Apple fans might not have to wait much longer to see the company's new flagship smartphone, the iPhone 16. The California tech giant will unveil the latest generation of iPhones at an in-person event on September 10, according to an alleged online leak. A serial Apple leaker known as Majin Bu shared a screenshot on X, formerly Twitter, which claims to shown the invite to Apple's September special event. The colour of the Apple logo in the invitation also nods to the possibility that fans might be getting a new'bronze' colour for the titanium smartphone. However, social media commenters have been sceptical of the leak's authenticity and even Majin Bu himself says: 'I have no way of verifying that this information is real, but it all seems very plausible considering the latest news.'

It's just a matter of weeks until Apple is finally expected to unveil its latest smartphone, the iPhone 16. And according to a fresh leak, the tech giant is preparing a brand new colour for one of its models. The leaked photo, posted to X, reveals four dummy iPhone 16 Pro units, each in a different shade. The white, black and silver colours are recognisable from the iPhone 15 Pro, released last year, but the fourth unit is a surprising'bronze'. However, not all fans are convinced by the new shade, with some even comparing it to poop.

Artificial intelligence apparently thinks that's a normal sentence to say. My friend and I were speaking over the phone, testing Samsung's new real-time call translation feature on the Galaxy S24. He asked me in Korean whether I had eaten dinner. Alas, the AI thought cancer was on the menu instead. These AI tricks, powered by Google's Gemini artificial intelligence model, are the key new features on Samsung's latest trio of Android phones: the Galaxy S24, S24, and S24 Ultra.

Machine Learning (ML)-based force fields are attracting ever-increasing interest due to their capacity to span spatiotemporal scales of classical interatomic potentials at quantum-level accuracy. They can be trained based on high-fidelity simulations or experiments, the former being the common case. However, both approaches are impaired by scarce and erroneous data resulting in models that either do not agree with well-known experimental observations or are under-constrained and only reproduce some properties. Here we leverage both Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations and experimentally measured mechanical properties and lattice parameters to train an ML potential of titanium. We demonstrate that the fused data learning strategy can concurrently satisfy all target objectives, thus resulting in a molecular model of higher accuracy compared to the models trained with a single data source. The inaccuracies of DFT functionals at target experimental properties were corrected, while the investigated off-target properties remained largely unperturbed. Our approach is applicable to any material and can serve as a general strategy to obtain highly accurate ML potentials.

Click here to read the full article. You could call it a contradiction in terms, or even a paradoxical blending of opposites--the U.S. Army is now designing a lightweight, highly lethal future armored tank that is easy to maneuver while being able to withstand dangerous enemy attacks and offering protection equal to or better than a 70-ton Abrams tank. This goal lies at the center of the Army's Next-Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV), a family of new combat platforms now being developed by the service for future warfare. Its key goals are expeditionary, lightweight, fast, using artificial intelligence, potentially unmanned, extremely lethal and perpetually upgradeable. The effort involves building new infantry carriers, tanks and robotic vehicles networked together as part of an integrated tactical maneuver strategy.

This space-optimized wrench was 3-D printed on the International Space Station. In the coming decades, humans will begin to colonize the "final frontier." Private rocket companies -- including Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin -- are already building vehicles to ferry settlers to outer space. But what happens once these early colonists step off their ships and onto the hostile surface of Mars or the Moon? When history's pilgrims and pioneers arrived in a new territory, they used the land's natural resources to build their settlements.

This coral-like form is a spinal implant. Created by Californian medical company NuVasive, it is made from titanium and fits precisely between two vertebrae. By mimicking the porousness and stiffness of human bone, it can accelerate bone growth following back surgery. Spinal surgeons typically use implants made from high-performance plastic, because the material is less rigid than metal, yet also porous. But NuVasive's research demonstrated that, with the right design, titanium could be moulded closer to the form and stiffness of human bone – with the added benefit of being stronger than plastic.