Hundreds of pounds of bubble gum sold in two states have been recalled after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classified the action as a Class II recall, according to federal records. According ...

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One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

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 ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

Liam Thompson created the world's largest dry ice bubble for science and fun. ‘A Huge Win’: Trump Admin Praises Major Settlement California's Death Valley breaks 115-year-old rainfall record ...

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.

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path ...

The AI boom has triggered a historic spending spree. By 2028, investment in chips, servers and data centers could reach nearly $3 trillion, according to Morgan Stanley. On this episode of Bold Names, ...

A few years back, Google made waves when it claimed that some of its hardware had achieved quantum supremacy, performing operations that would be effectively impossible to simulate on a classical ...