‘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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Aina Unveils an AI Ring That Predicts What You Need Next

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Most of us still pull out a phone, unlock it and tap through an app to do things we do every day, like calling a ride to work or opening a meeting link. On November 5, 2026, a San Francisco hardware startup called Aina unveiled a different idea: an AI ring with a small screen that tries to guess what you need next and puts it at your fingertip before you ask. Aina was founded in May 2025 by Apoorv Shankar, formerly VP of Hardware at Ultrahuman, and says it spent 15 months in stealth as a hu...
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IBM Puts Its Most Advanced Quantum Computer in Chicago

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Quantum computers usually live in a handful of corporate labs, far from the people who might use them. On November 6, 2026, IBM, the University of Chicago, the State of Illinois and the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP) unveiled an IBM Quantum System Two in Chicago, the company's first quantum computer in Illinois and, in IBM's words, its most advanced system available. The machine is now operational at Hyde Park Labs, hosted by the University of Chicago, and is built around...
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HKUST Perovskite Keeps Electron Spin Alive 300x Longer

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Electronics keep asking for more speed at lower energy, and silicon is running out of room. One alternative is to compute with the spin of electrons rather than only their charge. The catch is that spin information normally fades in a flash unless a material is chilled to extreme temperatures. On November 9, 2026, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) announced a perovskite design that holds spin polarization about 300 times longer at room temperature. The study, led by...
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MIT’s FLEX Lets Robots Read Between the Lines of Commands

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Tell a robot "don't spill on the laptop" and it will dodge the laptop. Ask a person the same thing and they quietly understand that phones, tablets and anything with a battery are also off limits. On November 9, 2026, MIT News described a system that tries to close that gap: FLEX, a pipeline from MIT and New York University researchers that lets robots read meaning beyond the literal words of a correction. The work is slated for presentation at the Conference on Robot Learning this month. I...
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ByteDance Seedream 5.5 Targets 100-Round Edits and Clear Text

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Most AI image tools are good at the first picture and worse at the fiftieth edit. Small errors pile up, colors drift and details soften. On November 9, 2026, ByteDance's Seed team introduced Seedream 5.5, an image creation model it says is built to hold up across 100 rounds of editing. The announcement frames the model around professional production. In the team's words, what matters is whether a model can deliver usable results on deadline and within budget, not just striking demos. Seedre...
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Rutgers Study: Iron-Nickel Catalyst Keeps Zinc-Air Cells Running

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Zinc-air batteries are the quiet workhorses inside hearing aids: cheap, compact and, for the most part, thrown away after one use. A research team that includes a Rutgers professor now reports a way to make a rechargeable version run steadily for 1,000 hours, without leaning on platinum-style precious metals. The Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute summarized the work on November 4, 2026. The study appeared in the journal Advanced Energy Materials. Tewodros Asefa, an RCEI affiliate and pro...
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HKU Builds a Megawatt Power Module From Gallium Oxide

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Every phone charger, electric car and power grid relies on semiconductor switches that control electricity. For decades those switches have been made of silicon, and silicon is nearing its physical limits. Engineers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) now report a module built on a newer material, gallium oxide, that switched 1,000 volts and 1,000 amperes, a peak of one megawatt. According to HKU's announcement, it is the first time a module made from this class of material has reached tha...
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MIT’s WorldParticle Simulates Sand, Fluids and Proteins in One Model

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Ask a scientist to simulate a splash of water, a collapsing sand dune and a folding protein, and the honest answer is that those are three different software projects. Each phenomenon has its own governing equations, and each simulator is hand-built around them. A team from MIT and the University of British Columbia (UBC) now says one AI system can handle all three. According to MIT News, the system is called WorldParticle, and its authors describe their goal as a "GPT moment for simulation...
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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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Spreadsheets have been the main way people work with data for more than 40 years, and they are also where governed data tends to escape. Someone exports a CSV, emails it, and soon several versions of the truth are circulating. Snowflake's answer, announced in early November 2026, is to bring its AI agent to the spreadsheet itself: Snowflake CoCo for Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, now in public preview. Snowflake's release notes date the preview to November 3, and its product blog follow...
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PhoenixAI’s Contextbase Gives AI Agents One Place for Context

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An AI agent is only as good as what it knows when it acts. It needs to know what the data means, what the business has learned before, what happened on its last run and whether that run worked. In most companies today, those pieces live in different tools. On November 4, 2026, PhoenixAI launched a product that tries to put them in one place: Contextbase. PhoenixAI, the original creator of the StarRocks open source database and formerly known as CelerData, unveiled Contextbase at its NEXT QU...
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MIT’s UQ-DAAAM Helps Robots Fix Their Own Wrong Memories

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Picture a robot sent to fetch a wall-mounted defibrillator. If its stored memory wrongly lists that object as a fire extinguisher, it may never find the device. That example opens an MIT News report, published November 5, 2026, on a new system that lets a robot notice when its own memory might be wrong and repair it. The system is called UQ-DAAAM, short for Uncertainty Quantification for Describe Anything, Anywhere, at Any Moment. It was developed by researchers at MIT, led by associate pro...
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AURORA Puts AI Co-Scientists in Cancer Grand Challenges Labs

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Science has a bottleneck that has little to do with lab benches: there is simply too much published evidence and too much data for any research team to read, compare and connect by hand. On November 6, 2026, Cancer Research UK announced that three of its Cancer Grand Challenges teams will begin a rigorous test of whether AI "co-scientists" can help close that gap. The test is the next stage of Project AURORA, an initiative the charity describes as an £8 million project. A team at Harvard Un...
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CMU’s ESTIMATA-EX Uses Phone Photos to Estimate Surgical Blood Loss

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In many operating rooms, one of the most important numbers is still an educated guess: how much blood has the patient lost? Chiang Mai University in Thailand says it has built an AI system to replace that guess with a measurement. In a university announcement dated 2 November 2026, the team introduced ESTIMATA-EX, which estimates blood loss and counts blood-soaked surgical materials from photos taken on a smartphone or tablet. This article covers the announcement as news and is not medical ...
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Newcastle and Ufonia Trial Dora, an Empathetic AI Phone Assistant

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Picture a follow-up phone call that never gets rushed, never runs late and never depends on whether a clinic has enough staff that week. That is the idea behind Dora Care, a generative AI assistant now being trialled in the UK's National Health Service. According to a Newcastle University press release published on 6 November 2026, the assistant holds spoken telephone consultations with patients who live with a long-term illness, helping clinicians keep track of how they are doing. This art...
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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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