Engineers at MIT have turned one of computing’s biggest headaches, waste heat, into the main act. By sculpting “dust-sized” silicon structures that steer heat as precisely as electrical current, they ...

The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the spotlight after the app's Chinese owner, ByteDance, signed binding agreements to ...

In a world run by computers, there is one algorithm that stands above all the rest. It powers search engines, encrypts your data, guides rockets, runs simulations, and makes the modern digital ...

Mike Kenny didn’t intend to create an educational web app — he was just looking for a way to help students master their multiplication tables. In 2013, as a graduate student in the Vermont Mathematics ...

All mainstream credit card numbers obey a mathematical trick designed to catch the most common typos. It’s called the Luhn algorithm, named after IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn, who patented it in ...

True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink Lexicographer Stamper (Word by Word) takes readers on an uproarious journey into Merriam-Webster’s somber ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected the HQC algorithm for its ongoing efforts to develop a general encryption to address future cyberthreats from quantum computers. HQC ...

Some of the biggest challenges in teaching math aren’t about the numbers and operations themselves, but students’ attitudes toward them. Getting students to think deeply about problems, persevere ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fideres, a global economic consultancy, has released a report exposing the anti-competitive effects of DoorDash’s algorithm-driven pricing strategies. The antitrust ...

Abstract: This paper presents two improved modular multiplication algorithms: variable length Interleaved modular multiplication (VLIM) algorithm and parallel modular multiplication (P_MM) method ...