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[Digital Daisy🌸 @DigitalDaisyX]

First it was a key
then a fob
now it’s your phone

the evolution of the car key is a glimpse of where everything is headed

[Techniahqrobot | humanoid robots @techniahqrobot]

A human fingertip has more than 10,000 mechanoreceptors. Most robot hands still touch the world with very little feedback.

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London are building a tactile sensor that turns pressure into color.

The concept is direct.

A soft mechanochromic material sits at the contact surface. When the robot presses on an object like a coin, the material changes color according to the force and deformation. A small USB camera inside the sensor records those color patterns in real time.

An algorithm then turns the video into a contact map. The robot can see where pressure is applied, where the surface bends and where shear forces move across the fingertip.

This matters because touch sensors often add wiring, fragile electronics and complex hardware inside the fingers. Here, much of the sensing comes from the material itself and a camera watching it.

For prosthetic hands, humanoid robots and industrial grippers, that could make tactile sensing cheaper, tougher and easier to integrate.

Robot hands have been manipulating objects with limited sense of contact.

This is one path toward hands that can feel what they are doing.

As robot hands become better at sensing pressure strain and shear forces what will matter more for real world manipulation better tactile sensors or better control software?

[Neuralink @neuralink]

The dura is the brain's armor: a membrane so tough that a surgeon normally cuts through it with a scalpel. For the first time in our clinical trials, we inserted the electrode threads of our implant straight through the dura and into the cortex, keeping the dura intact.

Here's how we did it 🧵

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

AI companies are fighting over land, electricity, and cooling water on the ground.

SpaceX is planning to skip the ground. Elon has something different in mind.

Starmind.

AI compute in orbit.
Solar-powered satellites.
Laser links.
Racks of chips.

A giant brain above Earth.

Everyone else is building bigger data centers.

SpaceX is planning to launch one.

@SpaceX / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

[SciTech Era @SciTechera]

This seems big.

IBM unveils world's first publicly announced sub-1nm chip technology 👀

They just unveiled NanoStack, a breakthrough 3D transistor architecture designed for the 7 Å (~0.7 nm) technology node, making it the world's first publicly announced chip technology below 1 nanometer.

Instead of placing transistors side by side, NanoStack stacks them vertically, allowing nearly 100 billion transistors to fit on a silicon chip about the size of a fingernail while dramatically increasing transistor density.

IBM says its prototype delivers up to 50% higher performance or up to 70% lower power consumption compared with its 2 nm research chip introduced in 2021.

If successfully commercialized, NanoStack could power the next generation of AI accelerators, smartphones, data centers, and supercomputers with significantly greater performance and energy efficiency.

IBM expects the technology to reach commercial manufacturing in the coming years.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Meet Albert, the amazing invention of inventor_mihkel_joala.

A robotic mural printer.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

1991 NeXT Steve Jobs Chalk Talk.

I watch this a few times per year.

Lots to learn here on how Steve would have guided Apple in AI.

[🔨Robert The Builder 🇺🇸 @NobodymrRobert]

Genius isn't it.

[Jesse Michels @AlchemyAmerican]

🚨BREAKING: NASA's Lead Electrostatics Scientist claims he’s discovered a “new force” that counteracts gravity with no fuel necessary. Dr. Charles Buhler has run 2,000 vacuum chamber experiments showing a propellantless thrust force that persists after the power is switched off, and cannot be explained by ion wind, magnetic effects, or classical energy conservation. The input is pure electricity and the output is millinewtons of thrust counteracting gravity. He believes his work vindicates the legacy of midcentury antigravity pioneer Thomas Townsend Brown and will lead to a new paradigm of propellantless deep space travel that transcends chemical combustion rockets🚨

Charles Buhler has a PhD in condensed matter physics from Florida State University, spent over two decades at NASA's Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory at Kennedy Space Center (which he now leads), and is the incoming president of the Electrostatic Society of America. He is NASA’s authority on electrostatics. His colleague Andrew Aurigema, a 35-year veteran engineer working from the Townsend Brown electrogravitics lineage, developed a parallel version of the same experiment independently, and the two discovered each other through a mutual colleague who had been watching both of them work in silence for years. Together, under their company Exodus Propulsion Technologies, they have tested nearly 2,000 variations of what they believe is a previously undocumented force. He’s also developed a quantum electrodynamics based theory to explain his results. Buhler’s patent is now under formal examination by the U.S. Patent Office with affidavit-signing witnesses being contacted independently. This is the future of space travel, beyond chemical combustion. With Rocketry, we can only get to Proxima Centauri B in 80,000 years. And you’d burn through the fuel well before that. It’s completely untenable for interstellar travel.

1. Buhler’s Skeptic Mentor Stopped Cold in 2010

The first demonstration happened in a non-vacuum lab using a laser aimed at a wall to detect small displacements. Buhler had his future brother-in-law run the test. His mentor, Dr. Sid Clements, an electrostatics expert who had dismissed the work entirely, watched the laser move and immediately abandoned what he was doing. He walked over, ran through a series of verification steps on the spot, and never questioned the reality of the effect again. That was 2010. It took two more years working with Drew before Buhler realized the force appeared even without any B field or current present. He wasn't in the field momentum regime at all. He was in pure electrostatics.

2. The Force is Not Explainable by Newton’s Laws or Ion Wind

Ion wind produces thrust in the same direction the ionized air is traveling. The “Exodus force” (Buhler’s name for his new force) produces thrust perpendicular to the expected ion wind direction, reverses cleanly when the device is flipped, and remains present inside a sealed enclosure where no ionized air can escape. Buhler documented this publicly with video: a balsa lifter placed inside a sealed plastic box on a scale, powered up, lifts internally while the scale reads flat. That is conservation of momentum. That is what ion wind looks like. The Exodus force is something different, and Buhler, as the person who leads NASA's only electrostatics lab, is in an unambiguous position to make that distinction.

3. 2,000 Variations, All Producing the Same Result

Since beginning collaboration with Drew, Buhler has tracked nearly 2,000 distinct test articles, each tested multiple times. Pendulums. Spinners. Rotators. Force plates. Scales. Pendulum deflections inside Faraday cages. Reversed polarity tests. Vacuum chamber runs at multiple pressure levels. DC-only configurations that eliminate magnetic field artifacts entirely. Every geometry, every material, every packaging approach. The force appears consistently. When a confounding variable is proposed, they address it, run the modified test, and the force is still there. Buhler says if an exotic explanation remains, it is not one he or any colleague has been able to name.

4. The Device Generates Thrust With the Power Off

This is the finding that breaks the classical framework entirely. After charging the device and disconnecting it from the power supply, the thrust continues. The capacitor does not drain in the way a simple energy storage calculation would predict. Put on a scale, the weight reduction persists. Buhler's description: if placed in space with the power off, the device would accelerate. He cannot explain that to the scientific community and says so directly. David Chester, who has independently interacted with Drew through APEC sessions and private communications, said he cannot think of a prosaic explanation for this. The phenomenon has been reproduced enough times across enough configurations that calling it experimental error is no longer a defensible position.

5. The Implications of This for Past Antigravity Work

Buhler believes his work is derivative of and related to Townsend Brown’s midcentury asymmetric capacitor experiments also showing thrust with pure electricity as the input. Chemical combustion is limited - plain and simple - we can’t get to the nearest habitable planet (Proxima Centauri B) in close the amount of time we’d need; it would take us 80,000 years and we’d burn through the fuel before we got there. It’s a checkmate in one argument against anyone claiming rockets are the frontier of efficiency. This was the dream of Thomas Townsend Brown – one that got stifled and suppressed behind the veil of secrecy and subcompartments. The common trope from experiments around the world are high electric field differentials seem to result in thrust. Buhler’s experiment exists in this lineage.

6. The Patent Office is Running the Peer Review

Buhler made a deliberate choice not to pursue academic peer review as a primary path. His second patent is currently under examination, and the examiner's office has been reaching out to independent witnesses who have signed affidavits confirming they have seen and reproduced the effect. Buhler describes this as equivalent to scientific peer review, run by people with no financial interest in the outcome. His first patent may have been held under a national security review process before release. He does not confirm this, but he was aware it was a risk when he filed.

7. A QED Theorist Could Poke Holes in the Theory, But Not the Experiment

We brought in UCLA PhD David Chester to evaluate Buhler’s ideas on quantum electrodynamics (which might account for the thrust being seen). David Chester's contribution was not to validate the theory Buhler proposed. He found some issues with the specific scalar virtual photon framing Buhler had developed. What Chester could not do was provide a prosaic explanation for the experimental results themselves. He said directly that, of all the anomalous phenomena he has surveyed, Buhler and Drew's work ranks in the top ten for experimental persuasiveness, specifically because of the iteration rate and the self-consistency across configurations. He noted that Drew's innovation rate alone, constantly testing new geometries and material stacks, is unlike anything he has seen from other groups making similar claims. Buhler pointed out that his theories were based on time-independent perturbation theory which Chester admits requires further examination from him.

8. NASA's UAP Investigation Had No Physicists

Buhler and his wife, an engineer in NASA's Launch Services Program, were approached to assist with NASA's second UAP follow-on investigation. When Buhler asked to be placed with the physicists on the project, he was told there were none. The group was instrumentation-focused. Buhler says he was genuinely shocked. His reaction, expressed directly: if you are facing objects that defy the laws of physics, why is there not a single physicist in the room. He described the same reaction Eric Davis has expressed publicly. This is either institutional brain death or something else is happening somewhere else.

9. Six Lights Emerged from the Ocean Near Patrick Air Force Base

Around 2013, Buhler and his wife were alone on the beach near Cocoa Beach, Florida, three miles south of Patrick Air Force Base. A red light appeared roughly three miles offshore, grew extremely bright, then appeared to explode, lighting the full length of beach. A helicopter launched from Patrick Air Force Base, flew to the location, hovered briefly, and returned to base without intervening. The light did not stop. It began moving toward them. At some point it split from one light into six rotating orange-pink lights that went under the water and re-emerged in a repeating cycle. The lights tracked their movement along the beach for forty minutes, closing to within roughly fifty yards before disappearing. Buhler says similar lights have been reported by others in the same area, and Stephen Greer runs group observation sessions approximately forty minutes south of the same beach.

10. The Force Crosses the Unity Threshold for Space Already

The current demonstrated force is in the five to ten millinewton range. For Earth launch, that is not yet sufficient, and Buhler does not claim otherwise. For orbital station-keeping, for preventing satellite orbital decay, for repositioning between orbits in microgravity, the force exceeds what is needed. Buhler calls this hitting unity for space, moon, and Mars applications without any major development beyond what has already been demonstrated. The self-launcher, a device capable of lifting itself from Earth's surface, is the declared goal. No blueprints exist yet for the energy requirements. But the force is real, it is directional, it reverses on command, and it does not require continuous power to sustain.

Why This Matters

NASA's lead electrostatics scientist ran nearly 2,000 controlled experiments, eliminated every prosaic explanation the field has available, documented a thrust that persists after the power is cut, watched the fine structure constant emerge from the data repeatedly, and submitted a second patent currently under formal examination. A QED theorist with no commercial stake in the outcome reviewed the experimental claims and could not find a conventional explanation. The standard debunking line for this entire lineage of experiments has always been ion wind. That argument has been answered, documented, and filmed. What remains is a force that requires either new physics or an error that two decades of systematic testing has not been able to locate. The patent process will resolve part of this. The vacuum chamber footage will resolve more of it. Full conversation is live now. The next stage in human space travel is here.

[Dr Jose Cuauhtemoc Cervantes @temotizox]

La Dra. Eva Ramón Gallegos, investigadora del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), logró erradicar el Virus del Papiloma Humano (VPH) al 100% en 29 mujeres de la Ciudad de México utilizando la terapia fotodinámica. Este tratamiento no invasivo elimina las células infectadas sin dañar el tejido sano, marcando un hito en la prevención del cáncer cervicouterino.

La técnica consiste en aplicar una sustancia (ácido delta-aminolevulínico) en el cuello uterino que se activa con un rayo láser para eliminar las lesiones premalignas y el virus.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Elon Musk: "Optimus will be the world's best surgeon within three years."

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Chinese researchers have developed "Bone-02," a biodegradable, bio-adhesive that repairs fractures within 3 minutes.

[Luke Hogg @LEHogg]

Every time you load a page, your data travels through physical infrastructure - cables under oceans, satellites overhead, fiber under cities.

Most people never think about. That's why I decided to map it.

This is Project Backbone. It's free, interactive, and live.

[Metalized Wood @MetalizedWood]

#多分私しかやってない

木材に「金属」を染み込ませています

[Future Stacked @FutureStacked]

A kid runs support for his dad’s engineering team at age 8

- becomes obsessed with why software breaks not how
- studies systems and ML at Stanford
joins the DAWN lab
- works under Matei Zaharia
- sees the rise of AI code generation
asks: who fixes it when it breaks
- drops out
- builds a system to answer that
- raises $20M at 26
- ships PlayerZero to map systems, simulate production, and predict failures

Now he’s turning it into a company to make software that doesn’t break

This is insane.

[Jon L. Noble🇬🇧 @CheckCanopy]

It’s hard to believe it’s already been 100 days since I received my Neuralink N1 implant. Looking back, the whole journey feels like science fiction that somehow became my everyday reality.

The surgery on Day 0 was surprisingly easy. A quick general anaesthetic, a small incision, and the robotic system did the rest — precisely placing the 1,024 ultra-thin threads into my motor cortex. I woke up alert and in good spirits and went home the next afternoon. By Day 3 I was feeling a lot better, and by Day 7 the little scar was already starting to fade. Recovery was genuinely minimal; I felt sharper and more positive than I had been in years after the BCI was turned on.

The real fun started in Week 2 when we paired the implant with my brand-new Apple MacBook (my very first Mac). The @neuralink engineers walked me through calibration sessions, and within a couple of minutes I was moving the cursor just by thinking. At first it felt like trying to remember a dream, but by Week 3 it was second nature. Scrolling, clicking, typing — all mind-controlled. The Mac integration was buttery smooth; I went from total Mac newbie to power-user faster than I ever expected.

By Day 80 I was ready for the big leagues. That’s when I fired up @Warcraft of Warcraft for the first time with pure thought control. The first raid felt clunky, but once my brain and the BCI synced, it was pure magic. I’m now raiding, and exploring Azeroth hands-free at full speed — no mouse, no keyboard, just intention. It’s honestly brilliant. The freedom is addictive.

The social-media side has been just as surprising. Every update I’ve shared has been met with genuine excitement rather than scepticism. Thousands of messages from people with disabilities, gamers, students, and scientists — all asking real questions about the tech and what it could mean for the future. The positivity has been overwhelming and incredibly motivating.

100 days in and I already can’t imagine life without it. The N1 didn’t just give me a new way to use a computer — it gave me a new way to live. Can’t wait to see what the next 100 days bring.

Thank you all so much for your support and I will keep you all updated as we continue this journey together.

[SciTech Era @SciTechera]

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists just built the world’s first working quantum battery prototype.

Researchers have developed a proof of concept quantum battery based on a multilayer organic microcavity operating in a strong light–matter coupling regime, where energy is stored in polaritonic (light–matter hybrid) quantum states rather than traditional chemical reactions.

The device is charged wirelessly using a laser and demonstrates both super extensive power scaling and quantum collective charging, meaning larger systems can charge faster while delivering disproportionately higher power.

It achieves femtosecond (10⁻¹⁵ s) charging and nanosecond (10⁻⁹ s) energy storage, representing a 10⁶× improvement in storage time, with total energy on the order of billion electron volts (eV).

Importantly, the system is able to convert stored energy into measurable electrical output, completing a full charge–store–discharge cycle for the first time, although storage duration and energy capacity remain extremely limited.

we are not so far from a great energy aburdance future!

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

👁️ South Korea’s Breakthrough in Eye Regeneration — A New Hope for Blindness

South Korean scientists are making remarkable progress in restoring vision through cutting-edge bioprinting, stem-cell therapy, and advanced neuro-integration technologies. Researchers at KAIST and other top institutes are developing eye tissues and visual systems that could transform the future of blindness treatment.

Here’s what the teams have achieved so far:

🔬 3D-printed corneal tissue created with human cells and advanced bio-ink

🌈 Lab-grown retinal layers that can sense light and transmit neural signals

🧬 Bioengineered scaffolds supporting optic-nerve repair in cutting-edge experiments

💧 Smart hydrogels designed to mimic the natural lens and corneal surface

⚡ Next-generation bionic retinal implants enabling perception of shapes, contrast, and motion

These innovations are opening the door to powerful new therapies for conditions such as retinal degeneration, corneal injury, macular disease, and inherited vision disorders.

South Korea’s work is building a strong scientific foundation for future treatments that blend bioprinting, stem-cell regeneration, and neural connection technologies — offering genuine hope for millions living with vision loss.

[StarSnap 🌟 @StarSnap_1]

This dude really just reinvented the hanger.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tesla battery cell production is getting good