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Wegmans and Facial Recognition: Five Facts

Wegmans and Facial Recognition: Five Facts

As Wegmans tightens theft-prevention efforts, retailers are increasingly turning to facial recognition and AI-driven surveillance. Here are five clear, evidence-based facts about how that technology works, what it gets …

Perovskites Go Domestic: BiLight's CES Trio

Perovskites Go Domestic: BiLight's CES Trio

At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, BiLight Innovations unveiled three perovskite-based, flexible photovoltaic products aimed at homes, offices and outdoor users—claiming rollable curtains, battery-free nameplates and a scroll-st…

Cloud 9: A Failed Galaxy Revealed

Cloud 9: A Failed Galaxy Revealed

Using Hubble and radio telescopes, astronomers have confirmed a starless, gas-rich dark-matter cloud — nicknamed Cloud‑9 — that matches long-standing theoretical predictions of a 'failed galaxy'. The finding, announced …

Near‑optimal Error Correction Unlocks Quantum Power

Near‑optimal Error Correction Unlocks Quantum Power

A new class of quantum error‑correcting codes and faster decoders are pushing practical, large‑scale quantum computing closer to reality by approaching the theoretical hashing bound while keeping decoding cost manageabl…

Brazil’s Supercentenarians: A Genetic Treasure

Brazil’s Supercentenarians: A Genetic Treasure

A new Viewpoint highlights an extraordinary Brazilian cohort of centenarians and supercentenarians whose admixed genomes, immune signatures and life histories may reveal protective variants and mechanisms of extreme hum…