The New York Times

I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain

new video loaded: I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain transcript Jack Conte, the chief executive of Patreon, a platform for creators to monetize their art and content, outlines his ...
Reuters

IBM says conventional AMD chips can run quantum computing error correction algorithm

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab said on Friday it can run a key quantum computing error correction algorithm on commonly available chips ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

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 ...
Variety

Daniel Day-Lewis Says Method Acting Has Become an ‘Easy Target’ and Implies That an Actor Is ‘Behaving Like a Lunatic’: ‘Everyone Tends to Focus on the Less Important ...

Back from retirement, Daniel Day-Lewis is getting candid about acting. In a recent sit-down with “The New York Times,” the three-time Oscar winner said he “doesn’t like thinking of acting in terms of ...
PBS

Oracle will manage TikTok’s algorithm for U.S. users under Trump administration deal

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tech giant Oracle will receive a copy of TikTok’s algorithm to operate for U.S. users, according to a senior official in President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday.
CNN

TikTok’s algorithm will be overseen by Oracle in the US after the sale is completed

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...
Engadget

The US version of TikTok might still use the Chinese algorithm

A potential TikTok deal emerged Monday between the US and China, two days before the Trump administration's latest sell or be banned deadline. Now, attention is shifting to the app's Chinese algorithm ...
IEEE

Extraction of Fetal ECG by Logarithmic Hyperbolic Secant Adaptive Algorithm in Alpha-Stable Noise

Abstract: Direct fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) plays a crucial role in assessing fetal health and monitoring pregnancy conditions. Extracting high-quality FECG signals from maternal abdominal ...
Scientific American

The Math Trick Hidden in Your Credit Card Number

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 ...
Quanta Magazine

New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes

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.
Wired

For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...