“Patent pruning is ultimately a governance problem. The legal analysis is important, but the real challenge is building a process that produces timely, informed, and defensible decisions.” Most patent ...

Life without Python’s ‘dead batteries ’ Python’s a “batteries included” language, but some of those batteries have been dead for a while. Python 3.13 ripped ‘em out and sent ’em sailing. But what to ...

THOMASVILLE, N.C. — Thomasville City Schools and Alamance-Burlington School System students will have the day off May 1 after both districts approved optional teacher workdays ahead of a statewide ...

Many practical problems in fields such as electricity pricing 1 and economic dispatch 2 can be modeled as optimization problems. In the information age, objective functions have grown increasingly ...

xAI would be leading in raw announced scale of parameters. No other lab has publicly confirmed training 10T or even 6T models right now. The 6T model alone is roughly double the rumored size of Grok 4 ...

A bipartisan group of Western Slope lawmakers is looking to add a voluntary fee to Colorado vehicle registration to fund road infrastructure that reduces vehicle collisions with wildlife. “We know, ...

On Jan. 27, the Princeton community lost another student. I’ve been at Princeton for just over one semester, and two student deaths have already occurred. If we include Lauren Blackburn ’26 and Kerry ...

Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a bit of Amazon) along with their model makers of choice, ...

If you often work with data that starts life as a text file or CSV, Microsoft Excel now has new built-in tools that simplify how that information gets pulled into a spreadsheet. The update introduces ...

Acer is leaning hard on the Acer Swift 16 AI touchpad as the standout feature in its refreshed Swift lineup. The idea is simple. If the touchpad is big and responsive enough, you might stop reaching ...

Appearing on the People By WTF podcast on Sunday, the billionaire entrepreneur said that the pace of technological acceleration will allow most people to stop working entirely, speaking to host Nikhil ...