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Physicists have traditionally sorted all elementary particles in our three-dimensional universe into two categories: bosons and fermions. Bosons mostly include particles that carry forces, such as photons, while fermions make up ordinary matter, including electrons, protons, and neutrons. That simple division starts to break down in lower dimensional systems. Since the 1970s, scientists have predicted the existence of a third type of particle known as an anyon, which falls somewhere between a boson and a fermion. In 2020, researchers experimentally observed these unusual particles at the boundary of supercooled, strongly magnetized, one-atom thick (that is, two-dimensional) semiconductors. Now, scientists from…

Artificial intelligence is changing the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Spend five minutes reading about AI and you’ll run into LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other terms that can make even very smart people in the tech world feel insecure. This glossary is our attempt to fix that. We update it regularly as the field evolves, so consider it a living document, much like the AI systems it describes. Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is a nebulous term. But it generally refers to AI that’s more capable than the average…

The global real estate industry is undergoing a structural reckoning. For decades, the dominant model was straightforward: identify demand, secure capital, build. That framework is no longer sufficient. Rising infrastructure costs, strained municipal financing, and increasingly complex urban systems have made it clear that building individual assets – however well-designed or well-financed – does not automatically produce functioning cities. What cities need are integrated systems, and the real estate industry is only beginning to produce professionals equipped to deliver them. Shagun Kalra, a Boston-based real estate development professional, is one of the clearest examples of this emerging practitioner type. Trained…

The organisers of the event took to social media yesterday, May 8, to announce the event would not go ahead on June 13 as planned. They said the decision was due to “a clash with another protest announced this week together with a counter protest scheduled for the same day”. “As organisers, we feel we will be unable to guarantee the safety of riders, which is our main concern,” they said. “This was not a decision we took lightly but amongst the committee members we felt we had no choice.” They added that they “hope to announce a date in…

Bitcoin price broke above $81,000 during Asian trading hours and early U.S. hours today, its highest price since late January and the latest sign that the market has moved past a brutal first-quarter stretch that bottomed near $60,000.  The move came on the back of several forces hitting at once: a flood of institutional money into ETFs, a shift in Middle East tensions, and a derivatives market that had been loading up for a run past $80,000 for weeks. The structural setup for this was built in April. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $2.44 billion in net inflows last…

Parker, a well-funded startup offering corporate credit cards and banking services for e-commerce businesses, has filed for bankruptcy and is widely reported to have shut down. The startup was part of Y Combinator’s winter 2019 cohort, and its Series A was led by Valar Ventures.  Parker came out of stealth in 2023, touting a corporate credit that it said was designed for use by e-commerce companies. At the time, co-founder and CEO Yacine Sibous said the startup’s “secret sauce” was an underwriting process that could properly assess e-commerce cash flows.  “We imagined building better financial products for e-commerce founders with…

Half-centuries from Tawanda Muyeye, Chris Benjamin and Ben Dawkins boosted Kent’s battle for first-innings supremacy against Gloucestershire on the second day of the Rothesay County Championship Division 2 match in Bristol on Saturday.Muyeye top scored with 90 off 141 balls while Benjamin contributed 74 not out and Dawkins a career-best 65 as the visitors ran up 308-8 in reply to Gloucestershire’s 325.Tawanda Muyeye – top scored with 90 as Kent reached 308-8 in reply to Gloucestershire’s 325 in Bristol on Saturday. Photo: Stuart WatsonSeamer Will Williams was the pick of the bowling attack with 4-40 from 21 overs and claimed…

General Motors has reached a privacy-related settlement with a group of law enforcement agencies led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta. Back in 2024, The New York Times reported that automakers including GM were sharing information about their customers’ driving behavior with insurance companies, and that some customers were concerned that their insurance rates had gone up as a result. The settlement announcement from Bonta’s office similarly alleges that GM sold “the names, contact information, geolocation data, and driving behavior data of hundreds of thousands of Californians” to Verisk Analytics and LexisNexis Risk Solutions, which are both data brokers.  Bonta’s…

Location : The A57 eastbound between the M67 and the junction with the A628 . Reason : Congestion. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 18:30 and 18:45 on 9 May 2026. Delay : There are currently delays of 10 minutes against expected traffic. Source link

Finland has built a reputation for producing technology companies that punch well above their weight, and the SaaS sector is no exception. From the country that gave the world Nokia, Linux, and Rovio, a new generation of software founders is emerging, building products that are solving complex problems with the kind of precision, reliability, and quiet confidence that has become something of a Finnish trademark. Helsinki’s startup ecosystem has matured significantly over the past decade, fuelled by world-class universities, a strong engineering culture, and a government that actively supports innovation and entrepreneurship. The result is a SaaS landscape that is…