Complexity theory is a fundamental branch of theoretical computer science that categorises computational problems according to their inherent difficulty and the resources required to solve them. At ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the United States of America developed and validated "TimeMachine," an algorithm that predicts the ...

A co-reported investigation with Gizmodo and The Markup into PredPol A co-reported investigation with Gizmodo and The Markup into PredPol PredPol’s algorithm is supposed to make predictions based on ...

Lack of transparency and biased training data mean these tools are not fit for purpose. If we can’t fix them, we should ditch them. Yeshimabeit Milner was in high school the first time she saw kids ...

The House of Representatives last week overwhelmingly passed legislation designed to force China to sell TikTok, which is now on 170 million American devices. The Chinese regime will certainly do all ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...