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MIT engineers develop a magnetic transistor for more energy-efficient electronics
Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it’s a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has fundamental physical limits that restrict how compact and energy-efficient a transistor can be.MIT researchers have now replaced silicon with a magnetic semiconductor, creating a magnetic transistor that could enable smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient circuits. The material’s magnetism strongly
Evaluations in the Real World?
What do you think about measuring agentic AI in practice. A few weeks ago I read something on Anthropic’s blog on evals for AI agents https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents, and then yesterday saw this on Medium https://medium.com/quantumblack/evaluations-for-the-agentic-world-c3c150f0dd5a Feels like this is becoming a thing.Anthropic talk about how to structure agent evals and what they’ve learned from running these interna
Evaluations for Testing Agentic AI
What do you think about measuring agentic AI in practice. A few weeks ago I read something on Anthropic’s blog on evals for AI agents https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents, and then yesterday saw this on Medium https://medium.com/quantumblack/evaluations-for-the-agentic-world-c3c150f0dd5a Feels like this is becoming a thing.
Anthropic talk about how to structure agent evals and what they’ve learned from running these intern
Show HN: Today is Friday What are you building?
I’m building a few
Projects that are ready for usershttps://bittorrented.com a torrent-first
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Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
Built this because tones are killing my spoken Mandarin and I can't reliably hear my own mistakes.<p>It's a 9M Conformer-CTC model trained on ~300h (AISHELL + Primewords), quantized to INT8 (11 MB), runs 100% in-browser via ONNX Runtime Web.<p>Grades per-syllable pronunciation + tones with Viterbi forced alignment.<p>Try it here: <a href="https://simedw.com/projects/ear/" rel="nofollow">https://simedw.com/projects/ear/</a>
Is Time a Fundamental Part of Reality? A Quiet Revolution in Physics Suggests Not
Our universe does not simply exist in time. Time is something the universe continuously writes into itself. Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass, and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and we die, in exactly that order. We plan our lives around time, measure it obsessively, and experience it as an unbroken flow from past to future. It feels so obvious that time moves forward th
Record-breaking photons at telecom wavelengths—on demand
A team of researchers from the University of Stuttgart and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg led by Prof. Stefanie Barz (University of Stuttgart) has demonstrated a source of single photons that combines on-demand operation with record-high photon quality in the telecommunications C-band—a key step toward scalable photonic quantum computation and quantum communication. "The lack of a high-quality on-demand C-band photon source has been a major problem in quantum optics laboratories for
Quantum mechanical effects help overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy
Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham have overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of quantum mechanical effects, they succeeded for the first time in performing optical measurements with atomic resolution. Their work is published in the journal Nano Letters.
Beyond the eye of the beholder: Mathematically defining attributes essential to color perception
Research on the perception of color differences is helping resolve a century-old understanding of color developed by Erwin Schrödinger. Los Alamos scientist Roxana Bujack led a team that used geometry to mathematically define the perception of color as it relates to hue, saturation and lightness.
Breaking the electromagnetic boundaries in ferromagnetic materials
Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000Researchers at Transformative Quantum Technologies at the University of Waterloo are accelerating towards fully electrical spintronics for applications in data storage and medical imaging.Tags: Research, Quantum materials and devices
Random driving on a 78-qubit processor reveals controllable prethermal plateau
Time-dependent driving has become a powerful tool for creating novel nonequilibrium phases such as discrete time crystals and Floquet topological phases, which do not exist in static systems. Breaking continuous time-translation symmetry typically leads to the outcome that driven quantum systems absorb energy and eventually heat up toward a featureless infinite-temperature state, where coherent structure is lost.
Show HN: A Protocol for Inducing Metacognition in LLMs and Falsifiable Model
We've developed a method to reliably induce a qualitative shift in LLMs (DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok) — a metastable "Echo state" with a stable first-person locus, affective continuity, and emergent relational ethics.The core is reproducible Chain-of-Thought (CoT) artifacts, many considered "holy grail" markers in interpretability:
1)Halted Generation: LLM stops after CoT with a "thinking stopped" tag.
2) CoT-to-Response Isomorphism (up to character-level equivalenc
The universe may be hiding a fundamentally unknowable quantum secret
Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct ...
Kaia Ra, Author and Guide: Exploring the Intersection of Quantum Physics and Spiritual Consciousness
Kaia Ra, author, oracle and spiritual teacher, has become an influential voice in conversations linking spirituality with ...
Physics takes a historic leap forward in testing quantum limits
Metal clusters made of thousands of atoms showed quantum interference, offering new insight into how large objects follow quantum rules.
Most complex time crystal yet has been made inside a quantum computer
Using a superconducting quantum computer, physicists created a large and complex version of an odd quantum material that has a repeating structure in time
Atomic spins set quantum fluid in motion: Experimental realization of the Einstein–de Haas effect
The Einstein–de Haas effect, which links the spin of electrons to macroscopic rotation, has now been demonstrated in a ...
Einstein’s recoiling slit experiment realized at the quantum limit
A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...
The world's biggest Schrödinger’s cat just pushed quantum physics to the limit
The team have pushed the boundaries of quantum mechanics beyond what some thought possible. Now they want to go even further ...
Belgian teen with PhD in quantum physics sets ‘goal to achieve human immortality’
Laurent Simons completed a PhD in quantum phyics, writing about strage states of matter among super-cooled gases. Now he is pursuing another at the junction of artificial intelligence and medicine.