With tools like OpenAI’s new Atlas browser, even the browser becomes the billboard. The user never needs to enter the ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

According to an internal company memo obtained by NPR, the Chinese-owned company has signed a deal to form a new joint venture to run the app in the U.S.

Understanding the core principles of computer programming is the first step to writing effective code. Learning about ...

The digital products market is going through a turning point: companies are facing a decline in user attention, increasing ...

Discover how the Luhn Algorithm verifies credit card accuracy, supports secure transactions, and helps prevent errors in inputting Social Security numbers.

A new technique breaks Dijkstra's 70-year-old record: it finds routes faster in huge networks, changing graph theory forever.

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction: Due to the small size of citrus stems, their color similarity to the background, and their variable position relative to the fruit, accurately locating picking points using robots in ...