If you happen to be on a Texas highway sometime this summer, and see a 50,000-pound semi truck barreling along with nobody behind the wheel, just remember: A self-driving truck is less likely to kill ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

An artist’s impression of a quantum electrodynamics simulation using 100 qubits of an IBM quantum computer. The spheres and lines denote the qubits and connectivity of the IBM quantum processor; gold ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on $2.2 trillion worth of imported goods, claiming they protect domestic producers. Ironically, American small businesses are among those bearing the ...

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 ...

Barcelona midfielder Pedri called on Spain’s soccer authorities to “explain it properly” after questioning why a penalty was awarded against the Catalans for handball during Saturday’s dramatic 3–2 ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...

Donald Trump reacts to alleged Russia hack into federal court system Scott Galloway has bold words for Americans on Social Security United States Issued 'Level 3' Travel Warning This Week Sharon Stone ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

The Avengers assembling isn’t as exciting as it used to be. For the last 17 years, one of Marvel Studios’ selling points has been its interconnected narratives and major crossovers. But after 14 shows ...

1 Department of Industrial Engineering and Maintenance, Polytechnic University of Mongo, Mongo, Chad. 2 Department of Technical Sciences, University of N’Djamena, N’Djamena, Chad. 3 Department of ...