"You know, you shouldn't trust us intelligent programmers." ...

When natural disasters or extreme weather events hit, delivering aid quickly and efficiently to those affected is crucial. Humanitarian relief efforts commonly rely on the combination of trucks and ...

Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that ...

To use this evidence, investigators typically must grow the larvae until adulthood in a laboratory setting and then identify ...

People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...

Scroll through social media long enough and a pattern emerges. Pause on a post questioning climate change or taking a hard line on a political issue, and the platform is quick to respond—serving up ...

This project implements a 2D pore-throat network extraction algorithm for porous media images. It uses a modified watershed segmentation approach based on Distance Transform and H-maxima markers to ...

I tend to divide my workday into blocks. Within minutes of waking up — we’re usually up by 5.30 a.m. — I sit down to write at least one Inc. article. Then I spend four to five hours writing a book, ...

Abstract: Under the basic frame of evolution computations (EA) and the kernel idea of Nelder-Mead simplex method, a novel evolution algorithm (EA), namely the two dimensions simplex EA (2D-simplexEA), ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

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 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 ...