In a busy room full of talking people, most of us can still pick out one voice to focus on. This common yet complex ...

I've got a group of strings that grouped by the first few characters (not a set number) and then differentiated by some final characters that are unique.<BR><BR>I want to figure out how to match the ...

UW Medicine researchers have found that algorithms are as good as trained human evaluators at identifying red-flag language in text messages from people with serious mental illness. This opens a ...

An innovative algorithm called Spectral Expansion Tree Search helps autonomous robotic systems make optimal choices on the move. In 2018, Google DeepMind's AlphaZero program taught itself the games of ...

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 ...