Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

Sperm gets lost in space; raccoons solve puzzles; the physics of folding a crepe; and more. It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly…

Running local models on Macs gets faster with Ollama’s MLX support 

Apple Silicon Macs get a performance boost thanks to better unified memory usage.  Ollama, a runtime system for operating large language models on a local computer, has introduced support for Apple’s open source MLX framework for machine learning. Additionally, Ollama says it has improved caching performance and now supports…