Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy years of relying on the same classic ...

WASHINGTON/HONG KONG, Dec 19 (Reuters) - TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, on Thursday signed binding agreements to hand control of the short video app's U.S. operations to a group of investors, ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin called on X to use blockchain and ZK-proofs to make its content-ranking algorithm verifiably fair and censorship-resistant. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

TikTok’s algorithm favors mental health content over many other topics, including politics, cats and Taylor Swift, according to a Washington Post analysis. At first, the mental health-related videos ...

Popular food delivery service Instacart has been using a shady algorithm that charges different prices to different customers on the same grocery items in the same supermarkets without telling them, ...

ALBANY — New York has agreed to delay implementation of the All-Electric Buildings Act, which was scheduled to go into effect in January and would prohibit natural gas and heating oil equipment in ...

On November 10, 2025, the Department of Defense’s (“DoD”) final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (“DFARS”) to incorporate contract requirements related to its ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

CONROE, Texas, Oct. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via IBN -- Safe & Green Holdings Corp. (SGBX) (NASDAQ: SGBX), and its wholly owned subsidiary, Olenox Corp, a vertically integrated energy company, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...