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.

ABSTRACT: A new nano-based architectural design of multiple-stream convolutional homeomorphic error-control coding will be conducted, and a corresponding hierarchical implementation of important class ...

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt (ABC22/FOX44) – Back in 1925, traveling salesman Ed Needleman discovered the beauty of the green mountain state while on a trip with his brother in Newport. Needleman eventually ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Ritwik is a passionate gamer who has a soft spot for JRPGs. He's been writing about all things gaming for six years and counting. No matter how great a title's gameplay may be, there's always the ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

Part of providing pronunciation feedback involves aligning a target phonemic sequence (the sounds made by the actor reference) with the user phonemic sequence (the sounds the user makes when trying to ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Abstract: The Needleman-Wunsch algorithm is a global sequence alignment algorithm that has traditionally been used for DNA, RNA, and protein sequencing. Image comparison is used in multiple ...

WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has received a $20 million donation from the family of Philip Needleman, a member of the NAS and the National Academy of Medicine who passed away in ...