Divide any circle’s circumference by its diameter and you get pi. But what, exactly, are its digits? Measuring physical ...

The Berlin Senate is expanding video surveillance and relying on automated behavioral analysis in front of the House of Representatives and at crime hotspots.

Jensen Huang is a smart man, one of the smartest out there. As CEO of the world’s largest company by market capitalisation, ...

In artificial intelligence research, scientists often describe parts of a model using simple algorithmic language. A small ...

Those that solve artificially simplified problems where quantum advantage is meaningless. Those that provide no genuine quantum advantage when all costs are properly accounted for. This critique is ...

Mathematicians and physicists often boast about their ‘Erdős number’, defined by their degrees of separation from him in ...

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 ...

The apartment industry’s use of algorithmic pricing tools to set rental rates has recently come under siege by several state and local legislators, and as of November 20, a broad coalition of ...

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...

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.

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

We’re racing towards a future in which devices will be able to read our thoughts. You see signs of it everywhere, from brain-computer interfaces to algorithms that detect emotions from facial scans.