Refresh 2025-07-24T16:58:12.387Z Lego debuts 9 new sets at SDCC (Image credit: Jacob Krol/Future) Of course, Comic-Con International isn’t just about the movie and TV show panels. The annual pop culture event draws in thousands of fans all geared up in cosplay outfits galore to take part in exhibitions, presentations, screenings and more. Before SDCC officially…
If you have ever spotted faces or human-like expressions in everyday objects, you may have experienced the phenomenon of face pareidolia. Now, a new study by the University of Surrey has looked into how this phenomenon grabs our attention, which could be used by advertisers in promoting future products. The study, published in i-Perception, investigated…
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Radeon AI Pro R9700 confirmed for July 23 launch with 32GB GDDR6 memory Early partner listings show pricing between $1244 and $1277 depending on model The GPU is built for demanding workloads like AI, rendering, and local model inference workflows AMD‘s Radeon AI Pro R9700, its fastest GPU to date, is on sale now, priced…
To succeed at university, Italian students need to pass interview-style oral exams. Now scientists have found that the time of the exam could be a critical factor influencing their success… or failure. Even when other factors were excluded, the chances of passing were highest around lunchtime, and lowest at the beginning or end of the…
Helen Catt Political correspondent Reuters The government has increased the maximum price it will pay to companies for the electricity generated by new wind farms. It comes as ministers are trying to meet challenging pledges to bring down household bills and create an electricity grid that it is almost entirely free of fossil fuels by…
In the race to lead the world in AI, the US just took a back seat. President Donald Trump’s latest series of Executive Orders makes it clear that his administration will do all it can to prevent future AI models from taking into consideration any form of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This includes core principles…
But the competitive landscape for AI-assisted coding platforms is crowded. Startups Windsurf, Replit, and Poolside also sell AI code-generation tools to developers. Cline is a popular open-source alternative. GitHub’s Copilot, which was developed in collaboration with OpenAI, is described as a “pair programmer” that auto-completes code and offers debugging assistance. Most of these code editors…
Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH’s Medical Collection to decode the genome of the virus responsible for the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic in Switzerland. The genetic material of the virus reveals that it had already developed key adaptations to humans at the outset of what became the…
On July 8, 2025, physicists from Aalto University in Finland published a transmon qubit coherence dramatically surpassing previous scientifically published records. The millisecond coherence measurement marks a quantum leap in computational technology, with the previous maximum echo coherence measurements approaching 0.6 milliseconds. Longer qubit coherence allows for an extended window of time in which quantum…
