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Relativity Networks raises million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers

Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers

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Data center developers are expected to spend as much as $4 trillion by the end of the decade — and they’re already heavily constrained by both political and power-grid considerations in where they can build. But while most treat the speed of fiber as a given, one company is betting that faster fiber could change the geographical math behind the data center buildout. On Tuesday, Relativity Networks announced $22 million in SAFE note funding drawn by Rhapsody Venture Partners, Bell Ventures Inc., and Faster Than Glass LLC, among others. A SAFE note, in which an investment transfers into a specific numbers of shares once the company raises its first priced round, is a standard method used for pre-seed and seed rounds. The company also secured a $40 million follow-on order from a leading hyperscaler that declined to be named for this piece. Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber. Where traditional fiber transmits light through fiber-optic glass, hollow-core fiber transmits the …

Struggling to switch off at night? Try this five-minute bedtime yoga sequence to fall asleep faster

Struggling to switch off at night? Try this five-minute bedtime yoga sequence to fall asleep faster

Published by Jenni Sidey

If, like me, you struggle to switch off at night, a short yoga flow could be the answer. “Yoga for sleep helps by relaxing your body and mind, not by tiring you out,” explains yoga teacher Cheryl McColgan. Unlike other types of yoga like vinyasa or power yoga that raise your energy, bedtime yoga is all about moving gently with your breath to come into a more relaxed, resting state. Latest Videos FromFit&Well “Slow movement paired with intentional breathing shifts your body out of the fight or flight sympathetic state and into the rest and digest parasympathetic state that you need to be in to fall asleep,” explains McColgan, founder of Heal, Nourish, Grow. I wanted to swap late-night scrolling for something that might actually help me sleep, so I asked McColgan to share her favorite five-minute yoga flow to do before bed. You may like Try the five-minute bedtime yoga routine McColgan’s bedtime yoga flow is designed to be done every night. You can do it on your bed or on the floor, and …

America doesn’t need faster e-bikes. It needs better small electric vehicles

America doesn’t need faster e-bikes. It needs better small electric vehicles

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For the last few years, it has felt like the electric bike industry has been engaged in a constant arms race. Every new launch seems to promise more speed, more power, bigger batteries, and increasingly motorcycle-like styling. And every time a new model pushes the envelope, the comments inevitably fill with some people asking the same question: “Why not just make it faster?” I think that’s the wrong question. It’s also one side of a very controversial issue: e-bike speed. While some are trying to rein in speeds, others push for faster and faster bikes. But I’d say that instead of trying to stretch the definition of an e-bike until it snaps, maybe it’s time to admit that there is another category of vehicle waiting to emerge. Advertisement – scroll for more content It’s not that we should be against speed; it’s that we need the right vehicles for higher speeds. The current Class 3 e-bike framework in the US tops out at 28 mph with pedal assist. It’s actually quite a thoughtful and well-designed …

Code faster with Microsoft Visual Studio 2026 for

Code faster with Microsoft Visual Studio 2026 for $30

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Trump sued over selling faster access to Truth Social posts : NPR

Trump sued over selling faster access to Truth Social posts : NPR

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President Donald Trump holds up a printout of one of his Truth Social posts before signing an executive order that calls for changing the childhood vaccine schedule on August 10, 2026. He is facing a lawsuit over a service offering early access to his Truth Social feed for up to $100,000 a month. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Two media organizations sued President Trump on Wednesday over his social media platform Truth Social’s new service offering faster access to his often market-moving posts, calling it “extraordinary, corrupt, and unconstitutional.” The Intercept and the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation alleged that the Truth Social offering runs afoul of the First Amendment’s guarantee of equal public access to the president’s statements and also violates the Fifth Amendment by granting preferential access for “unreasonable sums.” The suit asks a federal court in New York to block the president from posting official government information exclusively on Truth Social. The service, called Truth API, charges up to $100,000 a month for faster access to …

A yoga teacher says these are the three poses you should do after a long walk to ease muscle soreness and recover faster

A yoga teacher says these are the three poses you should do after a long walk to ease muscle soreness and recover faster

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We know that walking is great for us; from improving cardio fitness, bone and joint strength to boosting mood and metabolism, there are many well-known benefits of walking. However, relying solely on walking for exercise has some downsides, explains Melissa Leach, a yoga instructor and strength and conditioning coach with Yoga-Go. “Walking and running are repetitive linear movements, with the body moving almost exclusively forward, loading the same muscles and joints over and over,” she says. Latest Videos FromFit&Well “With time, this builds strength in a narrow range of motion, but for some, it also creates tightness and imbalances.” She explains that practicing yoga can help by working the body through multiple planes of motion. You may like She suggests trying three particular moves: runner’s lunge with twist, pyramid pose and seated twist. “These three poses target the exact areas hiking and walking stress most,” says Leach. Start your week with achievable workout ideas, health tips and wellbeing advice in your inbox. “Together, they retrain the hips, hamstrings and spine to move through their full …

Ultrathin ruthenium dioxide discovery could enable faster, smaller and more efficient computer devices

Ultrathin ruthenium dioxide discovery could enable faster, smaller and more efficient computer devices

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Researchers at Rice University found that ultrathin ruthenium dioxide, or RuO2, can display spin patterns consistent with unconventional magnetism, even though its bulk form has shown little evidence of magnetic behavior. The effect appears to be driven by lattice strain created when the roughly 2-nanometer-thick RuO2 film is grown on titanium dioxide, suggesting strain could be used as a way to switch on or control altermagnetism. The discovery could help advance spintronics and next-generation computer memory by giving researchers a potential method for creating faster, smaller and more energy-efficient devices based on electron spin. A material at the center of a major physics debate may have revealed its hidden magnetic side. Researchers at Rice University and their collaborators found that ultrathin ruthenium dioxide films can show spin patterns linked to unconventional magnetism. The finding could open new paths for future computer memory and spin-based electronics. The study focuses on ruthenium dioxide, also called RuO2. In its bulk form, the material has not shown clear evidence of magnetism. But when prepared as an ultrathin film only …

AI is finding bugs faster than humans can fix them: How enterprise security teams must adapt

AI is finding bugs faster than humans can fix them: How enterprise security teams must adapt

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John Rensten/The Image Bank/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways AI-discovered security problems are growing like a tidal wave. Whether using a PC or running a data center, everyone will be affected. We are not ready for what’s coming. The good news is that AI is finding security holes faster than ever. The bad news is that AI is finding security holes faster than ever. It’s both: While it’s great that we’re finding all those bugs, trying to fix them all is a monster of a job. Sure, if you’re Google, you can fix more bugs in Chrome in June 2026 than you had in the last two years, but most companies aren’t Google. They don’t have anything like the resources to fix that many security holes.  Indeed, even Apple — yes, Apple — has been overwhelmed by AI bug reports. As a result, in June, Apple told security researchers it “restricted the number of potentially dangerous software bugs researchers can submit to its internal security team. …

Truth Social launches service selling faster access to Trump posts

Truth Social launches service selling faster access to Trump posts

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Wall Street firms can now be alerted of the “most market-moving” social media posts from President Donald Trump before the general public — as long as they pay the right price. The service went live Saturday: a subscription to his social media platform, Truth Social, that allows financial firms and other organizations to get alerts for new posts made by Trump and other top accounts before general users do. Trump Media and Technology Group, which owns the platform, launched the new high-speed data feed called “Truth API,” describing it as giving firms “a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform’s most market-moving Truths.” Trump, who has the largest following on the platform by far with 13 million followers, has used Truth Social as his go-to platform to release official statements throughout his second term, including to announce that he was imposing sweeping new tariffs or to declare major military operations. Trump’s unprecedented use of social media to reveal updates on global affairs and economic policy has contrasted sharply with prior presidents, who generally made such …

Trump Media’s new data service gives faster access to Trump’s posts

Trump Media’s new data service gives faster access to Trump’s posts

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Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Trump Media and Technology Group‘s new paid data service launched on Aug. 1, providing faster access to Truth Social posts from President Donald Trump and other top accounts on the platform. “Truth API,” the new application programming interface, is designed to give firms “a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform’s most market-moving Truths,” interim CEO Kevin McGurn said in a release announcing the launch. While not explicitly naming Trump, the president’s @realDonaldTrump account is the largest on Truth Social by far, often posting his most consequential policy decisions there first, including updates on the war with Iran. As of Saturday, the account has 13 million followers. Trump’s family is also the largest shareholder in Trump Media, the public company that operates Truth Social.  The launch comes after Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts took aim at the new service, urging the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday to investigate whether the company is violating the law. “This appears to be …