If you are planning a trip through several cities and want to find the shortest route, you resort to algorithms, a well-defined sequence of deterministic operations. This article accompanies the ...

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Cartesian Growth Corp. III Class A ( (CGCT)) just unveiled an announcement. On December 17, 2025, Cartesian Growth Corporation III and Factorial Inc. signed a definitive business combination agreement ...

Users can note which content they would like to view more frequently. Instagram is handing users some control in deciding what content they see. The social media giant is allowing users to have a say ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Factorial Inc. (Factorial), an industry leader in solid-state battery technology, today announced the shipment of its first solid-state lithium-metal battery cells for drone ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

Illustration of Factorial’s FEST solid-state battery integrated onto the STLA Large platform. Credit: Stellantis N.V./BusinessWire. Stellantis and Factorial Energy have successfully validated the ...