Shell launches data center cooling fluid to support the growing energy demands of AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. #one #world039s #largest #oil #companies

Several Unitree G1 robots remotely operated by human beings punched, kicked and kneed one another in a fight to the top. #highlights #world039s #first #humanoid #robot

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitathas unveiled the winners of its 2025 Award of Excellence. The annual award series seeks to honor built and unbuilt tall buildings that “respond to current global challenges and demonstrate the vital role of tall buildings in the 21st century.” The 2025 winners span 20 countries and 20 categories. According to the organizers, the 2025 projects “exemplify creative and technical leadership across the gamut of sustainable vertical urbanism.” “This year’s cohort demonstrates not only technical sophistication and design ingenuity but also an ability to respond to the circumstances shaping the world right now—from regional issues and economic challenges to the accelerating climate crisis,” according to Javier Quintana de Uña, CEO of CTBUH. “These projects prove that tall buildings and the vertical urbanism they engender can instigate better quality of life, ecological resilience and urban equity simultaneously. That’s the direction ou... #world039s #best #tall #buildings #honored

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Anthropic announces Claude Opus 4, the world's best coding model Pradeep Viswanathan Neowin @pradeepviswav · May 22, 2025 22:48 EDT Anthropic today announced the next generation of Claude models: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Anthropic claims that its flagship Claude Opus 4 is the world’s best coding model and excels in agentic workflows and complex, long-running tasks. The Claude Sonnet 4 comes with improved coding and reasoning performance compared to the existing Claude Sonnet 3.7 model. As you can notice in the table below, Claude Sonnet 4 scored a state-of-the-art 72.7% on SWE-bench Verified, the popular benchmark for agentic coding. Because of its powerful coding capabilities, Microsoft's GitHub today announced that Sonnet 4 will be the model powering the new coding agent in GitHub Copilot. Anthropic wrote the following regarding the performance of these new models: These models advance our customers' AI strategies across the board: Opus 4 pushes boundaries in coding, research, writing, and scientific discovery, while Sonnet 4 brings frontier performance to everyday use cases as an instant upgrade from Sonnet 3.7. Both the new Claude 4 models support two modes: near-instant responses and extended thinking for deeper reasoning. Developers can switch between these modes depending on their needs. Free users of Claude can only access the new Sonnet 4 model. However, Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise Claude plan users can access both models and extended thinking. Anthropic also announced the availability of both of these models from the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI. Surprisingly, Anthropic has not reduced the pricing of these new models. Claude Opus 4 will cost per million input tokens and per million output tokens, and Sonnet 4 will cost per million input tokens and per million output tokens. Along with these new models, Anthropic announced updates to Claude Code with support for background tasks via GitHub Actions, native integrations with VS Code and JetBrains, and more. Additionally, the Anthropic API gets support for the code execution tool, MCP connector, Files API, and the ability to cache prompts for up to one hour. Tags Report a problem with article Follow @NeowinFeed #anthropic #announces #claude #opus #world039s

What would the other option even be?We can't say that it's the kind of question that normally crops up in our everyday lives, but if someone put us on the spot and asked "does Mario actually eat those power-up mushrooms?", we'd struggle to know the definitive answer.Of course, The Super Mario Bros. Movie dedicated an entire subplot to this very question, but before his big screen animated debut, did we know for sure?Read the full article on nintendolife.com #random #mario #kart #world039s #devs

An illustration shows how the WindRunner aircraft will be able to carry smaller planes as cargoWindrunner / Radia The US military is exploring uses for a proposed aircraft that will be the largest plane ever built – even though the flyer is primarily designed to carry giant wind turbine blades. The WindRunner, currently under development by the company Radia in Colorado, is planned to have an 80-metre wingspan and a 108-metre length. That’s roughly the dimensions of a FIFA-regulation football field, giving the aircraft about 12… #how #military #wants #use #world039s

Computex 2025 is the world's biggest computing show where companies like AMD, Nvidia and Qualcomm show off their latest devices - and we're reporting live from the show floor in Taipei, Taiwan. #computex #live #world039s #biggest #computing

Unity has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023, which highlights businesses at the forefront of their respective industries. Unity ranked number one for AR and VR innovators, with Fast Company citing our work integrating data with digital twins on projects with the Vancouver Airport Authority and Orlando Economic Partnership.“We’re humbled to be recognized by Fast Company with this honor at a time when the world is in the early stages of a substantial transformation from 2D to 3D,” said John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity. “Content specifically is moving from mostly 2D to 3D, from mostly not real-time to real-time, and from mostly linear to deeply interactive, and I believe that between now and the end of the decade, VR and AR will be fairly pervasive. At the heart of all revolutionary and connective AR and VR experiences is great content, and that’s exactly what our platform enables creators to do as they unleash their creativity and bring their vision to life in gaming and beyond.”“At the heart of all revolutionary and connective AR and VR experiences is great content, and that’s exactly what our platform enables creators to do as they unleash their creativity and bring their vision to life in gaming and beyond.”Added Lynette DuJohn, VP, Innovation and Chief Information Officer at Vancouver Airport Authority, “We are grateful to have partners like Unity, who, from the start, aligned with our bold vision to rethink what digital transformation means for an airport by creating YVR’s Digital Twin platform to solve challenges in aviation and beyond.”Continue reading for four case studies that demonstrate how Unity and our customers are leading the way with innovative applications of AR and VR.Fetal Heart VR, created by Unity developers in Poland, is a fully calibrated simulation platform for training in fetal cardiac scanning. Designed to aid doctors in the study of beating fetal hearts, the most recent version includes normal fetal heart anatomy and various congenital heart diseases. Through VR training, MWU Software’s goal is to reduce the potential stress and panic experienced when a congenital heart disease is encountered during fetal screening scans.The Czech VR film Darkening was a Unity for Humanity grant winner last year. In the animated, immersive film, audiences are taken through a virtual world of experiences that address depression and ways to cope with it. Director and protagonist Ondřej Moravec knows that the stigma behind depression needs to change and, through this film, is using his story to raise awareness of mental health issues.Augment Therapy, another Unity for Humanity grant winner, uses AR to help patients of all ages who are undergoing rehabilitative care get used to moving their bodies again. The app was designed by a physical therapist with health care providers in mind and features engaging games like pickleball and surfing that are played through movement.At the Tribeca Festival in 2022, our very own Antonia Forster, senior XR technical specialist, showcased the LGBTQ+ VR Museum that she and her cocreator Thomas Terkildsen built using Unity. Antonia put in countless hours on top of her full-time job to bring this critical project to life – which resulted in the project winning Tribeca’s New Voices award. about it in this blog post.Subscribe to the Unity Blog newsletter to stay up to date on the latest innovations from Unity, including success stories from our amazing developer community. #how #unity #earned #title #world039s

Is the Star Manual of Master Shi the oldest known astronomical catalog? Experts are divided. #world039s #oldest #star #chart #years

Scientists have successfully treated a 9.5-month-old boy with an ultra-rare genetic disorder using the world's first personalized gene-editing therapy. The patient, identified as KJ, has CPS1 deficiency -- a condition affecting just one in 1.3 million babies that prevents proper ammonia processing and is often fatal. The breakthrough treatment, detailed in the New England Journal of Medicine, uses base editing technology to correct KJ's specific DNA mutation. The therapy delivers CRISPR components wrapped in fatty lipid molecules that protect them in the bloodstream until they reach liver cells, where they make the precise edit needed. After three infusions, KJ now eats normal amounts of protein and has maintained stable ammonia levels even through viral illnesses that would typically cause dangerous spikes. His weight has increased from the 7th to 40th percentile. Dr. Peter Marks, former FDA official, called the approach "one of the most potentially transformational technologies" because it could be rapidly adapted for thousands of other rare genetic diseases without lengthy development cycles. of this story at Slashdot. #baby #healed #with #world039s #first