Why this film critic’s new book reads like a doom scroll of cultural decay

The film critic discusses Pauline Kael, AI and his new books, 'Algorithm of the Night' and 'Last Week in End Times Cinema.' ...
Financial Advisor

Citi Is Worth The Sum Of Its Parts For First Time In 7 Years

For the first time since September 2018, investors consider Citigroup Inc. to be worth at least the sum of its parts. In a boost for Chief Executive Officer Jane Fraser as she pushes her turnaround ...
KARE 11

The Collective Sum attracts hundreds celebrating Black culture and diversity at a challenging time

MINNEAPOLIS — A three-day gathering inside Minneapolis Event Centers this week sought to lift up Black culture and champions of diverse causes, at a time when it's been easy to feel defeated. "My ...
Futurism

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan

We’re racing towards a future in which devices will be able to read our thoughts. You see signs of it everywhere, from brain-computer interfaces to algorithms that detect emotions from facial scans.
SlashGear

A New Algorithm Beats Dijkstra's Time For The Shortest Path To Any Point In A Network

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...
Reuters

IBM says conventional AMD chips can run quantum computing error correction algorithm

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab said on Friday it can run a key quantum computing error correction algorithm on commonly available chips ...
IFLScience

First Visible Time Crystals Ever Made Have Astonishing Complexity And Practical Potential

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...
WTNH

New algorithm brings real-time precision to navigation systems

The vehicle trajectories. a The Awesome GINS Dataset which was collected in an open-sky industrial area in Wuhan. b The second dataset which was collected in a suburban area in the Optics Valley of ...
Bloomberg L.P.

CK Hutchison Rules Out Ports Deal Being Completed This Year

CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. ruled out the likelihood of the controversial sale of its global ports to a BlackRock Inc.-backed consortium being completed this year but stayed optimistic about the deal’s ...
Staten Island Advance

N.Y. Lottery: Man claims $10M scratch-off prize as one-time lump sum; here’s how much he got

A St. Lawrence County man made the purchase of a lifetime, winning the top prize in the New York Lottery’s $10 Million Bonus scratch-off game, lottery officials announced. Daniel Durham of Canton, New ...
Wired

For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time

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 ...