The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Aleksey Yekimov "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"

Language models generate responses by producing a series of tokens in immediate succession: the $(K+1)^{th}$ token is an outcome of manipulating $K$ hidden vectors per layer, one vector per...

Two seven-year smartphones.

Do-everything workplace managers like Asana and Trello promise organizational utopias. But they reveal limitations that date all the way back to the factory floors of the 1900s.

Ten years after online services shut down for the Wii and DS.

Although proponents of secret science like to focus on examples in which it has benefited society, insiders from the very beginning of the Cold War worried that the best minds would not be drawn to…

You may have heard by now that the olive oil in your kitchen cupboard may be an impostor. After a 2010 report found that 69 percent of imported olive oil in the…

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This is a request to restore the base64::encode and base64::decode convenience functions deprecated in the 0.21.0 release. Normally I agree with explicit being better than implicit, but I don't...

Charlotte Sena, 9, was located after a round-the-clock hunt aided by the suspect's ransom note.

The Greening of Milan: Porta Nuova and Vertical Forest By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! One of the cities leading the way in embracing sustainability and environmentally friendly...

Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. Ho…

Sam Bankman-Fried lives his life by a calculus of altruistic impact. By Adam Fisher.

Last year, an Airbnb guest at a luxury studio in Brentwood refused to check out after her scheduled stay ended. She hasn't paid rent in more than 500 days.

Estonia became a global hotspot for crypto companies. We discovered dozens of cases of massive fraud, money laundering, sanctions evasion

Apple's product design teams should do a better job eliminating unwanted radio frequency emissions from their product!