Machine Design

Physical AI Hype vs Reality: Kung Fu Robots are Cool...But Should You Hire One?

Martial arts robots may play well on stage, but can they get work done? A look at what it takes to deliver the reliability and safety required for autonomous robotic systems ...

ChatGPT can provide original mathematical proofs, researchers show

VUB's Data Analytics Lab has published new results showing that it is possible to develop original mathematical proofs using commercial language models. In a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server, ...

Cracking the code: How a 'prediction machine' is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Several years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call "Read-y Grammarian." Our ...

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

Microsoft March 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 2 zero-days, 79 flaws

Today is Microsoft's March 2026 Patch Tuesday with security updates for 79 flaws, including 2 publicly disclosed zero-day ...
Yahoo

American schools weren’t broken until Silicon Valley used a lie to convince them they were—now reading and math scores are plummeting

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. has spent $30 billion on laptops and tablets in schools, a push that began after the turn of the century. (Gordon ...
WVNS

Only 33 percent of schools have recovered in either math or reading 6 years after pandemic

(The Hill) – New research found only one in three schools have recovered in either reading or math since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools nearly six years ago. The number of schools that ...
The Hill

Only 33 percent of schools have recovered in either math or reading 6 years after pandemic

New research found only 1 in 3 schools have recovered in either reading or math since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools nearly six years ago. The number of schools that recovered in both ...
Business Insider

Epstein files: A list of people facing consequences over the DOJ's release

The Justice Department's Epstein files have a wide blast radius. Goldman's top lawyer resigned and UK police have made two arrests. Here are the people dealing with consequences over the DOJ's January ...
The New York Times

America, We Have a Math Problem

Dr. Clayton is a mathematician. Candidates for quantitative jobs — like those on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley — are sometimes asked offbeat questions such as: How many Ping-Pong balls fit in a 747 ...
IEEE

System Cost Function Optimization-Based Data Scheduling and Flight Trajectory for Multi-Antenna UAV-Assisted Communication and Sensing Integration Systems

Abstract: In this paper, we consider a multi-antenna uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated communication and sensing system, and investigate the joint data scheduling and UAV trajectory ...
GitHub

[RFC] Iceberg CDC Source Plugin

[RFC] Iceberg CDC Source Plugin This RFC proposes a new iceberg source plugin for Data Prepper that captures row-level changes from Apache Iceberg tables and ingests them into OpenSearch as CDC events ...