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How scientists are using quantum squeezing to push the limits of their sensors When two black holes spiral inward and collide, they shake the very fabric of space, producing ripples in space-time that can travel for hundreds of millions of light-years. Since 2015, scientists have been observing these so-called gravitational waves to help them study fundamental questions about the cosmos, including the origin of heavy elements such as gold and the rate at which the universe is expanding.  But detecting gravitational…

LIGO has confirmed 90 gravitational wave detections so far, but physicists want to detect more, which will require making the experiment even more sensitive. And that is a challenge.  “The struggle of these detectors is that every time you try to improve them, you actually can make things worse, because they are so sensitive,” says Lisa Barsotti, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nevertheless, Barsotti and her colleagues recently pushed past this challenge, creating a device that will allow…

A gaming service lives and dies by its developers, and it’s a worrying sign for Apple Arcade that the people who make its games aren’t pleased with how the service is being run.Apple Arcade, to those who pay for it, is almost like the Xbox Game Pass of mobile games — a collection of cool titles that you can play on your iPhone for a small monthly subscription. For developers, however, it seems like it’s becoming more and more of a nightmare as time moves on, with a new report from mobilegamer.biz revealing considerable…

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Today, AI based on neural networks is at a very interesting stage of its development. It has clearly taken off: we see numerous applications from reading CT scans to picking fruits. But adoption rates vary a lot. Recommendation engines, customer support bots, and other stuff that's been called ”internet AI” are fairly widespread; we see it everywhere in our lives. However, most areas, including software testing, aren’t quite there yet. What makes AI widely adopted and what’s tripping it up? Let’s take a look at our own…

Christian Bale Faced Claustrophobia In His Batsuit & Here’s How He Overcame It(Photo Credit –Still From Movie) Christian Bale donned the black cape and mask in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. The actor played Batman and left us all speechless with his enigmatic performance. While many actors had become Gotham’s vigilante on-screen before him, and a few aced the role after him, there was something quite special about Bale. But ironically, the actor had almost refused to continue with the role and wanted…

SEOUL—South Korea fined Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -0.78% Google the equivalent of about $32 million for abusing its global market dominance to thwart a local rival, in the latest regulatory challenge to the U.S. technology giant’s control over the mobile app ecosystem.Google’s tactics to block the growth of rival app marketplace One Store Co. amounted to anticompetitive practices, South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission said Tuesday. Game companies were induced to release their…

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The financial squeeze that started about six months ago for companies that lend to ordinary Americans is getting worse, contrasting sharply with recent rallies in stocks and corporate bonds. The main reason: These finance companies have lost access to easy money. Widespread economic uncertainty has made debt investors less willing to buy the bonds these nontraditional lenders issue. Higher interest rates, courtesy of the Federal Reserve, have given investors other attractive options. Now, these finance…

A high street decorated with British Union Jack bunting in Penistone, UK. The End Fuel Poverty Coalition has warned "a tsunami of fuel poverty will hit the country this winter."Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesLONDON — Facing soaring energy bills, rising costs and rapidly declining consumer purchasing power, small businesses across the U.K. are struggling to make ends meet.New data on Wednesday showed U.K. inflation jumped to a 40-year high of 10.1% in July as food and energy costs continued to soar, exacerbating the…