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Is your product producing a bad/annoying/loud noise but you can’t figure out where exactly it is coming from? Using a camera with what looks to be a ring of microphones, this device allows you to isolate where sounds are coming from – and what the frequencies of those sounds are. Particularly useful if you want to isolate noises generated by secondary effects (like rushing air) of a device.

MIT physicists have for the first time measured the geometry, or shape, of electrons in solids at the quantum level. Scientists have known how to measure energies and velocities of electrons in crystalline materials, but those systems’ wave form geometry could only be guessed at.

This allows us to understand, and perhaps manipulate, new quantum materials. They’ve already done this by using the technique to discover the mechanism behind quantum materials such as kagome metal.

This is a dramatic development that will help scientists and engineers manipulate, and create materials with unique magnetic, electrical, and physical properties.

Links:

• https://news.mit.edu/2025/physicists-measure-quantum-geometry-first-time-0113
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02681-z

People seem to have forgotten that religious were, and often still are, employed in every manner of jobs. Some of the most pre-eminent scientist in history were religious. People such as Augustinian friar Gregory Mendel who is the father of modern genetics. Or Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre, who was regarded as making the first formulation of the Big Bang theory. Or Sister Mary Kenneth Keller who was the first female granted a PhD in Computer Science – and a nun. But there were lots of people like Sister Mary Christina (below video) that did surprisingly interesting everyday jobs – especially in a time period not known for those opportunities being open to women or men.

Religious live their lives in service to the love and care God taught in community – with their lives dedicated to the celibate state so as to focus on what they deem most important. While many scoff at celibacy in a ‘modern’ and ‘liberated’ world, the reality is that even among non-religious, voluntary celibacy is on the rise – especially among younger people. While psychologists are ascribing some of this modern celibacy to fear, the religious person does make celibacy professions out of fear, avoidance, or because of others.

They discern through years of prayer and experienced mentors. By getting to know ourselves through the eyes of God and listening to Him and his teachings of what constitutes true love daily, many learn they would be happier in their vocation in an unmarried state. Others learn that celibacy may not be for them. Both paths are equally good, but which will actually make YOU happier? That’s a question that requires a lot of personal insight and soul searching – something we can only properly do in the light of Truth.

It is a question we could all use some self-reflection on, and make sure of, instead of just falling into one way or the other out of circumstance and regret later.

SteamDeck HQ noticed a recent blog post from John Cable, the vice president of program management for Windows servicing and delivery, that hints Microsoft wants to find ways around drivers and tools using kernel-level access. This is partly due to world-wide embarrassment of Cloudstrike and other kernel-level systems that are beginning to proliferate.

Cable mentions VBS Enclaves featuring a way to provide an isolated environment that don’t require kernel drivers along with Microsoft Azure Attestation’s security advancements.

If this happens, the mechanisms that caused Cloudstrike and kernel-level anti-cheat software would be immediately rendered inoperable – something almost all gamers would applaud.

It’s definitely no guarantee Microsoft will do anything – but stopping the spread of kernel-level direct access would dramatically improve Windows security and stability.