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From Blockchain to Brainwaves: Coinbase Co-Founder Fred Ehrsam Enters the Neurotech Race with Non-Invasive BCI Startup Nudge

Fred Ehrsam, billionaire co-founder of Coinbase, is shifting his next big bet from cryptocurrency to the human brain, unveiling a non-invasive brain-computer interface designed to modulate brain activity with sound waves.

Ehrsam’s entry as the latest competitor to join the race to develop accessible brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) follows similar recent efforts from tech leaders like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates.

On April 8, Ehrsam’s startup, Nudge, unveiled its first product, the Nudge Zero. A noninvasive brain interface device that uses ultrasound to modulate brain activity, the technology represents the first start-up venture to pursue this unique approach with BCI technology.

Dynamic visualizations expose how domain walls shift in ferroelectrics

As demand for energy-intensive computing grows, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new technique that lets scientists see—in unprecedented detail—how interfaces move in promising materials for computing and other applications. The method, now available to users at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at ORNL, could help design dramatically more energy-efficient technologies.

The research is published in the journal Small Methods.

Data centers today consume as much energy as small cities, and that usage is skyrocketing. To counter the trend, scientists are studying such as ferroelectrics that could store and process information far more efficiently than silicon, which is traditionally used. But realizing the potential depends on understanding the processes occurring at dimensions thousands of times smaller than a —specifically, at the ferroelectric material’s , which are the boundaries between areas of the material that exhibit different magnetic or electric properties.

Gravity could be the definitive clue that the universe is a computer

Modern ideas about reality sometimes sound like a wild story. The notion that everything around us might be bits and bytes is easy to brush aside, yet it continues to intrigue many curious minds.

This perspective has led some researchers to wonder if physical forces might be signals of an underlying information system.

According to physicist Melvin M. Vopson of the University of Portsmouth, certain features of gravity may hint at information contained in a universal computational code.

Novel material design enables pure-red perovskite LEDs with record-breaking performance

A team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has resolved a critical challenge in pure-red perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) by identifying and addressing the root cause of efficiency loss at high brightness.

Published in Nature, their study introduces a novel material design that enables record-breaking device performance, achieving a peak external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 24.2% and a maximum luminance of 24,600 cd m-2 —the brightest pure-red PeLED reported to date.

Pure-red PeLEDs, crucial for vivid displays and lighting, have long faced a trade-off between efficiency and brightness. While 3D mixed-halide perovskites like CsPbI3-x Brx offer excellent charge transport, their efficiency plummets under high current due to unresolved carrier leakage.

Is Dark Energy Changing? Mysterious New Data Challenges Einstein’s Cosmological Constant

Recent findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument suggest the possibility of new physics that extends beyond the current standard model of cosmology. Using the lab’s new Aurora exascale computing system, the research team conducted high-resolution simulations of the universe’s evoluti