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A leading exec at the public broadcasting institution breaks down the impact of recent government cuts and what to do about them ...

This repository contains comprehensive implementations of algorithms from the classic textbook "Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms" (Second Edition) by Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni, and Sanguthevar ...

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 ...

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 ...