Breez has launched “Time2Build,” a global developer challenge designed to embed Bitcoin’s Lightning Network into open-source applications, marking what the company calls “a new era of frictionless value transfer.” With a $25,000 prize pool and backing from partners including Tether, Fulgur Ventures, Lightspark, and Draper University, the initiative seeks to “build the financial layer of the open web,” according to Breez’s announcement. Developers worldwide are invited to integrate Breez’s nodeless SDK into active open-source projects by mid-November, with winners announced in January 2026. Participants stand to earn Bitcoin-denominated prizes and residencies at DraperU and PlebLab’s Startup School. Breez CEO Roy Sheinfeld emphasized that the challenge “empowers developers to make payments as seamless as messages.” With 54 communities spanning five continents already on board, the effort signals growing momentum toward a global, Lightning-powered internet economy.
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis for demonstrating that quantum effects like tunneling and energy quantization can occur on a macroscopic scale. Their pioneering work with Josephson junctions, superconducting circuits allowing electrons to tunnel through insulators, revealed that billions of particles could behave collectively as a single quantum system. “Our discovery in some ways is the basis of quantum computing,” Clarke told Ars Technica. The Nobel committee praised their findings for enabling “the next generation of quantum technology,” including cryptography and sensing. Their experiments laid the groundwork for superconducting qubits, the foundation of today’s leading quantum processors. As noted by UC Berkeley’s Irfan Siddiqi, “This was the grandfather of qubits.” The research continues to drive global innovation toward practical, scalable quantum computers.
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Once hailed as “the envy of the world,” Britain’s National Health Service is now in what FEE’s Jake Scott calls an “omnicrisis.” New data reveal that 3 million out of 6.23 million patients on NHS waiting lists have not been seen by any clinician, suggesting a system-wide failure. “That’s not a healthcare service; that’s a breakdown,” said Rachel Power of the Patients Association. Despite record funding, expected to rise from £215 billion to £246 billion by 2029, the NHS has missed its stated 18-week treatment target since 2015. Scott argues that chronic inefficiency, not underfunding, is the root issue, noting health spending already consumes 15% of the UK’s total budget. Public satisfaction has collapsed to 21%, the lowest on record. As the NHS absorbs growing portions of national expenditure, policymakers face mounting pressure to reform what has become, in Scott’s words, “Britain’s sacred cow.”
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A surge in AI-powered toys is transforming playtime, led by Chinese innovators now entering Western markets. As Caiwei Chen reports, over 1,500 AI toy firms operate in China, with the sector projected to exceed ¥100 billion ($14 billion) by 2030. Products like Haivivi’s BubblePal, a $149 clip-on chatbot for stuffed animals, have sold more than 200,000 units since launch, while rival FoloToy lets parents program toys to mimic their voices, projecting 300,000 sales this year. The trend is expanding globally: BubblePal and FoloToy are now sold in the US, UK, and Canada, and Mattel and OpenAI are preparing to release AI-enabled Barbie and Hot Wheels toys. Yet early adopters cite frustrations with lagging speech recognition and overly scripted replies. Analysts say the industry’s next frontier lies in creating truly adaptive, emotionally intelligent companions for children worldwide.
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