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innovations from the semiconductor, electronics, metallurgy, and petroleum industries played a major role in reducing both PhotoVoltaic and Balance of System (BOS) costs,
but BOS costs were also impacted by innovations in software engineering and electric utilities.
Noninnovation factors, like efficiency gains from bulk purchasing and the accumulation of knowledge in the solar power industry, also reduced some cost variables.
In addition, while most PV panel innovations origi…

Surprisingly diverse innovations led to dramatically cheaper solar panels
A new study reveals key innovations that contributed to the rapid decline of solar energy systems, showing that many of the most significant technological advances came from outside the solar sector. This work could help businesses, researchers, and policymakers identify optimal areas for future investment.

Microsoft bringt Cloud-Gaming auf Infotainment-Systeme von LG
Microsoft erschließt eine neue Plattform für sein Cloud-Gaming-System: Künftig soll man auch auf den Infotainment-Systemen von LG im Auto zocken können.

„Die Geschichte kehrt zu sich selbst zurück“
https://taz.de/!6105480/
"Im Wissenschaftsbetrieb ist Rassismus nicht nur ein Problem für die Betroffenen, sagt Innovations- und Inklusionsforscherin Ebony McGee. Er verhindert auch wichtige Innovationen."

Oh no. It's true: The mouse cursor image on Wayland is delayed by one frame. 😭
Proof: https://mort.coffee/home/wayland-input-latency/
Great explaination by @…@…

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Fellow: ‘Fast and Fair’ Energy System Innovation
The Cascade Institute seeks a Fellow to contribute to our Scale Up & Acceleration research stream. The Fellow will identify pathways to accelerated energy system innovation that simultaneously promote justice, equity, and reconciliation—that, in other words, reconcile fast innovation with fair innovation.
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Competition closes October 3.

AquaCast: Urban Water Dynamics Forecasting with Precipitation-Informed Multi-Input Transformer
Golnoosh Abdollahinejad, Saleh Baghersalimi, Denisa-Andreea Constantinescu, Sergey Shevchik, David Atienza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09458

AquaCast: Urban Water Dynamics Forecasting with Precipitation-Informed Multi-Input Transformer
This work addresses the challenge of forecasting urban water dynamics by developing a multi-input, multi-output deep learning model that incorporates both endogenous variables (e.g., water height or discharge) and exogenous factors (e.g., precipitation history and forecast reports). Unlike conventional forecasting, the proposed model, AquaCast, captures both inter-variable and temporal dependencies across all inputs, while focusing forecast solely on endogenous variables. Exogenous inputs are f…

Simplicial Homotopy Type Theory is not just Simplicial: What are $\infty$-Categories?
Nima Rasekh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07737 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Simplicial Homotopy Type Theory is not just Simplicial: What are $\infty$-Categories?
$\infty$-category theory was originally developed in the context of classical homotopy theory using standard set theoretical assumptions, but has since been extended to a variety of mathematical foundations. One such successful effort, primarily due to Martini and Wolf, introduced a theory of $\infty$-categories internal to the foundation of an arbitrary Grothendieck $\infty$-topos, meaning they used categorical foundations. Another approach, due to Riehl and Shulman, developed a theory of $\in…

Ukraine, EU launch $117 million military innovation partnership: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/ukraine-eu-launch-million-military.html

"Lasertag" überall und jederzeit: Mixed Reality eröffnet neue Möglichkeiten
Mit MR-Brillen wird spontane Lasertag-Action in Innenräumen und teils auch im Freien möglich. Ein innovatives Spiel zeigt, wie einfach das sein kann.

Parity Requires Unified Input Dependence and Negative Eigenvalues in SSMs
Behnoush Khavari, Mehran Shakerinava, Jayesh Khullar, Jerry Huang, Fran\c{c}ois Rivest, Siamak Ravanbakhsh, Sarath Chandar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07395

Parity Requires Unified Input Dependence and Negative Eigenvalues in SSMs
Recent work has shown that LRNN models such as S4D, Mamba, and DeltaNet lack state-tracking capability due to either time-invariant transition matrices or restricted eigenvalue ranges. To address this, input-dependent transition matrices, particularly those that are complex or non-triangular, have been proposed to enhance SSM performance on such tasks. While existing theorems demonstrate that both input-independent and non-negative SSMs are incapable of solving simple state-tracking tasks, such…