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 ...

The Biggest Names in Wearables Are Racing Toward Muscle Oxygenation Measurements; NNOXX Already Has the Platform

A patented near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) platform, clinically validated muscle oxygenation measurement (SmO ), dual nitric oxide sensing, and an AI-powered training platform position NNOXX as the ...
NPR

As the Live Nation trial continues, how do artists actually feel about touring?

Last month Live Nation, one of the largest live entertainment companies in the world, unexpectedly reached a settlement with the Department of Justice just one week into its highly anticipated ...
The Next Platform

Classiq Says Quantum Is On Its Way, But Patience Is Needed

Erik Garcell is all in on quantum computing. He applauds the strides in hardware innovation in recent years that has pulled the compute industry closer to the commercial quantum era, understands the ...
TechCrunch

Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what ...
VentureBeat

Google's new TurboQuant algorithm speeds up AI memory 8x, cutting costs by 50% or more

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...
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 ...
marktechpost

Google Introduces TurboQuant: A New Compression Algorithm that Reduces LLM Key-Value Cache Memory by 6x and Delivers Up to 8x Speedup, All with Zero Accuracy Loss

The scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) is increasingly constrained by memory communication overhead between High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and SRAM. Specifically, the Key-Value (KV) cache size ...
techxplore

Behind the feed: New research explores how social media algorithms shape our digital lives

Each group has its own interests, and those interests don't always align. YouTube's algorithms are constantly working to balance all three, deciding what gets promoted, what gets restricted, and who ...