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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 ...

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.

In context: QR codes were originally designed to efficiently track the types and quantities of automobile parts. Today, thanks to smartphones and mobile apps, their use has expanded far beyond that.

Think about the last time you opened Netflix. Did you scroll through countless options or go with a recommended title? When you log into social media, do you decide what to see, or is your feed ...

Dario Amodei, the CEO and cofounder of Anthropic, said AI could be coding most software soon. AI could be "writing essentially all of the code" in 12 months, Amodei said. He said he expected AI to ...

An interactive visualization tool that beautifully showcases the merge sort algorithm in action. Designed with dual tree visualization to separately display both divide and merge phases, this project ...

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The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...