In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them. Whereas the ...

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Here’s a cheat sheet for decoding this year’s A.I.-driven tech lingo, from RAG to superintelligence. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the author of ...

AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can now work on software projects for hours at a time, writing complete apps, running tests, and fixing bugs with human supervision. But these tools ...

Some Dell and HP laptop owners have been befuddled by their machines’ inability to play HEVC/H.265 content in web browsers, despite their machines’ processors having integrated decoding support.

After poring over recordings from sperm whales in the Caribbean, UC Berkeley linguist GasperBegus had an unlikely breakthrough. According to a new study from Begus and his colleagues with Project CETI ...

[Note this is an in-progress specification to be used in an upcoming format.] At a high level, the decoder works by maintaining a current range (defined by a base value and length) within a large ...

Why is vibe coding is called vibe coding? Vibe coding is a methodology in software development where the traditional act of writing code gives way to conversational instructions and collaboration with ...

Abstract: As an alternative implementation of Slepian-Wolf coding, distributed arithmetic coding is very competitive in short and medium block lengths. The existing distributed arithmetic coding ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I continue my ongoing series about vibe ...