AI’s growing use in investigations raises new legal challenges, from verifying evidence authenticity to constitutional rights ...

Artificial intelligence has long ceased to be merely a promise of technological progress. It has already become embedded in the core of economic activity, influencing the way decisions are made in ...

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 ...

Around the world, algorithms are increasingly being asked to do something once reserved for human judgment: help decide who should remain free and who should be deprived of liberty. In recent years, ...

The College Football Playoff selection committee is all over the place with its rankings. Week after week, it assembles the top 25 teams in college football, yet we’re left with ambiguity, ...

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 ...

Threads is adding two new features to its app: Reply approvals and new filters in Activity feed. Reply approvals let you select which replies appear below your post, while hiding the rest from public ...

Abstract: Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) exhibit diverse performance across different optimization problems, making the automated selection of the most suitable EA an important yet challenging task.

Bio-inspired computational methods have gained popularity recently. These methods mimic the seemingly complex behavior of organisms to tackle difficult and often overwhelming problems. For example, ...

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 ...