Before big tech engineers can improve the fairness of recommendation systems, such as social media feeds and online shopping ...

Government-funded academic research on parallel computing, stream processing, real-time shading languages, and programmable ...

While the billion-dollar question is about when quantum computing will become commercially viable, one of the problems being tackled at the moment is how to make the ...

KAWASAKI, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation has developed a breakthrough algorithm that dramatically boosts the performance of the Simulated Bifurcation Machine (SBM), its proprietary ...

Toshiba Corporation has developed a breakthrough algorithm that dramatically boosts the performance of the Simulated Bifurcation Machine (SBM), its proprietary quantum‑inspired combinatorial ...

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. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

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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 ...

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 ...