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Today in "please stop saying 'environmentalism' when you mean 'being a snob'":
Caltrans ranked hydrogen trains, a fossil-fuel derived vaporware technology, as more environmentally friendly than electrification, because they think overhead wires look bad. That's the actual reason. htt…

The geopolitical #aiarmsrace seems largely unimpressed by people proclaiming #LLMs have plateaued and #AGI is never coming.
Such assessments are only relevant for the market, but not so much for count…

A study of ferronematic thin films including a stray field energy
Shilpa Dutta, James Dalby, Apala Majumdar, Anja Schl\"omerkemper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10442 https://…

A study of ferronematic thin films including a stray field energy
Ferronematic materials are colloidal suspensions of magnetic particles in liquid crystals. They are complex materials with potential applications in display technologies, sensors, microfluidics devices, etc. We consider a model for ferronematics in a 2D domain with a variational approach. The proposed free energy of the ferronematic system depends on the Landau-de Gennes (LdG) order parameter $\mathbf{Q}$ and the magnetization $\mathbf{M}$, and incorporates the complex interaction between the l…

"How microbes could help solve the world's plastic pollution crisis"
#Pastic #Plastics #Pollution

How microbes could help solve the world's plastic pollution crisis
With conventional waste management systems falling short, many scientists are turning to nature for innovative solutions to the issue of plastic waste. One promising avenue is microbial degradation: harnessing the natural abilities of certain bacteria and fungi to break down plastics in ways that current technologies cannot.

This succinctly crystallizes my hitherto inchoate thoughts on basically all big LLM efforts https://mastodon.social/@glyph/114840612040237978

Opendoor names Shopify COO Kaz Nejatian as its CEO, following Carrie Wheeler's ouster, and taps co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman; OPEN jumps 35% after hours (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/opend

Adaptive Framework for Ambient Intelligence in Rehabilitation Assistance
G\'abor Baranyi, Zsolt Csibi, Kristian Fenech, \'Aron F\'othi, Zs\'ofia Ga\'al, Joul Skaf, Andr\'as L\H{o}rincz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08624

Adaptive Framework for Ambient Intelligence in Rehabilitation Assistance
This paper introduces the Ambient Intelligence Rehabilitation Support (AIRS) framework, an advanced artificial intelligence-based solution tailored for home rehabilitation environments. AIRS integrates cutting-edge technologies, including Real-Time 3D Reconstruction (RT-3DR), intelligent navigation, and large Vision-Language Models (VLMs), to create a comprehensive system for machine-guided physical rehabilitation. The general AIRS framework is demonstrated in rehabilitation scenarios following…

Following the expected mention of technology neutrality with regard to the 2035 review of CO₂ standards for cars, the automotive section of Von der Leyen's State of the Union speech ends on a positive note:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH…

For all the other passengers and crews of #Dreamliner‎s around the globe, I hope that #AirIndia flight 171 indeed didn't crash due to general issues with the aircraft type. 🧐 #Boeing
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Air India crash investigation focuses on movement of engine fuel control switches
Data-driven reporting and analysis on the strategy and technology of flying.

Following the expected mention of technology neutrality with regard to the 2035 review of CO₂ standards for cars, the automotive section of Von der Leyen's State of the Union speech ends on a positive note:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH…