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A century before the first computer existed, a young Englishwoman wrote what is now called the first algorithm for a machine that was never even built " and foresaw that such engines might one day compose music, not merely crunch numbers
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (67+ words) In 1843 someone published a step-by-step method for a machine to carry out a calculation " now widely seen as the first algorithm ever written for a machine....
The word algebra comes from the title of a book called Al-Jabr, written around the year 820 by a Persian mathematician named Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad " and the word algorithm comes from the Latinized version of his name
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The strange truth about today's most powerful AI is that even the people who build it cannot fully explain why it works, which means much of modern technology now rests on tools we can use far better than we can understand.
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A pair of American satellites built to catch the Soviets cheating on a nuclear test ban kept detecting unexplained flashes, and the flashes turned out to be the most powerful explosions in the universe coming from billions of light-years away
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (531+ words) In the late 1960s, a set of United States satellites built to watch for clandestine nuclear weapons tests began recording brief flashes of gamma radiation that matched no bomb. Published May 29, 2026 The satellites were the Vela series, and the episode is…...
The Vela satellites were built to catch secret nuclear tests, but they accidentally recorded flashes from deep space that opened a new branch of astrophysics
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1001+ words) Published May 24, 2026 The Vela satellites were not built to study stars. They were built to watch for nuclear weapons. Then the satellites saw something that was not a bomb. On July 2, 1967, Vela 4 recorded a short flash of gamma radiation. The…...
Assistive home robot learns coordinated dual arm tasks by watching people
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (781+ words) Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 - Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3 M) have developed a new way for an assistive robot to learn how to move its arms autonomously by combining observational learning with communicati Assistive home robot learns coordinated dual…...
NASA Study: Non-biologic Processes Don't Fully Explain Mars Organics
5+ mon, 1+ day ago (324+ words) Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 - In a new study, researchers say that non-biological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of organic compounds in a sample collected on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover. NASA Study: Non-biologic Processes Don't…...
The Silent Partner - How Machine Learning Quietly Powers Modern Space Operations
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (335+ words) Space Daily The Silent Partner - How Machine Learning Quietly Powers Modern Space Operations What ML does in the space context Practical applications in space operations Earth observation and analytics: Companies that operate imaging satellites face a data deluge. ML algorithms…...
Simulated Milky Way with AI and supercomputing sets star modeling milestone
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (347+ words) Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 18, 2025 Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences in Japan, collaborating with The University of Tokyo and Universitat de Barcelona, have delivered the first simulation of the Milky Way that models over 100 billion…...
Layered oxide thin film achieves dramatic resistivity control for advanced AI chip technologies
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (288+ words) Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 02, 2025 Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new atomically layered material which experiences a five order of magnitude resistivity reduction when oxidized, a change that exceeds a hundred times the reduction observed in comparable non-layered…...