Wired

A Brain-Computer Interface Company Is Getting Into Organ Preservation

Science Corporation, founded by former Neuralink president Max Hodak, has unveiled a prototype machine to extend the life of organs for longer periods. Science Corporation, the brain-computer ...
TechCrunch

OK, what’s going on with LinkedIn’s algo?

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...
seattlepi.com

Girls and boys solve math problems differently – with similar short-term results but different long-term outcomes

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Pathways to Doctoral Degrees in Computing

A shortage of computing doctorates—a vital workforce responsible for driving advances in artificial intelligence, bolstering cybersecurity, and training the next-generation of computing leaders—would ...
SciELO

Computer vision algorithm for the identification of free-range chickens

The increase in the number of free-range breeders in Canela-Preta strengthens the Brazilian poultry industry, mainly in terms of biosafety, health and quality of the animals. Therefore, it is ...
The New York Times

Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...
Quanta Magazine

The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...
Inside EVs

The Polestar 3 Gets Huge Upgrades: 800V Architecture, Faster Charging, New Computer

The Polestar 3 is ditching the aging 400-volt battery technology in favor of a faster 800-volt pack. Thanks to the new battery, Polestar’s flagship electric SUV slashes the 10-80% charge time by ...
Kaleido Scope

Two UAB computer science students win first place in cybersecurity division of a national hackathon

The team was composed of UAB students Hunter Forsythe of Hoover and Williams Beaumont of Homewood and University of Alabama student Mallory Hamilton. Forsythe and Beaumont are both students in UAB’s ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Computer Architecture Extending The Von Neumann Model With A Dedicated Reasoning Unit For Native Artificial General Intelligence (TU Munich, Pace U.)

A new technical paper titled “Augmenting Von Neumann’s Architecture for an Intelligent Future” was published by researchers at TU Munich and Pace University. “This work presents a novel computer ...