‘IFLY’ – Indoor Skydiving

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INDOOR SKYDIVING IS REAL FLYING in 'Ifly' state-of-the-art vertical wind tunnels. It is safe for all ages, experience levels and abilities and gives you a indoor sky diving experience for 60 sec. A vertical wind tunnel has fans at the top to draw air through the flight chamber and then push it back down the sides. iFLY Tunnel Systems (formerly SkyVenture) created the vertical wind tunnel industry and has consistently led wind tunnel innovations for 20+ years. It offers ninth generatio...
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MIT’s CheMeleon Predicts Molecule Behavior From Scant Data

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Finding a new drug or material is mostly an exercise in elimination: chemists synthesize and test enormous numbers of molecules to find the few that behave the way they need. A machine-learning model from MIT called CheMeleon aims to shrink that pile by predicting molecular properties from very little experimental data. According to MIT News (November 6, 2026), the work was reported in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling and comes from the group of chemical engineering professor Wi...
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USF’s Self-Cooling Paint Chills Roofs Below Air Temperature

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Roofs spend the day soaking up sunshine, and air conditioners spend the afternoon fighting the result. A white paint from the University of South Florida (USF) takes a different approach: instead of merely absorbing less heat, it sends heat away, and it has now been shown to cool a surface below the air around it in a month of real outdoor testing in Tampa. According to USF's announcement on November 5, 2026, the self-cooling coating was created in the lab of Distinguished University Professor ...
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Georgia Tech’s Biodegradable STAR Particles Open the Skin

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Your skin is superb at keeping things out, which is great until a medicine needs to get in. A team at Georgia Tech has designed a fix that looks, under a microscope, like a tiny spiky ball, and on November 4, 2026 the university described a new version built to disappear after use. A cream-friendly alternative to patches Mark Prausnitz, a Regents' Professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has spent years working on ways to move drugs through the skin's oute...
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UTSW’s miOPM Microscope Swaps Lenses to Image Cells in 3D

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Most advanced microscopes are specialists. One is tuned for tiny structures inside a single cell, another for large tissues, another for scanning hundreds of sample dishes. A lab that wants to do all three often needs three machines. On November 5, 2026, UT Southwestern Medical Center announced a light-sheet microscope designed to change that. The instrument, called the multi-immersion oblique plane microscope (miOPM), was developed in the lab of Reto Fiolka, Ph.D., and described in Nature Meth...
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XPENG’s GroundingPI Puts Perception First in Physical AI

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Robots are getting better at reasoning and planning, yet they still stumble on a more basic question: where, exactly, is the thing I am supposed to pick up? On November 4, 2026, XPENG announced GroundingPI, an open-source visual perception model built with researchers from Peking University, The University of Hong Kong and other institutions, that tackles that question head-on. According to XPENG's announcement, the roughly 4-billion-parameter model reached an average score of 73.68 across 34 p...
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PuppyPi: A Raspberry Pi 5 Robot Dog That Takes Voice Orders

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Most robot dogs on a desk are toys, and most serious quadrupeds cost as much as a car. Hiwonder's PuppyPi sits deliberately in between: a 720-gram, aluminium-framed quadruped built around a Raspberry Pi 5 that you can program in Python, run on ROS 2, and now talk to through ChatGPT-class large models. Say "find the red ball and kick it," and the robot is meant to hear you, look around, work out what you mean, and do it. That chain, from words to perception to motion, is what researchers call em...
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Science Tokyo Catalyst Makes Ammonia Without Precious Metals

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Almost every loaf of bread on the planet owes something to ammonia. It is the starting point for nitrogen fertiliser, and a growing number of energy planners also see it as a practical way to store and ship hydrogen. The catch is that making it is one of heavy industry's dirtiest jobs. Now a team at the Institute of Science Tokyo says it has built a catalyst that makes ammonia under noticeably milder conditions, without any precious metals, and does it faster than the benchmark catalysts it was...
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Northwestern Smartwatch Tech Reads Hands for Prosthetics

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Your smartwatch knows how many steps you took and how fast your heart beat, but it has almost no idea what your hands are doing. That blind spot matters, because hands are how people act on the world, and for amputees and patients in care settings, tracking hand and arm movement can be clinically meaningful. Engineers at Northwestern University's SPICE Lab say a standard smartwatch can do far more here than it does today.According to Northwestern's November 4, 2026 announcement, the lab has bui...
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PulseAI Wins FDA Clearance for Wearable Heart-Rhythm AI

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Smartwatches have become remarkably good at recording the heart. Interpreting what they record is another matter. Anyone who has taken an on-wrist ECG and received an "inconclusive" result knows the gap between capturing a signal and making sense of it. On November 5, 2026, a Belfast company called PulseAI announced that it had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for an AI-powered arrhythmia analysis model built specifically for wearables, a step aimed squarely at ...
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Garmin Descent X10: A Readable Dive Computer for All

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Most people who learn to scuba dive start the same way: in a pool, with rented gear, and an instructor reminding them to watch their depth and air. The dive computer on their wrist is supposed to make that easier, yet many entry-level models have small, hard-to-read screens and menus that feel built for experts. Garmin is aiming squarely at that gap. According to Garmin's announcement on November 3, 2026, the new Descent X10 is a dedicated dive computer designed to put "critical dive informatio...
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ZEISS TALOS: A Robot That Measures Without Markers

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Walk through almost any modern car plant or aerospace hangar and you will find two kinds of robots. The first kind builds things: it welds, rivets, paints and lifts. The second kind, far rarer, checks whether the first kind did its job correctly. That second job has always been harder to automate, because a robot arm that is good enough to move a welding torch is rarely precise enough to measure a part to a fraction of a millimeter. On November 5, 2026, ZEISS announced a machine designed to clo...
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Higgs Realtime Duplex: Boson’s AI That Talks While It Works

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Most voice assistants still work like walkie-talkies: you speak, you stop, they answer. Boson AI wants to retire that rhythm. On November 5, 2026, the company introduced Higgs Realtime Duplex, which it describes as its first full-duplex interactive "omni" model. According to Boson's announcement, it listens, watches and talks at the same time, shows a face of its own, and keeps thinking and calling tools in the background without pausing the conversation. That is a meaningful shift for anyone b...
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Tencent Hy4 Joins the Top Tier of Open-Source AI Models

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Tencent has pushed its in-house AI family a big step up the ladder. On November 4, 2026, the company announced Hy4, the latest generation of its Hy large language model, and said it now sits among the strongest open-source models in the world. According to Tencent's announcement, the model weights and system cards will follow "in the coming days," which would put a model with vision, computer use and long-horizon agent skills into the hands of developers who want to run it themselves. For busin...
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Hidden Polar Boundaries Found in Perovskite Solar Material

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Halide perovskites are among the most promising materials for next-generation solar cells. A team led by Monash University has now found an unexpected electrical property hiding inside one of them. The research was published in PNAS and announced by Monash on November 6, 2026. The discovery As the Monash University release explains, caesium lead iodide (CsPbI3), previously considered electrically non-polar, contains extremely thin boundaries where atoms shift position and create local electrica...
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Scentronic: An AI E-Nose and Wearable That Shares Smells

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Screens and speakers carry sight and sound across the internet, but smell has stayed offline. Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed an AI-powered electronic nose and a wearable release system called Scentronic that aim to change that. The study was published in Science Advances and announced by Ohio State on November 5, 2026. How the system works According to Ohio State's College of Engineering, the device uses an AI e-nose to detect and analyze odors, and Scentronic uses mach...
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Light-Based AI Training Cuts Computation, Tokyo Team Shows

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AI is hungry for power, and one answer is to stop doing all the math on transistors. Researchers at the University of Tokyo, working with NTT researchers, have shown a way to train and run a neural network on light, using far less computation than conventional methods. The work was announced on November 5, 2026 and published in Nature Computational Science. The problem: AI that costs too much to run According to the University of Tokyo press release, training AI models can consume vast amounts ...
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Northwestern’s DIAL Prints Paste-Like Inks With Light

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3D printing has long forced a trade-off between speed, fine detail and the materials you can use. On November 4, 2026, Northwestern Engineering researchers described a method that tries to remove it. Called direct ink additive lithography (DIAL), it was published in Science Advances and announced in a Northwestern Engineering news article. The trade-off DIAL targets Direct ink writing works like squeezing toothpaste: thick inks are pushed through a narrow nozzle, one line at a time. It handl...
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Panasonic’s T-Rex Robot AI Reacts to Fingertip Touch

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Robots are good at seeing and increasingly good at following spoken instructions. Feeling their way through a task is harder. On November 5, 2026, Panasonic Holdings announced a robot manipulation AI called T-Rex (Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation) that adds a sense of touch to the popular vision-language-action approach, and corrects its movements as fingertips feel slipping or too much pressure. According to Panasonic's press release, the work is a collaboration between Panasonic HD, Pa...
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Anode-Free Sodium Battery Lasts 1,400 Cycles, Works at -40°C

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Sodium-ion batteries have a compelling pitch: sodium is cheap and abundant, the chemistry has attractive safety characteristics, and it sidesteps much of the supply-chain anxiety around lithium. Their weakness has been energy density. A new study from Xi'an Jiaotong University, published in Nature Energy on November 2, 2026, tackles that problem with a radical design choice: remove the anode entirely, and then fix the chemistry that has kept such batteries from lasting. According to the univers...
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Graphene Harvester Runs Sensors on Power-Line Energy

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Every wall in a modern building hides a quiet, constant source of energy that nobody uses. The copper wiring that carries household and office electricity produces a weak, oscillating magnetic field around it, sixty times a second in North America. Researchers at the University of Arkansas and the University of Michigan have now shown that this stray field can do useful work: it can keep a tiny temperature sensor running with no battery at all. According to the University of Arkansas announceme...
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Empatica’s WellPD Takes Parkinson’s Monitoring Home

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Parkinson's disease does not hold still for an appointment. Symptoms shift hour by hour as medication takes hold and wears off, which means a neurologist's twenty minutes with a patient captures one arbitrary slice of a moving picture, and the rest of it has to be reconstructed from memory. On October 28, the Boston- and Milan-based wearables company Empatica launched a product aimed squarely at that gap: WellPD, an FDA-cleared and CE-marked wrist-worn device and companion app that tracks Parki...
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UCSF’s B-SYNC CAR-T Cells Switch On Only in the Brain

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Diffuse midline glioma is the kind of diagnosis that ends conversations. It grows into the brainstem, the piece of tissue that runs breathing, heartbeat and swallowing, and it is one of the few brain cancers that mostly strikes children. Surgeons cannot cut it out. Most children die within a year. Engineered immune cells, the technology that transformed blood cancers over the past decade, have repeatedly failed to dislodge it. On October 28, UC San Francisco announced a result that may change t...
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Samsung Galaxy Buds On: Open-Ear Earbuds Arrive in the US

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For years, wireless earbuds have competed on one thing above all: shutting the world out. Bigger seals, stronger noise cancellation, deeper isolation. But a growing group of listeners wants the opposite, at least some of the time. Runners need to hear traffic, office workers want to catch a colleague's question, and commuters want a podcast without missing a station announcement. On October 28, 2026, Samsung announced U.S. availability of Galaxy Buds On, its first open-ear earbuds, built for ex...
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Pudu TOMO S: The Robot Mower That Sharpens Its Own Blades

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Robot lawn mowers have quietly become one of the most successful home robots after the vacuum. They map the garden, trundle out on schedule and dock themselves when the job is done. Yet one chore has stubbornly stayed with the homeowner: dealing with the blades. Dull blades tear grass rather than slice it, and swapping or sharpening them means handling sharp metal under a machine. On November 3, 2026, Pudu Robotics, a company better known for the delivery and cleaning robots used in restaurants...
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Flower’s Endeavor 1.1 Puts Frontier AI Under Customer Control

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Companies adopting AI keep running into the same trade-off. The most capable models live behind closed APIs, where the provider decides what changes, where the computing happens and what customers may do with the results. Running an open model yourself brings control, but it also brings the burden of hosting it and understanding how it behaves. On November 3, Flower Labs announced a model meant to remove that choice. According to the company's announcement, Endeavor 1.1 is a frontier model that...
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NVIDIA RTX Spark Brings On-Device AI Characters to Games

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For most of gaming history, the people you met inside a game could say only what a writer had scripted for them. Ask a guard something off-script and you got silence or a canned line. NVIDIA wants to change that, and its latest developer update shows how close the company thinks we are. In an October 27 post on the NVIDIA Technical Blog, the company laid out a bundle of AI tools for its new RTX Spark PC platform: a small language model built to run game characters on the device itself, a faster...
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KIT Prints a Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Cell Past 30% Efficiency

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Printing a 30% solar cell Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells are the leading candidate to push panels past the limits of silicon alone, but many record cells are made with lab-scale methods that do not translate easily to factories. According to TaiyangNews, researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now demonstrated a perovskite-silicon tandem cell with 30.2% efficiency using a process built around inkjet printing, which they describe as the first time such a cell...
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Organic Solar Cell Splits Water at a Record 7.9% Efficiency

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A solar cell that makes hydrogen without a power supply Hydrogen made from water and sunlight is one of the cleanest fuels on paper, but most designs still lean on an outside electrical boost. According to a report by Interesting Engineering, a team at South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has built an organic-semiconductor device that splits water entirely on its own, and set an efficiency record for its class while doing it. The headline number is a 7.9% sol...
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NVIDIA’s 9.6M-Parameter RE-USE Cleans Speech in Any Language

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Most speech-cleanup models are big. NVIDIA's new NemotronLabs RE-USE is not: it has 9.6 million parameters, yet its model card shows it matching or beating open models that are 26 to 50 times larger on several measures. NVIDIA researchers promoted the open model on October 30, 2026, according to GIGAZINE. What it does According to NVIDIA's Hugging Face model card, RE-USE is a multilingual universal speech enhancement model. It restores speech damaged by noise, reverberation, clipping, bandwidth...
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KAIST’s CluSTER Cuts AI Fine-Tuning Time by 70%

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Training a specialist AI model is expensive mostly because of repetition. Researchers at KAIST say they have found a way to cut that repetition: a method called CluSTER fine-tuned a model on medical question-and-answer data using about 31 percent of the dataset and cut training time by 69.6 percent, with only a small loss in accuracy, Aju Press reported on November 2, 2026. The problem: fine-tuning wastes GPU time Large language models first learn broad knowledge, then developers fine-tune them...
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