A smaller, cheaper AI usually means a dumber one. A new technique flipped that—and your phone might be the winner.

Scientists used a new error correction method to encode 70 logical qubits and solve a problem that is intractable for classical computers. The quantum computation ...

Toasted Apples might sound tasty, but they are a real problem in Jessa Jones’s repair shop. Jones has seen plenty of scorched devices in her 14 years running iPad Rehab Microsoldering repair service.

Artificial intelligence is expensive to use, many companies discovered. That has led to a new era of saving costs. Credit...Andrea Chronopoulos Supported by By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco ...

Think the chances of finding the right person for you—that needle in a haystack—are stacked against you, so to speak? Well, why not just burn down all the haystacks to find that needle? That's what ...

A new gas pump scam spreading across parts of the country could leave drivers unknowingly paying hundreds of dollars for fuel they never pumped. The scam, known as the “Screw Method,” has already been ...

This paper redefines dynamic multimodal fusion as a "per-sample optimization problem that directly minimizes conflict risk." It designs a differentiable modality ...

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...

Purdue University is committed to preserving a balance between protecting the health of people and the environment, while accommodating increasingly sophisticated and productive research operations.

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I tend to divide my workday into blocks. Within minutes of waking up — we’re usually up by 5.30 a.m. — I sit down to write at least one Inc. article. Then I spend four to five hours writing a book, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...