‘IFLY’ – Indoor Skydiving

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INDOOR SKYDIVING IS REAL FLYING in 'Ifly' state-of-the-art vertical wind tunnels. It is safe for all ages, experience levels and abilities and gives you a indoor sky diving experience for 60 sec. A vertical wind tunnel has fans at the top to draw air through the flight chamber and then push it back down the sides. iFLY Tunnel Systems (formerly SkyVenture) created the vertical wind tunnel industry and has consistently led wind tunnel innovations for 20+ years. It offers ninth generatio...
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Viridien and AMESA Team Up on HPC for Enterprise AI Agents

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Training an AI agent to run part of a factory or supply chain takes serious computing power, and most companies would rather not build a supercomputer to get it. On November 5, 2026, Viridien and AMESA announced a partnership aimed at exactly that gap. Viridien, a Paris-based advanced technology and HPC company, will supply the high-performance computing infrastructure behind AMESA Agent Cloud. AMESA is an enterprise AI platform for what it calls operational autonomy. What was announced ...
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WOTA Unit Recycles Home Water for Water-Scarce Caribbean Islands

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Imagine a household that takes 100 showers' worth of water out of its own wastewater in a single month. That is roughly what a Japanese company says happened in a demonstration home in Antigua and Barbuda, and it is now using the result to argue for a different way to supply water on islands. On November 3, 2026, WOTA, a Tokyo-based water technology company and Earthshot Prize finalist, issued a news release timed to the Commonwealth Business Forum 2026, held November 2 to 4. In it, WOTA pr...
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Snowflake CoCo Brings Governed AI Into Excel and Google Sheets

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Article details Primary domain: Data & Analytics (Data Governance)Secondary domain: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (Agentic AI)Article type: Product & Vendor InnovationTechnology: Snowflake CoCo for Excel and Google Sheets (data agent add-ins)Innovation maturity: Early AdoptionMission: Enterprise/OperationsBusiness impact: Lets analysts work with live governed data in spreadsheets without CSV exports or separate connectorsAudience: IT, Business/LeadershipPublication date...
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PhoenixAI’s Contextbase Gives AI Agents One Place for Context

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Article details Primary domain: Data & Analytics (Data Platforms)Secondary domain: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (Agentic AI)Article type: Product & Vendor InnovationTechnology: PhoenixAI Contextbase (context infrastructure for AI agents)Innovation maturity: EmergingMission: Enterprise/OperationsBusiness impact: Could cut the glue code and inconsistency that comes from keeping agent context in several separate toolsAudience: IT, Business/LeadershipPublication date: Nove...
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MIT’s UQ-DAAAM Helps Robots Fix Their Own Wrong Memories

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Article details Primary domain: Robotics & Automation (Autonomous Systems)Secondary domain: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (Computer Vision)Article type: Research & DiscoveryTechnology: UQ-DAAAM uncertainty-aware robot memoryInnovation maturity: ExperimentalMission: ResearchBusiness impact: Could make household and industrial robots more reliable at multistep tasks by flagging and fixing uncertain perceptionsAudience: Research, IT, Business/LeadershipPublication date: No...
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AURORA Puts AI Co-Scientists in Cancer Grand Challenges Labs

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Article details Primary domain: Research & Scientific Innovation (Scientific AI)Secondary domain: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (Agentic AI)Article type: Pilot & ImplementationTechnology: AURORA agentic AI co-scientist platformInnovation maturity: EmergingMission: ResearchBusiness impact: Could speed hypothesis generation and experiment selection in complex research programsAudience: Research, Business/Leadership, ITPublication date: November 2026Author / Contributor: I...
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CMU’s ESTIMATA-EX Uses Phone Photos to Estimate Surgical Blood Loss

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Article detailsPrimary domain: Clinical & Healthcare Innovation (Clinical Decision Support)Secondary domain: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (Computer Vision)Article type: Innovation SpotlightTechnology: Image-based AI blood loss estimationInnovation maturity: EmergingMission: Clinical, ResearchBusiness impact: Faster, more consistent surgical measurements and safer item countingAudience: Clinical, Research, Business/LeadershipPublication date: November 2026Author / Contribut...
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Newcastle and Ufonia Trial Dora, an Empathetic AI Phone Assistant

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Article detailsPrimary domain: Clinical & Healthcare Innovation (Patient Engagement)Secondary domain: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (Generative AI)Article type: Pilot & ImplementationTechnology: Generative AI voice assistantInnovation maturity: Early AdoptionMission: ClinicalBusiness impact: Could ease follow-up workload in understaffed fracture liaison servicesAudience: Clinical, IT, Business/LeadershipPublication date: November 2026Author / Contributor: Innovation tea...
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MIT’s CheMeleon Predicts Molecule Behavior From Scant Data

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Finding a new drug or material is mostly an exercise in elimination: chemists synthesize and test enormous numbers of molecules to find the few that behave the way they need. A machine-learning model from MIT called CheMeleon aims to shrink that pile by predicting molecular properties from very little experimental data. According to MIT News (November 6, 2026), the work was reported in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling and comes from the group of chemical engineering professor Wi...
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USF’s Self-Cooling Paint Chills Roofs Below Air Temperature

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Roofs spend the day soaking up sunshine, and air conditioners spend the afternoon fighting the result. A white paint from the University of South Florida (USF) takes a different approach: instead of merely absorbing less heat, it sends heat away, and it has now been shown to cool a surface below the air around it in a month of real outdoor testing in Tampa. According to USF's announcement on November 5, 2026, the self-cooling coating was created in the lab of Distinguished University Professor ...
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Georgia Tech’s Biodegradable STAR Particles Open the Skin

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Your skin is superb at keeping things out, which is great until a medicine needs to get in. A team at Georgia Tech has designed a fix that looks, under a microscope, like a tiny spiky ball, and on November 4, 2026 the university described a new version built to disappear after use. A cream-friendly alternative to patches Mark Prausnitz, a Regents' Professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has spent years working on ways to move drugs through the skin's oute...
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Harvard’s FIND Uses DNA Nanoswitches to Hunt Drug Leads

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Most drugs work by changing a conversation between proteins. A hormone binds a receptor, the receptor grabs a partner, and a signal travels through the cell. Yet the standard way to search for new medicines mostly asks a narrower question: does this molecule stick to a target? On November 5, 2026, the Wyss Institute at Harvard announced a platform that asks the better question directly: does this molecule change how two proteins interact? The platform is called FIND, short for Functional Intera...
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UTSW’s miOPM Microscope Swaps Lenses to Image Cells in 3D

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Most advanced microscopes are specialists. One is tuned for tiny structures inside a single cell, another for large tissues, another for scanning hundreds of sample dishes. A lab that wants to do all three often needs three machines. On November 5, 2026, UT Southwestern Medical Center announced a light-sheet microscope designed to change that. The instrument, called the multi-immersion oblique plane microscope (miOPM), was developed in the lab of Reto Fiolka, Ph.D., and described in Nature Meth...
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XPENG’s GroundingPI Puts Perception First in Physical AI

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Robots are getting better at reasoning and planning, yet they still stumble on a more basic question: where, exactly, is the thing I am supposed to pick up? On November 4, 2026, XPENG announced GroundingPI, an open-source visual perception model built with researchers from Peking University, The University of Hong Kong and other institutions, that tackles that question head-on. According to XPENG's announcement, the roughly 4-billion-parameter model reached an average score of 73.68 across 34 p...
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MIT’s Sewn Fabric Molds Cast Concrete Beams With Less Material

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Concrete is the most widely used building material on Earth, and making its key ingredient, cement, accounts for roughly 8 percent of human-caused carbon emissions, according to MIT. One of the simplest ways to cut that footprint is to use less concrete. MIT engineers have now shown a surprisingly low-tech way to do it: pour the concrete into molds sewn from fabric. In a paper in the Journal of Building Engineering, announced by MIT News on November 6, 2026, a team led by civil engineer Josephi...
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HKUST Stamps Out a Cheap, Long-Lived Metal Cooling Structure

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Air conditioners and refrigerators quietly eat a huge share of the world's electricity, and the gases inside many of them trap heat in the atmosphere. A team at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) now reports a step toward a different kind of cooling: a solid metal that gets cold when it is squeezed, built in a way that is cheap, fast to make and tough enough to run for more than 100 million cycles. The work, published in the journal Science and described in an HKUST pres...
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PuppyPi: A Raspberry Pi 5 Robot Dog That Takes Voice Orders

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Most robot dogs on a desk are toys, and most serious quadrupeds cost as much as a car. Hiwonder's PuppyPi sits deliberately in between: a 720-gram, aluminium-framed quadruped built around a Raspberry Pi 5 that you can program in Python, run on ROS 2, and now talk to through ChatGPT-class large models. Say "find the red ball and kick it," and the robot is meant to hear you, look around, work out what you mean, and do it. That chain, from words to perception to motion, is what researchers call em...
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Science Tokyo Catalyst Makes Ammonia Without Precious Metals

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Almost every loaf of bread on the planet owes something to ammonia. It is the starting point for nitrogen fertiliser, and a growing number of energy planners also see it as a practical way to store and ship hydrogen. The catch is that making it is one of heavy industry's dirtiest jobs. Now a team at the Institute of Science Tokyo says it has built a catalyst that makes ammonia under noticeably milder conditions, without any precious metals, and does it faster than the benchmark catalysts it was...
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Northwestern Smartwatch Tech Reads Hands for Prosthetics

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Your smartwatch knows how many steps you took and how fast your heart beat, but it has almost no idea what your hands are doing. That blind spot matters, because hands are how people act on the world, and for amputees and patients in care settings, tracking hand and arm movement can be clinically meaningful. Engineers at Northwestern University's SPICE Lab say a standard smartwatch can do far more here than it does today.According to Northwestern's November 4, 2026 announcement, the lab has bui...
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PulseAI Wins FDA Clearance for Wearable Heart-Rhythm AI

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Smartwatches have become remarkably good at recording the heart. Interpreting what they record is another matter. Anyone who has taken an on-wrist ECG and received an "inconclusive" result knows the gap between capturing a signal and making sense of it. On November 5, 2026, a Belfast company called PulseAI announced that it had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for an AI-powered arrhythmia analysis model built specifically for wearables, a step aimed squarely at ...
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Garmin Descent X10: A Readable Dive Computer for All

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Most people who learn to scuba dive start the same way: in a pool, with rented gear, and an instructor reminding them to watch their depth and air. The dive computer on their wrist is supposed to make that easier, yet many entry-level models have small, hard-to-read screens and menus that feel built for experts. Garmin is aiming squarely at that gap. According to Garmin's announcement on November 3, 2026, the new Descent X10 is a dedicated dive computer designed to put "critical dive informatio...
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ZEISS TALOS: A Robot That Measures Without Markers

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Walk through almost any modern car plant or aerospace hangar and you will find two kinds of robots. The first kind builds things: it welds, rivets, paints and lifts. The second kind, far rarer, checks whether the first kind did its job correctly. That second job has always been harder to automate, because a robot arm that is good enough to move a welding torch is rarely precise enough to measure a part to a fraction of a millimeter. On November 5, 2026, ZEISS announced a machine designed to clo...
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Higgs Realtime Duplex: Boson’s AI That Talks While It Works

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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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Tencent Hy4 Joins the Top Tier of Open-Source AI Models

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Tencent has pushed its in-house AI family a big step up the ladder. On November 4, 2026, the company announced Hy4, the latest generation of its Hy large language model, and said it now sits among the strongest open-source models in the world. According to Tencent's announcement, the model weights and system cards will follow "in the coming days," which would put a model with vision, computer use and long-horizon agent skills into the hands of developers who want to run it themselves. For busin...
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Hidden Polar Boundaries Found in Perovskite Solar Material

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Halide perovskites are among the most promising materials for next-generation solar cells. A team led by Monash University has now found an unexpected electrical property hiding inside one of them. The research was published in PNAS and announced by Monash on November 6, 2026. The discovery As the Monash University release explains, caesium lead iodide (CsPbI3), previously considered electrically non-polar, contains extremely thin boundaries where atoms shift position and create local electrica...
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Scentronic: An AI E-Nose and Wearable That Shares Smells

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Screens and speakers carry sight and sound across the internet, but smell has stayed offline. Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed an AI-powered electronic nose and a wearable release system called Scentronic that aim to change that. The study was published in Science Advances and announced by Ohio State on November 5, 2026. How the system works According to Ohio State's College of Engineering, the device uses an AI e-nose to detect and analyze odors, and Scentronic uses mach...
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Light-Based AI Training Cuts Computation, Tokyo Team Shows

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AI is hungry for power, and one answer is to stop doing all the math on transistors. Researchers at the University of Tokyo, working with NTT researchers, have shown a way to train and run a neural network on light, using far less computation than conventional methods. The work was announced on November 5, 2026 and published in Nature Computational Science. The problem: AI that costs too much to run According to the University of Tokyo press release, training AI models can consume vast amounts ...
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Northwestern’s DIAL Prints Paste-Like Inks With Light

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3D printing has long forced a trade-off between speed, fine detail and the materials you can use. On November 4, 2026, Northwestern Engineering researchers described a method that tries to remove it. Called direct ink additive lithography (DIAL), it was published in Science Advances and announced in a Northwestern Engineering news article. The trade-off DIAL targets Direct ink writing works like squeezing toothpaste: thick inks are pushed through a narrow nozzle, one line at a time. It handl...
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Panasonic’s T-Rex Robot AI Reacts to Fingertip Touch

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Robots are good at seeing and increasingly good at following spoken instructions. Feeling their way through a task is harder. On November 5, 2026, Panasonic Holdings announced a robot manipulation AI called T-Rex (Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation) that adds a sense of touch to the popular vision-language-action approach, and corrects its movements as fingertips feel slipping or too much pressure. According to Panasonic's press release, the work is a collaboration between Panasonic HD, Pa...
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