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How 7-Eleven is beating Costco and Sam's Club on gas prices

The Gas Price War Nobody Saw Coming: How 7-Eleven Is Outmaneuvering Costco, Sam's Club, and Kroger at the Pump For decades, ...
MIT Technology Review

IBM has unveiled chip technology that could help extend Moore’s Law another decade

The company, along with others, is pursuing a new paradigm for cramming more transistors on chips—building up.

A.I.’s First Big Math Breakthrough Is Not What It Seems

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...
IEEE

Beyond First-Order Tweedie: Solving Inverse Problems using Latent Diffusion

Abstract: Sampling from the posterior distribution in latent diffusion models for inverse problems is computationally challenging. Existing methods often rely on Tweedie's first-order moments that ...
Nature

Chinese detector edges closer to solving the mystery of neutrino mass

The first of a new generation of neutrino experiments has begun to make its mark. With just two months of data, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) experiment in Guangdong, China, has ...
IEEE

An Efficient Method for Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem Using Modern Optimization Algorithms

Abstract: Metaheuristic algorithms have demonstrated strong effectiveness in solving complex real-world optimization problems. This paper presents two discrete metaheuristic approaches for the ...