What Is Thread? We Explain the Smart Home Network Protocol

Thread is a mesh networking protocol that connects low-power smart home gadgets, and it’s one of Matter’s underlying ...

When continents try, and fail, to break apart

Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and ...
TruthoutOpinion

Trump’s Back-and-Forth Threats on Iran Are Psychological Warfare

As Iranians rise in protest, Donald Trump’s rhetoric has become a study in contradictions. One day, he threatens “very strong ...
eLife

Causal evidence for a domain-specific role of left superior frontal sulcus in human perceptual decision-making

Disrupting left superior frontal sulcus selectively impaired perceptual but not value-based decisions, revealing segregated ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Identifying variation in dinosaur footprints and classifying problematic specimens via unbiased unsupervised machine learning

Machine learning holds great promise for classifying and identifying fossils, and has recently been marshaled to identify trackmakers of dinosaur ...
GitHub

Controllable Radar Simulation with Waveform Parameter Embedding

(a) SA-Radar (i.e., Ctrl-RS) enables controllable and realistic radar simulation by conditioning on customizable radar attributes. It supports flexible scene editing such as attribute modification, ...
IEEE

An Empirical Study of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in Code Change Learning and Beyond

Abstract: Compared to Full-Model Fine-Tuning (FMFT), Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) has demonstrated superior efficacy and efficiency in several code understanding tasks, owing to PEFT’s ...
IEEE

Locally Repairable Convertible Codes With Optimal Access Costs

Abstract: Modern large-scale distributed storage systems use erasure codes to protect against node failures with low storage overhead. In practice, the failure rate and other factors of storage ...
Government Technology

Code.org Initiative to Expand Digital Literacy Beyond Coding

Over a decade after introducing students to the fundamentals of computer science through its Hour of Code campaign, education nonprofit Code.org is broadening its reach with a new program that bridges ...
NBC4 Columbus

Hour of AI: A Global Movement to Prepare Every Learner for the AI Era

Powered by a joint partnership between Code.org and CSforALL and backed by dozens of leading organizations like LEGO Education, Anthropic, and Amazon, the Hour of AI will set the standard for AI ...
GeekWire

Code.org CEO rips NY Times for stoking ‘populist fears’ over computer science jobs and AI

Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi during an event in Seattle in July, announcing a new “Hour of AI” campaign to demystify AI in the spirit of the group’s past “Hour of Code” initiatives. (GeekWire Photo / ...
Reuters

Alibaba shares leap on Nvidia partnership, data center plans

Alibaba shares surge 9.7% to four-year high on AI announcements Company partners with Nvidia, plans new data centers globally Unveils Qwen3-Max AI model with over one trillion parameters BEIJING, Sept ...