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Wireless skin sensor could continuously track soft tissue disorders from home
Northwestern scientists have developed a novel wireless sensor device that can continuously monitor skin elasticity in patients with soft tissue disorders, including lymphedema and scleroderma, which can support early disease detection and better inform care strategies, as detailed in a study published in Science Advances.
The sensor, which is directly applied to the patient’s skin, can measure a patient’s tissue elasticity and then wirelessly transmit critical disease-progression data, enabling a health care provider to remotely access that data from the patient’s home and potentially eliminating the need for an in-person clinical examination.
“The great thing about the sensor is it’s small, the potential for home use is tremendous, and for patients who know that they are at risk and know that they need to be constantly monitoring and detecting, this could give them a really good home-based unit that could potentially communicate data directly to their physician. That’s our goal,” said Ann Marie Flores, PT, MSPT, MA, Ph.D., CLT, FAPTA, associate professor of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences and of Medical Social Sciences in the Division of Implementation Science, who was a co-corresponding author of the study.
Did The Future Already Happen? — The Quantum Mystery That Terrifies Physicists
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Jaron Lanier: The Singularity Is A Religion for Geeks
Fifteen years ago, I sat down with the father of virtual reality, and he told me the Singularity was a religion for geeks.
I disagreed with him. To his face.
Jaron Lanier was no technophobe. He built the tech. He just refused to worship it. In 2011, that made him an outlier. Everyone in my orbit was mapping exponential curves and setting dates for digital immortality.
Now look at the culture around #AI.
We have prophets and prophecies, heretics and true believers, people who genuinely expect a machine god to arrive and solve death, meaning, and the economy on our behalf. Lanier saw the shape of that faith before most of us would admit it was a faith at all.
I still think he was wrong about parts of it. I also think he was early on the part that matters most: technology is the How. It was never going to answer the Why or the What. That is the work a religion does, and for a lot of brilliant people the #Singularity quietly became exactly that.
Unraveling the climate behind the collapse of Bronze Age civilizations
The most severe droughts in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean arose when multiple natural climate cycles coincided, according to a new study from Stockholm University published in Science Advances. The findings shed new light on the climate conditions surrounding the Late Bronze Age collapse and may help improve understanding of future drought risks in a warming world.
“Rather than being caused by a single climatic event, we found that the most extreme droughts emerged when natural climate cycles operating over different timescales coincided. This helps explain why the droughts associated with the Late Bronze Age collapse were so severe,” said Katherine Power, a doctoral student in the Department of Physical Geography at Stockholm University and the study’s first author.
MIT engineers find a precise way to grow artificial blood vessels
The study’s MIT co-authors include Sina Kheiri, Jessica Shah, Shashaank Venkatesh, and Roger Kamm, along with Peiyuan Chai and Ryan Flynn at Harvard University.
“Moving is good”
Blood vessels are tricky to grow and control using conventional fabrication techniques. While 3D printers can produce vessels at the scale of major arteries and veins, the technology is not precise enough to print intricate networks of much finer, thread-like capillaries. Scientists have had some success with growing blood vessels from individual cells, by cultivating them in Petri dishes filled with nutrients and growth factors. But controlling how and where they grow remains a challenge.
Kimi K3 Tech Blog: Open Frontier Intelligence
Kimi K3 is available today on Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API. At launch, Kimi K3 will use max thinking effort by default, with low-and high-effort modes to be introduced in subsequent updates. We are currently working closely with inference partners and open-source maintainers to align technical details and ensure a reliable rollout across the ecosystem. The full model weights will be released by July 27, 2026. Further details on the architecture, training, and evaluations will be released alongside the Kimi K3 technical report.
Kimi K3 is the first open model to reach 2.8 trillion parameters. It marks the latest step in Kimi’s sustained push at the scaling frontier: for nine of the past twelve months, Kimi models have set the upper bound of open-model sizes.
Kimi K3 is built on Kimi Delta Attention (KDA) and Attention Residuals (AttnRes), two architectural updates designed to improve how information flows across sequence length and model depth. We have also scaled up Mixture of Experts (MoE) sparsity, effectively activating 16 out of 896 experts when paired with a Stable LatentMoE framework. Together with refined training and data recipes, these structural changes yield an approximate 2.5× improvement in overall scaling efficiency compared to Kimi K2, allowing the model to convert compute into intelligence more effectively.