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 ...
NPR

New limits for rent algorithm that prosecutors say let landlords drive up prices

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...
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 ...
EurekAlert!

A lightweight and rapid bidirectional search algorithm

Researchers at the University of Kent, UK, introduced LiteRBS (Lightweight and Rapid Bidirectional Search), a novel grid-based pathfinding algorithm designed for efficient and scalable navigation in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wall Street Journal

Is an Algorithm Blocking Your Job Search? One Man Is Trying to Find Out.

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Annie Minoff: A few years ago, Derek Mobley was working in IT. He loved his job ...
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 ...
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 ...