It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James recently offered a blunt assessment of why the team was eliminated by the Oklahoma City Thunder during the Western Conference semifinals. Speaking on the latest ...

The Carolina Hurricanes have advanced to the second round, sweeping the Ottawa Senators. They’ve become the first team to advance, and they await the winner of the Battle of Pennsylvania. Carolina was ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is not recommending enforcement action against LPL Financial regarding its cash sweep program in advisory accounts, according to a regulatory filing by the ...

A transit-safety blitz along the Sprinter light-rail corridor in North County ended with 15 arrests this week, as deputies and local police cleared illegal encampments and ordered people out of brushy ...

COLMAR – The County Line rivalry was on full display last night as the Titans and the Knights wasted no time putting their hatred for each other on display. After losing the rivalry last year, it was ...

The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to deploy roughly 250 federal border agents to Louisiana and Mississippi in a sweeping operation aimed at arresting nearly 5,000 people in the two ...

Detecting intersections among a set of line segments. Checking a user-drawn polygon for self-intersections. It includes graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to visualize both applications. Implements 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 ...

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The good night for incumbents continued Tuesday as results from municipal elections in McLain and State Line were reported. In McLain, voters unanimously chose to give incumbent mayor Steve McCluskey ...

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