VentureBeat

Lean4: How the theorem prover works and why it's the new competitive edge in AI

Large language models (LLMs) have astounded the world with their capabilities, yet they remain plagued by unpredictability and hallucinations – confidently outputting incorrect information. In ...
Ars Technica

New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem

Back in 1971, the late physicist Stephen Hawking made an intriguing prediction: The total surface area of a black hole cannot decrease, only increase or remain stable. So if two black holes combine, ...
New Scientist

Gravitational waves finally prove Stephen Hawking's black hole theorem

Stephen Hawking’s 50-year-old theorem on how black holes merge together has been successfully tested thanks to huge advances in gravitational wave astronomy, which helped astronomers catch the waves ...
IFLScience

The Pythagorean Theorem Predates Pythagoras By 1,000 Years: "The Proof Is Carved Into Clay"

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
The Denver Post

Investor says shuttered RiNo winery’s equipment is ‘held hostage’ by landlord

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An investor in a shuttered RiNo winery says he’s just going after what’s his — and that its former landlord’s position is just sour grapes. Monty Cleworth, a ...
Ars Technica

Handbrake 10 bit encoding from an 8 bit source

I’ve been doing some transcoding of videos from x264 to x265NVENC. So far some of the results have gotten really good compression ratios but I end up being disappointed by a lot of the banding that ...
Variety

Motion Picture Academy Releases Version 2.0 of Its ACES Color Encoding System (EXCLUSIVE)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences used the occasion of the annual NAB Show in Las Vegas to announce the availability of its Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) 2.0, a new version of the ...
TechSpot

AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs bring major encoding and ray tracing upgrades

The big picture: AMD finally revealed the specifications, pricing, and performance details of Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards, with full reviews expected in the coming days. While ...
Quanta Magazine

How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics

Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights continue to shape physics. In the fall of 1915, the foundations of physics ...
The New York Times

As a Kid, Bill Gates Sneaked Out His Window at Night — to Write Code

A new memoir by the tech mogul recounts a boyhood steeped in old-fashioned, analog pastimes as well as precocious feats of coding. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...
New Scientist

How a typo spoiled my proof of Fermat’s last theorem

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the ...