Google Maps actually defaults to the slowest route now — here's how to fix it

Google Maps now defaults to fuel-efficient routes that can be slower. Disable this setting to get fastest navigation.
Tech Times

Fault-Tolerant Quantum Simulation Overhead Falls 250×: QuEra Architecture Needs Just 1,500 Qubits

Fault-tolerant quantum simulation just got 250 times cheaper to run. QuEra Computing and Los Alamos published an architecture ...
techtimes

AMD and Intel’s ACE Locks In x86 AI Compute Standard, Replacing Intel’s Older AMX

AMD and Intel have now published a full technical specification for ACE — AI Compute Extensions — the most significant overhaul to x86 AI compute in the architecture's history, co-authored by eight ...
AlphaGalileo

Kilometer-scale High-Resolution Fast Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging Achieved by Laser Reflective Tomography

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging enables recovery of hidden scenes but is constrained by a speed-resolution trade-off in ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Want to fight misinformation? Teach people how algorithms work

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...
Boston Herald

Independent bookstores are multiplying, although many people still think they’re dying out

NEW YORK (AP) — Allison Hill, CEO of the American Booksellers Association, is used to strangers expressing sympathy when they learn what she does for a living. “It’s all so funny,” she says. “When I ...
The Herald-Standard

Independent bookstores are multiplying in many American cities

NEW YORK (AP) — Allison Hill, CEO of the American Booksellers Association, is used to strangers expressing sympathy when they learn what she does for a living. “It’s all so funny,” she says. “When I ...
Ars Technica

Contrary to popular superstition, AES 128 is just fine in a post-quantum world

With growing focus on the existential threat quantum computing poses to some of the most crucial and widely used forms of encryption, cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda wants to make one thing ...
Business Wire

Anumana Receives First and Only FDA Clearance for ECG-AI Cardiac Amyloidosis Algorithm Using a Standard 12-Lead ECG

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Anumana, Inc., a leader in cardiovascular AI, today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of its ECG-AI™ algorithm for cardiac amyloidosis (CA) ...
Morningstar

Anumana Receives First and Only FDA Clearance for ECG-AI Cardiac Amyloidosis Algorithm Using a Standard 12-Lead ECG

Anumana, Inc., a leader in cardiovascular AI, today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of its ECG-AI™ algorithm for cardiac amyloidosis (CA) – the first and only cleared for ...
The Next Web

Google’s new compression algorithm cut memory stocks within hours of publication

Google published a research blog post on Tuesday about a new compression algorithm for AI models. Within hours, memory stocks were falling. Micron dropped 3 per cent, Western Digital lost 4.7 per cent ...
Forbes

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