AI designs new underwater gliders with shapes inspired by marine animals

Computational design framework. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.00222 Marine scientists have long marveled at how animals like fish and seals swim so efficiently despite having different shapes. Their bodies are optimized for efficient aquatic navigation (or hydrodynamics), so they can exert minimal energy when traveling long distances. Autonomous vehicles can drift through the ocean in […]

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BBC on French beach as police slash migrant ‘taxi-boat’ heading to UK

The BBC has witnessed dramatic scenes on the beaches of Northern France this morning when a boat was destroyed by police moments before it set off for the UK carrying dozens of migrants and asylum seekers. Officers intervened as men, women and children were about to leave the beach, slashing the boat with a knife

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Luna v1.0 & FlexQAOA bring constraint-aware quantum optimization to real-world problems

Luna v1.0 provides a user-friendly optimization environment, from defining models in Python to solving them using quantum algorithms. Credit: Aqarios Aqarios’ platform Luna v1.0 marks a major milestone in quantum optimization. This release significantly improves usability, performance, and real-world applicability by introducing FlexQAOA, a hybrid quantum algorithm designed specifically to handle industrial constraints directly within

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Moratorium announced on burials amid cash crunch

The Namibian government has announced a temporary ban on state funerals amid criticism over the rising costs of these burials. Only President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has the power to exempt funerals from the moratorium, the government said. Minister of Information and Communication Technology Emma Theofelus made the announcement following a Cabinet meeting earlier this week. She

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June FT-Booth Macro Survey: GDP level same as March Survey

Survey results here, FT article . GDP level more optimistic than May SPF. Figure 1: GDP (bold black), FT-Booth June 2025 survey median (red square), GDPNow of 7/1 (light blue square), Survey of Professional Forecasters May 2025 survey median (tan line), all in bn.Ch.2017$ SAAR. Source: BEA 2025Q1 3rd release, FT-Booth June survey, Atlanta Fed,

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Researcher develops ‘SpeechSSM,’ opening up possibilities for a 24-hour AI voice assistant

Windowing strategy for (a) tokenizing and (b) decoding long-form speech to enable extrapolation in decoding lengths. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.18603 Recently, spoken language models (SLMs) have been highlighted as next-generation technology that surpasses the limitations of text-based language models by learning human speech without text to understand and generate linguistic and non-linguistic information. However,

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Oasis take to the stage for first gig in 16 years

It’s a night that thousands of music fans have been waiting for: Oasis has finally returned to the stage after 16 years. The Gallagher brothers reunited on Thursday for their first gig since famously breaking up in 2009. Cardiff’s Principality Stadium hosted Noel and Liam Gallagher’s highly-anticipated show, with their set kicking off at 20:15

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