The sun has been setting in the Brockton area well before 5 p.m. recently, but it won't be long now before the days start to get a little longer. The winter solstice is coming up, and with it the ...

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 ...

After the '07 first round took a record six hours and eight minutes to complete, the league shortened the time between picks from 15 minutes to 10. Ronald Martinez / Getty Images Teams will now have ...

You know physical activity is good for you. But if you've only got a few minutes, is it worth putting on your sneakers? Recent research suggests the answer is a resounding yes. Even short bouts of ...

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 ...

“It’s kind of a shocking number,” said an economist with the National Association of Realtors. By Julia Carpenter The path to homeownership continues to get longer, with the median age of first-time ...

Instagram is back with a new feature that will allow users to "tune" their algorithm to only display the content they prefer to see, which will be first made available to Reels. The feature is still ...

Electricity affordability isn't a slogan; it's the scorecard. As distribution companies absorb electric vehicle (EV) load growth, aging assets, extreme weather and a decarbonizing grid, every ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab said on Friday it can run a key quantum computing error correction algorithm on commonly available chips ...

The new quantum computing algorithm, called "Quantum Echoes," is the first that can be independently verified by running it on another quantum computer. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

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 ...