Apparently, it didn’t sit well with many that most of the promotional materials of the tourism department bore her face, despite her repeatedly saying that the photos were taken in the line of work. I ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

Democrats seeking to make health care the defining issue for the crucial midterms next year were feeling validated by Tuesday night’s elections, which saw big gains across the board for candidates ...

It's easy to assume that the e-commerce boom is all about flashy storefronts, speedy shipping, and frictionless apps. But behind every "Buy Now" button lies a bigger transformation—one that's ...

What would you like to Propose? I would like to propose adding an implementation of the Bentley–Ottmann algorithm to the geometry category. This algorithm efficiently finds all intersection points ...

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 ...

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.

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 ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...