Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning. This video traces the evolution of that idea from Aristotle’s logic and ...

“What I’m seeing in the messages that I’m getting on my phone, through email and online is representative of a great amount of fear and anger that we’re here again,” Ande Kolp, executive director of ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The fate of Denver’s downtown has been an ongoing concern for city officials and business owners alike since the pandemic-forced shutdown pushed office ...

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 ...

You chose selected. Each dot here represents a single video about selected. While you’re on the app, TikTok tracks how you interact with videos. It monitors your watch time, the videos you like, the ...

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.

I was reviewing the code for the DDA algorithm (found in graphics/digital_differential_analyzer_line.py). The current docstring is very minimal. It only says: Draws a ...

Nvidia's Titan graphics cards were an industry-lauded lineup that any PC gamer would be thrilled to have running alongside their CPU and other peripherals. Once hailed for extreme power and ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

The GTX line of video cards from Nvidia featured some of the most popular graphics cards of all time. The GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti are considered two of the greatest video cards of all time. Even ...

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 ...