Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

The 22-year NBA veteran is just 1 point shy of reaching 50,000 career points – regular season and playoffs combined. Brian Martin, for NBA.com LeBron James is averaging 24.8 points with the Lakers ...

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 ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

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 ...

Abstract: This article investigates how classical discontinuous sliding-mode signals can be more effectively understood and implemented using principles from optimization and convex analysis. For ...

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 ...

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...

When the maritime trade union Nautilus International asked memberswhat they thought of AI at a forum in January, there was some positive sentiment: “We shouldn’t automatically assume there will be ...