For years, the Fermi Paradox made one idea seem obvious: in a universe this huge, alien civilizations should be everywhere. But this episode turns that logic upside down by asking a far darker ...

Abstract: Assignment problems are found in multiagent systems, where there is a need to allocate multiple tasks to agents. The bottleneck assignment problem (BAP) is an assignment problem where the ...

For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Skip the noise. Get the download. AI companies are increasingly looking to photonics technology as a solution to improve the inefficient transfer of data between AI chips and systems. Photonics tech ...

For decades, Micron Technology made one of computing’s less glamorous essentials: memory chips. Then the artificial intelligence boom made that hardware one of the industry’s most sought-after ...

AI is all about data. There is more data to process, store, and move, and more tradeoffs required to do that efficiently and with enough flexibility to handle changes in future workloads. Nandan ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

Many Windows PCs feel sluggish in everyday use, despite their hardware specifications suggesting otherwise. The reason? The processor is handling tasks that the graphics card, SSD, or network chip ...

The Gulf’s AI ambitions depend on something surprisingly fragile: a handful of undersea cables running through some of the world’s most volatile waterways. Countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE have ...

Data centers, electric vehicles (EVs), and green industrial clusters are expected to lead to about 100 terawatt-hours (TWh) of incremental power demand in Southeast Asia by 2030, but slower grid ...