The Guardian

Death by firing squad: archaic method on the rise in US as Idaho opens new execution chamber

Supporters of the method say it’s foolproof – but forensic experts say it can be ‘excruciating’ amid allegations it has been intentionally botched The tangled path of US capital punishment takes a new ...
Microsoft

AI chips are getting hotter. A microfluidics breakthrough goes straight to the silicon to cool up to three times better.

The chips that datacenters use to run the latest AI breakthroughs generate much more heat than previous generations of silicon. Anybody whose phone or laptop has overheated knows that electronics ...
IEEE

Solving Dynamic Cosserat Rods with Frictional Contact Using the Shooting Method and Implicit Surfaces

Abstract: We propose a method for solving the strong form of the dynamic Cosserat rod clamped-free boundary value problem (BVP) under frictional contact. The shooting method is employed for BVP ...
IEEE

Using Parallel Branch-and-Bound Method to Accelerate Solving Mixed Integer Linear Programming

Abstract: The Branch-and-Bound(B&B) algorithm is an effective method for solving the Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problem. Its performance significantly impacts the overall performance of ...
Nielsen

FAST has made linear TV cool again; personalization will make it cooler

In less than 20 years, streaming video has both transformed the TV landscape and created somewhat of a mirror image of what TV looked like before streaming arrived. Not only has advertising started to ...