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The physical activity paradox: not all forms of exercise lower your dementia risk – this type raises it

A major new study of 4.2 million people found leisure exercise cuts dementia risk – but manual labour and active commuting may raise it.

Inside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI

A survey of over 700 professionals examines how visual and physical AI teams build systems, why models fail, and where data work drives production. Download this free whitepaper now!

Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

For all the interest in and uptake of agentic AI systems over the past year or so , the world of automated AI has thus far been primarily limited to text, images, code, and other data and actions that take place inside a computer.

I evaluated dozens of digital measuring tools on Android to see if phone sensors can replace physical hardware

There are some legitimate options

a16z creates a $1.1B ‘Machine Age’ fund to ‘accelerate the physical buildout of AI’

The firm, known for its focus on software, is going to start throwing more money at the hardware behind AI.

This Is How Anthropic Thinks AI Agents Should Navigate the Physical World

The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

BMW’s New iX3 Can Physically Refuse To Let You Open Your Own Door

Neue Klasse safety tech can physically delay your exit, steer around hazards and even save you from stamping on the wrong pedal

Physical AIFollows Aviation’s Flight Plan

Most people who fly can’t tell you how many engines were on the plane. Nowadays nobody needs to. But for decades, that was the most important question in aviation. It decided which routes an aircraft could fly and whether a new design lived or died. That is what a mature industry

'Multitasking' Young Buyers Are Why BMW Is Ditching Physical Buttons

New BMW vehicles are short on physical controls, with only a few buttons in the cabin, and practically everything else is controlled by the touchscreen.

Neura Robotics acquires ADLATUS to build physical AI powerhouse

Zara flagship store in Shanghai reflects "the future of physical retail"

AIM Architecture has designed Zara Huaihai Road, a flagship store for the Spanish fashion brand in Shanghai, with an amphitheatre-like brick podium that connects the building with the street. Located on Huaihai Road, a well-known commercial district in central Shanghai, the new f

Spending on physical games falls to lowest on record since 1995 — US console sales plunge 39% in July as memory costs push average price to $542

Spending on physical game disks has fallen to the lowest recorded level since tracking began in 1995, according to a new report documenting a drastic slump in the console market. U.S. console hardware sales fell 39% by unit volume in July against a year earlier, while the average

World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is

Members of the world's largest 'truly open library in human history' have issued a worldwide call to volunteers, begging them to scan and upload books online to prevent AI companies from obtaining and destroying huge quantities of books. The Anna's Archive appeal follows multiple

Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer & Dafnis Prieto, “Fifteen”

A physically exhilarating listen from three notable figures of modern and experimental jazz. Read full story on the Bandcamp Daily .

Einstein thought time dilation was both real and not – he was right

What even is time? Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan takes on this mind-bending question by exploring the proof we have that time dilation is both a physical phenomenon and a psychological one

Why parent-child playful interactions mean so much more than fun and games

Parental playfulness is about physical, cognitive and social behaviour marked by creativity, joy, imagination and humour when parents are fully present.

How everyday household tasks impact relationships

The physical, cognitive and emotional loads of running a household should be recognized when examining the health of a couple's relationship, new research has found.

Scientists tracked 4,500 animals and found a surprising human effect

Scientists tracking thousands of animals found that our physical presence can reshape where wildlife moves and lives, sometimes as strongly as roads, cities, and other human development.

Five Guys closed 31 stores last year, even as it grew its presence overall: Here’s where locations shuttered

Five Guys continued to grow its physical footprint last year, but the fast-food burger chain also closed 31 U.S.

Exercise may create new neurons by making other brain cells contract

Physical activity causes a type of brain cell called astrocytes to contract, which then leads to the formation of new neurons, according to a study in mice

New study reinforce the positive impacts of lifestyle changes on cognitive health and dementia risk

Physical exercise, a proper diet, cognitive training, clinical monitoring, and socialization improve cognitive performance by 55% among older adults in Latin America.

Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses

Our leading hypothesis for how our memories are stored is that when you learn something, the connections among neurons involved get stronger and physically larger, and that constitutes the memory. The trouble is that these connections significantly change over time—they’re plasti

One step closer to the ideal glass—simulations reveal hidden order at absolute zero

In the physical sense, glass is not limited to familiar window glass; it forms whenever a liquid is cooled so quickly that it cannot crystallize. As a result, glass has an amorphous structure—that is, its "building blocks" are not arranged regularly as in crystals. At the same ti

Quantum computer microscope is set to significantly improve electron microscopy

Electron microscopes are used wherever particularly small details need to be imaged. But from a strictly physical point of view, every electron in a conventional electron microscope represents a missed opportunity: If all you do is count electrons, any additional quantum informat

AI is set to boost productivity and will have a ‘profound’ impact on the jobs market: Treasury

An analysis by the Treasury forecasts that AI has the potential to have a bigger impact on high-skilled and cognitive jobs, not just physical and routine roles.

From Hawala to Swift: Inside the 1,000-year battle to move money safely

Finance has spent centuries decoupling wealth from physical transport, but constantly erasing friction creates vectors for increasingly high-tech exploits.

Mac DeMarco Releases Four New Albums

The projects were originally issued as physical-only CD-Rs on tour

What is the best direction to face your subwoofer?

The physical setup of a subwoofer can be the difference between bass that swallows you up and bass that seems to come from a specific spot.

Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB

Cloudflare says that it has freed up roughly 100TB of RAM across its global fleet without reconfiguring any physical RAM modules in its servers, and that it did so by redesigning how each DNS cache entry is laid out in memory.

Except for notified forest, not a foot extra should be added to ESA, demands Shivamogga MP B.Y. Raghavendra

Mr. Raghavendra has urged the government of Karnataka to order a physical survey of the ESA area and reduce it following the Kerala model

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The MacBook Neo Now Has a Dedicated Anti-Theft Cable Lock Adapter From CompuLock

Summary CompuLock introduced a new security adapter designed for the MacBook Neo to bring a physical lock slot back to Apple's entry-level laptop via a screw-on clampThe low-profile attachment is compatible with standard T-shaped cable locks and aims to deter grab-and-go theft in

Childhood trauma may leave a lasting “scar” inside brain cells

Early-life stress may physically alter how DNA is packaged in the brain, leaving stress-related genes primed to activate more easily years later.

Atari revives 39 Activision games on cartridges that run seamlessly across five decades of hardware — Ultimate Deluxe collection that includes every title costs

Atari has officially unveiled the Atari x Activision Collection, a compilation featuring 39 classic Activision games on physical cartridges.

Ramped fields create more robust entanglement between trapped-ion qubits

While quantum computing could be the future, it is currently plagued by finicky hardware. To make the technology practical, researchers must demonstrate that it consistently and continuously works and performs at scale. In a new study, published in Physical Review Letters, resear

Liquid gallium experiment confirms key flow regime inside rapidly rotating stars and planets

Since we cannot look into the interiors of stars and planets, we rely on lab experiments to replicate the physical processes that occur there. Led by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an international research team has produced the first experimental verification

Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say

The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.

BMW Blames Young People for Loss of Real Buttons in New Cars

One BMW executive reportedly claims that younger customers prefer voice and digital controls over physical knobs and switches.

Have You Been Micro-Cheating on Me?

Technology has made the parameters of cheating much harder to pin down. There’s physical cheating, obviously; then there’s emotional cheating, sexting, sliding into DMs, liking someone’s bikini photos, keeping an ex on standby—or what’s now known as micro-cheating.

Founders once linked to Bezos project pitch AI that models physics, not language

The new type of artificial intelligence model built by Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik has learned to predict physical phenomena in space and time.

Data believed to be fake diploma seized from former Ito mayor’s computer

Maki Takubo has continued to deny forging the document, the physical version of which is kept in the safe of a law firm in Tokyo and has not been confiscated.

Tesla’s Door Handles Lead to Its Biggest Recall Yet

A Chinese agency says the two recalls affecting some 3 million vehicles can mostly be fixed by over-the-air updates—but they will also require physical warning stickers and camera-related updates.

Architects are sitting on a data gold mine, and Anthropic and other frontier AI labs can’t get to it

Architecture may be one of AI ’s hardest pursuits. Unlike coding or writing, the data that could be used to train an architecture AI model is not widely available (or stealable ) online. Rather, it’s stored away in the servers and physical filing cabinets of individual architectu

Former AC/DC Member Chris Slade Retires from Drumming

The "Thunderstruck" drummer cites his age and physical limitations from a stroke he suffered seven years ago. Former AC/DC Member Chris Slade Retires from Drumming Spencer Kaufman

Kerala High Court directs State to consider renaming ‘Mental Health Centres’, citing concerns of stigma

Division Bench notes that when other hospitals are not termed 'Centres of Physical Health’, there is no reason for these centres to be tagged as ‘Mental Health Centres’, with the disrepute of catering to a particular kind of disorder or illness.

The $225 Pebble Time 2 is a refreshingly fun smartwatch

The $225 Pebble Time 2 pairs quirky watch faces and apps with physical buttons, an e-paper display, weeks of battery life, and a playful hacker spirit.

Students urged to participate actively in sports alongside academics

Addressing the gathering at the inauguration of South Zone–1 CBSE Archery Championship, Former Rajya Sabha Member T.G. Venkatesh says sports not only enhance physical fitness but also nurture mental well-being, confidence, discipline, concentration and perseverance