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Huge thanks to @… for helping me figure out there is indeed a toggle you can set in Gmail to have the 'delete' option on the notification. The toggle is for delete OR archive, not both. As huge and ridiculous as Google is, they can't figure out how to have both delete and archive options on a notification at the same time. Cutting edge of technology

The ref cam is also stupid. The perspective is way too distant and the jostling of video on a running human without stabilizing technology is too ridiculous to actually show anything.
PGMOL can’t even get VAR right with umpteen HD replays, so maybe they’re happy to have a ragged replay as a face-saving charade.
If it was accurately synced to what Simon Hooper saw, large sections of the game would be blank screens. He’s hopeless. I don’t need a camera affixed to his chest to see t…

Uncovering multi-technology convergence patterns with hypergraphs: Evolution and prediction using patent data
Yiwei Huang, Shuqi Xu, Shimin Cai, Linyuan L\"u
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15521

Uncovering multi-technology convergence patterns with hypergraphs: Evolution and prediction using patent data
Technology convergence integrates distinct domains to create novel combinations, driving radical innovation that reshapes markets and industries. However, most approaches rely on pairwise networks that cannot capture multi-technology interactions and suffer scale biases from heterogeneous patenting activity. To overcome these gaps, we propose a hypergraph-based framework that directly models multi-technology convergence and identifies statistically significant convergence via a probabilistic nu…

Automated Modeling of Polarons: Defects and Reactivity on TiO$_2$(110) Surfaces
Firat Yalcin, Carla Verdi, Viktor C. Birschitzky, Matthias Meier, Michael Wolloch, Michele Reticcioli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15572

Automated Modeling of Polarons: Defects and Reactivity on TiO$_2$(110) Surfaces
Polarons are widespread in functional materials and are key to device performance in several technological applications. However, their effective impact on material behavior remains elusive, as condensed matter studies struggle to capture their intricate interplay with atomic defects in the crystal. In this work, we present an automated workflow for modeling polarons within density functional theory (DFT). Our approach enables a fully automatic identification of the most favorable polaronic con…

Sprouting technology otherwise, hospicing negative commons -- Rethinking technology in the transition to sustainability-oriented futures
Martin Deron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05860

Sprouting technology otherwise, hospicing negative commons -- Rethinking technology in the transition to sustainability-oriented futures
Due to its significant and growing environmental harms, both directly through its materiality and indirectly through its pervasive integration into unsustainable economic systems, ICT will need to be radically redirected to align with sustainability-oriented futures. While the role of ICT in such futures will likely diverge significantly from current dynamics, it will probably not be entirely disconnected from the present. Instead, such transition involves complex dynamics of continuity, adapta…

“Assuming we steward it safely and responsibly into the world…”—Right, bro, as if.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/04/demis-hassabis-ai-future-10-times-bigger-than-industrial-revolution…

Nvidia acquires Solver, a three-year-old AI coding agent startup formerly known as Laredo Labs, which had raised $8M from Radical Ventures and other investors (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-acquires-coding-startup-solver

Nvidia Acquires Coding Startup Solver
Nvidia has acquired Solver, a three-year-old software development startup, The Information reported Tuesday . The startup, formerly known as Laredo Labs, had developed an AI coding agent and raised $8 million in financing from investors including Radical Ventures and Horizons Ventures. Nvidia regularly buys small startups, including several whose technology can lower the cost of using its

RATE: An LLM-Powered Retrieval Augmented Generation Technology-Extraction Pipeline
Karan Mirhosseini, Arya Aftab, Alireza Sheikh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21125 https://…

RATE: An LLM-Powered Retrieval Augmented Generation Technology-Extraction Pipeline
In an era of radical technology transformations, technology maps play a crucial role in enhancing decision making. These maps heavily rely on automated methods of technology extraction. This paper introduces Retrieval Augmented Technology Extraction (RATE), a Large Language Model (LLM) based pipeline for automated technology extraction from scientific literature. RATE combines Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with multi-definition LLM-based validation. This hybrid method results in high rec…

At the dawning of the seventeenth century, Kepler's optics applied to the telescope in the hands of Galileo left no room for argument: whatever the Truth might be, Aristotelian physics was demonstrably dead, and vilified Copernicus redeemed.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2025/super-resolution-microscopes-reveal-new-details-cells

A Less Terrifying Universe? Mundanity as an Explanation for the Fermi Paradox
Robin H. D. Corbet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22878 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

A Less Terrifying Universe? Mundanity as an Explanation for the Fermi Paradox
Applying a principle of "radical mundanity", this paper examines explanations for the lack of strong evidence for the presence of technology-using extraterrestrial civilizations (ETCs) in the Galaxy - the Fermi paradox. With this principle, the prospect that the Galaxy contains a modest number of civilizations is preferred, where none have achieved technology levels sufficient to accomplish large-scale astro-engineering or lack the desire to do so. This consideration also leads to the expectati…