To give users more control over the contacts an app can and cannot access, the permissions screen has two stages.

Leaked documents provide a glimpse into the inner workings of Google Search—and contradict the company’s public claims.

As electric cars have taught us, car tires are a major source of undesirable noise in a car’s cabin. Honda has an ingenious solution to the issue, hidden resonators that work to cancel out the noise tires make, kind of like noise-cancelling headphones. Tires…

The 1950s-era Soviet mission to first photograph the far side of the moon.

Programming is (should be) fun!

Gerald Jay Sussman (MIT)

Programming is not coding! Programming a medium for creative expression. Composing a good program can be an esthetic experience similar to writing a story, a piece of music, or poetry,
A good programming…

Jo Lancaster escaped from a stricken flying-wing test plane almost 75 years to the day that a Martin Baker seat saved an F-35 pilot.

This paper introduces the MCT Self-Refine (MCTSr) algorithm, an innovative integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), designed to enhance performance in...

As we continue to focus our AI research and development on solving increasingly complex problems, one of the most significant and challenging shifts we’ve experienced is the sheer scale of co…

The 39-year-old man, who was "confused and upset" after being fired, deleted 180 virtual servers from NCS' computer system.

Personal website and blog.

Below is the full text of an email sent to our team today. Aside from removing some email addresses and formatting, there are no redactions or edits. To: All VRChat Employees Personal and Company Emails From: Graham Gaylor, CEO Subject: Important Announcement…

For years, mycologists and hobbyists alike have been using DNA sequencing on foraged fungi.

Perhaps you’ve noticed over the past decade how that “once in a century” forest fire or hurricane seems to be appearing in the news more often than its name would imply. With temperatures increasing due to climate change, natural disasters are increasing…

A Blog post by Maxime Labonne on Hugging Face

There has been much anticipation around AMD's flagship MI300X accelerator. With unmatched raw specs, the pressing question remains: Can it outperform NVIDIA's Hopper architecture in real-world AI workloads? We have some exciting early results to share.

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After landing the deal that launched his company to the front of the artificial-intelligence race, the tech chief is spreading his bets. Will it be enough?

Highly available elephant herd: HA PostgreSQL cluster using Docker - zalando/spilo

The legal battle between Arm and Qualcomm continues

Germany's automakers manufactured around 1.27 million BEVs and PHEVs in 2023, putting it at No. 2 behind China, but 2024 will be bumpy.