is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. While there is plenty of criticism to be hurled at what music the algorithm serves ...

Over at Quanta Magazine [Shalma Wegsman] asks What Is the Fourier Transform? [Shalma] begins by telling you a little about Joseph Fourier, the French mathematician with an interest in heat propagation ...

While the concept of quantum computing has been discussed for more than 40 years, only recently have experiments indicated that a practical quantum computer may be possible. Recent developments in ...

Back when semiconductor devices contained only a few thousand gates, manufacturing test was almost an afterthought. The development team threw the chip “over the wall” to the test engineers, who ...

The Department for Transport is talking to three operators about a potential joint order for new trains. DfT Director General for Rail Services, Alex Hynes, told the Transport Select Committee the ...

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The primary goal of Super-Resolution (SR) is to reconstruct an image of higher quality from an image of lower quality. The Fourier transform helps in this process by recovering lost, high-frequency ...

Robert Byrne loves coffee shops. And he wants to see them succeed. “It’s personal for me,” he said. “I met my wife when she was working at a coffee shop, so we are like a coffee shop family.” Byrne ...

Despite being the most abundant element in the universe, making cheap, clean hydrogen here on Earth has been a surprisingly tough nut to crack. “Hydrogen has always been plagued with a couple problems ...

Spell checking is such a ubiquitous feature of today's software that we expect to see it in browsers and basic text editors, and on just about every computing device. However, 50 years ago, it was a ...