Australian actor Martin Grelis, who appeared in the 1999 first installment of The Matrix film series, has died at the age of 57. “Martin was a bright spark who lit up every room he was in—a talented ...

You can stop looking for glitches in the Matrix—it’s finally been proven that our universe is not merely a simulation running on some powerful alien civilization’s supercomputer. An international team ...

Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and timekeepers. July 10 was the shortest day of the year so far, lasting 1.36 ...

Dozens of machine learning algorithms require computing the inverse of a matrix. Computing a matrix inverse is conceptually easy, but implementation is one of the most challenging tasks in numerical ...

CLEVELAND — The Houston Astros will consider deploying a six-man rotation during a stretch of 13 games with no off-day that starts Tuesday, manager Joe Espada said. Houston is off Monday before a ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of computing a matrix inverse using the Newton iteration algorithm. Compared to other algorithms, Newton ...

The Philadelphia Phillies are sending a message to the rest of the league about what their rotation can look like at the peak of its powers. To open the series against the Tampa Bay Rays, they threw ...

ST. LOUIS — When the St. Louis Cardinals broke camp in late March, they identified April 16 as the first checkpoint of their season. The Cardinals planned to transition from a traditional five-man ...

In a controversial experiment, a team of physicists investigated whether we could harness the Earth’s rotational energy to generate electricity. It’s a deceptively simple idea that researchers have ...

Electricity can be generated from the energy of Earth rotating through its own magnetic field—according to a provocative claim put forward by physicists this week. The findings are controversial but ...