One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

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.

Ripple effect: The rising price of memory is quickly turning from a concerning issue into a crisis on the scale of the Covid-era chip shortage. With the RTX 5000 Super line now seeming delayed – if ...

Familiar matchups may incentivize Week 11 NFL bets, and there's no shortage of those on the NFL schedule. There are nine divisional contests you could make Week 11 NFL picks on, the most of any week ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

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 ...

Nvidia is well known around the world for creating video graphics cards, with the company holding an impressive 94% market share in the sector. The company even provides the custom graphics chip for ...

Fumito Ueda (the hugely influential developer behind Ico and Shadow of the Colossus) and Keita Takahashi (the similarly iconic creator of Katamari Damacy) recently sat down to chat about the state of ...

A web-based tool to visualize step-by-step execution of computer graphics algorithms like DDA, Bresenham’s Line, Midpoint Circle, and Midpoint Ellipse on an interactive grid canvas.

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The augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) market has shown a sharp rebound in the first quarter of the year, with 18.1% annual growth that is setting up mixed reality (MR) and extended ...