Tootfinder

Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/phys…

A peek inside Physical Intelligence, the startup building Silicon Valley's buzziest robot brains | TechCrunch
If co-founder Lachy Groom has any doubts, he doesn’t show it. He’s working with people who've been working on this problem for decades and who believe the timing is finally right, which is all he needs to know.

Polar Bears are in Better Physical Shape than 25 Years Ago, Despite Sea Ice Losses https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/polar-bears-are-in-better-physical-shape-than-25-years-ago-despite-sea-ice-losses/

Polar Bears are in Better Physical Shape than 25 Years Ago, Despite Sea Ice Losses
Polar bears are healthier, with more fat reserves, than they were 25 years ago, despite a decrease in Arctic sea ice around Svalbard islands.

New Cowboys Mock Draft Lands Physical Anomaly at EDGE, Polished LB https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/new-cowboys-mock-draft-lands-physical-anomaly-at-edge-polished-lb

> 3D TV, AMP, Augmented Reality, Beanie Babies, Blockchain, Cartoon Avatars, Curved TVs, Frogans, Hoverboards, iBeacons, Jetpacks, Metaverse, NFTs, Physical Web, Quantum Computing, Quibi, Small and Safe Nuclear Reactors, Smart Glasses, Stadia, WiMAX.
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> The problem is, the same dudes (and it was nearly always dudes) who were pumped for all of that bollocks now won't stop wanging on about Artificial Fucking Intelligence.
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> "It's gonna be the …

Cowboys fans will love Dak Prescott's quote about physical Lions matchup https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-fans-will-love-dak-prescotts-quote-about-physical-li…

Make 2026 the year you cancel streaming services and start buying physical media.

Nvidia announces Alpamayo-R1, an AI model for autonomous driving research, and calls it the "first industry-scale open reasoning vision language action model" (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/nvid

Nvidia announces new open AI models and tools for autonomous driving research | TechCrunch
Nvidia continues its push into physical AI with the release of a new reasoning world model and other tools for physical AI.

A 2016 civil lawsuit found in the Epstein files alleges that
Trump raped a 13-year-old girl at parties hosted by Jeffrey Epstein in NY.
Epstein raped her too.
For anyone wondering why the victim dropped the case…
Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened Plaintiff that,
were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse of her by Defendant Trump,
Plaintiff and her family would be physically harmed if not killed.”<…

Age Verification | United States Department of Justice

Can star Miami edge rusher Rueben Bain Jr. overcome physical limitations?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-combine-miami-edge-rusher-rueben-bain-jr-…

French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance
https://openbuddhism.org/justice/2025/french-judge-investigating-robert-spatz-81-requests-spains-judicial-assistance/

French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance
Elodie Emery reports in ‘Le Monde’ that French judge has requested judicial assistance from the Spanish authorities in relation to an ongoing investigation into allegations of physical and sexual…

Different species in #StarTrek have different physical requirements. And a very obvious example of this is the subject of today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h…

Simon Hooper is being gamed here. Complete lack of confidence he will be able to keep the spice out of this game.
Newcastle are effective when they are allowed to play physical football. LFC are decidedly not, being a bit soft overall.
#LFC

Transit system isn't reliable. Work space is limited and not enough parking...
Home office is better equipped.
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/public-servants-offices-opinion

I'm trying to play through the implications of some software I've been thinking about maybe designing.
It's legal to make a digital copy of the media that you own (videos, audio) physical copies of. It's legal to give a physical copy of your media to someone else or loan it out, which transfers your viewing license while they have It. Then it should also be legal to let someone else use a digital copy of your media given that you don't also use it at the same time. So as long as you keep track of your license, you should be able to let exactly one person stream some media you own.
If someone else then "steals" that content and views it without a license then that has to be legally on them, otherwise streaming platforms would be liable whenever someone cracks some DRM.
So then, it should be completely legal to set up a local community media library streaming service where you can share content you own licenses to as long as you track your license count and don't let more people stream at any given time than there are licenses available.
Is there something obvious I'm missing (aside from the MPAA and RIAA don't care about the law and will just sue anyone they can just to make an example)?

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 7747 nodes and 19843 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwe…

#eDNA Environmental DNA
The Core Concept: A non-invasive monitoring technique that detects the presence of species by extracting and analyzing genetic material shed into the environment (water, soil, air) rather than isolating the organism itself.
Key Distinction/Mechanism: Unlike traditional ecology which relies on physical capture or visual observation ("macro-organismal" interaction),…

What Is: Environmental DNA (eDNA)
The Silent Archive: Environmental DNA and the Revolution in Planetary Surveillance

Researchers Are Hunting America for Hidden Datacenters https://www.404media.co/researchers-are-hunting-america-for-hidden-datacenters/

Wanted this deluxe physical version of Resident Evil: Requiem for Switch 2. Been looking for any kind of (legit) preroder anywhere for it for weeks. It comes out tomorrow, and it's never been anywhere available for preorder that I've seen. Everyone snapped it up or they blew it with the preorders? Anyway. I have no idea. To hell with it, I guess 😂 If anyone runs across someone selling one at RETAIL price, lmk. (I'm not paying a dollar over retail.)

This interview from 4 years ago mentions Konate's father being ill.
"Hamadi has never been to see him play, because of illness, but watches his matches on TV and Konaté calls him every day."
My uninformed speculation: his father's health took a turn for the worse this season and the strain of worry and concern affected Ibou deeply. It would explain a lot. He is a fairy private person, so we likely won't know, but if that's right and he's carried thi…

Ibrahima Konaté: I asked Jürgen Klopp, ‘If I was your son, what would you advise?’
Everyone who has coached and played with Ibrahima Konaté says the same, that he’s a young man with an old soul, and for all the outsized physical and technical

Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea could reshape sea's physical conditions #Baltic

Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea could reshape sea's physical conditions
Since the beginning of January, an unusually long period of easterly winds has caused the average water level in the Baltic Sea to fall to a historic low. Measurements at the Swedish Landsort-Norra gauge show values that are the lowest since records began in 1886. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) are currently monitoring this development very closely, as it represents a rare oceanographic situation that could lead to a large inflow of saltwater from…

In 2026, if you are shipping a physical product with a rechargeable battery, you'd better have a damned good reason for not using high power USB-C for the charger.
There are no doubt valid reasons but they're few and far between and the onus is on you to prove yours is.

"Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea could reshape sea's physical conditions"
#BalticSea #Oceans
https://…

Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea could reshape sea's physical conditions
Since the beginning of January, an unusually long period of easterly winds has caused the average water level in the Baltic Sea to fall to a historic low. Measurements at the Swedish Landsort-Norra gauge show values that are the lowest since records began in 1886. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) are currently monitoring this development very closely, as it represents a rare oceanographic situation that could lead to a large inflow of saltwater from…

this ai shit is so bad that i see more and more physical ada with ai pictures.... i wanna puke....
ive even seen a fucking bus with ai ads 😩

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/WIRED
Wired was breached.

Have I Been Pwned: WIRED Data Breach
In December 2025, 2.3M records of WIRED magazine users allegedly obtained from parent company Condé Nast were published online. The most recent data dated back to the previous September and exposed email addresses and display names, as well as, for a small number of users, their name, phone number, date of birth, gender, and geographic location or full physical address. The WIRED data allegedly represents a subset of Condé Nast brands the hacker also claims to have obtained.

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…

"We're just going to run a physical simulation of a human brain to achieve AGI"
"Won't the brain die instantly if it's without a body and oxygen supply etc?"
"Well, we'll just also simulate a body."
"Won't the body die instantly if it's in a vacuum?
"Fine, we'll just simulate an atmosphere too."
"Won't the body die if it's without food and light and gravity and stimulation?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate all the physical processes on the Earth."
"Won't the Earth just freeze instantly without the Sun being there?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the sun, too."
"Will the solar system work properly if there's only the sun? What about gravitational influences of other mass in the galaxy, what about cosmic rays?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the whole universe, too."

“How many people does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
The answer – in SAPN’s case study – is an electrician, a plumber and software techs, who now all need to work together to ensure the home management system can control the proverbial lights.”
https://

It's #meme day! (Memedays are days that end in y).
#KidsintheHall #meme

Gutierrez: Michael Mayer’s career day cuts through the fog of a tough season https://www.raiders.com/news/gutierrez-michael-mayer-s-career-day-cuts-through-the-fog-of-a-tough-season

Unclear to me that DPA applies to intangibles like software.
“Goods” strikes me as an awfully PHYSICAL word. @… https://

Andrea (@valkyrie.hacker.gf)
Provisions of the Defense Production Act: (it's nationalization of meaningful control without nationalization of ownership that might concern the 5th amendment) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

ZaiNar, a developer of a GPS alternative that uses Wi-Fi and 5G to provide location data, raised $10M at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $100M (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/st

Startup Developing GPS Alternative for Physical AI Earns $1 Billion-Valuation
Over the last two years, investors and researchers have flocked to startups helping bring AI into the physical world, from developing robot hands to the AI models that train robots to software to train self-driving cars.Now one startup says it can solve a perennial problem for robots and other ...

"Étonnamment [?], les temps de réaction lors de l'utilisation d'écrans au volant sont pires que ceux d'une personne ivre ou sous l'emprise de stupéfiants. Pas étonnant que 90 % des conducteurs détestent utiliser les écrans tactiles dans les voitures. L'industrie automobile revient enfin Š la raison."

When people say "Thank god!" I often answer "You're welcome".
(There are situations, to be avoided, in which such an answer might invite a physical confrontation.)
(Although there have been times when I looked like Moses - long beard and hair - and stood on the beach in Santa Monica with a wooden staff trying to command the Catalina channel to part, I hew to the position that if there were to be a god it would be in each individual creature, not in some bu…

For some time I thought that it would be nice to have a kinda library software that I can use to keep track of all the books I have, especially in different formats (physical, audio, e-book, library available)
And with a Raspi I wanted to try a self-hosted version
What I found is booklore: https://booklore.org/docs/installation

Ahhh. I've 'downgraded' to a (dell) laptop with physical touchpad buttons and dedicated pgup/pgdn keys, and it's sooooo much nicer.
When I finally need to upgrade from this laptop (a latitude 5410 which was originally released in 2020), hopefully lenovo will have continued their trend of going back to non-soldered ram in their t14 laptops.

good christmas so far for this alone, couldnt find a physical copy of this in every single library system ive ever had access to so i tricked my family into getting me shit they'd never if they actually looked into it

I guess we can look forward to physical fitness tests for marriage in the US.
https://bsky.app/profile/jaywillis.net/post/3ma7hbtosu22x
I expect the straight, white, and employed checks will come in other channels.

Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net)
Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”

@… @…
Hold onto it for as long as they can; I miss physical keyboards on mobile devices.

📒 We built a museum exhibit about a 1990s game hint line, with a physical binder
#games

We Pitched a Museum a 1993 Game Hint Line (And They Actually Said Yes) | Yarn Spinner
We pitched ACMI a 1993 game hint line simulator with a 300-page physical binder. They said yes.

Javonte Williams injury update provided after physical Cowboys win https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/javonte-williams-injury-update-provided-physical-dallas-cowboys-win

My #silentsunday... Do you know that? You're lazy but you also know that you want some physical activity?
The weather wasn't motivating either. But I finally did one of my standard loops. It was indeed silent as there were almost no people out today.
No more than an occasional "hi". Besides that, no talking, nothing but a fox 🦊 in the distance on a field.

According to journalist Jen Psaki of The Briefing with Jen ,
Trump’s administration has
seized the physical ballots from the 2020 election,
all tabulator tapes,
and all ballot images from the original ballot count,
breaking the line of custody
and contaminating the files.
Crucially, they also seized all voter rolls from Fulton County.
“This is a seismic event,”
Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) told Psaki.
“This should have people across…

January 28, 2026
Federal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota, and other U.S.

"I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool."
—Judy Greer
#acting #coaching …

"In summary, #AGI, as commonly conceived, will not happen because it ignores the physical constraints of computation, the exponential costs of linear progress, and the fundamental limits we are already encountering. Superintelligence is a fantasy because it assumes that intelligence can recursively self-improve without bound, ignoring the physical and economic realities that constrain all systems. …

From synthetic turbulence to true solutions: A deep diffusion model for discovering periodic orbits in the Navier-Stokes equations
Jeremy P Parker, Tobias M Schneider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23181 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.23181 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.23181
arXiv:2602.23181v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence has shown remarkable success in synthesizing data that mimic complex real-world systems, but its potential role in the discovery of mathematically meaningful structures in physical models remains underexplored. In this work, we demonstrate how a generative diffusion model can be used to uncover previously unknown solutions of a nonlinear partial differential equation: the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in a turbulent regime. Trained on data from a direct numerical simulation of turbulence, the model learns to generate time series that resemble physically plausible trajectories. By carefully modifying the temporal structure of the model and enforcing the symmetries of the governing equations, we produce synthetic trajectories that are periodic in time, despite the fact that the training data did not contain periodic trajectories. These synthetic trajectories are then refined into true solutions using an iterative solver, yielding 111 new periodic orbits (POs) with very short periods. Our results reveal a previously unobserved richness in the PO structure of this system and suggest a broader role for generative AI: not as replacements for simulation and existing solvers, but as a complementary tool for navigating the complex solution spaces of nonlinear dynamical systems.
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Ukraine update: Whatever you try to call it, war is war.
Physical aggression translates into bureaucratic administration and politics while the people suffer the effects.
Support Ukraine and journalism by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall:
https://

A War Denied
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

I took a weekend today after pushing myself pretty hard the last 3 and especially yesterday. I now regret that. I slept well, felt fine when I woke up, didn't go do physical labor, and was bored, frustrated, and hungry all day.
People like me don't need breaks, we just need to work until we physically and mentally collapse, then recuperate. High speed, low drag, tailspin, crash, and phoenix.

If I can't be sure that the recipe website I just found isn't filled with AI production that may or may not work well for human taste buds, ... maybe I will have to go back to referencing physical cook books.
That were printed 2025 or earlier.
#ai #recipe

Lands of the Lost: A Field Guide to Dinosaur Parks Physical, Fictional, and for the Future https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/09/lands-of-the-lost-a-field-guide-to-dinosaur-parks-physical-fictional…

New pre-print out: "Types, equations, dimensions and the Pi theorem".
We formalized the covariance principle (physical laws must be independent of units) as a homomorphism between the algebra of physical quantities and real numbers.
While the Pi Theorem from Dimensional Analysis (DA) is non-constructive, we introduce a constructive method for applying it. This could enable DA-driven program derivation where the type checker helps identify valid physical laws.
📝 Bl…

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 7747 nodes and 19843 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwe…

Play it again, Uncle Sam, but now about Trump.
"Republicans in the House of Representatives launched investigations asserting that Biden’s closest advisers covered up a physical and mental decline during his presidency. The Senate started a series of hearings focused on his mental fitness."

‘The invisible man’: Joe Biden has disappeared in almost every way – except in Trump’s daily commentary
The 46th president largely exists as Trump’s foil, with his successor blaming him for the country’s woes

@… thanks!
It didn't bug me personally (virtual hardware). I can't recall where I first saw a discussion, but it would have been users of NVIDIA on physical hardware.
Maybe something should be noted under <

Bloomberg News: «There is still a very real gap in the current value, or stock, of all the investments that the US and China have out in the world. At the end of 2024, the total value of US companies' long-term physical investments overseas was some $6.8 trillion», 5 more than China.
https://archive.is/WR8NN…

Christian Parker's Blueprint: A Bigger, More Physical 26' Cowboys Defense https://insidethestar.com/christian-parkers-blueprint-a-bigger-more-physical-26-cowboys-defense

Dear everyone who builds and sells things that have instruction manuals: I enormously appreciate if you provide those manuals at an easy to find place online as PDF files.
I don't like to own unnecessary physical things, and particularly, I don't like to own physical things that could be digital, so one of the first things I do when I bought something with a manual is to try to find a digital version of it.

Officially got my CE license in my pocket (exam was last week, now I have the physical doohickey). \o/

Gutierrez: Michael Mayer’s career day cuts through the fog of a tough season https://www.raiders.com/news/gutierrez-michael-mayer-s-career-day-cuts-through-the-fog-of-a-tough-season

"Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected"
#Climate #ClimateChange #CoralReef

Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected
In 1888, researchers aboard the R/V Albatross began the world’s first concentrated marine research expeditions off California’s Pacific coast. The team collected untold plant and animal specimens, including orange cup corals, which they carefully preserved and stored in collections at the Smithsonian Institution. These specimens have now become rare physical evidence of ongoing changes in […]

Titans cut starting C Cushenberry, safety Woods https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48036390/titans-cut-starting-c-lloyd-cushenberry-safety-xavier-woods

New York-based Sword Health, which develops AI-powered tech for managing pain and offers remote physical therapy, agrees to acquire rival Kaia Health for $285M (Henrique Almeida/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I’m seeing more uses of the spongecase (alternating intra-word capitalization) lately to mock bad takes.
This is ableist (even if unintentional), being directly based on the character in the animated show mocking people with physical disabilities.
It will hurt people with speech and facial physical disabilities way more to see your post than any of the people that you’re mocking.

New Cowboys 2026 Mock Draft Lands Physical Leader on Defense https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/new-cowboys-2026-mock-draft-lands-physical-leader-on-defense

As Emily Waldorf languished in an Arkansas hospital,
she felt like “a ticking time bomb”.
It was 2024, and the physical therapist was in the midst of miscarrying a much-wanted pregnancy.
But because her fetus still had a heartbeat, hospital officials said Arkansas’s near-total abortion ban blocked them from taking steps to induce labor and end her pregnancy.
Instead, Waldorf had to wait and hope that she didn’t develop a deadly infection.
Waldorf’s sister, Eli…

These students from Cornell Physical Intelligence told me-as-a-🦊 that this drone works together with a rover on the ground
#photo

These are two REALLY gross flicks. Loved em. Some of the best, nastiest horror I've seen in a while. Sometimes you like something so much you need to buy physical copies. I try to be kinda picky and only keep physical copies of things I like a lot and might actually rewatch.
#horror #bluray

New Cowboys 2026 Mock Draft Lands Physical Leader on Defense https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/new-cowboys-2026-mock-draft-lands-physical-leader-on-defense

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 6980 nodes and 18655 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwe…

Although the power outages in Caracas on January 2 were widely proclaimed in press reports to be the result of a "precision" cyberattack, the truth is that cyber was only a minor component – experts say massive kinetic attacks on three substations were likely the primary cause of sustained blackouts during the operation to capture Venezuelan president Nicolšs Maduro.
Check out my latest CyberScoop piece on how press reports failed to mention this critical component of Opera…

Gifts to the US President are generally considered to be the property of the United States rather than of the president as a person or the president as an office.
So it seems to me that the US National Archives is now the proud owner of a the physical object of a Nobel Peace Prize.
(Of course, el cheato will try to retain physical possession and we will have to pry it from his cold dead fingers, a task that , I suspect, many of us would find rather appealing.)

Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to scale its physical AI platform into manufacturing plants worldwide, taking its total raised to ~$216M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/montreal-industrial-ai-scaleup-vention-raises-1…

Montréal industrial AI scaleup Vention raises $110-million USD Series D
Company says it crossed $100-million CAD annual run rate as it looks to expand in Europe.

Acoustic Signatures of Pinch-Off Cavities During Water-Entry
Zirui Liu, Tongtong Ding, Mingyue Kuang, Zimeng Li, Junyi Zhao, A-Man Zhang, Shuai Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22761 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22761 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22761
arXiv:2602.22761v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study experimentally, numerically, and theoretically investigates the cavity/bubble dynamics and radiated acoustics during the water entry of a centimeter-scale cylindrical projectile with a conical nose. Experiments were conducted in a laboratory tank, employing synchronized high-speed imaging and hydrophone measurements to characterize the cavity closure modes and their resultant acoustic signatures across a range of Froude numbers. The acoustic signal features a weak radiated signal upon impact, followed by significant pressure oscillations spanning more than 20 cycles in the flow field after cavity elongation and pinch-off. A numerical model based on the Finite Volume Method (FVM) successfully captures these physical processes. Subsequently, a semi-theoretical model that incorporates the projectile's boundary effect is developed from potential flow theory. The model not only yields a dominant cavity oscillation frequency that agrees well with experimental data, but also reveals that the boundary effect leads to a cavity oscillation frequency markedly higher than the Minnaert frequency of an equivalent-volume ellipsoidal bubble containing an internal rigid core. The dominant cavity frequency falls nearly linearly with Fr, governed by nose geometry and projectile inertia. This study clarifies the underlying physics connecting cavity dynamics during water entry to underwater acoustic radiation.
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Lands of the Lost: A Field Guide to Dinosaur Parks Physical, Fictional, and for the Future https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/09/lands-of-the-lost-a-field-guide-to-dinosaur-parks-physical-fictional…

Amazon plans to close all 57 Fresh and 15 Go locations in the US, as it pivots its physical retail strategy to focus exclusively on Whole Foods (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-closing-all-am…

The six-car ICE convoy came to a stop and instantly dozens of people swarmed it,
cellphones in hand,
while others ran out of nearby houses
—I saw a woman in gym shorts in the 20-degree weather
—and began surrounding the masked and heavily armed agents who had spilled out of their black SUVs.
The fury in the crowd felt almost like a physical force,
as real as the cacophony of whistles and honking cars and angry chants:
“ICE out! Fuck you! Go home!”

The Minneapolis Uprising
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 7747 nodes and 19843 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwe…

Amazon plans to discontinue its Amazon One palm recognition system on June 3 and will automatically delete all user data; One remains for healthcare check-ins (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-is-en

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…

Spadaro: Vic Fangio previews showdown with physical Chargers offense https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/vic-fangio-previews-showdown-with-physical-chargers-offense

I don't do many preorders of anything, but I love the hell out of shooting games of all kinds- sometimes I gotta jump. Dezatopia came out in 2020 and I've had it on both my Switch and Steam wishlists digitally since then, it's supposed to be great. It's actually the very FIRST thing on my Switch wishlist from all those years ago! So when I heard it was coming out physical with Mecharitz, it was a no brainer. Sure, it took a long time to get here (I preordered in July and just…

"How plant “touch” boosts resilience: new research reveals surprising stress response"
#Plants #Nature #Environment

How plant “touch” boosts resilience: new research reveals surprising stress response | The Optimist Daily
When plant leaves touch, they become more resilient to light stress. A new study shows how physical contact may form a natural stress warning system.

AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence claims vision-language-action models learn to align human videos and robot data as pre-training is scaled up (Physical Intelligence)
https://www.physicalintelligence.company/research/human_to_robot

Emergence of Human to Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action Models
Exploring how transfer from human videos to robotic tasks emerges in robotic foundation models as they scale.

For the last year, the nation has witnessed Trump’s rapid physical and mental decline.
The 79-year-old president has repeatedly lost track of his thoughts, his whereabouts, and even his grasp on the English language.
The New Republic’s breaking news team has put together a list of the president’s most senile moments in his first year in office

Cognitive Decline? These Were Trump’s 11 Most Senile Moments This Year
When Donald Trump wasn’t busy falling asleep in front of the cameras, he spent his first year in office struggling to form coherent thoughts.

Looking around on my desk and I think I count about 15 separate physical media formats, I may have a problem

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 624 nodes and 1992 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Samsung will add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcoming S26 series; users can launch the Perplexity agent by saying "Hey Plex" or with a physical helper button (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/samsung-is-add

Samsung is adding Perplexity to Galaxy AI for its upcoming S26 series
Samsung says Perplexity's AI agent will be integrated with Galaxy AI in its upcoming flagships.

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 516 nodes and 2241 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

A large banner featuring Donald Trump’s face was hung on the exterior of justice department headquarters on Thursday
in a physical display of the president’s efforts to exert power over the law enforcement agency that once investigated him.
While Trump banners have been hung outside other agencies across Washington,
the decision to place one on the storied justice department building amounted to a striking symbol of the erosion of the department’s tradition of independence …

Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others (Aayushi Pratap/Chemical & Engineering News)
https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry

New York AI chemistry start-up raises $95 million 
Excelsior Sciences cofounders say the company will make new molecules using robots and artificial intelligence

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…

LiveKit, which offers tools for building voice, video, and physical AI models, including for ChatGPT's voice mode, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 155 nodes and 188 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 155 nodes and 188 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…

Arm creates a "Physical AI" unit to focus on robotics and automotive sectors, as part of a reorganization that includes "Cloud and AI" and "Edge" business units (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 105 nodes and 137 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…

Google's Android XR design docs and developer tools hint at the XR glasses' details, including mandatory physical buttons and "Glimmer" UI design language (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/16/android-xr-glasses-ui/

Here’s how you’ll control and navigate Android XR glasses
Android XR glasses are coming in 2026. Here’s what you can expect from the user interface and experience...

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 536 nodes and 3600 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwei…

Sources: China broadens its probe into Temu owner PDD, dispatching 100 investigators to its Shanghai HQ, after staff exchanged physical blows with regulators (John Liu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01…

Bengaluru-based Stable Money, whose app lets users invest in fixed deposits and corporate bonds, raised $25M at a $175M valuation, taking total funding to $65M (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.…

Stable Money secures $25 million in fresh equity from Peak XV Partners and others
The startup plans to grow its overall business five times by the end of this year, enter new cities through physical expansion and new product areas around real estate investments. Cofounder Saurabh Jain said his company has helped book around Rs 5,000 crore in fixed deposits and distributed around Rs 1,600 crore in corporate bonds.

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 975 nodes and 3928 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions