RealPage Settlement Shows Algorithmic Pricing Isn’t the Enemy

Opinion: The Department of Justice's settlement with RealPage argues that the use of algorithmic pricing software itself ...
IEEE

Sign-Enhanced Semidefinite Programming Algorithm and its Application to Independent Component Analysis

Abstract: Independent component analysis (ICA) is widely applied in remote sensing signal processing. Among various ICA algorithms, the modified semidefinite programming (MSDP) algorithm stands out.
IEEE

A Novel Online Adaptive Dynamic Programming Algorithm With Adjustable Convergence Rate

Abstract: This article develops a novel online adaptive dynamic programming algorithm with adjustable convergence rate to address the optimal control problem of nonlinear systems. Relaxation factors ...
Wired

OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI

The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids. The company has ...
TMCnet

Entrust nShield HSMs Post-Quantum Cryptography Algorithms Achieve Validation from the NIST Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program

As the cybersecurity landscape rapidly evolves, Entrust today announced a landmark achievement: The Entrust nShield Hardware Security Module's (HSMs) implementation of three NIST standardized ...
USA Today

DHS ends controversial and 'politicized' Quiet Skies air passenger surveillance program

WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security is ending its controversial Quiet Skies surveillance program for airline travelers, saying June 5 that since its existence, it has "failed to stop a ...
The New York Times

In the Age of the Algorithm, Roots Music Is Rising

Streaming services are helping revive America’s most old-fashioned, undigital genre. Charley Crockett, a rising star in the roots-music field, performing in Nashville, Ind., in May.Credit...Kristine ...
CSOonline

Quantum supremacy: Cybersecurity’s ultimate arms race has China way in front

China’s latest advances and investments suggest that CISOs just getting started on the estimated seven-year quantum-remediation journey may already be at risk of catastrophic disaster. Imagine a vast, ...
Newsweek

Internet Reacts To News That Meta Will Stop Fact-Checking: ‘Don’t Blame Me’

Protesters are deliberately posting false claims on Meta platforms in an attempt to call out its replacement of the fact-checking model with a community-driven system on Instagram and Facebook. Meta ...
Houston Public Media

Houston company Camden among landlords sued by DOJ for alleged price fixing

Houston-based landlord company Camden Property Trust was one of six companies sued by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) as part of the department's wider antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, a ...
WESA

Peoples Gas uses algorithms to identify Allegheny County customers in need

As temperatures dip into the lower 20s and teens in Pittsburgh, a data-driven pilot program from Peoples Gas and a local startup aims to identify customers in need of help with their heating bills and ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Ouyang, C., Qiu, Y. and Zhu, D. (2021) Adaptive Spiral Flying Sparrow Search Algorithm. Scientific Programming, 2021, Article ID: 6505253.

ABSTRACT: A hybrid strategy is proposed to solve the problems of poor population diversity, insufficient convergence accuracy and susceptibility to local optimal values in the original Arctic Puffin ...