Google reveals algorithms to address AI memory challenges; memory and storage stocks drop

Google unveils TurboQuant, PolarQuant and more to cut LLM/vector search memory use, pressuring MU, WDC, STX & SNDK.

Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right?

This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions ...

Space-themed kids' pajamas baffle adults who notice major design flaw

“As a professional science communicator who works a lot with space at this age group, I am disappointed," said Dr. Mark ...
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Google unifies text, image, video, and audio in a single vector space with Gemini Embedding 2

Google has released Gemini Embedding 2, its first native multimodal embedding model. It maps text, images, videos, audio, and PDFs into a shared vector space, making them directly comparable. The ...
The Washington Post

Why do airlines hate basic economy passengers?

Since December, my American Airlines membership account has been frozen at 55,361 miles. And so it will remain as another basic economy benefit bites the dust. For more than a dozen years, the lowest ...
IEEE

A Space-Vector-Modulation Scheme to Reduce Leakage Current in Soft-Switching Three-Phase Transformerless Inverters

Abstract: When the soft-switching three-phase inverter is applied in transformerless photovoltaic (PV) systems, its common-mode (CM) leakage current has to be suppressed to satisfy grid codes. However ...
IEEE

Switching Loss-Reduced Space-Vector DPWM for Three-Phase Vienna Rectifier Considering Neutral-Point Voltage Fluctuation

Abstract: Discontinuous pulsewidth modulation (DPWM) has found widespread application in three-level ac/dc converters due to its superior efficiency. However, conventional DPWM, characterized by ...