The holiday season is here, and that means a major spike in shipping. The U.S. Postal Service has ramped up operations with expanded daily processing, new package-sorting technology, and thousands of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

Children often surprise us with their natural problem-solving skills. A new study shows that they can discover efficient algorithms on their own. Researchers Huiwen Alex Yang, Bill D. Thompson, and ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

For all sorting algorithms (e.g., Selection Sort, Shell Sort, Bubble Sort, etc.), the Algorithm Details / Information panel shows incorrect or placeholder values: Displays N/A for time complexity, ...

Military History Visualized breaks down five of the least effective tanks in history, examining where design flaws, poor reliability, and battlefield performance doomed these armored vehicles. From ...

Abstract: Bit flips in main memory or in the CPU can lead to silent data corruptions (SDCs) and therefore pose a threat to all modern computer systems. The selection of particularly fault-tolerant ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...