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Samsung Health released a comprehensive update featuring new sleep and running coaches, a meal‑scanning beta, and enhanced data analysis. The sleep coach offers daily habit checklists, sleep‑science tips, and a pentagon‑shaped Sleep Balance graph that tracks five sleep metrics. Running Coach gains additional training levels, social sharing, and Strava route import. In the U.S., users can photograph meals for AI‑derived calorie and macro estimates, and a Diet Score evaluates eating habits across seven dimensions. [...]

GlobalFoundries has been chosen to build and operate two new 300‑mm semiconductor fabs at its Malta, New York, site under a U.S.–Japan partnership that can provide up to $21 billion in funding. Japan will supply the capital while GlobalFoundries will supply technology and operational expertise. Each fab will add roughly 900,000 wafers of annual capacity, create about 27,000 construction and ecosystem jobs, and more than 1,000 high‑skill manufacturing positions. The first facility is slated to begin production in 2029, [...]

Fault‑tolerant quantum‑computing firm Alice & Bob demonstrated that its LDPC‑cat error‑correction architecture can be decoded on NVIDIA GPUs via the NVQLink interface. The team transferred synthetic measurement data from Quantum Machines’ OPX1000 control hardware to GPUs using the Open Acceleration Stack, achieving microsecond‑scale round‑trip communication between quantum control systems and classical supercomputers. NVQLink offers high‑throughput, tight coupling for real‑time decoding, calibration, and hybrid workloads. The LDPC‑cat design, combining cat qubits with 2‑D LDPC codes, supports 100 logical qubits on [...]

Les Benjamins celebrated its 15th anniversary with “From Earth to Sky,” a runway show in Turkey’s Cappadocia that featured ten floral‑inspired garments and three custom hot‑air balloons. Designer Bunyamin Aydin used an iPad Pro, Freeform, Procreate, and an Apple Pencil Pro to sketch, refine, and share designs with his team. The balloons were engineered by Pasha Balloons, while French filmmaker Neels Castillon captured the event on an iPhone 18 Pro Max, using 4K 120 fps footage and ProRes RAW for [...]

Manipal Academy of Higher Education inaugurated the Manipal House of Quantum (Quantum‑Hub@MAHE) at MIT Bengaluru, launching a 25‑qubit open‑architecture dilution refrigeration system to train students and support quantum hardware research. The hub, backed by partners QuantrolOx, Bluefors, Qblox and ConScience, aims to scale to 150‑qubit proof‑of‑concept platforms and eventually industrial systems exceeding 1,000 qubits. It plans to train 100 quantum engineers by December 2026, positioning MIT Bengaluru as a center for indigenous quantum technology development under India’s [...]

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Startup Battlefield finals feature five finalists across four categories: Apate, Flox Intelligence, Intero Biosystems, Industrial Next, and Satlyt. Apate deploys AI agents to lure scammers, Flox Intelligence uses edge devices to deter wildlife, Intero Biosystems develops multi‑cell intestinal organoids for drug testing, Industrial Next offers AI‑driven robotic stations that retool production lines in minutes, and Satlyt creates satellite‑based shared computing for space missions. The finals begin Thursday at 11:30 am PT, with the winner receiving [...]

Rockstar Games has introduced a realistic sweat system in Grand Terror Auto 6, where characters like Jason and Lucia perspire in proportion to their physical exertion, such as dancing in nightclubs. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported that the feature exemplifies the game’s unprecedented level of detail, which has contributed to multiple delays. The development team scaled back the original North‑South American open world but retained high‑fidelity mechanics, including weather, weight gain, and intricate wildlife. The sweat system underscores Rockstar’s commitment to immersive [...]

Xbox has reportedly surveyed its player base about a potential shift to full exclusivity for all its games, except Call of Duty. The Windows Central‑shared survey asks fans whether they would switch hardware or skip titles if franchises like Fallout or Minecraft became exclusive to Xbox and PC. It also probes reactions to removing Minecraft from PlayStation and Nintendo while keeping existing copies. Xbox’s move follows recent exclusivity announcements for Gears of War and Clockwork Revolution, signaling [...]