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.

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

Ripple effect: The rising price of memory is quickly turning from a concerning issue into a crisis on the scale of the Covid-era chip shortage. With the RTX 5000 Super line now seeming delayed – if ...

The Midpoint Madness Veterans Day 5K will close the Midpoint Bridge on Tuesday, Nov. 11, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Motorists are advised to use the Cape Coral Bridge or the U.S. 41 bridges as alternate ...

Familiar matchups abound on the NFL Week 10 schedule as there are half a dozen divisional games you can make Week 10 NFL picks on. The highlight of that slate is Rams vs. 49ers, which has L.A. as 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 ...

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 ...

The new quantum computing algorithm, called "Quantum Echoes," is the first that can be independently verified by running it on another quantum computer. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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 ...

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 ...