For decades, the fusion reactor design known as a stellarator has had a specific, documented, expensive problem: designing the magnetic coils that make it work. The coils must simultaneously satisfy a ...

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Instead of spending millions of dollars to widen a congested freeway, the Riverside County Transportation Commission has opted to spend a fraction of that on a pilot project to make traffic on the ...

Rob Williams knows how to pitch Jeff Bezos: You write a press release as if your product has already been built. Bezos reads it and gives a thumbs up or down. Williams went through this process a lot ...

The generative AI boom has driven the cost of memory into the stratosphere, and Google is a key part of that trend. So it’s only fitting that Google should offer some less RAM-hungry local AI models.

Pope Leo XIV on Monday launched an impassioned call for regulation of artificial intelligence, warning that “opaque algorithms,” controlled by a handful of powerful private companies, can bring “new ...

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what ...

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...

Game Freak has confirmed that the Pokémon Day 2026 Pokémon Presents will be the longest broadcast they’ve done in years. However, a new leak might have also revealed the games that will be shown at ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

The New England Patriots struggled to protect Drake Maye throughout their 29-13 Super Bowl 60 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. Rookie left tackle Will Campbell absorbed a lot of blame for the offensive ...

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly dependent on increases in prenatal estrogen—revealed by looking at the length ...