A Raleigh scientist’s quest for missing black holes (and how you can help find them)

A researcher at the Museum of Natural Sciences is using volunteer scientists to probe the universe for a mysterious type of black hole.
TMCnet

MicroCloud Hologram Inc. Develops Approximate Quantum State Preparation and Entanglement-Dependent Complexity Algorithm Technology

MicroCloud Hologram Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLO), (“HOLO” or the “Company”), a technology service provider, has announced a groundbreaking achievement of great theoretical and engineering significance: its ...
the-decoder

Alibaba's Qwen team makes AI models think deeper with new algorithm

Alibaba's Qwen team has developed a new training algorithm for reasoning models that assigns different weights to individual tokens based on how much each step influences the subsequent chain of ...
New Atlas

Learn 14 languages with Babbel — built by linguists, not algorithms

TL;DR: Learn real-world conversations — not just words — with Babbel’s lifetime language subscription, now $159 with the StackSocial code LEARN. Ready to actually speak a new language—not just ...
techxplore

Physics-aware AI algorithm uses Newton's third law to keep simulations stable

A team of EPFL researchers has developed an AI algorithm that can model complex dynamical processes while taking into account the laws of physics—using Newton's third law. Their research is published ...
theregister

Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon

SYSTEMS APPROACH Last year a couple of people forwarded to me the same article on a new method of finding shortest paths in networks. Dijkstra is a legend in computer science and his algorithm, which ...
VentureBeat

Beyond math and coding: New RL framework helps train LLM agents for complex, real-world tasks

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have developed a new reinforcement learning (RL) framework that helps train large language models (LLMs) for complex agentic tasks ...
The Conversation

Meet ‘lite intermediate black holes,’ the supermassive black hole’s smaller, much more mysterious cousin

Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies. And they understand how certain ...
Medscape

Acute GI Bleeds in ICU: AI Algorithm Predicts Transfusion Need, Mortality Risk

SAN DIEGO — A novel generative artificial intelligence (AI) framework known as trajectory flow matching (TFM) can predict the need for red blood cell transfusion and mortality risk in intensive care ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Side-Channel Attacks On Post-Quantum Cryptography

Device security requires designers to secure their algorithms, not only against direct attacks on the input and output, but also against side-channel attacks. This requirement is especially notable ...
Nature

Variational quantum algorithm for enhanced continuous variable optical phase sensing

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are hybrid quantum-classical approaches used for tackling a wide range of problems on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. Testing these algorithms on ...
Quanta Magazine

Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard Drive

“Obviously” is a dangerous word, even in scenarios that seem simple. Suppose, for instance, you need to do an important computation. You get to choose between two computers that are almost identical, ...