The AI Journey Home This Festive Season

While travelers rush home to relatives or back from essential business visits, AI is quietly rewiring how bags move, fl ...
KrASIA

How far are brain-computer interfaces from restoring and extending human ability?

Third are sensory reconstruction interfaces, such as restoring hearing or vision. For patients who have lost sensory input, BCIs can convert external information into electrical signals that are fed ...
eLife

Continuous flashing suppression of V1 responses and the perceptual consequences revealed via two-photon calcium imaging and transformer modeling

Two-photon imaging and ocular dominance mapping. A. Optical windows for imaging of two macaques. Green crosses indicate the regions for viral vector injections, and yell ...
Microsoft

‘Vibe coding’ and other ways AI is changing who can build apps and how

Doher Drizzle Pablo was drowning in travel receipts. After her company transferred her to Sweden from the Philippines last year, she’d started visiting clients in at least two countries a month, and ...
GitHub

[FEATURE REQUEST] Huffman Coding Compression Algorithm

Implement Huffman Coding, a greedy algorithm used in file compression (ZIP, JPEG, etc.) that encodes data based on character frequency. Count frequency of each character. Build a min-heap tree based ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

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 ...
Hacker

Building an H.264 Decoder with Nvidia CUDA

Bring deep expertise in hardware design, parallel computing and video solutions. Email: [email protected] More than 10 years have passed since I wrote my last post on the topic of developing an H.264 ...
The Conversation

TikTok sale puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the For You Page works and what changes are in store

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. President Donald Trump announced on Sept. 19, 2025, a preliminary agreement for the sale of a majority stake in TikTok from ...
VentureBeat

Google and OpenAI’s coding wins at university competition show enterprise AI tools can take on unsolved algorithmic challenges

OpenAI and Google DeepMind demonstrated that their foundation models could outperform human coders — and win — showing that large language models (LLMs) can solve complex, previously unsolved ...
AZoOptics

Physical Twinning for Joint Encoding-Decoding Optimization in Computational Optics

Computational optics represents a shift in approach where optical hardware and computational algorithms are designed to work together, enabling imaging capabilities that surpass those of traditional ...
Scientific American

The Math Trick Hidden in Your Credit Card Number

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...