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Why irregular sleep puts heart failure patients in danger
People recovering from heart failure should consider improving the regularity of their sleep, a study led by Oregon Health & Science University suggests. The research team found that even moderately irregular sleep doubles the risk of having another clinical event within six months, according to a study published on August 21 in the journal JACC Advances....
Next-gen Nvidia Rubin prototypes begin testing with leap to chiplet design and HBM4 memory
Nvidia has confirmed the completion of six Rubin chips, marking a major strategic shift in its technology roadmap. The announcement came during CEO Jensen Huang’s recent visit to Taiwan, where he revealed that multiple designs have already been submitted to manufacturing partner TSMC for qualification and initial production runs.Read Entire Article…Read whole article here
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Amazon's Blade Runner limited series finally has a release window. Deadline reports that the upcoming sequel show, Blade Runner 2099, is slated for a 2026 release on Prime Video. The story at this point remains a mystery, though the title suggests it'll take place 50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049. Ridley Scott
Developer gets prison time for sabotaging former employer’s network with a ‘kill switch’
In Brief Posted: 7:26 AM PDT · August 22, 2025 Image Credits:Rapeepong Puttakumwong / Getty Images A former software developer has been sentenced to four years in prison for sabotaging his former employer’s network after leaving the company. Davis Lu, 55, was convicted of installing a “kill switch” on the network of his former employer...
MCP-Universe benchmark shows GPT-5 fails more than half of real-world
August 22, 2025 1:50 PM Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The adoption of interoperability standards, such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP), can provide enterprises with insights into how agents and models function outside
115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprints Unearthed by Recent Floodwaters
Volunteers clearing the aftermath of historic floods in Texas found something completely unexpected amid the mud and debris: dinosaur tracks from an ancient era. Paleontologists say that the huge tracks, 15 in total, are likely to have belonged to a large predator that lived 115 million years ago. An Ancient Predator Revealed Travis County in...
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Google snuck a new smart speaker into its big Pixel
Image: YouTube Over the past several months, the question surrounding Google’s next smart devices hasn’t been when they will arrive, but if they will arrive. After all, Google’s been slowly but steadily discontinuing older smart products (the Nest Protect, the Nest x Yale Lock) while leaving their replacements to third parties. At time same time
Apple’s Liquid Glass Guidelines In iOS 26 May Hint At Unreleased Products
José Adorno/BGR Twitterrific’s developer Craig Hockenberry recently published an interesting analysis of Apple’s Liquid Glass guidelines — the design language Apple has been teasing for over a year. As summarized by Hockenberry, Apple asks developers to avoid corners and focus on “concentricity,” which might not make much sense for those updating their apps to iOS...










