Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy years of relying on the same classic ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence has become the loudest conversation in logistics, but at Uber Freight, the technology has been part of the company’s DNA from the beginning. Speaking with Supply Chain ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

TikTok's owner, ByteDance, is expected to sell its US business to a buyer consortium. The new owners will retrain TikTok's content-recommendation algorithm, the White House said. TikTok staffers and ...

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 ...

Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:RXRX) stock is surging on Wednesday, without any news to justify the movement. Session volume stands at 69.3 million versus the average volume of 26.9 million, ...

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...

The police surveillance company Flock has built an enormous nationwide license plate tracking system, which streams records of Americans’ comings and goings into a private national database that it ...

In a recent social media post, Peter Ray, senior director of medicinal chemistry at Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:RXRX), drew attention to a new article in WIRED from Veronique Greenwood ...

Every piece of land carries a story of development, transformation, and human impact. From expanding urban centers to shifting agricultural zones, land use plays a crucial role in shaping both local ...