The company's pricing strategy is grabbing headlines at a time affordability has become a major issue for U.S. consumers. Instacart customers are unknowingly participating in widespread algorithmic ...

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.

It was supposed to be a blueprint for how humanity would eventually live, a linear city stretching 170km through the desert, harnessing the latest technological and architectural knowledge to make the ...

Google’s Willow quantum computer (pictured here) is delivering. Image credits: Google. “Today, we’re announcing research that shows — for the first time in history — that a quantum computer can ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Week 3 of the NFL schedule features a number of intriguing matchups, including six divisional matchups, such as an AFC West heavyweight matchup between the Denver Broncos vs. Los Angeles Chargers (-3) ...

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Abstract: The present paper focuses on effective approach to minimize the error in the existing Bresenham's Line Drawing Algorithm (BLDA) in computer graphics. In ...

Researchers at FIU's College of Engineering and Computing have developed an encryption algorithm to defend videos from attackers with access to the world's most powerful computers. The encryption ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly had an internet connection that bypassed Pentagon security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal app on a personal computer. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP) ...