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Cracking a long-standing weakness in a classic algorithm for programming reconfigurable chips

Researchers from EPFL, AMD, and the University of Novi Sad have uncovered a long-standing inefficiency in the algorithm that programs millions of reconfigurable chips used worldwide, a discovery that ...
New Scientist

Kids as young as 4 innately use sorting algorithms to solve problems

It was previously thought that children younger than 7 couldn't find efficient solutions to complex problems, but new ...
United States Army

Where does the Cyber Arms Race Lead to in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?

Introduction - What is a Cyber Arms Race? The Cyber Arms Race can trace its roots to 1949 when the Soviet Union tested their ...
IEEE

Introduction to U-NET Variant Algorithm Infused from Transfer Learning

Abstract: Variety, Sparsity and Vagaries in normality offers tough challenge in anomaly detection. This is further aggravated by varying background of images which creates more difficulty in Anamoly ...
Computer Weekly

ICO investigates lawfulness of algorithms used in immigration enforcement

The Home Office could be banned from unlawfully using computer algorithms to recommend whether migrants should be deported. Privacy International has filed a ...
Christianity Today

A Christian Chess Detective Faces a Mathematical Stalemate

Complexity theory remains one of the great unsolved mathematical puzzles. Kenneth Regan is trying to figure it out. Kenneth Regan paused at lunch in New York to glance at incoming texts from top ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Science Fiction? Think Again. Scientists Are Learning How to Decode Inner Thoughts

A new study tested a device trained to translate four participants' inner thoughts. Andriy Onufriyenko via Getty Images In recent years, scientists have been working on technology that could help ...
New York Post

Disgraced crypto exec Do Kwon pleads guilty to fraud charges in $40B collapse

Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two charges of conspiracy to defraud and ...
Reuters

Do Kwon pleads guilty to US fraud charges in $40 billion crypto collapse

NEW YORK, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two U.S.
The New York Times

Geometry Solves Gerrymandering

Dr. Fryer is a professor of economics at Harvard University, founder of Equal Opportunity Ventures and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Call it MAG: mutually assured gerrymandering. First ...
Wired

For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...
Phys.org

AI algorithms approach the theoretical limit of optical measurement precision

No image is infinitely sharp. For 150 years, it has been known that no matter how ingeniously you build a microscope or a camera, there are always fundamental resolution limits that cannot be exceeded ...