As power grids add more renewable energy and large-scale battery storage, utilities face a growing challenge: how to ...

What was your favorite toy growing up? This paradox claims that memory—and every other one—is just a random fluctuation.

Using the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have performed the largest direct numerical ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Is the whole universe just a simulation?

The Internet Archive is a nonprofit that — as you might expect — is devoted to archiving the internet and preserving digital context for future generations. This week, the platform announced a new ...

Are Machine Learning (ML) algorithms superior to traditional econometric models for GDP nowcasting in a time series setting? Based on our evaluation of all models from both classes ever used in ...

But there’s one spec that has caused some concern among Ars staffers and others with their eyes on the Steam Machine: The GPU comes with just 8GB of dedicated graphics RAM, an amount that is steadily ...

Edward Khomotso Nkadimeng receives funding from the National Research Foundation. In most industries, maintenance is a waiting game. Things are fixed when they break. But in the 21st century, an age ...

Valve's unveiling of the Steam Machine has many of us excited about the yet-to-be-released gaming PC. Rocking an AMD Zen 4 CPU, an AMD RDNA 3 GPU, and up to 16GB of RAM, the box-shaped hardware isn't ...

The Steam Machine was announced just over a week ago now, and while we don’t know how much the Steam Machine will cost, we also don’t know when it’s actually going to come out. Right now, the only ...

Following months of rumors, Valve finally announced the new Steam Machine earlier this week. And while I might question the company's decision to ship a system with only 8GB of VRAM in 2026, I believe ...

It’s a well-worn adage of the Internet age: people often aren’t what they seem to be online. But until recently, you could at least be assured that they were people. Now, though, “chatfishing,” a new ...