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.

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...

In forecasting economic time series, statistical models often need to be complemented with a process to impose various constraints in a smooth manner. Systematically imposing constraints and retaining ...

Abstract: Breadth-first search (BFS) is one of the most common used graph traversal algorithms and a building block for various graph applications. Many studies have been done to accelerate BFS-based ...

This project implements a maze pathfinding solution where an assassin ('A') navigates through a maze while avoiding walls and guards. The guards' vision marks certain cells as "observed," which the ...

The video game industry has evolved leaps and bounds over the last half century, from simple arcade-like gameplay to highly immersive, intelligent, and interactive gaming. With advancements in ...

CJ Blossom Park, CJ BIO Research Institute, 55, Gwanggyo-ro 42beon-gil, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-do 16495, Republic of Korea ...