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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
Show HN: RoboAPI – A unified REST API for robots, like Stripe but for hardware
Every robot manufacturer ships a different SDK and a different protocol. A Boston Dynamics Spot speaks nothing like a Universal Robots arm. Every team building on top of robots rewrites the same integration layer from scratch. This is a massive tax on the industry.RoboAPI is a unified API layer that abstracts all of that into one clean developer experience. One SDK, one API key, any robot — simulated or real hardware.You can connect a simulated robot and read live telemetry in under 5 minutes:
Ask HN: How are you evaluating AI apps and CLI?
I'm sure many of you work for companies where various AI tools are being made available and IT departments asking for feedback on those tools. The IT departments are allocating in some cases unlimited budget in the hopes that something comes out as a winner and sticks out eventually...For example the models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google etc. can be accessed via:
- IDE integration, e.g. VS Code, JetBrains etc.
- Dedicated apps and CLIs, e.g. Codex, Claude, Copilot CLI etc.It's already
A Humanoid Robot Beat the Human World Record for a Half Marathon
A year after most robots failed to finish the Beijing race, nearly half the field autonomously ran a course of slopes, narrow passages, and 20 turns. Humanoid robots are Silicon Valley’s latest obsession, but real-world performance has lagged the hype. That may be starting to change, however, after a robot beat the human record for a half marathon by nearly seven minutes in Beijing.While tech companies around the world are piling into humanoid robots, China has made it a national priority. The g
Daily briefing: This AI-powered robot is a table-tennis master
<p>Nature, Published online: 23 April 2026; <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01356-4">doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01356-4</a></p>‘Ace’, a robotic arm, can best elite ping-pong players. Plus, a new network of cells in a mouse’s brain and monkeys in Gibraltar are eating dirt to settle their stomachs.
Brain tissue near tumours is loaded with plastic
<p>Nature, Published online: 24 April 2026; <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01281-6">doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01281-6</a></p>Relatively high levels of micro- and nanoplastics around brain tumours might indicate breakdown of the blood–brain barrier.
New Waterloo quantum startup gains fast momentum with $10.7 million in funding
Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000A new startup spun out of research at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo is accelerating its push toward commercialization with $10.7 million in dilutive and non-dilutive funding and a public listing after launching just more than six months ago. Tags: Awards, grants and funding, Commercialization, Quantum computing
NASA scientist says a "fifth force" may be hiding in our solar system
Scientists are grappling with a cosmic mystery: why does the Universe behave differently on massive scales compared to our own solar system? While distant galaxies reveal clear signs of something bending the rules of gravity—often attributed to dark energy or a hidden “fifth force”—everything nearby seems to follow Einstein’s playbook perfectly.
Astronomers may have found a strange new kind of cosmic explosion
A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar cataclysm. After detecting ripples in space-time, scientists spotted a fast-fading red glow that initially looked like a rare kilonova—the kind of collision that forges gold and uranium. But just days later, the signal shifted, behaving more like a supernova, leaving researchers puzzled. Now, some think they may have witnessed something never seen before: a “superkilonova.”
Quantum 'dark modes' no longer block phonon control, opening new paths for scalable devices
Three RIKEN researchers have demonstrated a way to stop problematic "dark modes" from squelching intriguing effects in quantum systems. This advance could help with the development of more versatile quantum devices that can be used to control the storage and transmission of quantum information. The study is published in the journal Nature Communications.
One-way phonon synchronization could survive noise and defects, theoretical physicists suggest
A novel approach for realizing the one-way quantum synchronization of phonons has been proposed by three theoretical physicists at RIKEN. Importantly, this method is remarkably resilient against practical challenges such as imperfections and environmental noise. Their paper, "Nonreciprocal quantum synchronization," is published in Nature Communications.
Can humans expand consciousness? Oxford physicist says YES
Human consciousness has always been an enigma for the scientific community. Various debates surrounding consciousness revolve around unexplored brain capacity and ways to unlock hidden layers of...
You Can Expand Your Consciousness to See Hidden Layers of Reality, Oxford Physicist Claims
A leading physicist argues the brain may operate like a quantum system—and that enhancing it could create humans who perceive hidden layers of reality.
Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of HPE World Quantum Day
Quantum computing, HPC and AI are converging, with new insights from HPE World Quantum Day on real-world use and adoption barriers.
Scientists take a step toward a quantum internet using New York City's fiber
As long as there's been an internet, there's been a way to hack it. Scientists have spent decades imagining a different kind ...
Multimode quantum entanglement achieved via dissipation engineering
A research team led by Prof. Lin Yiheng from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), collaborating with Prof. Yuan Haidong from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, succeeded in ...
Cisco switch aimed at building practical quantum networks
Cisco today unveiled a prototype switch it says will significantly accelerate the timeline for practical, distributed, ...
Scientists Overcome Major Quantum Bottleneck, Potentially Transforming Teleportation and Computing
A new method reveals hidden order in quantum systems, potentially transforming how they are measured and used.
Show HN: DeckWeaver – Create AI-powered Google Slides presentations in minutes
As I frequently run bespoke training sessions and project-based workshops for clients, I create quite a lot of presentations and, naturally, to some extent rely on ChatGPT and similar tools to help me create the content.However, as I use Google Slides (rather than a Markdown-based presentation tool), I faced the significant problem of having to manually import the content into Google Slides presentations via copy and paste, which was very time-consuming.Hence, I built a solution called DeckWeave
Show HN: CreepJS Browser Fingerprinting
Not new but quite cool. Note: https://creepjs.org/ is NOT official the repo is https://github.com/abrahamjuliot/creepjsAnyone knows how fingerprinting works mathematically? what do they use? when the signals may vary even slightly, your final hash should be sufficiently accurate and stable. A simple hash won't do it.Changing IP, missing cookies/session, resizing window, TLS/SSL browser handshake, screen depth, font rendering, MTR, network latency