When a videogame wants to show a scene, it sends the GPU a list of objects described using triangles (most 3D models are broken down into triangles). The GPU then runs a sequence called a rendering ...

Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complex Systems Approach Last year a couple of ...

To that end, China has proposed the International Cooperation Initiative on "AI+", calling for deeper policy dialogue and practical cooperation across five priority areas: improving people’s ...

Musk said getting all that AI and solar capacity in space will require about 10,000 launches a year—or a launch in less than an hour every day.

Momentum behind brain-computer interfaces is growing, but experts say that design innovations are needed to help them survive ...

A research team at Korea University has unveiled a prosthetic hand that can detach from a wearer’s wrist and crawl across surfaces to retrieve objects, marking a striking advance in modular assistive ...

Large language models (LLMs) can suggest hypotheses, write code and draft papers, and AI agents are automating parts of the research process. Although this can accelerate science, it also makes it ...

Focus on grand ideas is fine, but there’s a long way to get these ideas into orbit - even with Jeff or Elon’s resources ...

As children, many of us remember lying on terraces or open fields, trying to count stars. One, two, three and then losing ...

A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells.

After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...