What should one consider while signing up for a Physics PhD program, with an focus on experimental Quantum/Molecular optics, program at either university if both of them offer?
I understand there are many factors to take into account when choosing a school for research (advisor, research fit and funding to name a few), but these are on the individual.
Any Physicists on HN?
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I made a web app to generate 3D models of real places on earth from land cover and elevation data.
Click anywhere on the map to get a polygon, and then click "generate".
It should work at most scales, but if your watershed or region selection is too large, the result can be less exciting because it's so flat.
As a warning, the 3D models can sometimes be too much for my phone. It's nicer on desktop. I'm still working better on mobile support.
The land cover data I'm using gives a cool
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Brendan Vaughn, editor-in-chief of ‘Fast Company,’ interviews Credo AI’s CEO on AI governance trends at the World Economic Forum 2025.
Major world leaders are meeting for an AI summit in Paris, where challenging diplomatic talks are expected as tech titans fight for dominance in the fast-moving technology industry.
Heads of state, top government officials, CEOs and scientists from around 100 countries are participating in the two-day internat
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See AI, aliens, animals, celebs and more pop up in brand spots for the night's grand run of commercials. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/miss-the-super-bowl-2025-ads-catch-some-of-the-biggest-drops-here/#ftag=CADf328eec
These essential nutrients are the first step in making sure your eyes are taken care of. https://www.cnet.com/health/personal-care/looking-to-protect-your-vision-the-top-6-eye-friendly-vitamins-and-supplements-to-try/#ftag=CADf328eec
Sheriff Zotac is in town, and the no-good price gougers are scattering from the saloon.
The byline explores 5G edge opportunities, security challenges, and safeguarding strategies for digital innovation.
Captain America 4's chief creative team have responded to the incessant rumors about its supposedly troubled development.
A bug in Trimble Cityworks is being used to run remote code execution attacks against Microsoft IIS'.
Rich Redmon, Chief Product Security Officer at SAP, describes three ways companies can safeguard supply chain data from bad actors.
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Sam Altman's latest blog post has a few concerning predictions.
We surveyed our audience, and more people are excited about the mysterious new system button than the potential mouse mode.
More than 800,000 Hospital Sisters Health System users affected in an August 2023 breach.
You can already remap the Copilot key to launch a limited selection of apps, but a new option could soon be on the table.
Google's Pixel Gemini Live Super Bowl ad made me weepy while ChatGPT's game ad left me cold.
A new feature in Google Chrome will offer to change compromised passwords automatically by using AI. The feature is in testing now but is still experimental.
The Intel Core Ultra 9 285H is the flagship in a new line of mobile chips, and it's impressive in several ways. Its approach to AI is also confusing, though.
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/intel/intel-core-ultra-9-285h-review
Microsoft had page on how to uninstall Microsoft Edge for a limited time, though the page never included steps on how to remove the browser.
Back in November, Google integrated Imagen 3 into Google Workspace, allowing you to generate AI images directly in Google Docs. Last week, Google
Whether it’s politics or tech, we live in a polarizing world. Since Elon Musk took over Twitter and renamed it X, the platform has become an increasingly important tool in his political ambitions. This is causing many users to leave the service.
X and other social media services are criticized for their algorithms that encourage hate and conflict, and for
While most PC builders are content to rely on an AIO liquid cooling loop or good old-fashioned air, there are always those who will go the extra mile to keep their components frosty. If you’re willing to invest a lot of money and even more electricity, you could just hook a liquid cooling setup into a residential air conditioner. You absolutely shouldn’t, but you cou
All season long, the Philadelphia Eagles were hounded by the doubters. One running back can’t win a Super Bowl, they said. Jalen Hurts doesn’t pass enough, they said. The Chiefs have it locked up, they said.
By the same token, there were plenty of side-eyes when Fox announced that Tubi, its ad-supported streaming service, would be offering a
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The latest Nvidia graphics cards are impossible to find at retailers, and you’ll be paying double or triple the already-high price if you try to get one on the secondary market. But Zotac is trying to help out its most loyal customers by selling directly to
We tested Intel's Arrow Lake 140T integrated graphics to see if the company has held on to its iGPU edge over AMD.
The Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX handily outperforms its predecessor in PassMark, but with AMD's Fire Range inbound, the performance crown is still up for grabs.
Valve makes their anti-advertising-on-Steam stance clearer than ever.
In 2013, Marcel Moerkens was working on Brooklyn, his WordPress theme, and he needed a way to make it stand out from the pack of other WordPress themes. Little did he know that the intro section he called a “Hero” would become one of the most recognizable patterns in web design today. Here’s how the idea came to life and how it changed everything. https://smashingmagazine.com/2025/02/popular-wordpress-theme-term-hero-section/
It's France's turn to get in on the AI boom. On Sunday, President Emmanuel Macron announced private investments into the country's AI ecosystem totaling €109 billion ($112.5 billion). The announcement came ahead of Paris hosting the AI Action Summit on Monday and Tuesday.
"I can tell you this evening, Europe is going to speed up, France
Apple currently has four different Apple Pencil models, and if you aren’t sure which one to get, try reading this guide first. But if the
Having thought-out, unique passwords for each account is hard — recently, I got stopped for putting the same letter twice in a row — especially when it comes to remembering them all. That's why a password manager is so helpful: It creates and stores all your passwords, so you have peace of mind instead of a major headache. Now, one of
It’s a classic New York experience. You’re riding the subway to work, and suddenly the train stops. The lights go off, and you seem to be trapped between stations in a tunnel. For many New Yorkers, hardened over years of bad weather, prevalent trash and cohabitation with rats, this is just another recurring event that’s made less nerve-wracking by experience. But for Jarrod Musano, being stuck on a southbound 6 train that had lost power, there was little relief. Musano was born deaf, and the
Hello HN! I've been working on creating a new note-taking app called Seen. Right now, it's really just a preview: virtual-list rendering ~1,000,000 notes in a masonry layout, while trying to minimize CPU and memory usage as much as possible.
Seen currently has:
- A client-side search feature - Creating, updating, deleting the topmost note (locally; no changes are saved to any server) - Automatic repacking of the masonry layout when the window width changes - A lot of bugs, I'm sure
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Hi, I've just finished a rebuild of this function and added a lot of new features: info, page index, minimap, inverted index,... I think it may be useful for inspection, debugging or just as a learning resource showcasing the PDF file format. This is a pet project and I would be happy to receive some feedback! Regards
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A group of internet businesses, including Roblox, Google, OpenAI, and Discord, have cofounded a nonprofit called Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST).
The new organization will fund free, open-source tools for online businesses to promote online safety, says Naren Koneru, Roblox’s vice president of engineering, trust, and safety. The move follows years of efforts
Chess.com has a new subscription option for chess families and tight-knit players: a friends and family plan.
The site, where players around the world can face off against live opponents, play bots, and solve chess puzzles, introduced its group tier in January, offering a players a discount on its top-tier offerings with the aim of winning the long-term loyalty game.
For $199.99 a year, Chess.com’s “Friends and Family” Diamond Premium plan offers up to f
Learn the ins and outs of using sitemaps to improve content discovery and indexing.
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I enjoy organizing code and find cascade layers a fantastic way to organize code explicitly as the cascade looks at it. The neat part is, that as much as it helps with "top-level" organization, cascade layers can be nested, which allows us to author more precise styles based on the cascade and inheritance.
Headspace's Ebb offers care and conversation -- with limits. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/i-tried-an-ai-companion-to-help-me-process-my-emotions-and-found-it-helpful/#ftag=CADf328eec
You'll be able to talk to two astronauts during a chat about daily life on the International Space Station. https://www.cnet.com/science/nasa-is-hosting-a-twitch-stream-from-space-this-week-how-to-watch/#ftag=CADf328eec
The image, called "A Single Piece of American Cheese," was created using Invoke's AI editing platform. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/this-company-got-a-copyright-for-an-image-made-entirely-with-ai-heres-how/#ftag=CADf328eec
Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark is stepping down, with the company announcing a former Intel executive as his replacement.
The first iOS 18.4 developer beta is expected to land in the 'coming days' –and it's likely to include Siri's biggest update yet.
EVision Auto's new aftermarket LED display can morph a Tesla Model Y into a Bugatti, but big questions remain.
Russian attackers took plenty of sensitive data from a limited number of accounts.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/hpe-starts-contacting-victims-of-2023-russian-cyberattack
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is out alongside the rest of the Galaxy S25 lineup, but Samsung is still selling the Galaxy S24 Ultra directly for full price – what’s going on?
Devices in Brazil, Turkey, and other nations abused to launch a large-scale brute-force attack.
Tech layoffs rose from 3.9% to 5.7% in one month, but it could just be that companies are faced with new year budgets.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/it-unemployment-hits-new-high-as-ai-threat-continues
The much anticipated release of the iPhone SE 4 may finally be here, with Apple expected to unveil the mid-range phone this week.
MSI has refreshed the Prestige 16 AI Evo with the latest Intel Core Ultra 200H series processors, offering over 15 hours of battery life, strong general performance, solid graphics, immersive audio, a bright, vivid display, and bouncy keyboard.
https://www.laptopmag.com/laptops/business-laptops/msi-prestige-16-ai-evo-b2hm-review
Do Intel Arrow Lake laptops have good battery life? After over 100 hours of lab testing, here's a look at the first results.
https://www.laptopmag.com/laptops/intel-arrow-lake-battery-life-test-results
Intel's latest generation of Ultra processors is now launching within new productivity laptops, and after reviewing the Asus Zenbook Duo (2025) this week, I took it upon myself to test how Arrow Lake's integrated graphics chip handles gaming.
Asus' Zenbook Duo refresh benefits from excellent processing power but suffers from poor battery life. Regardless, you'll still get a gorgeous OLED panel, loud speakers, and seamless dual-displays.
https://www.laptopmag.com/laptops/2-in-1-laptops/asus-zenbook-duo-2025-review
Mecha BREAK is like Armored Core at a much faster pace, packaged as a free-to-play multiplayer mech shooter.
I love playing my ROG Ally and ROG Ally X while they're connected to my TV. Getting it all set up is really easy too. Here's how to do it.
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Co-founder of Warhorse Studios, Daniel Vávra, says using Unreal Engine for open-world games is a bad idea.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently revealed his doubts about being smarter GPT-5. The model is expected to enhance ChatGPT's user experience.
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/sam-altman-doubts-he-will-be-smarter-than-gpt-5
In a recent interview with Bill Gates, Mark Cuban compared The Mavericks trading Luka Doncic to Microsoft trading Windows 11 for Windows 10.
Failure to "precache" is catching up with game developers who don't follow basic Unreal Engine development principles.
Fans who missed out on the Monster Hunter Wilds open beta due to a recent PSN outage can enjoy an extra day.
Yuji Horii, the creator of the Dragon Quest franchise, recently hosted a livestream to update fans on the developmental status of Dragon Quest 12.
One of the best VPNs on the market is celebrating its 13th birthday this month and inviting everyone to join in with a limited-time deal.
For US-based subscribers, NordVPN is offering up to 72 percent off any of its 2-yea
Intel’s Core 285H chip, the first member of its Core Ultra 200 or “Arrow Lake-H” family for laptops, has a big crater to fill. Yes, crater: This processor essentially bombed on the desktop. In laptops, however, Intel’s Core 285H chip helps redeem Intel’s reputation, starring in the otherwise pedestrian MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo (B2HMG) laptop.
Consider this to
SwadeWhite has put together a cool ADS-B plane tracker with a built-in weather station and home automation features.
French retailer Top Achat has inadvertently disclosed the launch date and time for multiple RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards, with availability set for February 20
Social platform Discord announced a new feature today called Ignore. This allows a person to hide any new messages, DMs, server notifications, profiles and activity from selected users without alerting them. In unveiling the update, Discord noted that this type of softer approach to limiting interactions had been requested by its community. It's a less stark way to tune out a person compared with blocking them.
In practice, DMs received from an Ignored person will appear in the inbox w
T-Mobile's Starlink satellite texting feature is now available in beta for anyone with a compatible iPhone or Android device to try out, the company announced in a ">Super Bowl ad. The
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In news outlets, business publications, and scholarly journals, there is a crescendo of commentary about the combined power of human intelligence and artificial intelligence. Without question, that convergence is already yielding exciting discoveries in many fields.
Yet a third, equally crucial, kind of intelligence is being left out of the discussion: nature’s intelligence.
The idea that nature itself displays the hallmarks of what we understand as intelligence—the abili
Looking to create unique video content? This guide will show you how to think outside the box and come up with fresh video marketing ideas.
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A fixed APY lets you keep earning even if rates drop further. https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/banking/dont-sleep-on-cd-rates-as-high-as-4-65-apy-todays-cd-rates-feb-10-2025/#ftag=CADf328eec
The pilot program kicks off with New York's MTA, through a partnership with an on-demand service called Convo. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/this-app-connects-public-transit-riders-to-live-asl-interpreters/#ftag=CADf328eec
You can still take advantage of 4% savings APYs by setting small goals. https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/banking/try-these-experts-favorite-trick-to-grow-your-savings-even-when-money-is-tight-savings-rates-feb-10-2025/#ftag=CADf328eec