🔊 Vollebak launches jacket with 180 speakers

Vollebak’s jacket has 180 speakers facing inward to stimulate the brain and aid meditation on the move.

It aims to relieve anxiety through sound therapy using specific sounds and frequencies.

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📊 Orbit Robotics unveils four-armed space robot

Canadian company Orbit Robotics introduced HELIOS, a humanoid robot with four arms designed for microgravity environments. The extra arms help it move, stabilize, and perform tasks inside space stations without needing legs.

HELIOS uses a cable-driven actuator system with motors near its shoulders to reduce moving mass. It aims to cut down routine maintenance time, which currently takes astronauts about 35% of their work hours, including up to 50 hours unloading cargo ships.

By handling repetitive tasks like maintenance and cargo management, HELIOS could free astronauts to focus more on science and research aboard the station.

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▶️ Higgsfield’s AI Sci-Fi Debuts at Cannes

Startup Higgsfield created a 95-minute Sci-Fi film called Hell Grind using AI. It is the first AI-generated feature shown at Cannes.

The film’s budget was about $500,000, with nearly 80% spent on computing power for generation.

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🤖 OpenAI Model Solves 80-Year-Old Math Problem

An OpenAI model solved a math problem posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. The task was to find how to place n points on a plane so that the maximum number of pairs share the same fixed distance. For decades, the best known solution was a square grid arrangement.

The AI found a way to arrange points that produces significantly more pairs at a unit distance than any grid. It discovered an infinite family of such arrangements, using algebraic number theory methods never applied to this geometry problem before.

This was not a specialized math program but a general-purpose model. It was not trained or guided specifically to solve this problem, bridging two distant math fields in a way humans had not seen.

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📶 Japanese team hits 112 Gbps at 560 GHz for 6G

Researchers at Tokushima University achieved 112 Gbps wireless speed at 560 GHz, surpassing limits in 6G tech. They used an optical microcomb to reduce power loss and phase noise above 350 GHz.

The microcomb creates ultra-stable laser lines, eliminating phase noise. Two optical signals modulated with QPSK and 16QAM reached 84 Gbps and 112 Gbps respectively. The compact, temperature-controlled device suits practical use.

This targets mobile backhaul links, potentially replacing fiber cables with terahertz wireless beams. The team aims to cut residual noise and develop stronger antennas for longer range.

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🤖 Anthropic to Collaborate with Vatican on AI Ethics

The Vatican announced a new commission on artificial intelligence to develop a unified approach to AI issues, monitor technology progress, and communicate the Church's stance. At the event, Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah confirmed the company's readiness to cooperate on AI ethics.

Anthropic positions itself as a company prioritizing human dignity and safety over unchecked scaling. The Vatican views Anthropic as a model for responsible AI, especially after the company rejected mass surveillance and autonomous weapons projects.

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⏰ Clock Shows Time with 60 Water Pumps

A maker called Strange Inventions built a clock that shows time using colored water in glass bottles. Each digit uses a 15-segment display made of small glass vials filled or emptied by pumps.

The clock has 60 pumps controlling the water flow to light or darken each segment. Four digits form the time display by combining these segments.

This design has no practical use. It needs constant water maintenance, the pumps add complexity, and it stops working if power goes out.

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