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.

Abstract: Hybrid implicit–explicit (HIE) algorithm is regarded as a powerful method to analyze structures with fine details along a single direction. Here, fundamental weaker HIE (WHIE) algorithm is ...

I noticed that the Graph Algorithms section does not yet include the interactive and educational features that were recently introduced in the Sorting Algorithms page I would like to contribute by ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

Automated security reviews in Claude Code help ensure code safety. Spot and fix vulnerabilities before your code reaches production. Run the /security-review command in the terminal or via GitHub ...

Financial crime risk is not static. A customer’s risk profile can shift rapidly with new transactions, behaviors, or data. Yet historically, many financial institutions relied on one-time or ...

There's a familiar TV discourse taking shape online right now, the kind that I suspect will look awfully familiar to you if you remember the way Game of Thrones crashed and burned in its eighth and ...

For centuries, we have relied on human intuition, behavioral cues, and painstaking manual analysis to determine veracity in written communications. Enter artificial intelligence. AI algorithms, ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

President Biden said former President Carter, who died Sunday, “lived a life measured not by words but by deeds.” In a Sunday night speech from the U.S. Virgin Islands, Biden added that Carter was “a ...