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““We visited a dark factory producing some astronomical number of mobile phones,” recalls Greg Jackson, the boss of British energy supplier Octopus.
“The process was so heavily automated that there were no workers on the manufacturing side, just a small number who were there to ensure the plant was working.
“You get this sense of a change, where China’s competitiveness has gone from being about government subsidies and low wages to a tremendous number of highly skilled, educated engineers who are innovating like mad.””
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/why-western-executives-visit-china-coming-back-terrified/

AmigaDOS Beer: The company has gone out of business, but their recipe has
been picked up by some weird German company, so now this beer will be an
import. This beer never really sold very well because the original
manufacturer didn't understand marketing. Like Unix Beer, AmigaDOS Beer
fans are an extremely loyal and loud group. It originally came in a
16-oz. can, but now comes in 32-oz. cans too. When this can was
originally introduced, it appeared flashy…

A Giant Peanut-shaped Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emitter Off the Galactic Plane
Cao, Aharonian, Bai, Bao, Bastieri, Bi, Bi, WenYi, Butkevich, Cai, Cao, Cao, Chang, Chang, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Cheng, Cheng, Chu, Cui, Cui, Cui, Cui, Dai, Dai, Dai, ., Diao, Dong, Duan, Fan, Fan, Fang, Fang, Fang, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Gabici, Gao, Gao, Gao, Gao, Gao, Ge, Ge, Geng, Giacinti, Gong, Gou, Gu, Guo, …

A Giant Peanut-shaped Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emitter Off the Galactic Plane
Ultra-high-energy (UHE), exceeding 100 TeV (10^12 electronvolts), γ-rays manifests extreme particle acceleration in astrophysical sources. Recent observations by γ-ray telescopes, particularly by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), have revealed a few tens of UHE sources, indicating numerous Galactic sources capable of accelerating particles to PeV (10^15 electronvolts) energies. However, discerning the dominant acceleration mechanisms (leptonic versus hadronic), the rela…

Humanoid Occupancy: Enabling A Generalized Multimodal Occupancy Perception System on Humanoid Robots
Wei Cui, Haoyu Wang, Wenkang Qin, Yijie Guo, Gang Han, Wen Zhao, Jiahang Cao, Zhang Zhang, Jiaru Zhong, Jingkai Sun, Pihai Sun, Shuai Shi, Botuo Jiang, Jiahao Ma, Jiaxu Wang, Hao Cheng, Zhichao Liu, Yang Wang, Zheng Zhu, Guan Huang, Jian Tang, Qiang Zhang
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Humanoid Occupancy: Enabling A Generalized Multimodal Occupancy Perception System on Humanoid Robots
Humanoid robot technology is advancing rapidly, with manufacturers introducing diverse heterogeneous visual perception modules tailored to specific scenarios. Among various perception paradigms, occupancy-based representation has become widely recognized as particularly suitable for humanoid robots, as it provides both rich semantic and 3D geometric information essential for comprehensive environmental understanding. In this work, we present Humanoid Occupancy, a generalized multimodal occupanc…

Color and Transparency from Quantum Geometry
Chang-geun Oh, Sun-Woo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20904 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20904

Color and Transparency from Quantum Geometry
The optical properties of solids are governed not only by their energy band dispersions but also by the quantum geometry of Bloch states. While the role of energy bands in determining the perceived optical appearance of materials, such as color and transparency, is well established, the influence of quantum geometry remains elusive. Here, we demonstrate that the color and transparency of materials can be direct manifestations of their underlying quantum geometry. To illustrate this principle, w…

Trumpmafia step 2: Les Etats-Unis vont taxer des exportations.
Officiellement, l’opération est présentée comme un «partage de revenus» en échange de l’obtention de licences pour l’exportation.
La logique est infaillible: les entreprises qui exportent seraient en effet des traîtres qui volent aux américains les produits qu’ils ont manufacturés pour simple appât de gain. https://www.letemps.ch/economie/finance/apres-les-tarifs-douaniers-donald-trump-songe-maintenant-a-taxer-les-exportations-americaines