Google's Michel Devoret is one of the 2025 winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded Google's Chief Scientist of Quantum Hardware the Nobel Prize in Physics alongside former Google employee John Martinis, and University of Califor [...]

A Computer Science Professor Invented the Emoticon After a Joke Went Wrong

In 1982, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Fahlman suggested using :-) for humorous comments after his colleagues took a joke about mercury seriously. [...]

Sony is actually remastering Days Gone before Bloodborne

Sony is giving Days Gone the remaster treatment. Nestled in Sony's latest State of Play event, the company announced that Days Gone Remastered is coming to PlayStation 5 and PC on April 25, 2025, [...]

'There is a great invention called wheels,' says the RoboForce CEO, pushing back against humanoids

Some robotics experts question the value of humanoid designs: "There is a great invention called wheels."<br /> The article 'There is a great invention called wheels,' says t [...]

Three ways AI is learning to understand the physical world

Large language models are running into limits in domains that require an understanding of the physical world — from robotics to autonomous driving to manufacturing. That constraint is pushing invest [...]

Nvidia-backed ThinkLabs AI raises $28 million to tackle a growing power grid crunch

ThinkLabs AI, a startup building artificial intelligence models that simulate the behavior of the electric grid, announced today that it has closed a $28 million Series A financing round led by Energy [...]

US patent office says generative AI is equivalent to other tools in inventors' belts

While generative AI systems cannot be considered inventors under US patent laws, the US Patent and Trademark Office has updated its guidelines on how they can be used in the process of creating innova [...]

Deepmind's "force prompting" lets AI create realistic video motion without physics engines

A team from Brown University and Deepmind has found that generative video models can produce realistic motion when prompted with artificial forces, without needing 3D models or physics engines.<br [...]

Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5 still fail at complex physics tasks designed for real scientific research

A new physics benchmark called "CritPt" puts leading AI models to the test at the level of early-stage PhD research. The results show that even top systems like Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5 still [...]