The Economic Survey 2025–26 estimates India now has roughly 12 million gig workers, up from about 7.7 million in FY21. For many of them the smartphone app is their workplace. The algorithm inside is t ...

A peer-reviewed field experiment published on February 18, 2026, found that X’s algorithmic “For You” feed shifted users’ political opinions in a conservative direction over roughly seven weeks. The ...

We’ve all been there, staring at a 20-unit syllabus, facing multiple assignment deadlines, and feeling panic rise as you ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...

Dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) models are integral to modern transportation research, offering frameworks to predict and optimise the flow of vehicles over time within complex networks. These models ...

Reviewer assignment algorithms and systems have emerged as critical tools in modern academic publishing and research evaluation, ensuring that submitted manuscripts are matched with expert reviewers ...

AlphaEvolve uses large language models to find new algorithms that outperform the best human-made solutions for data center management, chip design, and more. Google DeepMind has once again used large ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

Right now, quantum computers are small and error-prone compared to where they’ll likely be in a few years. Even within those limitations, however, there have been regular claims that the hardware can ...