On July 4, 2026, Vitalik Buterin published the most consequential Ethereum protocol document in four years: an updated "Lean Ethereum" strawmap that commits the world's second-largest blockchain to ...

Traffic is an issue of plenty of cities across the USA, but few states know it the way California does. Mitigating the issue usually involves more lanes, hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars, and ...

In a nutshell: Nobody likes a freeway that's so congested it resembles a parking lot. The usual solution is to widen the road, but that comes with huge costs and lengthy disruptions. In California, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Dogecoin's developers created the token from Litecoin's (LTC 0.56%) open-source code, which was forked (split off) from Bitcoin's blockchain. Like Bitcoin and Litecoin, Dogecoin is mined with the ...

Can a new social network make it? Flipboard Surf has a shot. Surf combines social networks with text, video, and audio feeds. Think of Surf as the anti-algorithm, anti-AI-slop social network. I'll ...

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...

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 ...

Would Americans trust an algorithm with their lives? In an era when artificial intelligence can read X-rays, detect tumors, and recommend treatments, that question is no longer hypothetical. Marschall ...

Usage examples are provided in the HPCsharpExamples directory, which has a VisualStudio 2022 solution. Build and run it to see performance gains on your computer or a cloud node. To get the maximum ...

A new evolutionary technique from Japan-based AI lab Sakana AI enables developers to augment the capabilities of AI models without costly training and fine-tuning processes. The technique, called ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.