When electricity or fuel powers a machine, the machine gets hotter. Finding new ways to cool machines quickly and ...

A simple software method to increase the duty-cycle resolution in a digital pulse width modulation (DPWM)-controlled power ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

Abstract: In this paper, we proposed two simple refinement segmentation algorithms that can provide options to improve the computational complexity of the Video-based Point Cloud Compression (V-PCC) ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Simple interest is paid only on the principal, e.g., a $10,000 investment at 5% yields $500 annually. Compound interest accumulates on both principal and past interest, increasing total returns over ...

In honor of Gary Player's 90th birthday, I went back into the Golf Digest archives to find some tips the rest of us can learn from. Golf Digest and Gary Player have been a bit of a match made in ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Your manual bookkeeping system is costing you money. Here are seven ways accounting software can save your small business from negative cash flow and poor customer relationships. I write about money.

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...