Mercury 3 is the most capable diffusion LLM ever released. Across a range of benchmarks, Mercury 3 outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 while running 4–8x faster. More than 40 times the size of ...

Earth’s rotation subtly changes the length of the day. Now our clocks won’t change with it — at least not for a very long time. By K. R. Callaway Every few years since 1972, computers, financial ...

The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. Now, they’re dead. Leap seconds have driven a raging debate in ...

What if one day lasted 25 hours? It sounds impossible today, but our descendants, about 1,000 years from now, could experience exactly that if a “leap hour” is ever introduced. Scientists, diplomats, ...

Crypto investor Nic Carter's worst-case quantum scenario consists of a hostile actor recovering the keys to dormant Bitcoin, then broadcasting a wave of spends across 10 blocks. The stakes extend ...