The symbols, discovered on 40,000-year-old artifacts in caves in southwest Germany, may have been a precursor to the first written language ...

Intent engineering aligns AI agents with business goals and values; autonomy may rise by 2028, outcomes stay tied to strategy ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

Variants in a nicotine receptor gene are associated with a lower likelihood of heavy smoking, according to a study published ...

The variant of the CHRNB3 gene, involved in the regulation of the substance, is starting to be considered as a possible ...

Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...

The success of real-time digital systems comes from optimizing processing for the most important tasks rather than speeding up overall execution.

A multivariate analysis of electroencephalography activity reveals super-additive enhancements to the neural encoding of audiovisual stimuli, providing new insights into how the brain integrates ...

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

For the demonstration in the paper, the team inscribed 301 voxel layers, but the glass chip has the capacity to store 4.8 ...

If emotion functions as an operating system of silicon-based life, its implications extend far beyond robots. It defines not a feature category, but a new computing paradigm: any device that senses, ...

Cost control is a major priority for streaming services today. Video providers need smarter architectures that enable resources to be optimized, unnecessary costs prevented, alongside better use of ...