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A team of researchers in South Korea has developed a new type of transparent OLED technology that could help improve future augmented reality (AR) glasses, smart windows, vehicle displays, and other advanced electronic devices. The research was led by Professor Yongtaek Hong and his team at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul […] The post Transparent OLED advance could …

A superconducting quantum computer is part of a network that is mining an experimental cryptocurrency called Quip, and it is able to do it faster and with better energy efficiency than conventional machines

Why do users continue using a Takaful insurance app after initial adoption?This paper revisits that question using Arabic user-generated content from the Al Rajhi Takaful app.Drawing on 8,092 appstore reviews, we employ a sequential exploratory-confirmatory design.After screening and Arabicspecific preprocessing, 4,717 reviews were analyzed using topic modeling, sentiment-informed interpretation,…

If you've built on Ethereum and you're now exploring Solana, the first thing that will trip you up isn't the language (Rust takes getting used to, but it's learnable). It's the mental model. Solana separates code from state at a fundamental level — and once you internalize that, everything else clicks. This article walks through the core differences in how both chains store data, why Solana's des…

A six-axis robot arm sitting on your desk used to mean five figures and a service contract. Chris Annin's AR4 quietly tore that idea up — and with the brand-new Mark 5 revision, he's calling the hardware officially finished. The AR4 is an open-source, six-degrees-of-freedom robot arm you build yourself from CNC-cut aluminum, 3D-printed parts, and off-the-shelf motors and electronics. It's the lat…

I kept hitting the same wall looking for an offline wiki. Kiwix is great, but it's an app plus multi-GB ZIM files. IPFS needs connectivity and setup. I just wanted something dead simple: a knowledge file you can open on any phone with no install , and hand to the next person over Bluetooth or a USB stick. So I built Portable Knowledge Mesh . It's one reader.html (~19 KB). You open it — even strai…

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.

I built a small, focused 2026 World Cup tracker for fans who want the essentials without opening five different pages: schedule, groups, standings snapshots, key fixtures, and the new qualification rules for the 48-team format. The site is here: https://wc2026.info/ A few implementation notes: The frontend is built with Next.js and TypeScript. The page is designed around quick scanning on mobile:…

Honestly, the way dedicated hardware and software engineering have teamed up has totally changed the game for developers making worlds look real. Instead of artists spending weeks manually dropping in fake light bulbs to trick your eyes, they can just place one virtual sun in the scene and let ray tracing physics handle the rest. This basically deletes a ton of tedious development time while maki…

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts This week’s question: Is ‘ripen at home’ fruit the supermarkets’ idea of a joke? I’ve been struggling to get my head around the idea that a passkey, which can be a pin on your phone, or facial recognition, can be safer than us…

Once again we take a look at the valuations of the major 3D printing companies over the past week. The post Who’s The Biggest In 3D Printing, June 13, 2026 appeared on Fabbaloo .

A new passive technology could help future wireless networks reach places where signals struggle today. Dead zones are one of the most persistent problems in wireless communications. Whether it’s a basement office, a warehouse aisle, a tunnel, or a crowded indoor venue, signals often struggle to reach every corner. The challenge is expected to grow [...]

Some fighters will receive bonuses in ‘stablecoins’ issued by Trump family business World Liberty Financial The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) announced on Friday that it will pay bonuses to fighters in a form of cryptocurrency issued by Trump family business World Liberty Financial at the heavily publicized White House mixed martial arts event on Sunday. The development connects the Trump …

Moto UI is a modern React component library built for developers who care about accessibility, performance, and developer experience . It combines the headless, accessible foundation of Ark UI with the type-safe, build-time styling power of Panda CSS to help teams build interfaces that are fast, flexible, and easy to maintain. Moto UI is also heavily inspired by Chakra UI and Hero UI . From Chakr…

With the continuously increasing demand for AI and cloud computing services, data centers are growing...

What: NVIDIA's RTX Spark "superchip" (unveiled around Computex / Build 2026) pairs a 20-core Grace CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU that together address one 128GB unified memory pool over NVLink-C2C — the idea this page explains is unified coherent CPU–GPU memory . Why: On an ordinary discrete GPU, any data the GPU touches must first be copied from CPU system RAM into GPU VRAM across the PCIe bus — …

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com YouTube creators spend 10 to 20 minutes per video picking and editing a thumbnail. Multiply that by daily uploads, and you're burning hours on a task that should be automatic. What if you could drop a video URL into Make.com and get a thumbnail generated without opening Photoshop? This guide walks through a Make.com scenario that takes any video, extracts …

The obsession with centralizing heavy compute on backend servers is a massive bottleneck for both cost and latency. In 2026, as more applications move to the edge, developers are realizing that the user's browser is an incredibly powerful, untapped compute engine. Recently, I challenged myself to build a free live chess game analyzer for my developer utility suite, CipherKit. The traditional arch…

The Škoda Peaq, which will debut this summer as the European automaker’s flagship model, seats seven and has an intriguing design. It will almost certainly come with a hefty price tag.

The UK keeps producing world-class technology, then watches many of its companies scale in America. Rory Daniels, Head of Emerging Technology and Innovation at techUK, joins Thinking on Paper to discuss whether the United Kingdom can remain competitive as quantum computing, robotics, photonics, AI and advanced computing begin to converge. The UK has strong research […]