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 ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

What jobs, exactly, is so-called “artificial intelligence” supposed to revolutionize, and for whose benefit? The answers to those rarely-asked questions have become increasingly clear in recent months ...

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.

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. All you need to do is open an online editor and code away! Which is exactly what we’re going to ...

On a blustery spring Thursday, just after midterms, I went out for noodles with Alex and Eugene, two undergraduates at New York University, to talk about how they use artificial intelligence in their ...

It should come as no surprise that if we have a sequence of objects, we often wish to see if an element is in the sequence (list, tuple, or string). Sometimes we also want to find the index of the ...

Smoke from wildfires in Canada has drifted into the U.S., prompting air quality alerts for Americans as it continues to spread. But when officials and forecasters classify a city's air as "unhealthy" ...

One of President Donald Trump's first actions of his new term was to halt the arrival of all refugees coming into the United States. Yet there's one group he's made a point of welcoming: the white ...

Employees were told that the popular energy efficiency certification program would be “de-prioritized and eliminated,” according to documents and a recording. By Lisa Friedman and Rebecca F. Elliott ...