The thermometer reads 95°F (35°C) in Brooklyn, and vulnerable individuals need information to take appropriate action. New York City officials must gather facts quickly to provide updates on cooling ...

For decades, the story of urban growth has seemed almost self-writing: big cities get bigger, pull in talent and jobs, and ...

We’re accelerating quantum-safe readiness—and sharing what organizations can do now to transition earlier and with confidence ...

Goodhart's Law ("When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.") has been around long enough that it ...

More than 20% of the workload on the world's 500 fastest supercomputers is spent simulating how atoms and molecules move—with applications ranging from material design to identifying drug interactions ...

Why do algorithms keep showing us content we claim not to want? The answer isn’t manipulation—it’s conflict between our ...

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...

Abstract: Real-time, high-precision localization in large-scale wireless networks faces two primary challenges: clock offsets caused by network asynchrony and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) conditions. To ...

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 ...

Quantum computing isn’t just some sci-fi concept anymore. It’s not theoretical. It’s not niche. It’s here—and it’s poised to gut the foundations of modern software development in ways few engineers ...

Abstract: Many existing surrogate-assisted optimization algorithms are limited to designing antennas with continuous variables only. However, numerous challenges emerge when tackling antenna ...