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An Australian study found that weak sunlight can still damage skin DNA when people spend enough time outdoors. Even UV doses too low to cause visible redness triggered cellular damage that could accumulate over time and contribute to skin cancer risk.

Fu-Gen has sold a 100MW ready-to-build battery storage project in Finland to Nala Renewables, extending the companies' Nordic BESS pipeline to 275MW.

New South Wales' Independent Planning Commission (IPC) has approved BayWa r.e.'s Bullawah Wind Farm in the South West Renewable Energy Zone. The project pairs 804MW of wind capacity with a 718MWh battery.

Under a new California law that places new rules on autonomous vehicle operators, robotaxi operators will face fines for blocking first responders.

Nature Medicine published a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial examining small-quantity lipid-based nutritional supplementation and measles vaccination coverage among children aged 6 to 23 months. No study background or results are provided in the available context, so no outcome can be reported.

A Nature Medicine item concerns the use of urine cell-free RNA for bladder cancer detection and prediction of treatment response. No further context was provided, so the methods, stage, and findings are not stated here.

Chatham Financial uses OpenAI's Codex and GPT-5.6 to build technology and redesign workflows, cutting trade validation from 30 minutes to under 4 minutes, according to OpenAI.

Google's Project Suncatcher, an AI data center test, has officially launched to space aboard a SpaceX rocket. The project aims to test Google's AI chips in the harsh environment of space and remains at a testing stage.

NVIDIA's technical blog introduces DOCA Agent Skills, described as a way to build applications on NVIDIA BlueField faster. The feed notes that AI agents are becoming a standard part of development workflows, but general-purpose agents were not built for specialized infrastructure software; the provided context is truncated.

Boston Dynamics has dropped the pinkie from its new humanoid hand. According to the report, its engineers taped their pinkies and ring fingers together for a day to learn what they were not able to do without them.

Researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have developed a nature-inspired robotic platform that falls like a maple seed when released from the air, rights itself after landing on water, and then sails autonomously using wind energy. It aims to help monitor remote waters where boats are slow to reach and aircraft cannot remain for extended periods.

According to OpenAI, Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help its teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.

The immersive film "The World of Red Bull: Big Wave Surfing" brings Tahiti's heaviest waves to Apple Vision Pro in 180-degree video. UploadVR describes it as setting a new gold standard for sports storytelling.

Apparel giants have launched the Fashion Renewable Collective in collaboration with Schneider Electric. The initiative aims to help suppliers across fashion supply chains adopt renewable electricity at scale.

Vishay Precision Group, Inc. (VPG) plans to showcase custom sensing capabilities for humanoid robotics at RoboBusiness 2026. The company notes that as humanoid robots move from research labs into factories, warehouses, homes, and other shared spaces, accurate physical feedback becomes crucial.

The Robot Report notes that a robot can follow its safety rules and still act on manipulated information. The piece discusses what this means for robot safety and how teams can strengthen their testing and evidence.

Experiments by a team at Toyohashi University of Technology, led by associate professor Hideki Tamura, demonstrated that an object moving at the same physical speed is perceived as approaching faster from behind than from the front. The team spans several laboratories in the university's Department of Computer Science and Engineering.