A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum ...

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 ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

Fix Windows errors with Fortect: Fortect can repair common computer errors by scanning your entire system for damaged or missing OS files and replacing them with the original, working versions.

Fuel-based generators are the primary source of electricity in power engineering 1,2. A challenge in this area is the Economic Load Dispatch (ELD), which deals with properly scheduling a group of ...

Yet beneath all these practical advances lay a profound theoretical question that had puzzled mathematicians for decades: Could linear programming problems actually be solved efficiently in the worst ...

A key question in artificial intelligence is how often models go beyond just regurgitating and remixing what they have learned and produce truly novel ideas or insights. A new project from Google ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

Right now, quantum computers are small and error-prone compared to where they’ll likely be in a few years. Even within those limitations, however, there have been regular claims that the hardware can ...

Abstract: Loopwise route representation (LRR), which has been recently proposed as an alternative network representation, can determine the optimal path for the vehicle routing problems with a simpler ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...