Scientists at the University of Missouri are peering into the past and discovering new clues about the early universe. Because light takes a long time to travel through space, they can now see what galaxies looked like billions of years … Read more

Recent solar outbursts are causing dramatic auroras on Mars

A recent solar eruption sent a powerful blast of charged particles and radiation toward Mars, giving scientists a rare glimpse of how these events unfold on planets other than Earth. Sonos’ very first headphones are too expensive for what they offer NASA’s Curiosity rover captured the aftermath of a solar storm on the surface of … Read more

Elon Musk vows to ban iPhones from his companies and signals a looming AI technology war

ELON MUSK is ready to ban iPhones and Mac computers from his business after tech rival Apple announced plans to use OpenAI. The billionaire owner of X (formerly known as Twitter) and Tesla said Apple products would not be welcome at his company if Apple combined with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of … Read more

Scientists create and test an efficient water-splitting catalyst predicted by theory

This diagram shows how a catalyst consisting of a few layers of iridium oxide (IrOX) over a titanium nitride (TiN) carrier can efficiently store oxygen (O2), hydrogen ions (H+), and electrons (e.g–) from water molecules (H2O) in an acidic electrolyte. This ‘oxygen evolution reaction’ is the more challenging of the two reactions required to split … Read more

A chain of copper and carbon atoms can be the thinnest metal wire

Credit: ACS Nano (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c12802 Researchers from EPFL’s Laboratory for Theory and Simulation of Materials in Lausanne, part of the NCCR MARVEL, have used computational methods to identify what could be the thinnest possible metal wire, as well as several other one-dimensional materials with properties that could be of interest to many applications. One-dimensional … Read more

New technology could help build quantum computers of the future

An artist’s rendering of a new method to create high-quality color centers (qubits) in silicon at specific locations using ultrafast laser pulses (femtosecond, or one quadrillionth of a second). The top right inset shows an experimentally observed optical signal (photoluminescence) from the qubits, with their structures shown at the bottom. Credit: Kaushalya Jhuria/Berkeley Lab Quantum … Read more

New technology could help build quantum computers of the future

This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! An artist’s rendering of a new method to create high-quality color centers (qubits) in silicon at specific locations using ultrafast laser pulses (femtosecond, or one quadrillionth of a second). The top right inset shows an experimentally observed optical signal (photoluminescence) … Read more

Astronomers see cataclysmic collision of giant asteroids in nearby galaxy

Nearly twenty years ago, astronomers observed a huge cloud of fine dust particles around a young star just 63 light-years away from Earth. From recent observations of the Webb Space TelescopeHowever, the dust cloud had mysteriously disappeared. Now a new paper suggests that the dust cloud may have been caused by a violent event that … Read more

Lone star status: tracking a low-mass star as it sweeps through the Milky Way

A simulation of a possible explanation for the speed of an L subdwarf named CWISE J124909+362116.0 shows that it is part of a binary pair of white dwarfs that ended when the white dwarf exploded in a supernova. Credit: Adam Makarenko / WM Keck Observatory It may seem as if the Sun is standing still … Read more