The puppets, unearthed in El Salvador, have movable heads, strange facial expressions and may have been dressed for ritual roles.

AI company Sesame has released the base model that powers Maya, the impressively realistic voice assistant. The model, which is 1 billion parameters in size (“parameters” referring to ...

Already, we see instances of other types of useful computational devices, such as D-Wave’s annealing quantum computers, where computation starts with all possible solutions to a problem captured ...

#StoriesThatInspire. Meet 10 activists who use digital media to strengthen and promote Mayan languages in Mexico. Read the inspiring story of one of the grantees selected for the 2024 Mayan Language ...

#StoriesThatInspire. Meet 10 activists who use digital media to strengthen and promote Mayan languages in Mexico. Photo by José Raúl Sánchez Pérez, used with his permission. Learn about the inspiring ...

Hundreds of Indigenous Mayan people in Guatemala ushered in the new year according to their calendar with a spiritual ceremony at the sacred Mayan site of Kaminaljuyu, in Guatemala City, on Tuesday.

We must turn to synthetic data — data generated through computation and simulation. The computer graphics industry has spent decades developing tools that excel at creating synthetic data.

The essence of computation is nonlinearity. A cascade of linear functions, no matter how deep, is just another linear function—the product of any two matrices is just another matrix—so it is ...