The correct framing is not that Lightning is broken and unfixable. It is that Lightning, like all of Bitcoin, and like most ...

Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...

The authors updated a diagnosis list to identify low-acuity emergency department visits by veterans and applied it to examine ...

Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...

Google said this week that its research on a new compression method could reduce the amount of memory required to run large language models by six times. SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron shares fell as ...

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 ...

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...

At the Anti-Defamation League’s Never Is Now conference this month, one of the most crowded sessions attempted to answer the question: Are artificial intelligence chatbots antisemitic? In a packed ...

"This data borrows an algorithm that was originally used to rank chess players," says Michael. "The algorithm wants to figure out who is a 9 out of 10 and who is a 4 out of 10—and then match the 9s ...