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 ...

Users can note which content they would like to view more frequently. Instagram is handing users some control in deciding what content they see. The social media giant is allowing users to have a say ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

U.S. property management giant Greystar has reached a $7 million settlement with nine states that sued it for using rent-setting algorithms which officials claim have driven up housing costs. The ...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is about to release, promising to be the "biggest Black Ops ever" by bringing not only the elements that established Call of Duty as one of the biggest franchises in the ...

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 ...

Shohei Ohtani is the only player in baseball who could cause the controversy that he did during Game 7 of the World Series. Ohtani made the final out in the top of the third inning with a lineout to ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab said on Friday it can run a key quantum computing error correction algorithm on commonly available chips ...

Are you a part of "Group 7"? No, not "6-7," the Gen Alpha slang. A new TikTok trend has users identifying with a so-called "Group 7," thanks to an indie rock artist's mission to promote her new single ...

My friend turned to me the other day with a sly smirk and whispered, “Are you also part of Group 7?” I shook my head, unsure of what she meant—feeling left out of whatever secret club she was ...

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 ...