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Over the past decade, experts in the field of nanotechnology and materials science have been trying to devise architectures ...

Artificial intelligence has given us algorithms capable of recognizing faces, diagnosing disease, and of course, crushing computer games. But even the smartest algorithms can sometimes behave in ...

In 1971, German mathematicians Schönhage and Strassen predicted a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, but it remained unproven for decades. Mathematicians from Australia and France have ...

Deep-learning algorithms suffer from a fundamental problem: They can adopt unwanted biases from the data on which they're trained. In healthcare, this can lead to bad diagnoses and care ...

Amazon, the behemoth online retailer, used a secret algorithm called “Project Nessie” to determine how much to raise prices in a manner in which competitors would follow, according to a lawsuit filed ...

That question in the headline was the challenge posed by a group of open knowledge junkies in Germany who wanted to understand how a person’s Schufa was calculated. Schufa is a credit bureau that ...

In his new book, AI expert Hatim Rahman argues that algorithms have created a new labor market paradigm for workers. The rise of high-speed internet in the early 2000s transformed the global labor ...

I’ve spent the last eight months turning Google News into my personal playground. I manipulated the algorithm and made it surface my stories whether they were relevant to specific topics or not. This ...