These Watches Are Celebrating America’s 250th in Style

From affordable quartz pieces to complicated chronographs, these limited-edition watches each nod to the USA’s big birthday.

This is how fast the B‑2 Spirit bomber can fly

The military aircraft is not as fast as you might think.

From Triangle To Pentagon: The Expanding Scope Of Cybersecurity Leadership

The triangle taught me how to think about information security. The pentagon taught me how to think about organizational ...
The Lancet

Autologous and allogeneic stem cell-derived islet therapy in three recipients with type 1 diabetes and complete loss of endogenous pancreatic β-cell function pretransplant

aDepartment of Endocrinology, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital (Second Affiliated Hospital of Naval Medical University) Shanghai, China bDepartment of Interventional Radiology, Shanghai Changzheng ...

Small Language Models Outperform Frontier AI On Cost, Speed And Accuracy

Bigger has defined AI from day one. New data says task-specific small models beat frontier LLMs on accuracy, cost and speed — ...
The Next Platform

A Deep Dive On China’s “LineShine” All-CPU, Exaflops-Class Supercomputer

It has been nine years since a Chinese HPC supercomputer was at the top of the High Performance Linpack performance rankings, but as we all know, China did break through the exascale flops barrier at ...
Investopedia

Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns: Key Concepts and Examples

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
IEEE

Identifying Inrush Current for Large-Scale Wind Parks Transformers Based on Difference Function of Differential Current

Abstract: Traditional second harmonic restraint method used in large-scale wind parks (WPs) transformers of may lead to incorrect action of relay protection. Regarding the above issues, a method for ...

Here’s how we find out how strong tornadoes were

Around 1,200 tornadoes occur on average in the United States each year and every one of them gets its own rating on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
IEEE

Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Based on Piecewise Polynomial Activation Function for Image-Text Matching

Abstract: Image-text matching remains challenging in big data processing. Matching accuracy is influenced by various factors, including the correlation between images and texts, feature extraction and ...