The New Yorker

A Year of Listening Beyond the Algorithm

My habit of seeking out new music began with a few strokes of good luck. I grew up in a college town in the early to mid-nineties, during one of the golden eras of college radio. I spent a significant ...
Morningstar

MicroCloud Hologram Inc. Improves Grover Algorithm to Achieve Dynamic Multi-Mode Search, Breakthrough in Quantum Circuit Simplification and FPGA Reconstruction

SHENZHEN, China, Oct. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroCloud Hologram Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLO), ("HOLO" or the "Company"), a technology service provider, proposed an improved quantum Grover algorithm for a ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

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 ...
Bloomberg L.P.

TikTok Algorithm That Keeps Us Scrolling Remains at Heart of a Deal

The TikTok algorithm, built by its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd., is what has made the app so popular with half of America. The enormously powerful technology can master the intricacies of our ...
Scientific American

How You Search the Internet Can Reinforce Your Beliefs—Without You Realizing It

People’s views are becoming more and more polarized, with “echo chambers”—social bubbles that reinforce existing beliefs—exacerbating differences in opinion. This divergence doesn’t just apply to ...
Frontiers

Multi-stage bidirectional informed-RRT * plant protection UAV path planning method based on A * algorithm domain guidance

Traditional path planning algorithms often face problems such as local optimum traps and low monitoring efficiency in agricultural UAV operations, making it difficult to meet the operational ...
Harvard Medical School

The algorithm thinks you’re rich. Prepare to pay more for that flight.

In an interview with Harvard Law Today, Noah Giansiracusa explains how companies deploy what some call "dynamic" or “surveillance pricing,” using individual customers' data as a primary algorithmic ...
The Verge

Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search

Google Search head Liz Reid says traffic remains ‘relatively stable’ despite the popularity of AI Overviews. Google Search head Liz Reid says traffic remains ‘relatively stable’ despite the popularity ...
Wall Street Journal

Is AI Killing Google Search? It Might Be Doing the Opposite

AI upstarts were supposed to lay siege to Google’s search-engine dominance. So far, the defense is winning. Google’s ubiquitous search tool has proven surprisingly resilient to competition from the ...
TechCrunch

YouTube adds an AI Overviews-like search results carousel

YouTube is rolling out new AI-powered features to help users find content and information more easily, the company announced on Thursday. The platform is launching an AI-powered search results ...
IEEE

Improved A* Algorithm Based on Artificial Potential Field Method for Global Path Planning of Unmanned Surface Vessels in Complex Environments

Abstract: Aiming at the problems of long path planning time, excessive ineffective expansion nodes, and easy collision with obstacles that may occur when using traditional A* algorithm for unmanned ...