Does walking faster in the rain keep you drier? A physicist breaks it down
Who needs an umbrella when you've got science?
Number Representations in Computer Hardware, Explained
Welcome to a fundamental area of computer design: how numbers are represented in hardware! This can ultimately mean the difference between a blazing fast machine and a costly $475 million bug – Pentium 4, anyone?
Decades-old programming languages Fortran and Cobol are still thriving
Old Glories: Fortran and Cobol are still among the world's most popular programming languages despite being almost 70 years old. They're certainly overachieving, but for entirely different reasons, and neither seem unwilling to go out of fashion as new technological advancements like AI keep old skills relevant.
Beyond Nvidia: Does AI processing = GPUs?
Exploring alternative chips, an evolving narrative
Mathematicians create a non-repeating pattern from a new 13-sided polygon dubbed 'the hat'
It's a shape called an "einstein" that researchers have been seeking for decades
Explainer: What are MMX, SSE, and AVX?
Computer technology is no strange to acronyms: CPU, RAM, SSD, to name but a few. Ever so often, new ones appear on the scene in the never-ending quest to improve the capabilities of our computing devices. Today we'll explain processor instruction set extensions MMX, SSE, and AVX.
Explainer: What Are Tensor Cores?
Nvidia has been making graphics chips that feature extra cores, beyond the normal ones used for shaders. Known as tensor cores, these mysterious units can be found in thousands of system, but what exactly are they and what are they used for? Today we'll explain what a tensor is and how tensor cores are used in the world of graphics and deep learning.
Using four mics and a speaker, drones can echolocate like bats
It can accurately map the walls in a room
This machine needs to be turned more times than there are atoms in the universe to complete one rotation
The world's biggest gear reduction
A new largest Mersenne prime has been discovered
Using brute force to find massive Mersenne primes
New largest known prime number is more than 23 million digits long
Meet the 50th known Mersenne prime