A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; photos courtesy of Jules Fennell, Rebecca Tauber, Sophia Mitropoulos for The Athletic NEW YORK — Most mornings, Sophia Mitropoulos, 30, sets off from her ...

On Tuesday (May 12), she posted a video to TikTok in which she outlined her problems with the way that changes in social media algorithms have made promoting the album more challenging. “The algorithm ...