Tag: figuring
Cryptography Tricks Make a Hard Problem a Little Easier | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionWhat’s the best way to solve hard problems? That’s the question at the heart of a subfield of computer science called computational complexity theory....
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How the Ancient Art of Eclipse Prediction Became an Exact Science | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionSolar eclipses were interpreted throughout much of history as bad news for the sovereign — an ominous sign for their personal health or that...
DED Trends on Twitter After Memecoin Snapshot Announcement
Lisbon, Portugal, March 28th, 2024, Chainwire
Polkadot-backed community coin #DED has made it to the trending charts on X, demonstrating the community’s engagement and interest...
Meta Allowing Chosen Quest MR Apps To Disable Boundary
Quest mixed reality apps can disable the annoying safety boundary, but only a handful of whitelisted developers can ship this on the Quest Store...
Topologists Tackle the Trouble With Poll Placement | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionIn Georgia’s 2020 gubernatorial election, some voters in Atlanta waited over 10 hours to cast a ballot. One reason for the long lines was...
Polkadot-backed $DED Trends on Twitter Post Memecoin Snapshot Announcement
The community currency $DED, backed by Polkadot, made it to the trending charts on X (previously Twitter), indicating the power and support of the community for...
Boost your content editing with Contentful and Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services
This post is co-written with Matt Middleton from Contentful.
Today, jointly with Contentful, we are announcing the...
MPE 2024 takeaways: Igniting innovation in merchant payments
This year’s Merchant Payment Ecosystem (MPE) conference in Berlin was nothing short of exceptional! MPE really is the leading trade show in the merchant...
Is Standalone VR Holding Back PC VR?
Industry Direct by Rein Zobel, Creative Director & Co-founder at Maru VR Productions
Industry Direct is our program for sponsors who want to speak directly...
Line Between Real and AI Creation Too Thin for the Eye
As generative AI developers continue to fine-tune their models to sophistication, it is also increasingly becoming difficult to distinguish between real images and AI...
New Breakthrough Brings Matrix Multiplication Closer to Ideal | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionComputer scientists are a demanding bunch. For them, it’s not enough to get the right answer to a problem — the goal, almost always,...
Neural prosthetic aims to boost memory – Physics World
<a href="https://platoblockchain.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/neural-prosthetic-aims-to-boost-memory-physics-world-2.jpg" data-fancybox data-src="https://platoblockchain.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/neural-prosthetic-aims-to-boost-memory-physics-world-2.jpg" data-caption="Image recall task The research team delivered neurostimulation to study participants during visual recognition memory tasks, finding significant changes in...
Cloud-y Linux Malware Rains on Apache, Docker, Redis & Confluence
Researchers have spotted a concerted cyber compromise campaign targeting cloud servers running vulnerable instances of Apache Hadoop, Atlassian Confluence, Docker, and Redis. The attackers...