Nvidia graphics research just made a 2-3x gain in performance, and this time it didn't use AI

With ray tracing finally gaining a foothold in PC games, Nvidia has set its sights on path tracing performance with its ...
Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Adaptive Algorithm Aims to Reduce Kidney Discards and Improve Transplant Access

Developed by Professor Sanjay Mehrotra, the Sliding Scale AdaptiVe Expedited (SAVE) algorithm could improve organ allocation ...
IEEE

Influence Maximization in Social Networks Using Improved Genetic Algorithm

Abstract: Influence maximization is one of the important problems in network science, data mining, and social media analysis. It focuses on identifying the most influential individuals (or nodes) in a ...
IEEE

A MapReduce Opinion Mining for COVID-19-Related Tweets Classification Using Enhanced ID3 Decision Tree Classifier

Abstract: Opinion Mining (OM) is a field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that aims to capture human sentiment in the given text. With the ever-spreading of online purchasing websites, ...
NPR

Jury finds Meta and Google negligent in social media harms trial

A California jury on Wednesday found that Meta and Google were to blame for the depression and anxiety of a woman who compulsively used social media as a small child, awarding her $6 million in a rare ...
winbuzzer.com

Google’s TurboQuant Algorithm Slashes LLM Memory Use by 6x

Running a 70-billion-parameter large language model for 512 concurrent users can consume 512 GB of cache memory alone, nearly four times the memory needed for the model weights themselves. Google on ...
Ars Technica

Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought

Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure decades’ worth ...