From Human Instinct to Algorithmic Edge Trading floors once ran on intuition and adrenaline. Now, code calls the shots. Algorithmic systems parse torrents of market data and news in milliseconds, leaving fewer chances for solo day-traders to beat the crowd. The shift accelerated as firms embraced artificial intelligence and hired legions of quants and programmers. […]
Month: September 2025
Brain Implant Decodes Inner Speech — With a Built-In “Password”
What exactly was shown (and when)? In August 2025, a Stanford-led team reported a brain–computer interface (BCI) that turns deliberately imagined phrases into on-screen text with up to ~74% accuracy. Four volunteers who’d lost speech after stroke or neurodegenerative disease took part. The decoder only wakes when users think of a preset passphrase — a […]
Quantum stretches its wings with Google’s newest chip
Why this launch matters Google’s Quantum AI team has unveiled Willow, a state-of-the-art superconducting processor that moves quantum computing from lab demos toward practical machines. The key leap is not raw qubit count alone. It is error behavior as the system scales. On Willow, error-corrected qubits improve exponentially with size, crossing the long pursued threshold […]
Google Gemini Live Can Now “See” Through Your Phone Camera—Accurate, On-Screen, and Near-Instant
Executive Overview Google has unveiled a notable upgrade to Gemini Live: the assistant can recognize what your smartphone camera is capturing and provide real-time, on-screen guidance. It identifies objects, highlights the right element, and responds without perceptible lag. The feature appears first on the newly announced Pixel 10 line and is scheduled to reach other […]
GENESIS, But Make It Real: How Europe Wants Cleaner Chips (And Why I’m Oddly Excited)
I’ve spent too many late nights digging through fabs’ environmental reports—coffee in one hand, acronyms in the other. And still, I didn’t expect a project to pull the messy pieces together this fast. Enter GENESIS: a three-year EU effort to rewire how Europe designs, makes, and recycles microchips—without pretending performance doesn’t matter. It kicked off […]