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 ...

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High school calculus is probably the last time you had to think about algorithms—if you’re lucky, that is. But for performers and content creators alike, there’s a new algorithm to worry about: ...

The new TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC has been created, and a new US-based algorithm will be put into place, which leave ...

Instacart has quietly turned grocery shopping into a personalized pricing experiment, where two people ordering the same carton of eggs from the same store can be charged different amounts without ...

In four Michigan cities, a property management company called RealPage offers an algorithm to suggest rental prices to corporate landlords. It uses a sophisticated AI to crunch large troves of data ...

Silo Season 2 Episode 9, The Safeguard, is now available for streaming on Apple TV+. Those who have watched it have likely come away with more questions than answers. One of these questions probably ...

Even if your network knowledge runs deep there’s a high chance you haven’t heard of Nagle’s Algorithm. Named after its creator, John Nagle, this algorithm plays a part in the efficient operation of ...

The old saying goes, “if you’re not paying for the product, the product is you.” When we think about social media and that relationship, most of us know that our demographic information is being ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...

From the music you stream to the rage you post, the algorithm owns you. Orwell saw it coming—control disguised as choice, obedience sold as connection. Real freedom starts when you feel again. George ...

A mother's health during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period is the foundation of lifelong well-being, directly ...