A large study found that M.R.I.s detected tumors missed by mammograms, cutting interval cancers by half or more.

The observed acceleration of the Hubble expansion rate has been attributed to a mysterious "dark energy" which supposedly makes up about 70% of the universe. Professor Subir Sarkar from the Rudolf Peierls ...

A detailed tutorial on DDR4 SDRAM Initialization, Training and Calibration. Exploring topics such as Read/Write Training, ZQ Calibration, Vref Training, Read Centering, Write Centering, Write Leveling and Periodic Calibration.

Most of us last saw calculus in school, but derivatives are a critical part of machine learning, particularly deep neural networks, which are trained by optimizing a loss function. This article is an attempt to explain all the matrix calculus you need in…

Starting Monday, Quebec motorists convicted of drunk driving twice in 10 years will have to blow into a breathalyzer every time they start a car — for the rest of their lives.

I. Kaj Sotala has an outstanding review of Unlocking The Emotional Brain; I read the book, and Kaj’s review is better. He begins: UtEB’s premise is that much if not most of our behavior is dr…

Crafted for the latest multi-core silicon, Ekioh's Flow browser delivers unbeatable HTML5 performance with extremely low memory consumption.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore instructed Facebook (FB.O) on Friday to publish a correction on a user’s social media post under a new “fake news” law, raising fresh questions about how the company will adhere to government requests to regulate content.

Some scientists are serious about resurrecting zeppelins for low-carbon travel

My digital life in a nutshell: I discover relevant content I don’t have time to consume, I find time and become overwhelmed with my scattered backlog, I wish the content were in a different format, and then I’m unable to find something again once I’ve consumed…

The data for Tesla's in-vehicle displays gets updated so often that the memory chips in older models are getting worn out, which turns out to be a very big problem.

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.Calculations involving a higher dimension are guiding physicists…

I’ve always been frustrated that people often talk about culture without giving actionable or realistic advice, and was previously prompted by this tweet to write about what I did when put in…