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Human hair grows by being 'pulled' rather than pushed.

Using 3D live imaging of living human hair follicles, a research team from cosmetics company L'Oréal and Queen Mary University of London discovered that hair growth is driven not by pushing forces ...
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Amazon announces new 3nm AI chip 'Trainium3', 4 times faster than 'Trainium2' and up to 50% lower cost, and also announces 'Trainium4'

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has begun offering the latest generation of Trainium chips, the Trainium3, through its UltraServer service. Trainium3 is the company's first AI chip manufactured on a 3nm ...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declares 'Code Red,' prioritizes ChatGPT improvements and puts advertising on hold in light of Gemini's success

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared a 'Code Red' emergency within the company due to the success of Google's Gemini AI program. Altman has indicated that he will prioritize improving ChatGPT, putting ...
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Celebrities' pet cloning puts animals' health and well-being at risk

Pets such as dogs and cats generally have a shorter lifespan than their owners, and most owners are left grieving the loss of their pets. In recent years, advances in cloning technology have led some ...
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A series of impossible observations of the universe have raised the possibility that our understanding of the universe to date may be fundamentally wrong.

cosmological theories that seem to be scientifically accurate. However, in recent years, advances in observational technology have led to numerous observations that overturn our previous understanding ...
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Introducing 'YouTube Recap,' which lets you look back on the trends in videos watched on YouTube over the past year and your favorite channels.

YouTube has launched ' YouTube Recap,' a service that allows users to look back at what they were interested in and what they searched for on YouTube in 2025 based on their viewing history. YouTube ...
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Apple's AI chief is now former Microsoft employee Amar Subramaniya, while his predecessor John Giannandrea is leaving the company

Apple has announced that John Giannandrea, who served as senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy, will retire from the company in spring 2026. He will be replaced by Amar ...
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Fake Bun runtime infects over 1,000 NPM packages and 27,000 Github repositories with malware in just a few hours

On November 24, 2025, local time, HelixGuard, an open-source security research lab that conducts research on supply chain malware and vulnerabilities, discovered that over 1,000 components in the NPM ...
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Alibaba's visual language AI model 'Qwen3-VL' can identify inserted frames in a two-hour video with 99.5% accuracy.

Alibaba, the Chinese IT giant, has published a technical report on Qwen3-VL, the most powerful visual language model in its Qwen AI series. Based on various benchmarks, the report found that Qwen3-VL ...
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Bluesky will be updated with new features such as dark theme icons, more options when reporting, and improved custom replies.

According to Bluesky, the size of its community has doubled over the past year, growing to 40 million users worldwide. To accommodate this growth, Bluesky says it has made significant updates to its ...
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Lenovo is stockpiling 50% more memory than usual to weather the PC parts shortage caused by the AI boom, and expects it to last until 2026

PC maker Lenovo is reportedly stockpiling memory and other PC parts to combat the supply shortages caused by the AI boom. According to the company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Winston Chen, Lenovo ...
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'Super Space Sheriff Gavan Infinity' to start broadcasting in 2026, new special effects hero series 'PROJECT RED' to launch

It has been announced that a new special effects hero series, ' PROJECT RED,' will begin airing in 2026 in the same time slot as the Super Sentai series, which began airing in 1975. As rumored, the ...