Loneliness can affect your memory, but that doesn't mean it leads to dementia

Loneliness is something most of us will experience at some point. It is a normal emotion, not a character flaw. But it is ...

The surprising ways cannabis may affect the aging brain

As more states legalize recreational marijuana use, here’s what the research says about what cannabis is really doing to your ...

How people approach test problems, not just how many answers they get right, can help predict dementia risk

Scores from neuropsychological assessments (in-depth, standardized evaluations of how a person's brain functions in various ...

From LLMs to hallucinations, here’s a simple guide to common AI terms

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most ...
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You've been reading Task Manager's memory page wrong — here's what those numbers actually mean

Those memory numbers don't mean what you think.
IEEE

Enhancing Scatter Search for the Linear Ordering Problem by Relaxation Adaptive Memory Programming

Abstract: Relaxation Adaptive Memory Programming (RAMP) provides a unified framework for integrating adaptive memory components derived from both primal and dual searches in metaheuristics. We develop ...
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Is TikTok down? Details explored as users report problems with the application not working

Users experienced confusion on January 25, 2026 because they wanted to know whether TikTok was working. The video application experienced technical difficulties which lasted for multiple hours and ...
MarketWatch

‘This is a first-world problem’: I can’t roll over my $800,000 401(k) from my prior employer. What did I do wrong?

I have an issue that, while affecting only a small group of people, might illustrate broader concerns around required minimum distributions, rollovers and retirement planning. I am 72, turning 73 in ...
TweakTown

Google's TurboQuant cuts AI working memory by 6x, but it won't fix the global RAM shortage

TL;DR: Google developed three AI compression algorithms-TurboQuant, PolarQuant, and Quantized Johnson-Lindenstrauss-that reduce large language models' KV cache memory by at least six times without ...