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 ...

This project is an exercise that forms part of the semester report in the Advanced Algorithms course. It introduces the basics of graphs and shortest path search algorithms for weighted graph, which ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Basketball is often lauded as a game of skill. Gifted ball-handlers jet through the open court. Talented shooters turn slivers of space into spectacular shots. Deft passers transform ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

Few people understand Aspen’s business balancing act quite like Dr. Ian Lowell. After buying a dental practice straight out of school, Lowell learned the hard way that success in the valley takes more ...

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 ...

Google will deprecate practice problem structured data in January and clarifies Dataset markup is only for Dataset Search. Book actions remain supported. Practice problem markup is being deprecated ...

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 ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A major problem with plastic products is that they produce microplastics, tiny plastic fragments that can collect in the human ...