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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · 28d

Warping my mind around this.

Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 29d

In the fourth of our series of truly weird quantum effects we look at the bizarre situation in which the causal order of events are in a quantum superposition. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/zLrQ50WTWmj

Indefinite causal order: how quantum physics is challenging our understanding of cause and effect – Physics World

Quantum mechanics allows events to occur with indefinite causal order, as Hamish Johnston discovers

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · 28d

Flush door handles are the car industry’s latest safety problem. China considers banning retractable car door handles from 2027.

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Attached: 1 image Flush door handles are the car industry’s latest safety problem China considers banning retractable car door handles from 2027. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/09/flush-door-handl...

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Sep 8

Through a chemical reaction known as aminolysis, PET plastic—mainly used in plastic bottles and food packaging—upcycled into a CO2 sorbent called BAETA

Scientists Turned Plastic Trash Into a Material That Eats Carbon

A new study presents an innovative approach to CO2 removal that addresses two environmental crises at once.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Thank you!! Have you seen this too? openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Sep 2

Mobile-specific attacks increased by 50% in 2024 over the previous. And with AI on the march, phone-based fraud is growing more sophisticated by the day.

To keep up with the threats, manufacturers, carriers and software developers are rolling out new protections to keep the criminals at bay.

The Latest Tools for Making Sure Your Cellphone Is Secure

Scammers have all sorts of new tricks to steal your information. Phone manufacturers, carriers and software developers are upping their game, too.

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Aug 31

Intelligent robots are being deployed to run automotive “dark factories” and inspect textiles for flaws while still on the loom.

China Has a Different Vision for AI. It Might Be Smarter.

Xi Jinping is pushing the country’s tech industry to build practical, low-cost tools that boost the country’s efficiency and can be marketed easily.

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Aug 23

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David @ InnoVirtuoso @innovirtuoso.bsky.social · Aug 23

🤖💔 AI's power comes with a price. As we innovate, we must confront ethical dilemmas: Bias, privacy, and autonomy. Let's prioritize humanity in tech! #EthicalAI #FutureOfTech #AIethics

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Adam Ludolph @adamludolph.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ever wonder how AI can predict when your equipment will fail? Predictive maintenance is revolutionizing industries by reducing downtime and saving costs. Curious about how technology is changing the game? Let’s chat about the future of efficiency! #AIFuture #PredictiveMaintenance

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Aug 18

Alas! This is what it has come to.

VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power

The German car-maker says its "optional power upgrade" is designed to give customers more choice.

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Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · Aug 11

@mjbiercuk.bsky.social and Q-CTRL helping out the #qec2025 conference with performance boosters.

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Aug 13

If only it were so easy! 🙃

Inside Silicon Valley’s Growing Obsession With Having Smarter Babies

Tech execs are paying tens of thousands to find brilliant dates or select high-IQ embryos. “They want to raise high-performing children.”

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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · Aug 13

"How will we coexist with an alien intelligence that perceives and acts in a very different temporal world?" https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-perception-of-time?share_id=8927566

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Aug 10

All new! Certified random!!

Quantum computer does something for first time, creates "certified truly random" numbers

Researchers achieve a breakthrough using quantum computing to generate and certify randomness, solving a problem classical computers can't tackle alone.

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Aug 9

Weekend reading 🙌

Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about reality, Nature survey shows

First major attempt to chart researchers’ views finds interpretations in conflict.

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Aug 8

Zero-point motion of molecules in their lowest energy state is a purely quantum mechanical phenomenon that cannot be explained classically.

Direct visualization of quantum zero-point motion in complex molecule reveals eternal dance of atoms

Most of us find it difficult to grasp the quantum world. According to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, it's like observing a dance without being able to see simultaneously exactly where someone is ...

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CC🇨🇦🍁 @collycee.bsky.social · Aug 7

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Aug 7

Tech companies are controlling the supply of AI, or funding its development to achieve geopolitical goals, in turn, expanding or contracting the power of nations.In parallel, governments are going beyond deepfakes and disinformation, looking to AI to reinvent their role in the future global order.

AI has opened the door to a new geopolitics

'Winning the AI race' is slowly justifying everything

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Aug 5

The Spatial Web standard connects devices, robots, and AI agents. In May, the IEEE Standards Association ratified a set of standards (IEEE 2874-2025) that defines the Spatial Web.

How Will the Spatial Web Transform the Physical World?

The Spatial Web's HSML and HSTP standards offer a new way for autonomous vehicles to communicate and coordinate in real-time.

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Aug 5

Here’s How #Quantum Computing Could Change the World
▫️Faster internet 🛜
▫️Better medicine 💊
▫️more affordable insurance
▫️More sustainable food 🥘 production

Here’s How Quantum Computing Could Change the World

The emerging technology promises better medicine, faster internet and more sustainable food production. It also comes with some big risks.

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Aug 5

People are blown away when they come to watch EL2 fly and realize that on the all-electric takeoffs and landings they can’t hear a thing other than the birds in the background.

The Hybrid-Electric Plane Maker That Wants to Change the Way We Fly

Electra is developing a plane that can take off and land on a surface no bigger than a soccer field.

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Aug 4

Researchers have developed a way to convert plastic waste into fuels and other valuable products efficiently and cheaply.

New device converts plastic waste into fuel using catalyst-free pyrolysis

As tons of plastic waste continue to build up in landfills every day, Yale researchers have developed a way to convert this waste into fuels and other valuable products efficiently and cheaply. The re...

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Aug 4

Estonia’s national parliament is using AI to speed up the legislative process, including by using automated systems to draft and analyse legal texts, reducing the time and resources needed for lawmakers to review complex proposals.

East Asia Forum @eastasiaforum.bsky.social · Jul 31

Artificial intelligence is enhancing Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation’s anti-corruption efforts, showing how effective use of AI can help protect democratic integrity, writes Pattharapong Rattanasevee.

Thailand shows how AI might expose political misconduct

Artificial intelligence is enhancing Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation’s anti-corruption efforts, showing how effective use of AI can help protect democratic integrity, writes Pattharapong Rattanasevee.

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Aug 2

If LLMs can carry out network breaches on their own, then malicious actors could potentially use them to scale attacks far beyond what’s feasible with human teams.

LLMs break into networks with no help, and it’s not science fiction anymore - it actually happened

AI model replicated the Equifax breach without a single human command

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🌟Collapsing your wave function🌟 @hemamenon.bsky.social · Aug 1

A 40-year-old mystery about how functions behave, called the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture solved.

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

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citi.io @citiio.bsky.social · Aug 1

Utilizing #AI With Neutral Global Oversight For #Business And #Society

#ArtificialIntelligence #AIForGood #aiforsocialimpact #Switzerland

swisscognitive.ch/2023/07/25/u...

Utilizing AI With Neutral Global Oversight For Business And Society

Neutral global oversight of AI is crucial to maximize benefits for businesses and society, while mitigating potential ethical risks.

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