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.

ABSTRACT: A new nano-based architectural design of multiple-stream convolutional homeomorphic error-control coding will be conducted, and a corresponding hierarchical implementation of important class ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

Part of providing pronunciation feedback involves aligning a target phonemic sequence (the sounds made by the actor reference) with the user phonemic sequence (the sounds the user makes when trying to ...

BERLIN, July 3 (Reuters) - The risk of inflation is pointing downwards rather than upwards, Belgium's central bank governor, Pierre Wunsch, told Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper in an interview ...

Abstract: The Needleman-Wunsch algorithm is a global sequence alignment algorithm that has traditionally been used for DNA, RNA, and protein sequencing. Image comparison is used in multiple ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Daniel Stone discussed the impact of Clair Patterson and Herbert Needleman against the use of leaded gasoline.