For decades, modern banking systems have been built on a narrow definition of financial identity. You are considered “bankable” if you have a payslip, a formal employer, a credit history, collateral, ...

“Imagine a computation that produces a new bit of information in every step, based on the bits that it has computed so far. Over t steps of time, it may generate up to t new bits of information in ...

Recent survey delivers the first systematic benchmark of TSP solvers spanning end-to-end deep learners, hybrid methods and ...

Can quantum computers already do more than their fragile hardware seems to allow? PhD student Marten Folkertsma (CWI, QuSoft) ...

Theory is our basic scientific tool for establishing knowledge. It dictates how we conduct patient care, teaching, and research. 1 Once adopted, it simply becomes automatic, those guided by it ...

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 ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Clathrate hydrates are crystalline inclusion compounds with relevance to global ...

Abstract: Cooperative localization distinguishes itself from traditional localization methods by leveraging internode measurements among unknown nodes. This study proposes a novel dual-stage algorithm ...

Picture this: you’ve decided to host a dinner party. The guest list is small but important. You spend the week cleaning the house, polishing the silver, and making sure every detail reflects care. You ...