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Google Play Store search continues to be a terrible experience, but this third-party app makes finding new Android apps incredibly easy.

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A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

For this test, we’re comparing the default models that both OpenAI and Google present to users who don’t pay for a regular ...

Clockwise from top left: Brandon Borders (left), Travis Kelce and Jake Chatzky; Kylie Kelce, Chatzky and Jason Kelce; Jason Kelce and Chatzky. Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Photos ...

The new Instagram feature reveals what the algorithm thinks you like and lets you adjust it, reshaping how content gets recommended on Reels. Instagram launched Your Algorithm in the U.S. today, a ...

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.

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

Researchers at the University of Kent, UK, introduced LiteRBS (Lightweight and Rapid Bidirectional Search), a novel grid-based pathfinding algorithm designed for efficient and scalable navigation in ...

The TikTok algorithm, built by its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd., is what has made the app so popular with half of America. The enormously powerful technology can master the intricacies of our ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.