Google says a new compression algorithm, called TurboQuant, can compress and search massive AI data sets with near-zero indexing time, potentially removing one of the biggest speed limits in modern ...

The current release of this book can be found at here. This book was desigend originally for the undergraduete course ISE 3434 - "Deterministic Operations Research II" taught at Virginia Tech. I will ...

In a disaster, every second is critical. Large-scale disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and landslides, often involve trapped or stranded survivors in need of rescue, and locating them as ...

Abstract: This paper presents a procedural level generation system for a 2D top-down maze game titled Confined Space, utilizing the Depth-First Search (DFS) algorithm to create structured yet ...

Google has rolled out fewer confirmed search ranking updates in 2025, then it did in all the past years where Google confirmed these updates. Google rolled out only four confirmed updates in 2025, ...

Google upgraded Circle to Search, turning it into a proactive digital safety tool. Users can now circle suspicious messages to receive an AI Overview that analyzes the text for scams. If fraud is ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

ABSTRACT: The study adapts several machine-learning and deep-learning architectures to recognize 63 traditional instruments in weakly labelled, polyphonic audio synthesized from the proprietary Sound ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present a novel data clustering approach, i.e., a Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm based on space-time curvature, or BFS Curvature for short. Inspired by Einstein’s ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...