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BIOMETRICS

TSA developing wearable sensors to replace physical pat downs

EU wants its Digital Identity Wallet accepted internationally

Intellicheck partners with Ping Identity for orchestration with PingOne DaVinci

Trust in the age of agentic AI: insights from Pindrop, Anonybit, Validsoft

Businesses fight identity fraud surge with misplaced confidence, lack of insight

Deepfake Detection 2.0 musters Paravision’s biometric tech against synthetic faces

UK police ask for more funds as it expands facial recognition use

Stress-Linked Brain Pathway Disrupts Sleep and Memory

New research reveals a stress-sensitive neural pathway that impairs both sleep and memory in male mice. Scientists activated neurons in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of […]

Sticky Molecules May Hold the Key to Preventing Vision Loss in AMD

A new study reveals how sticky molecules called heparan sulfate (HS) may trap lipoproteins in the eye and trigger early age-related macular degeneration (AMD). These […]

Late-Life Mood Disorders May Foreshadow Alzheimer’s

Late-life depression and bipolar disorder may be more than psychiatric conditions—they could be early warning signs of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. Using advanced brain imaging […]

Neuroscience Says Your Office Should Have a Dedicated Daydreaming Space

Investing in a quiet spot for letting people’s mind run free for a while will pay off in greater happiness, creativity, and even productivity.

Aphantasia: Why Some Minds Are Blind to Images

Scientists have uncovered how the brains of people with aphantasia, those who cannot visualize mental images, process visual information differently. Although key visual and memory-related […]

Nanowire Retinal Implant Restores Vision and Sees Infrared

Researchers have developed a retinal prosthesis made of tellurium nanowires that restores partial vision in blind mice and enables near-infrared vision in primates. The implant, […]

STORMS

RIP to the almost future of computing: Apple just turned the iPad into a Mac

10/06/2025

A data center owned by Amazon Web Services, front right, is under construction next to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Berwick, PA. Photo: AP Images

Amazon to Spend $20 Billion on Data Centers in Pennsylvania

10/06/2025

Laser pulses trigger electronic changes in a cuprate ladder, creating long-lived quantum states that persist for about a thousand times longer than usual. Credit: Brad Baxley/Part to Whole

Scientists freeze quantum motion using ultrafast laser trick

06/06/2025

Credit: cinejinn / Creatas Video+ via Getty Images Plus

This Malware Adds a ‘Trusted’ Contact to Your Android Phone

04/06/2025

Paradromics’ Connexus Brain-Computer Interface. Photo: Courtesy company

This Neuralink Rival Just Implanted Its Device in a Human Patient

02/06/2025

Canadian lawmakers consider age verification, estimation for online porn access

02/06/2025

Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS

10/06/2025

📄 This article was primarily reported using public records requests. We are making it available to all readers as a public service. FOIA reporting can […]

Debut of LLM-enabled humanoid robot at event met with mixed reviews by human attendees

10/06/2025

Pepper the robot installed at the public event.

A team of roboticists at the University of Canberra’s Collaborative Robotics Lab, working with a sociologist colleague from The Australian National University, has found humans […]

Can A Robot Help You Age Better?

10/06/2025

As more of us live longer, can robots help us maintain healthier, more independent and dignified lives? The post Can A Robot Help You Age Better? […]