War propaganda is now built for the algorithm. In a social media war, engagement matters more than belief—and journalism is caught in the middle.

Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present the first dynamic algorithms for Dyck edit distance and tree edit distance that achieve subpolynomial update times. Dyck edit distance measures how far a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Financial crime risk is not static. A customer’s risk profile can shift rapidly with new transactions, behaviors, or data. Yet historically, many financial institutions relied on one-time or ...

Abstract: The edit distance (also known as Levenshtein distance) of two strings is the minimum number of insertions, deletions, and substitutions of characters needed to transform one string into the ...