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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Miniaturizable magnetic resonance
A garnet crystal only one micrometre in diameter was instrumental in a University of Alberta team of physicists creating a route to “lab-on-a-chip” technology for magnetic resonance, a tool to simplify advanced magnetic analysis for device development and interdisciplinary science. “To most, a gem so tiny would be worthless, but to us, it’s priceless,” says Mark Freeman, University of Alberta physics professor and Canada Research Chair in condensed matter physics. “It was the perfect testbed for...
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Seizure-symptom app is latest Apple health research tool
Johns Hopkins researchers today introduced EpiWatch, an app designed to collect data from patients with epilepsy before, during, and after their seizures. The app, which runs on Apple Watch and iPhone, uses the open source ResearchKit framework designed by Apple.
The data gathered for the study by the app, including physiological changes, altered responsiveness, and other characteristics of recurrent seizures, will be used by researchers to better understand epilepsy, to develop new methods f...
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ParaCord Firestarter Bracelet is a basic survival tool for everyone.
The Survival Firestarter Paracord Bracelet is the perfect basic survival tool for everyone, mainly because it contains a firestarter. As the name suggests, it's a bracelet you can use to start fires. That's because the fastening is made of flint. Strike it against the circular part and it will make a spark which you can harness to make fire. It is made of emergency paracord, which is used in parachutes and even by astronauts while they repaired the Hubble Space Telescope.
Owning any type of s...
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Drawing in the third dimension
Storybooks and graphic novels could soon be three dimensional.
A new software platform from small business Mental Canvas reimagines drawing in the digital age. The company has introduced a new concept of picture books and graphic novels which are not flat two dimensional but could let us spin the whole story in a three dimensional setup.
The company believes that digital illustration does not enhance the sketch value whereas if the image is presented in 3D, it acts as a communication tool ...
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