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.

(RTTNews) - Google (GOOG) announced a major quantum computing breakthrough with its newly developed Quantum Echoes algorithm, marking the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage, where a quantum ...

We need to investigate whether the DFS propagation algorithm described in RFC 2094 was ever truly implemented in rustc's historical versions, rather than just being a prototype or design-stage concept ...

Google’s June 2025 Core Update just finished. What’s notable is that while some say it was a big update, it didn’t feel disruptive, indicating that the changes may have been more subtle than game ...

Google announced a new multi-vector retrieval algorithm called MUVERA that speeds up retrieval and ranking, and improves accuracy. The algorithm can be used for search, recommender systems (like ...

The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) has certified its first partnership for AI model validation after a 16-month effort to get a nationwide network of artificial intellgience assurance labs up and ...

This is the first core update of 2025 and the first core update since December. It will take up to two weeks to roll out. Google today released the March 2025 core update. Google said this core update ...

Graph theory is an integral component of algorithm design that underlies sparse matrices, relational databases, and networks. Improving the performance of graph algorithms has direct implications to ...

Last year, fashion publications wrote extensively about the impact of the algorithm on personal style. (Vogue Business included.) In last year’s fashion conversation, ‘the algorithm’ surpassed its ...

Abstract: The algebraic connectivity is an indicator of how well connected a graph is. It also characterizes the convergence speed of some dynamic processes over networks. In this paper, taking into ...