14/04/2025

Business

Q&A: How blockchain could change the NFL draft

The NFL draft is entertaining, but it's also the setting for high-stakes negotiations where teams often simultaneously seek a competitive advantage and cooperate with each other by trading draft picks. These deals are complex, ...

Business

Meta chief Zuckerberg testifies at landmark US antitrust trial

Meta chief and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Monday in a landmark US antitrust trial in which his social media juggernaut stands accused of abusing its market power to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp before they ...

Hi Tech & Innovation

Photonic computing needs more nonlinearity: Acoustics can help

Neural networks are one typical structure on which artificial intelligence can be based. The term "neural" describes their learning ability, which to some extent mimics the functioning of neurons in our brains. To be able ...

Machine learning & AI

AI agents poised to take over travel industry

Dreaming of going on vacation but not sure where to go? Increasingly the answer—and how to get there, what to eat and where to stay—will come from advanced AI, rather than your old-school travel agent.

Engineering

Physics reveals the optimal roof ratios for energy efficiency

While serving as a visiting professor in Benevento, outside Naples, Italy, Adrian Bejan noticed something about the local architecture: All the roofs looked the same. With what seemed like too-shallow peaks on smaller, older ...

Machine learning & AI

We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent. Here's how

We are constantly fed a version of AI that looks, sounds and acts suspiciously like us. It speaks in polished sentences, mimics emotions, expresses curiosity, claims to feel compassion, even dabbles in what it calls creativity.

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