USC is celebrating America's 250th anniversary with animated digital stamps honoring unsung heroes of computing. These stamps ...

Even before mobile phones started taking photos everywhere, digital images suffered from a very simple problem. They looked ...

In the late 1980s, sharing computer files was a painstaking process. Phil Katz's 1989 invention, the ZIP file format, ...

Offline music is coming back with a vengeance, and if you're on the brink of shaking free from streaming platforms and storing your music locally (or just looking to use your soundbar's USB port to ...

Researchers led by Takaki Hatsui at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center (RSC) in Japan and collaborators have developed a new approach to compressing X-ray imaging data in real time, reducing the size of data ...

Abstract: Advanced sequencing technologies have profoundly revolutionized biology and produced vast amounts of raw sequencing data during the past decades. The enormous amount of sequencing data ...

We have seen the future of AI via Large Language Models. And it's smaller than you think. That much was clear in 2025, when we first saw China's DeepSeek — a slimmer, lighter LLM that required way ...

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what ...

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...

In today's world of AI and machine intelligence, it sometimes skips the mind that the primary end-user of many computing systems are … human. And, as humans, we are far from perfect – not just in our ...

As we listen to a piece of music, our ears perform a calculation. The high-pitched flutter of the flute, the middle tones of the violin, and the low hum of the double bass fill the air with pressure ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. A diff algorithm outputs the set of differences between two inputs. These algorithms are the basis of a number of ...