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Pair of colliding galaxies may hint at the fate of the Milky Way and its closest galactic neighbor

August 25, 2025
New observations of a pair of colliding spiral galaxies hint at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and when they collide. The findings, described in July in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, may also help to solve a puzzle plaguing the standard model of cosmology. The two colliding galaxies, NGC 5713 and NGC 5179, are located 88…
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AI & RoboticsNews

OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic

August 25, 2025
A new framework from researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and collaborating institutions provides an open source foundation for creating robust AI agents that can operate computers. The framework, called OpenCUA, includes the tools, data, and recipes for scaling the development of computer-use agents (CUAs). Models trained using this framework perform strongly on CUA benchmarks…
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NewsPhotography

What is Adobe's obsession with making Photoshop worse?

August 25, 2025
They say “Don’t drive angry” but no one has ever said “Don’t write angry” to me (or most of the users of social media, it seems), which is why I’m about to vent about one little – but, I feel, very indicative – experience I’ve just had with Photoshop. Again. Features I used to use regularly just disappearing for no obvious reason. In this case it…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

5 ways I use my Chinese electric mini-excavator that I didn’t expect

August 25, 2025
When I first got my hands on a Chinese electric mini-excavator, I thought it would be a fun little machine for digging a few holes and moving some dirt around. What I didn’t expect was just how useful and versatile it would become – and how often I’d reach for it for jobs that I never initially planned on tackling with a compact electric digger. As I’ve watched all the fun reporting on…
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