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AlphaFold rewired science, and 5 years later it’s still evolving

AlphaFold arrived as a technical moonshot that suddenly made protein structures feel like software rather than secrets of ...
Opinion

The 3D-Flow Architecture Breakthrough: A Universal, Scalable Digital Processor for Real-Time Pattern Recognition in High-Rate Data Streams — A Platform to Save Millions of ...

Worse, the most recent CERN implementation of the FPGA-Based Level-1 Trigger planned for the 2026-2036 decade is a 650 kW system containing an incredibly high number of transistor, 20 trillion in all, ...
Huron Daily Tribune

ByteDance’s agreement to sell TikTok puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the ‘For You’ page works and what’s to come

(THE CONVERSATION) Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. President Donald Trump announced a ...
Study Finds

Penn State Scientists Reverse-Engineer This Backyard Bug’s Natural ‘Invisibility Cloak’

Researchers cracked the code of nature's anti-reflective technology, manufacturing leafhopper-inspired particles that cut ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Google DeepMind Will Open a Robotic AI Lab in the UK to Discover New Materials

Google DeepMind will open its first research lab for discovering new materials, like those used in batteries or semiconductors, as part of its push to apply artificial intelligence to more scientific ...
Search Engine Land

Instagram’s new ‘Your Algorithm’ tool could boost discovery for brands

The new Instagram feature reveals what the algorithm thinks you like and lets you adjust it, reshaping how content gets recommended on Reels. Instagram launched Your Algorithm in the U.S. today, a ...
Quanta Magazine

The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...
Bloomberg L.P.

AI in Schools? A Chinese Entrepreneur Is Betting on Algorithms As Teachers

On a scorching July afternoon in Shanghai, dozens of Chinese students hunch over tablet screens, engrossed in English, math and physics lessons. Algorithms track every keystroke, and the seconds spent ...
Android

TikTok US Version Will Reportedly Use Chinese Algorithm

The US version of TikTok will reportedly still use the Chinese algorithm, but the American investors will have control over it. The latest report comes just a day after a deal with the US and China ...
Harvard Medical School

How the Secret Algorithms Behind Social Media Actually Work

How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...
The Verge

Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search

Google Search head Liz Reid says traffic remains ‘relatively stable’ despite the popularity of AI Overviews. Google Search head Liz Reid says traffic remains ‘relatively stable’ despite the popularity ...