Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Adaptive Algorithm Aims to Reduce Kidney Discards and Improve Transplant Access

Developed by Professor Sanjay Mehrotra, the Sliding Scale AdaptiVe Expedited (SAVE) algorithm could improve organ allocation ...

How construction companies are delivering more than just buildings

Our approach is to anticipate what a project will require before it becomes a problem,” said Brian Peter, Vice President of ...

Colombia approves cull of Pablo Escobar-legacy wild hippos

Decades after the drug lord brought in the first hippos for his private zoo, their descendants have become a threat to ...
AARP

Stopping Fraud Before Money Is Stolen: What Older Americans Want

Preventing fraud before money is stolen is a top priority for older Americans, and they look to technology, financial, and ...
Retail Dive

Retailers rely on this tariff mitigation tactic. Congress has noticed.

Retailers, along with other businesses, have adapted to trade volatility over the past year by utilizing a decades-old customs rule that can help minimize tariff costs — and it’s catching the ...
IEEE

Test Point Insertion for an Approximate Multiplier Using Enhanced Static Segment Method to Reduce Test Patterns and Overdetection

Abstract: In recent years, approximate computing has been widely adopted in error-tolerant applications. For approximate multipliers, several techniques have been proposed that truncate lower bits ...
RAPS

EMA proposes new method to reduce animal drug testing

Following the trend of other regulators, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is taking steps to reduce the need for animal testing. The agency has issued a draft qualification opinion for a new ...
GitHub

JavaScript setHours.md

JavaScript's Date object provides powerful methods for manipulating date and time values, one of which is the setHours method. This introduction will explore the capabilities and nuances of setHours, ...
IEEE

Context Dropout: A Novel Method to Reduce Contextual Reliance in Object Detection

Abstract: Object Detection Models (ODM) commonly use the background context of images to aid in their detection process. This introduces some limitations to ODM, because accuracy peaks in the presence ...
CNBC

A Google AI breakthrough is pressuring memory chip stocks from Samsung to Micron

Google said this week that its research on a new compression method could reduce the amount of memory required to run large language models by six times. SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron shares fell as ...
Ars Technica

Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...
The New York Times

How to Reduce Your Exposure to Pesticides

Scientists still don’t fully understand the health risks of the chemicals. Here’s how they recommend protecting yourself. By Allyson Chiu When Melissa Furlong, an environmental health researcher at ...