It is hard to get our ordinary minds around the achievements of the great Cambridge mathematician, philosopher, and economist, Frank Ramsey. He made indelible contributions to as many as seven discipl

About Linum Over the next ten years, we’re going to witness a shift in animation, tv, and film similar to what we’ve seen with YouTube - where most narrative content will be generated by everyday peo

Greener linings Shares in salad seller Sweetgreen jumped a whopping 34% on Friday, after the company beat Wall Street’s expectations, as revenues rose 26% year-on-year to hit $158M in the first qua

Model Explorer Model Explorer offers an intuitive and hierarchical visualization of model graphs. It organizes model operations into nested layers, enabling users to dynamically expand or collapse th

Main ingredients: Whey, iron and gold The researchers used ordinary whey proteins to produce the gel. They boiled them for several hours to form long, thin fibrils. Adding salt and water as a solvent

A while back, we talked about the frequency domain: a clever reinterpretation of everyday signals that translates them into the amplitudes of constituent waveforms. The most common basis for this oper

Back when I started programming professionally, every expert and every software engineering professor would swear by object-oriented programming. Resistance was futile. History had spoken: the future

Evan Ackerman is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. Since 2007, he has written over 6,000 articles on robotics and technology. He has a degree in Martian geology and is excellent at playing bagpipes.

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One of the things that's amenable to scientific study is how we communicate information about science. Science education should, in theory at least, produce a scientifically literate public and prepar

Pico Pico is an open-source alternative to Ngrok, designed to serve production traffic and be simple to host (particularly on Kubernetes). Such as you may use Pico to expose services in a customer ne

The stories behind the buildings, statues and other points of interest that make Manhattan fascinating.

Innovation and privacy go hand in hand here at Mozilla. To continue developing features and products that resonate with our users, we’re adopting a new approach to better understand how you engage wit

Database versioning ​ Lesli is designed to integrate with multiple modules (standard Rails Engines). To prevent naming collisions and maintain a well-structured and organized database schema, we pres

Happy May! It’s time for another release of Safari — our third significant update of 2024. With just a month until WWDC24 and the unveiling of what’s coming later this year, we are happy to get these

AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. Here's why Enlarge this image toggle caption Facebook Facebook Casey Morris, an attorney in Northern Virginia, recently started checking Facebook

An international team led by researchers from the EXOTIC Laboratory of the University of Liège, in collaboration with MIT and the Astrophysics Institute in Andalusia, has just discovered WASP-193b, an

May 13, 2024 Every computing system, biological or synthetic, from cells to brains to laptops, has a cost. This isn’t the price, which is easy to discern, but an energy cost connected to the work req

Two years ago, Andrew Feldman couldn’t find Abu Dhabi on a map. But like many Silicon Valley leaders, the artificial intelligence entrepreneur has been wooed by the promise of Middle Eastern partnersh

© Tomas Castelazo, www.tomascastelazo.com / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Linked lists are taught as fundamental data structures in programming courses, but they are more commonly encountered in t

I sometimes find myself asked to give advice on how organisations should go about creating software, but often my advice doesn’t gel with those who sought it. Sometimes that’s because only one answer

GPT-4o has safety built-in by design across modalities, through techniques such as filtering training data and refining the model’s behavior through post-training. We have also created new safety syst

David Sacks — the Silicon Valley startup investor and podcaster — is launching a new artificial intelligence company for businesses, called Glue. Founded in 2021, the startup formally debuted its ser

‘My greatest fear is to make a really shitty, embarrassing, pompous film on an important subject, and I am doing it,” Francis Ford Coppola said in 1978. “I will tell you right straight from the most s

In melanoma, Prof Long - herself a renowned medical oncologist - and her team discovered that immunotherapy works better when a combination of drugs is used, and when they are administered before any

This week’s newsletter is about time. Do you know what it’s time for? Time to subscribe (or, if you are already a subscriber, to consider upgrading to a paid subscription)! As is the case with a lot

About Unriddle Unriddle is a research assistant that helps academics quickly find insights in scientific literature so they can write papers faster. We’re using language models to offload rote resea

VCMI 1.5.0 released A new major release has been published. VCMI 1.5.0 sees the light of day. The main focus this time was on the online lobby. But also many other features were integrated and many b

The web - for free? Google and Facebook both make one great promise to their users: Use their services and everything is free. However, this is not true. We all know that Google and Facebook make the

Plotters were a thing before we had nice laser and inkjet printers. But now they’re coming back like 80s music (lol), this time at the intersection of code and art. Compared to printers, which are way

Morgan Pope is a research scientist at Disney Research in Glendale, Calif. He joined Disney after graduating from Stanford, where he focused on building small robots that could jump, perch, and climb.

This weekend, I came across this tweet from Phillipe Charière that made me want to play around with my tablet and push it a little further ⌨️ I have a Lenovo tab pad 11 pro tablet with a keyboard and

The August 1982 release of the Commodore 64 is historic, as Commodore's hit personal computer managed to be one of the best-selling PCs of all time — and, it turns out, this historic era of Commodore

Welcome to Verilator Welcome to Verilator, the fastest Verilog/SystemVerilog simulator. Accepts Verilog or SystemVerilog Performs lint code-quality checks Compiles into multithreaded C++, or System

We’re excited to announce that Claude, Anthropic’s trusted AI assistant, is now available for people and businesses across Europe to enhance their productivity and creativity. Starting today, they wil

Telstra and Optus are getting rid of their 3G networks, so that means helping non-tech savvy family members migrate off the 3G phone they’ve been using happily for over a decade and on to something wi