Author: Hunter

Nikon’s latest midrange full-frame mirrorless camera offers pro-level features without the pro price. Read more

You might assume that tech-savvy people are the most open to using AI, but research suggests it’s actually those who are least familiar with it. Read more

Plus: A hacker finds an issue with Cloudflare’s systems that could reveal app users’ rough locations, and the Trump administration puts a wrench in a key cybersecurity investigation. Read more

The source of more than half of all wildfires in the Western US remains unknown, so the US Forest Service has teamed up with computer scientists to create tools that can find answers. Read more

The singer generated millions in prop bets for the Kansas City Chiefs just by showing up to watch her boyfriend play. Now that she’s busy, gamblers are losing interest. Read more

When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene. Read more

Heuristic designing is a practical and indispensable tool leveraged in standard fields like artificial intelligence and operations research to find satisfactory solutions to complex optimisation problems. Experts usually design them by hand, which makes the process expensive and slow. A simplification of heuristics design, without a reduction in performance, was subsequently achieved through the Automatic… Read more

Text-to-speech (TTS) technology has emerged as a critical tool for bridging the gap between human and machine interaction. The demand for lifelike, emotionally resonant, and linguistically versatile voice synthesis has grown exponentially across entertainment, accessibility, customer service, and education. Traditional TTS systems, while functional, often fall short of delivering the nuanced realism required for immersive… Read more

Artificial intelligence models have advanced significantly in recent years, particularly in tasks requiring reasoning, such as mathematics, programming, and scientific problem-solving. However, these advancements come with challenges: computational inefficiency and a tendency to overthink. Overthinking in AI occurs when models engage in overly lengthy reasoning, leading to increased inference costs and slower response times without… Read more

A startup called PuppyGraph is turning heads in the big data world with a novel concept: Marrying the data storage efficiency of the data lakehouse with the analytic capabilities of a graph database. The result is a distributed, column-oriented OLAP graph query engine that runs atop Iceberg or Parquet tables in an object store and… Read more