A decade ago, applying for a loan meant sitting across a desk, listening to a bank representative explain interest rates and repayment schedules, and trusting that the advice given was your best ...

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 ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

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 ...

A web-based tool to visualize step-by-step execution of computer graphics algorithms like DDA, Bresenham’s Line, Midpoint Circle, and Midpoint Ellipse on an interactive grid canvas.

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

The Baltimore Ravens announced Wednesday that they have partnered with MidPoint Technology Group, based in Columbia, Md. MidPoint Technology Group, which is the "Official Audio/Visual (AV) and ...

Cedar Point visitors were stuck on a "tilt" roller coaster for nearly 20 minutes, marking the third time the ride has malfunctioned since opening. Riders on "Siren's Curse" at Cedar Point in Sandusky, ...

The modern internet is ruled by algorithms. When you boot up Instagram, for example, what you see in your feed is strategically sorted by the app's AI based on your past activity to keep you engaged ...