Only 0.008% of Vaccinated People in The US Have Caught COVID-19, New Data Reveal

More than one in five Americans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. But vaccinated people can still get…

Mathematician Disproves 80-Year-Old Algebra Conjecture

Inside the symmetries of a crystal shape, a postdoctoral researcher has unearthed a counterexample to a…

At last! There’s an algorithm that’s closer than ever to solving the traveling salesperson problem

Planning the best route with multiple destinations is hard even for supercomputers – a new approach…

MS: AI helps discover 3 new subtypes

A new analysis of brain MRI scans of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) reveals that individual…

A Monkey Implanted With Elon Musk’s Neuralink Now Plays Pong–Really Well–Using Just His Mind

Once again, Musk makes the impossible possible. It’s why we find him so fascinating. Read more…

DeepMind, Microsoft, Allen AI & UW Researchers Convert Pretrained Transformers into RNNs, Lowering Memory Cost While Retaining High Accuracy | Synced

A research team from University of Washington, Microsoft, DeepMind and Allen Institute for AI develop a…

Elon Musk confirms that SpaceX is done trying to catch its rocket components

SpaceX has been wildly successful in just about every one of its efforts. The company was…

CPU algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU trainers

Rice University computer scientists have demonstrated artificial intelligence (AI) software that runs on commodity processors and…

Earth nearly lost all its oxygen 2.3 billion years ago

A new study pushes the permanent rise of oxygen in the atmosphere to 100 million years…

NASA Now Has Direct Evidence Humans Cause Global Warming

Now, NASA has calculated individual impacts on climate change and can definitively share humans’ role in…

‘Strong’ evidence found for a new force of nature

Physicists may have just made a major breakthrough in our understanding of the Universe. Read more…

IBM creates a COBOL compiler – for Linux on x86

What’s this got to do with Big Blue’s hybrid cloud obsession? Cloudifying COBOL … until you…

Display Driver Chip Shortage Leads to Delays for Pretty Much Everything

Yet another aspect of great semiconductor famine of 2021. Read more at Tom’s Hardware…

Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years

Film posted on YouTube delights fans with its rudimentary sets and ludicrous special effects. Read more…

Hackers Are Stealing Sex Vids From Home Security Systems and Selling Them

“Many people like such kind of stuff nowadays, watching people’s privacy, what they’re doing at the…

Spider-Man: Miles Morales’ New Muscle Upgrade Uses Machine Learning

An update to Spider-Man: Miles Morales adds machine learning technology to Miles’s muscle formation according to…

New Decoy Protein Treatment Fools Coronavirus, Rendering It Impotent

Treatment reduces lung damage and results in mild symptoms in a preclinical study. A novel decoy…

AI in Drug Discovery Starts to Live Up to the Hype

Machine learning–based techniques are finding a place in early-stage target discovery and in drug development workflows.…

NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity touches down on the Red Planet

The Perseverance rover dropped the helicopter on April 4, 2021. Read more at Space.com…

IBM bets homomorphic encryption is ready to deliver stronger data security for early adopters

Homomorphic encryption enables computing on data while it remains encrypted. IBM believes this will unlock a…