How does the brain create mental images? A new study reveals that visual imagination and perception share a common neural code.
Will AI save us from the memory crunch it helped create?
Scientists at EPFL in Switzerland, together with colleagues in Australia, have come up with a new way to control chirality in light using specially designed surfaces called metasurfaces. Chirality, or ...
Intel and Nvidia show off how textures -- which take up a large chunk of PC games -- could be compressed to save you money ...
Neural Texture Compression (NTC) optimized memory usage for either neural rendering or high-resolution texture and game data.
The big picture: Google has developed three AI compression algorithms – TurboQuant, PolarQuant, and Quantized Johnson-Lindenstrauss – designed to significantly reduce the memory footprint of large ...
Intel TSNC brings neural texture compression with up to 18x reduction, faster decoding, and flexible SDK support for modern ...
Memory prices are plunging and stocks in memory companies are collapsing following news from Google Research of a ...
Training a large artificial intelligence model is expensive, not just in dollars, but in time, energy, and computational ...
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tejal Rives, 35, who lives in Arizona. The following has been edited for length and clarity. In October 2025, I read a news article that Amazon ...