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America’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday that it will rewrite its vehicle lighting standards, to address concerns about headlight glare and allow for the latest safety-improving lighting technologies. NHTSA said it plans to improve rules for LEDs, dusk sensors, automatic high beams and replaceable light sources. The Read more…
A physicist has put a definite date on Doomsday,” The New York Times wrote on November 4, 1960. “He calculates that it will come on Friday the Thirteenth in November, 2026 A. D. On that date, or thereabouts, the human population will have expanded so far as to approach infinity Read more…
OpenAI says an unreleased internal model has produced 372 results that either resolve or make substantial progress on open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The company says almost all were generated by a single AI agent from a single prompt. “This would be a striking difference from OpenAI’s Read more…
University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist Francis Halzen has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to understanding astrophysical neutrinos. Halzen led the development of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory beneath the Antarctic ice, which has helped trace high-energy neutrinos back to cosmic sources such as supermassive black holes Read more…
