Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help ...

On June 1, Jensen Huang took to the stage for GTC Taipei, and during his keynote, he introduced the six-foot Isaac GROOT humanoid robot. Nvidia calls it a reference design, which is industry shorthand ...

Buying a new washing machine isn't a task anyone necessarily loves having on their to-do list. Sure, it can be fun to usher a shiny new appliance through your front door, but the process of actually ...

Artificial intelligence systems can now convince you they are human. Two large language models have passed the Turing test, which determines if a machine can “show the same intelligence as a human ...

Some of the best navigators on Earth don’t have GPS. They don’t even have much of a brain. One of them is a beetle. A dung beetle. On the darkest, moonless nights, it can roll a ball of dung in an ...

But new research highlights how these notions can actually counteract each other. Long-serving CEOs may even quash a firm’s appetite for innovation, without strong external advice. The paper from a ...

Home appliances are a necessary part of life. Whether you rent or own your home, you've likely dealt with a defrosting refrigerator, a leaking dishwasher, or a washing machine that's refusing to drain ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

An important scientific benchmark that has lasted for over seven decades has been broken by artificial intelligence (AI). A new breakthrough study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Artificial intelligence is undergoing a fundamental shift. Generative AI — passive, prompt-dependent, inert without input — has given way to agentic systems that reason, plan, and act on their own.