How good is the random_page_cost default, and should you lower it on modern flash storage?

Scientists at Oregon State University have engineered a powerful new nanomaterial that zeroes in on cancer cells and destroys them from the inside out. Designed to exploit cancer’s unique chemistry—its acidity and high hydrogen peroxide levels—the tiny iron…

For the first time, a team of US researchers has used sensors containing highly excited Rydberg atoms to detect signals from an ordinary handheld radio. Through a careful approach to demodulating the ...

2 groups working independently construct the same long-sought compound via different routes

Walk through Karpathy's 200-line GPT from scratch. Tokenize names into integers, watch softmax convert scores to probabilities, step through backpropagation on a computation graph, explore attention heatmaps, and see a tiny model learn to generate plausible…

Forget fear of public speaking. A lot of people now shy away completely from speaking to anyone in public. But if we learn to do this it’s enriching, for ourselves and society

Some thoughts about my experience getting my parents' new devices up and running, and how bad it keeps getting today.

AI and What We Do Next, What Hasn't Worked So Far

This is far from the first time Waymo has come under criticism.

ANDREA MITCHELL: “Why do you need every telephone number? Why is it such a broad vacuum cleaner approach?” JAMES CLAPPER: “Well, you have to start someplace.”—NBC Meet the Press, this past Sunday

Learn how different type checkers handle empty containers in Python, including Pyrefly, Ty, Pyright and Mypy.

On breakfast, engagement rings, and regime change.

WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your site with increased speed, reliability, and precision.

Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide.