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My favorite thing in the night sky appears on Aug. 28 — and it proves Earth is a sphere

August 24, 2026
What’s your favorite thing in the night sky? Maybe it’s the Pleiades, that sparkling open cluster that dominates winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Perhaps it’s a sight of the Milky Way arching across the summer sky. Or could it be Saturn, a close-up sight of which has many people reaching for their wallets to buy a bigger telescope. My favorite sight? It’s us or, rather…
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Could 'dark photons' explain dark matter?

August 24, 2026
New research suggests that if dark matter is composed of “dark photons,” it would not have heated the early cosmos like scientists previously thought. If correct, this discovery could represent a paradigm shift in the hunt for the universe’s most mysterious…
MobileNews

Vivo T5 5G India Launch Teased, Price Range Revealed

August 24, 2026
Vivo T5 5G India launch has been teased and the device’s side profiles have been revealed. The company states that it is going to have an “ultra-slim” body along with a curved display. The price range of the handset has also been confirmed, suggesting it could be a rebranded iQOO device. Vivo T5 5G India Launch: What to Expect? As per the teaser on Flipkart, the Vivo T5 5G India…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

August 24, 2026
Anthropic’s universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content, including depicting or requesting sexual intercourse or sex acts, generating content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies, or engaging in erotic chats. But…
AI & RoboticsNews

Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero

August 24, 2026
Nvidia published some interesting new research on Friday suggesting it’s the harness, more than the underlying model, that is far more important when asking an AI to do long-horizon tasks. A harness is the software wrapper around an AI model – the tools, memory management, and rules that turn a raw model into something that can act on its own. The TL;DR: Simply by using a custom…
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Adorable image of a damsel not in distress wins biology journal photography competition

August 24, 2026
A photography competition hosted by a pair of biological science journals has revealed the winner of its 2026 edition, with the crowned image depicting a damsel that’s rather curious – not in distress. Now in its third year, the BMC Ecology and Evolution and BMC Zoology image competition celebrates photos depicting the beauty and diversity of life on Earth. Photographers have to be…
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