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.

License upgraded from GPL-3.0-only to GPL-3.0-or-later. This change allows users to benefit from future versions of the GPL license, if and when they are released by the Free Software Foundation. All ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

For centuries, we have relied on human intuition, behavioral cues, and painstaking manual analysis to determine veracity in written communications. Enter artificial intelligence. AI algorithms, ...

What if you’ve already seen fragments of the future - without realizing it? In this thought experiment grounded in Einstein’s relativity, we unpack how a simple diagram changes our entire ...

MIT’s new AI training algorithm boosts efficiency up to 50 times by focusing on key tasks, enhancing performance in traffic control and other complex systems with minimal data. MIT researchers have ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve probably settled on what seems like the best route. But “best” is a ...

East Kazakhstan state technical university, Center “Veritas”, A. K. Protozanov str., 69, Ust-Kamenogorsk City, Republic of Kazakhstan 070004 ...